With the end of the year quickly approaching and keeping up with the New Years theme I thought it would be a great time to do some self reflection on the things you've acomplished or have improved on this past year as well as goals you might have for the new year concerning roleyplaying or writing in general.

For me I would have to say that my biggest achomplishment is finally getting the guts and organization to run a roleplay. I'm a huge scatterbrain and the notion of that kept me away from GMing knowing that if I made a mess of things it wouldn't only mess things up for myself but for the other roleplayers as well. Nonetheless I decided to take the plunge into GMing and I loved it. At ten months the roleplay is still going strong and I am amazed not only with what I was able to do but the great group of roleplayers that have stuck with me throughout this whole time and have made it into something better than I could have guessed the roleplay would ended up as. I'm definitely going to be working on getting up a new roleplay in the future.

However as I think back I know exactly what I need to work on. My mind thinks of what I should type out far faster than I can physically type which causes me to omit words in my post and with my lack of proofreading it can make things challenging for others. This year I'm going to make it my goal to slow things down and make sure I write out my complete thoughts as well making sure I don't take the lazy route and proofread my posts.

I've grown a lot in the past year. I have become more confident in my writing; something I've been struggling to come to terms with. I've had the stigma that I'm terrible and not even worthy of being around others obviously more adept at writing than myself. However they didn't see it that way. Some of those I held in such high regard even respected me of all people. So that's been uplifting.

And while I no longer feel that stigma of being a shoddy writer. I still strive to learn and better myself. So for the next year I want to use a larger vocabulary then what I'm accustomed to. And improve not only my word flow. But the intricacy of my sentences. So far with the help of Google and a Thesaurus I think I'm well on my way. Hopefully.

As simple as it sounds, I just want to keep at least one thread alive for another year.

Keeping things active is hard enough but when you take into account real life with school, work, family stuff, moving and then add in the downtime, lack of interest, brainstorming sessions, whatever, it is a hard thing to do. I would love to come back at the end of 2015 and see that hey, we've been going for over a year, good for us. It can be a 1x1 or Group, I don't care but I don't like seeing things fall apart or die. I want something to go for 365 days. I don't need a post every day or even every week but damn, a year is something I'd like to get through with a constant story and writing companions.

That's my goal, hell it's a dream and wish but a feasible one I think, despite the tremendous amount of things that could derail it.

In the past year? Well, for one, my posts tripled in size, and my writing reached beyond "Oh God my poor eyes" level. I'm pretty proud of that. I also continued my own roleplaying series for another year, so that's pretty nice.

In the new year? I want to see my posts get even bigger. I want to someday be an author, and forum roleplaying is pretty good as practice. The other major thing I want to do is improve my imagery, which is atrociously bad.

New Year's resolutions/reflections? Interesting... Let's see...

In the past year, I guess I've started working with character backstories a lot more, and now I have some recurring characters whose stories really interest me and who make me really excited to roleplay with. I think I've gotten a bit better with description, and I don't post one-liners quite as often as I used to. I still can't do anything over maybe three paragraphs, it seems, but maybe that's okay, too. Shorter posts seem to work pretty well for my style, as long as I get all the necessary details in anyway. I've also tried GMing a bit, and it's definitely tough. I have a lot of respect for the people who keep their roleplays going for months at a time.

This year, I want to get better with description, and learn how to use my words a bit more carefully to still be able to describe a lot without boring people or confusing them. I'd also like to learn how incorporate character arcs a little more smoothly and work with the character and story arcs that other people put out there. I like when a couple of characters really seem to mesh and get things done together and still experience their own personal growth. Other than that, I think that I'd like to keep a few stories going until next year at least, too.