Happy new year! As I'm typing this, we're already ten days into it, but I've had quite the holiday and honestly things couldn't be going better for me right now.

So a short recap on my life so far:

I managed to get my paws on a new laptop for Christmas and I'm really grateful to the snow lepp that got it for me. I know I sometimes don't show my gratefulness (is that even a word? also, to be honest, I can be a hardass sometimes to deal with), but I love it a lot. Perhaps this means I can break out of my burn-out, because I spend too much time just looking at things on FA and not actually posting anything! THIS MUST CHANGE FOR THE NEW YEAR!!! D:

So what does the new year entail for me? Well the barista life is fun and stressful at the same time, and the holidays meant that a lot of people came in and wanted either coffee to fuel their last-minute Christmas shopping or *gasp!* actually finish their Christmas shopping! Who knew people actually bought Christmas gifts at Starbucks, of all places. Now if only they had brought back that cute little fox that was on all of their packaging and cups. Who remembers the fox mugs from last season? :P

But seriously, I'm really looking forward to 2014. I plan on going to a few cons again this year, being more of the traveler mutt that I've become. I'm gonna be at FurSquared (if my time off request gets approved) at the end of Feburary, and that's gonna be so much fun. Since my friend  kataze is head of reg for that con, I'm gonna be nice and supersponsor! It's cheap too~

Now it's time for me to get into my one and only one new year's resolution that I have for this year: Write more. During Rainfurrest last fall, I tried getting into the writing competition. What I honestly didn't realize was that I felt as though story writing was out of my league. I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about what the prompt was for the competition, but it did involve a short story relating to the 2014 theme that was revealed at the end of the 2013 iteration of RF (Cyberpunk). Needless to say, I got lost. On top of that, cyberpunk was a whole new subgenre that I had never even thought about getting myself into, so that made it even more of a challenge. In the end, I failed to meet the contest deadline.

I've gotten published in one form of writing that I've been doing nonstop for nearly two years, but since I got published last summer, I've just felt exremely burnt out of it. Motivation has been lacking for me and on top of that, I had to deal with stresses that were insane during the fall. Jumping into a new job right before the holidays as well as paying off expenses tends to do that to ya.

So I'm not gonna hold off any longer. My new year's resolution for 2014 is simple: Post at least one new piece of writing once a month on FurAffinity, SoFurry, DeviantArt, and Weasyl (crossposting for the win!). Maybe if I'm daring enough, I could at least get started on a story or some sort of wider world development before the end of this year, but I want to get my foot in the door and go as far as to eventually get myself published within the furry fandom. I want to get my hands on more works through FurPlanet and Rabbit Valley and some other furry or comic publishers and see what it's like from that perspective on both a clean and...not so clean scale. Heheh, I want to have fun with this, and I want to make it a learning experience too.

I have dreams. I dreamt of being a writer and now here I am, published but burnt out. Let's break out of the burnout. It's time for me to rise from the ashes of it and go forth! I want you guys to follow me along and have fun with it. Tell me how I'm doing? Love it? Fave it and even share it on your Facetwit/Twitbook, or however else you social media! Hate it? Tell me what the hell I'm doing wrong and I'll either get better or if you flame me, I'll just ignore you as my own personal way of saying fuck off!

2013 was the opening of one door of my life.

I want 2014 to be the opening to many more doors.

Happy new year!
With <3
- Aniro