What Goals Would You Like To Accomplish

[Gail Simone]

...in the next year? No more than a year. You have twelve months, what would you like to accomplish in that amount of time to be happier and more fulfilled?

Gail

[TCJohnson]

find somebody that I can love and love back, and buy a house.

[WhiteRose]

Finish my degree maybe. Possibly self-publish some stuff. The comic shop fellas around here are very supportive of small press books and shit.

Other than that...not fuck up too much? :D

[heystacy]

See my mini series ready for publication. I'd give up lattes for six months if I could get it all done proper.

[Sabrinaset]

I'd like to get laid more.

[steeler80]

It sounds sappy but I'd like to become a better husband and father. I can see areas in both that I really need to improve on.

For personal fulfillment, I would love to get one of the mini-series I'm working with off the ground with a publisher.

[WhiteRose]

I'd like to get laid more.

You have a live-in girlfriend!

[NickThompson]

Get a job, write more.

[howyadoin]

Finally set up a website. Experiment with more art techniques. Get published somewhere (i.e., in print, not online).

Meet a woman who's not a raving psychopath.

[sk716]

Finally set up a website. Experiment with more art techniques. Get published somewhere (i.e., in print, not online).

Meet a woman who's not a raving psychopath.

Howy, I'd be more than happy to help you out with the first one. PM me.

The last, well, good luck to you. I've been on the same kick for 6 years now, no luck so far.

[Lester C.]

I'd like become an optimist rather than my current pessimistic mind set. I am so jealous of those that view the world with such absolute hope and joy.

[heystacy]

I'd like become an optimist rather than my current pessimistic mind set. I am so jealous of those that view the world with such absolute hope and joy.


Aren't you a lawer? You're supposed to be pessimistic? What gives? Just what kind of law are you studying Mr? ;)

[Cream Filled Taco]

Less debt. Less stress. Free time.

[DungeonmasterJim]

Hope my export guy gets publishers across the world interested in my comic.

Pay off my house (unlikely, I just bought it in late 2005).

Produce more comics.

Play more video games!

DM Jim

[Azrael52]

I'd like to get laid more.

How YOU ;) Doin'?

[Azrael52]

...not fuck up too much? :D

That's right up there with my goals, too.

[TomStillwell]

Get accepted by Diamond for distribution.

Finish off the Honor Brigade six issue mini-series as a self published title.

Pitch and get picked up by Image for The Honor Brigade Super All Death Special color one-shot. Get Troy Hickman to write the Living Log solo story he wants to do in it.

Pitch and get picked up by Image for either another The Honor Brigade mini-series or a full blown monthly, in color.

Pitch and get picked up by Image for either or both of the other projects I'm developing, Jackpot and Untouchable.

Be published along with my fellow YABers in our comic project.

Self publish a childrens story based on one of my grandmother's real experiences.

Attend both SDCC and Wizard World Chicago. Have great cons and meet great people. Sell loads of books at both.

Drop twenty pounds.

Quit my job to work in comics full-time.

Visit Europe again.

Finally see DC Comics HQ in NY.

[Azrael52]

Do something with my story that's lying dormant at 30+ pages for a couple of years.

Work on one or two of the script ideas my buddy and I have.

Make season 3 of the Eric and Ray Show even better.

Go to Cape III with a U-Haul and bring back a stack of comics taller than my house. Also, see Gail and Larry and all you crazy cats again!

Have a kid, be having a kid, and/or do foster care (which we're actively pursuing).

Pay off some debt. (new house, new truck, credit cards, student loans).

Be tied with Howy on post counts (readies tranquilizer gun).

Finish losing my weight.

Get back into church.

[Larry Dixon]

Build a studio scale starship model with lighting and aluminum frame & motion-control hardpoints.

Learn fiberglas sculpting well.

Design & build the new mews & weathering yard enclosure.

Get the Pantera motor running & roadworthy by December.

Get a good marketer/merchandizer/promotor.

