Writing down my goals and writing a story outline rank up there with watching Barney the Dinosaur (“I love you, you love me, put a shot gun in my mouth, and then we’ll see”") bbbuuuuuuuuuttttttttttttt, for Amy, ANYTHING…so…

1) Finish an agent-able draft of “Haply” (or “Haply I May Remember” or “Leucothea”)

2) Get an agent

3) Transfer my three spec scripts (“Californication” and two “Office”) from legal pad to final draft and send them out to my buddy and my cousins in LA.

4) Learn to pray

5) Edit two of my many sucky short stories and try and make them not sucky and get them published anywhere

6) Write the first draft of “The Game” screenplay

7) Work on my novel, “Resurrection Song” and/or novella “When the Lights Go Out”

8) (and these are in no particular order) Find out how I can volunteer as a writing coach/mentor/teacher for either kids or prisoners…REALLY want to do this, have been trying to do this for years now

9) Take the first step to start my Youth Writing Foundation (was going to wait until I have some sort of notoriety, but realize that I can’t wait that long)

10) Have “Haply” sold, sell three short stories to lit mags (or ANYONE who’ll give me some sort of American currency–heck, why be picky; I’ll take food stamps, two quarters and some lint, Alien dimes, whatever)

And as icing on the proverbial cake:

11) Solve the Middle Eastern Crisis–someone’s gonna do it, why not me