2014 book goals

This year was an pretty good bookish year. I read (excluding ebook excerpts, and including rereads) 50 books.  And I am really happy with that. That was my goal for this year! I also read 11 ebook excerpts. I didn't count those because they are short and they're not really books. Oh well.
So I have some goals I would like to fulfill next year. There are some personal goals I want to accomplish which I will not share with the world, but I also have some reading goals and I want to share those with you as this is a book blog. YAY!

Reading goals:

1. Obviously, I want to challenge myself to read some books. This time I won't challenge myself to read 50 books. On goodreads, I will put a 30 book challenge but in my heart I know that I want to read 40 books. If I put 40 books on goodreads it will make me feel pressured and my brain will explode and I won't be able to do it. Oh well. So I will challenge myself to read 40 books. If I read more I am really happy with myself.

2. I want to read one classic. Doesn't matter which one, but I just wanna read a classic. Just one.

3. There are a few books that I will surely read, like Ignite Me, City of Heavenly Fire, The Murder Complex, etc. But there are still some books that I really want to read. Here's some of them: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson, The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp (saw the movie and I was a tiny bit confused), The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken, Silver Linings Playbook by Mathew Quick, an A.S. King book, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a Neil Gaiman book, Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (I couldn't read it this year), etc. There are a few more that I'd like to read but I just don't remember them. Oh well.

I think those were my reading goals. I really hope to accomplish them because they're not that hard.

Writing goals:

1. Write more. I haven't written anything that was worth anything this year. And it's ok. I am disappointed but it's fine. I at least learned more about writing and how to make something worth something

2. Write fan fiction. I think if I do this it will help a lot with my writing and it will be good practice.

3. Write a draft of one of my stories, or at least make a rough outline of it in my head or something. I have three stories; one of them is a children's book, where a boy wakes up on the moon and he befriends a werewolf and they travel around the moon; the second one is a dystopian YA book where beautiful looking kids or teenagers are taken by companies and made into "stars" and that's the only thing that's advertised and showed on TV and Malachi and his brother James are running away from them and one day James gets caught and they take him and Malachi wants to save him and along with James he takes with him a girl about his age from them and they run away from there; the last one is a YA contemporary I think about a girl who just finished music high school in Romania and plans on going abroad to study piano at university and she has an obsession with Beethoven and she resurrects him and makes him finish his "lost symphony". And I'd like to write all of them but I don't think I'll be able to.

4. Write at least once a week. Whether it's for fan fic or for one of my stories, I should just write at least once a week. For the first half of the year I will be really busy so I don't think I'll be able to do this one, with school and stuff.

Hopefully we'll all have a good year. And I really wish to have one because this year is very important to me to be good. This past year wasn't all that bad. It was really good. But it could've been better.

Happy new year, everyone!

Goodbye,
Di.