Find joy in doing what I do again. (ouch sorry that sounds morbid. It's just that other people seem to get more happiness from my work than I do)

[Azrael52]

Build a studio scale starship model with lighting and aluminum frame & motion-control hardpoints.

Learn fiberglas sculpting well.

Design & build the new mews & weathering yard enclosure.

Get the Pantera motor running & roadworthy by December.

Get a good marketer/merchandizer/promotor.

Find joy in doing what I do again. (ouch sorry that sounds morbid. It's just that other people seem to get more happiness from my work than I do)

Oh, I'd like to add the following to my list:
Buy and Read a Larry Dixon novel. Bring on the griffins!

[howyadoin]

Howy, I'd be more than happy to help you out with the first one. PM me.Damn, that's very cool of you. Let me give this some thought and I'll get back to you. I've actually talked to a couple of web people here in Vancouver, and they both turned out to be colossal flakes. No idea how they actually make any money.

[sk716]

Damn, that's very cool of you. Let me give this some thought and I'll get back to you. I've actually talked to a couple of web people here in Vancouver, and they both turned out to be colossal flakes. No idea how they actually make any money.

I've seen some of the art you've posted here, you need a place to showcase it.

[TomStillwell]

Shelly does fantastic work. Definately flake free.

[Azrael52]

Except on the Eric and Ray site. There are a couple, but shel couldn't help it, honest.

[howyadoin]

I've seen some of the art you've posted here, you need a place to showcase it.Thanks. That's pretty much all I need - a couple galleries of thumbnails, a contact page and maybe a Flash intro with a bunch of pictures in it.

[sk716]

Thanks. That's pretty much all I need - a couple galleries of thumbnails, a contact page and maybe a Flash intro with a bunch of pictures in it.

Do-able.

Been needing an excuse to play with Flash again anyway.

[howyadoin]

Do-able.

Been needing an excuse to play with Flash again anyway.You rock. I'll get back to ya in a couple days.

[TCJohnson]

Build a studio scale starship model with lighting and aluminum frame & motion-control hardpoints.



any particular reason why?

[Azrael52]

Because he's the gosh darned Larry Dixon, that's why!

[Larry Dixon]

Brian Johnson, Martin Bower, John Dykstra, Greg Jein, and a handful of others were my special effects heroes growing up, and still are. I got to sit in at Jim Key's model shop in Hollywood once, and helped restore some Galactica miniatures & stuff. That was very cool. So doing a studio scale model like the big boys do for the big screen is one of those personal-accomplishment things.

It's just been pushed back again and again for years.

[Gail Simone]

Who here agrees with me that SK should get, like, a statue and an airport, just for being so great all the time?

Gail

[howyadoin]

Who here agrees with me that SK should get, like, a statue and an airport, just for being so great all the time?Maybe an addition to Mount Rushmore?

[Larry Dixon]

I'm up for that. How about a new monument for all our lesboriffic gals here at YABS?

MOUNT SAPPHO!

[TCJohnson]

Brian Johnson, Martin Bower, John Dykstra, Greg Jein, and a handful of others were my special effects heroes growing up, and still are. I got to sit in at Jim Key's model shop in Hollywood once, and helped restore some Galactica miniatures & stuff. That was very cool. So doing a studio scale model like the big boys do for the big screen is one of those personal-accomplishment things.

It's just been pushed back again and again for years.

that is really cool.

I used to create models when I was a kid to look like the galactica. They would be these hug weird looking spaceships of boxes and cardboard tubes glued together with whatever odds and ends I could glue onto them, trying to get the details of the galactica miniature. They looked like crap though.

[TCJohnson]

Who here agrees with me that SK should get, like, a statue and an airport, just for being so great all the time?

Gail


Nah...she doesn't like cats.

[howyadoin]

MOUNT SAPPHO!I'd probably get slapped if I did that.

[Jack Zodiac]

...in the next year? No more than a year. You have twelve months, what would you like to accomplish in that amount of time to be happier and more fulfilled?

