They say what you do on New Year’s Day is what you will set the tone for the rest of the year, so you might as well set things off right.  So I’m blogging, so perhaps I will blog more in the new year.  I have wanted to blog more and to really find a better focus for the blog.  My blog is more than a landing page for my podcast (it does that too), it is more than where I showcase some of my art (it does that too) and it’s more than my place to talk about cool events and things going on (it does that sometimes.)  What my blog is, that is what we will find out in 2012, hopefully.

A friend of mine asked me to help set up her blog and tips on how to keep it going strong, my advice was to know what you wanted to say as a whole right off, set a schedule, even use alerts if you need them to make sure you post regularly enough to keep people coming back.  I also talked about pimping your posts out and getting others to talk about what you have written, that last bit I think I have down, but the first part of my own advice I really don’t follow at all.  I need to change that, and yet I still find it hard setting up that alert in google because then I would actually have to do it.  Do you ever find that happen to you?  The only thing stopping you from achieving your goal is your resistance to actually doing the work?

I also discussed the idea with Tek of him having his own column on the NIMLAS Studios blog.  He likes the idea, and has been wanting to blog more himself, but finds that he can’t support readership on his own as his posts are often few and far between (anyone who followed his LJ knows of the year long gaps, but when he posts its good food for though) so we shall see if he picks that up.  If there are other people that think they might like a column here then please email me or message me and we can chat about that.  I named the blog NIMLAS Studios to make it open ended just for the opportunity to have multiple authors and projects.

What I know I don’t want the blog to be is a blog that “re-blogs.”  I see a lot of that already by the money making blog sites and while yes I visit those sites, A) it’s being done to death, B) I hate clicking on an article that links to another article that links to a DIGG, that links to Reditt, and so on, and C) NIMLAS Studios is about creating things, not repurposing things. Creativity is key.

I want to kick off a few more podcasts, yeah, I find it hard to get the time to record my prime podcast as it is, but these two new ones have an end since they are based on TV shows that are both long since over.  The first is a show Tek wants to do, this would be his show really, not mine, but it would be a NIMLAS Studios production.  It would be a 15 minute or less podcast about Get Smart, yeah, that Get Smart, the old TV show.  The next is I want to do an IntroCast on My So Called Life. (What’s an IntroCast you ask?  I’m glad you asked that, got to the BTL Studios Page and IntroCast to learn more.  There is also a facebook group, if you are interested in joining that, let me know and I can give you the details.)  I have two possible newbies and a possible oldie that wants to co-host the show with me, I’d love to have a newbie under 22 to join us just so we would have perspective from someone of the right age group, if you know someone, let me know.

I want to get some more Digger Chat’s set up and recorded for SciFi Dig.  I really like doing those, they are always so much fun but I haven’t done a single one all fall, and that is not cricket :)

I want to get my NaNoWriMo Novel finished, I want to edit it, and I want to rewrite last year’s novel.  I want to write more fiction short stories and read those for Nutty Bites.

I want to clear away outstanding projects and have more time for these new goals.

You will notice I have not used the R word (Resolutions), that’s because the R word means failure to me.  If I think of something as a resolution then it’s a gimmick that is soon forgotten by February.  I prefer to focus on more long term life changes, much like I don’t diet, but focus on making healthy choices and life changes in these choices I make.

What are you looking forward to in 2012?

EDIT:  What is that a picture of?  You’ll find out in a week or so :)