In a December 22 article in The New Yorker, Dana Goodyear writes about a new phenomenon of writing in Japan, in I ? Novels. She says the following,

The cell-phone novel, or keitai shosetsu, is the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age. For a new form, it is remarkably robust. Maho i-Land, which is the largest cell-phone-novel site, carries more than a million titles, most of them by amateurs writing under screen handles, and all available for free. According to the figures provided by the company, the site, which also offers templates for blogs and home pages, is visited three and a half billion times a month.

Maybe in your goal setting for 2009 you didn’t plan to write a micro novel for the cell phone.  Why not? Are you rehashing the same old goals from year to year hoping that this year you will actually accomplish one of them?

What outrageous goal could you set instead for this year? Pick one.  Investigate the Japanese form of novel writing, or, try and create your own new form. At least brainstorm some possible ideas. What could you do for 2009 that will be different?