Gail

I wanna' get this chick I work with and my girlfriend in the sack at the same time. That'd be awesome.

[sk716]

Who here agrees with me that SK should get, like, a statue and an airport, just for being so great all the time?

Gail

I don't need a statue, maybe just a little plaque... on Sabrinaset.

[The Xenos]

Hmm.. I seem to have some similar ideas as some in this thread.

I want to make a damn comic, hopefully with a friend. Wait, first I need to WRITE a damn comic or two or more. Quit just leaving ideas around and playing with them. I need to writ a script.

If a friend then can make it into a comic, awesome. Though I also want to help a friend or two with writing duties on their web comic or potential web comic. I've got one with an already running one, but due to baiscally buidling an apartment in his home, it's been on haitus.

On a slightly more personal note, I need to also write to an ex. I somewhat don't care if she's seeing someone or not interested in getting together again. I just need to hear from her because I've just been torturing myself staying out of contact and not even trying to contact her.


find somebody that I can love and love back, and buy a house.

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn... is just to love and be loved in return. "


I wanna' get this chick I work with and my girlfriend in the sack at the same time. That'd be awesome.

Or be loved in return by two chicks at once... giggity.

Sigh. Well. So much for romance. Love is over. Game over, man. Game over.


edit: Oh yeah. How can I forget? I'm helping my parents totally clean up the damn house. I'm just sick of living in a mess. I don't care if I have to sort through my dad's junk mail from the 80s (which I have done some). I want my things in order. Of course, this also means packing away old toys and figures. This means getting rid of old clothes. This means putting up shevles. This means finding a place for all my comics which still gets added to every week.

On a shorter scale, this weekend I need to finally get about 5 months of comics sorted into proper boxes. They're all in proper piles by title, group, and compnay. They just need to be put away. Also, some need to be bagged and boarded.

[Lester C.]

Who here agrees with me that SK should get, like, a statue and an airport, just for being so great all the time?

Gail
Yes, and you have no idea how much that hurts to admit.:mad:

[Lester C.]

I don't need a statue, maybe just a little plaque... on Sabrinaset.
I have a sick feeling where that plaque is going to be placed.:mad:

[heystacy]

I'm up for that. How about a new monument for all our lesboriffic gals here at YABS?

MOUNT SAPPHO!

That sounds so...interesting.

[DungeonmasterJim]

I don't care if I have to sort through my dad's junk mail from the 80s (which I have done some).

At the risk of sounding like an insensitive and callous jerk, why would you even bother with this? 20+ year old? What could possibly still be of worth?

DM Jim

[EdContradictory]

Find an artist and get my comic book published.

[Gilda Dent]

Adopt a baby girl.

Find employment of some sort.

Gain 5 pounds and manage to keep it on for more than a few weeks.

Run a 10k in under 40 minutes.

Have more orgasms.

Gilda

[Dark Galaxy]

Have more orgasms.

Ooooh, Good Goal.

It's like jello, there's always room for more!

I think I need to make me a list of goals now:D

[heystacy]

Get accepted by Diamond for distribution.

Finish off the Honor Brigade six issue mini-series as a self published title.

Pitch and get picked up by Image for The Honor Brigade Super All Death Special color one-shot. Get Troy Hickman to write the Living Log solo story he wants to do in it.

Pitch and get picked up by Image for either another The Honor Brigade mini-series or a full blown monthly, in color.

Pitch and get picked up by Image for either or both of the other projects I'm developing, Jackpot and Untouchable.

Be published along with my fellow YABers in our comic project.


Cari and I are going the Image route. I hope it workes out for ya!

[Gilda Dent]

Ooooh, Good Goal.

It's like jello, there's always room for more!

I think I need to make me a list of goals now:D

Nah, in food terms, it's more like a really good New York strip at an expensive restaurant. It's rare, but really, really nice when you get one.

