It was a busy year.
Grandbaby in February. New kitchen floor, gas range, washer and dryer in May. We bought a canoe, used it, and went on wilderness camping trip. And as usual there was golf league and art class.
Lots of walking, though no hiking this year. The focus was on learning to canoe so I’d be ready for the week-long wilderness trip.
Shoveled lots of snow. LOTS of snow.
Besides the trip to California for the grandbaby in February, David visited in June and the whole family including grandbaby was here in August. I visited my family in Montana in September and we took a major cruise in October.
My only goal for the writing this year was to keep working, and I succeeded in that. I had about 125K in new words and lots of revising, worldbuilding, and notes. Specifically:
* Revised outline for the first Sal and Troy book, and started the revised draft.
* Revised outline for Darien and started the revised draft, which stands at about 30K now.
* Revised the genie story, decided the short version wasn’t working, and expanded it to novel length for NaNoWriMo.
* Worked on PattiSue (new adult vampires and werewolves. Oh, the shame…)
* Story a Day yielded 11 ideas, 8 of which became partial drafts. Haven’t looked at them since though.
So it was a pretty good year. Except that for the second year in a row, I didn’t finish anything. And there were a lot of smaller things, like posting here, that I let slide. I’m not going to beat myself up over it. Isn’t it nice to know I have things to work on next year?
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Let’s hear it for things to work on in the new year! 😉
While the calendar has clicked over, you can still finish those things. It’s not like they drop off a cliff unless you let them.
Looks like some wonderful happenings in the year :).
Well, yeah, that’s true, but it’s not any particular thing that didn’t get finished. What concerns me is the trend–that basically I am letting them drop off the cliff. This is the second year I’ve gone with the more difficult task, or made a task more complicated than it has to be, and while in each individual decision is reasonable, there’s a clear pattern of avoiding finishing.
Ah, hugs. Yes, I’ve been at that point, though usually with editing not writing (she says with Apprentice still some 40k shy :p.
I wasn’t making a distinction between editing and writing–it all has to be done before the story is finished.
Ah, the big “W” writing :). Yipes. If I didn’t split them, I could make the same statement. Way too many waiting on editing.
Hi Bonnie
I saw your post pop up on one of my blog lists. Just wanted to say hi. Remember me on our old fm crit group? I think I was mayakda there. I’m so glad to see you writing – and drawing! I started blogging again – doing a book review blog on http://www.bookhorde.org (although apparently my site is slow, so off to work compressing images and stuff now)
Happy New Year!