What Are Your Long-Term Projects This Year?

These are the big ones, the sort of projects that will take you several months of persistent effort, the ones that are almost certainly doomed to failure—but also the ones that have the potential for the most reward. This list doesn’t include goals related to my current job at Wired.

I have the following projects:

• Make Dethroner awesome. (Plans detailed previously.) This includes putting the LLC together, hiring full-time writers, and working towards an eventual goal of making the company be able to pay my bills, should I choose to work on it full time myself.

• Compile my grandma’s recipes into a nice PDF for printing and distributing for next Christmas. This will mean not just going over the recipes for typos and inconsistencies, but learning a layout tool like InDesign, testing the recipes, and taking pictures.

• Put together the plans and find an interested network (online or otherwise) to pitch my video show about indigenous drug and chemical use. (I’m actually meeting with some people about this project this week for a possible online outlet a la podcasting.)

• Finish my short story about zombies. (This may be as simple as writing “The End.”)

• Now that I’ve lost the weight I wanted, I want to get fit. (Of course, back from vacation, I’ve gained back at least 5 pounds.)

• Learn Spanish.

That should keep me busy for most of the year. There are plenty of other projects that I hope to tackle, but those are the big, overarching ones that will probably define the bulk of my free time.

Anything big you hope to tackle this year?