I once again signed up for writing prompts through my journaling app during January. Yep, I will once again try to write an entry every day for the next 21 days. Lucky you!

The question of the day is: How am I viewing the beginning of this year as a fresh start?

I’m not a fan of new year resolutions. As far as time itself is concerned, January 1st is nothing more than the day after December 31st. A calendar year is merely a way to measure Earth’s one full revolution around Sol.

That said, I do understand the urge to take stock of the previous year and look forward to what we’d like to accomplish during the next.

Then I had a thought.

Most writers—if not all—spend time in a creative desert, where we want—ache even—to write a new story, but all we see is endless, lifeless, dry, and gritty sand.

That’s where I’ve spent the last year or so, to the point the only way to satisfy that creative urge was to focus on writing *gulp* non-fiction.

Yep, I wrote about my ever-uninteresting life for lack of anything else and even went so far to publish a book on it… Okay that’s a little too self-deprecating. If you haven’t seen it yet, I did add my more interesting events/thoughts to the book, so it’s not at all boring.

Another reason I’m not one for new years’ resolutions is because if I need to change something or try something new, why wait for a specific day to start? Yet, oddly, as I was reading ”Taliesin” by Steven Lawhead this morning, I thought of the character I play in DND and began to write more of his life story in my head.

Hopefully this means I have finally escaped my creative desert.

So what will you be focusing on this year?