Gilda

[Arawn]

I'd like to finish my D20 game book, and as much of the trillogy I have been working on as I can. Getting harder for me to spend much time working on either, really need to finish em as fast as I can.

[howyadoin]

Gain 5 pounds and manage to keep it on for more than a few weeks.

Run a 10k in under 40 minutes.I'm seeing a conflict of interest here.

[Sharpandpointies]

Finish editing my book, get it to an agent, and start working on the next one.

[Gilda Dent]

I'm seeing a conflict of interest here.


No kidding. I'm already forcing myself to choke down 2200 calories a day just to stay even. I'd have to be at 2700 to gain a pound a week, or cut back on excercise, and I'm not doing either of those. I did compromise and up my calories to 2400, which should add a pound every 18 days.

Bah. Go on a holiday diet and lose ten pounds in a month and suddently everyone things you're anorexic and starts monitoring your weight closely.

Gilda

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

I hope to:

-get a job
-get a porcelin crown
-finish all the reading I'm backed up on

[howyadoin]

No kidding. I'm already forcing myself to choke down 2200 calories a day just to stay even. I'd have to be at 2700 to gain a pound a week, or cut back on excercise, and I'm not doing either of those. I did compromise and up my calories to 2400, which should add a pound every 18 days.

Bah. Go on a holiday diet and lose ten pounds in a month and suddently everyone things you're anorexic and starts monitoring your weight closely.Pancakes. Lots and lots of pancakes.

[Arawn]

I hope to:

-get a job
-get a porcelin crown
-finish all the reading I'm backed up on

Your toilet is backed up, so you can't read? Try a plummer and find a new reading room. :p

[shrike]

...in the next year? No more than a year. You have twelve months, what would you like to accomplish in that amount of time to be happier and more fulfilled?

Gail

Pay off the credit cards.

Become independently wealthy, like Kathy.... errr, KATE Kane, minus the lesbianism.

[Don Blanco]

I want to use my words to build people up.

[MacQuarrie]

No kidding. I'm already forcing myself to choke down 2200 calories a day just to stay even. I'd have to be at 2700 to gain a pound a week, or cut back on excercise, and I'm not doing either of those. I did compromise and up my calories to 2400, which should add a pound every 18 days.

Bah. Go on a holiday diet and lose ten pounds in a month and suddently everyone things you're anorexic and starts monitoring your weight closely.

Gilda
Remember the four basic food groups:

Sugar
Salt
Grease
Caffeine*

* Chocolate or liquor may be substituted for this one.

[MacQuarrie]

I really suck at making plans or having goals. I tend to take life as it comes. Everything I've ever acheived or accomplished has been part of somebody else's plans.

I'd like to finish the projects that I have open right now, then maybe find some interesting things to replace them with.

Current projects:
Raising three kids.
Maintaining a marriage of almost 21 years (anniversary in 3 weeks!)
Restoring a 99-year-old house.
Restoring a 1983 Jeep Wagoneer in very bad shape (but it runs).
Designing a couple of websites.
Maintaining a few more.
Drawing a story for the YABS comic and/or wherever Tom wants to put it.
Developing a couple of comic ideas of my own.
Helping to develop Broken Heart Robot as a TV cartoon series.
Serving on the board of my church.
Coaching archery and developing a competitive youth team.
Taking a storyboarding class through the animators' union.
And a few others I can't think of at the moment.

My one goal for the future is to find a way to quit my day job. It's boring.

[cactusmaac]

Finish all my professional qualifications, learn jui jitsu and skydive out of a plane.

[Gilda Dent]

Remember the four basic food groups:

Sugar
Salt
Grease
Caffeine*

* Chocolate or liquor may be substituted for this one.

Hee hee. I am already on doctor's orders eating moire salty foods. Seriously. I'm taking a mild diuretic, which has the effect of lowering my sodium levels, and I have to replace what I've lost. Dark chocolate is good for several of those, having sugar, caffeine, and cocoa in it.

Gilda