Oh, hey! Sorry this is late. I joined an Among Us discord channel that is only for grown-ups, and they’re a very fun group of people. Also, it’s hard to work over virtual school.
The WriYe blog prompts fell by the wayside this year, like many things, but we did get one for December, and maybe there’ll be more next year as hopefully we all recover from 2020.
2020 is almost over (yay!). In a very unpredictable and unstable year, sum up your year of writing.
I mean, it wasn’t great, but it wasn’t bad. I did nine months of prompt responses, both universe-expanding drabbles (working on making it ten) and random prompts. I wrote 55K on the perhaps doomed Changeling story and another 50K and a complete draft of my mystery in November. (I have read back through it now, and it’s not terrible, though it could definitely use more meat in the second half.) Oh, and I got my scifi horror novella done and beta’d.
I’d better check my goals for the year to see if I’m forgetting anything.
Oh, yeah, I started my Drifting sequel for the luddite challenge, and I poked a few older stories to see if they were viable.
It’s not everything I wanted to do, but it’s not bad.
Did you meet your goals? Did you survive? Barely hung on?
I met…some of my goals, but I don’t think I’ve ever met all of them, so that’s not that weird. I haven’t touched World’s Edge since last Nano, and the sequel to City of Hope and Ruin continues to be stuck in the mire. I did have two stories published (here and here) which is down from previous years.
I upped my word count goal from the year from 100,000 to 150,000, which is good but, at the same time, I don’t really feel like I have a lot to show for my year.
And there was so much of this year when I could have been writing, and I didn’t. I understand that this year has been rough on a number of levels, between medical issues and the pandemic and virtual school and all that jazz. But I still wasted a lot of time where I could have been doing something else.
Give us your biggest triumph and what you are most proud of!
Hmmmm. Hmmmmmm. My scifi horror novella went over pretty well during the summer marathon. I’ve done a couple of previous marathons, and normally I get ripped to shreds, but everyone seemed to really like the story, so that felt pretty good. And it was nice to come out of Nano with a complete draft, especially now that I’ve read it and it’s not terrible.
I’ll do a more formal year-end review when we actually get to the end of the year. And, fingers crossed, next year I’ll be able to get more done.
But right now, I’m bogged down by the holidays. There’s so much to do aaaauuuugggghhhh why do I do this to myself every year? My sister texted me for Christmas present ideas back on Halloween.
How are you doing, squiders? Feeling okay? What are you most proud of this year?
Whooo congrats on meeting some of your goals! That is an epic, epic achievement, especially this year! I mean I don’t know about you but I tend to be a bit ambitious with goal setting, so it sounds like you had a stellar year goal-wise. Which yeah given 2020 is just wow. Good for you!! Also double congrats on the summer marathon thing. That sounds wonderfully affirming. I hope the holidays sort themselves out for you 🙂
Thank you! The holidays get me every year. I really should know better by now.