2009 And A Chin
My sister told me the other day that everyone has a moment where they ask themselves: "Am I one of those people who has no chin? If I put on a few pounds, will I have a smooth ramp running up from my neck to my mouth?"
Not me. I have never questioned my chinuality.
This is a quality I share with a few select individuals, like Megatron.
May the chin live forever.
A lot of my friends have been posting a personal Year in Review, listing their writing achievements. I thought I'd do mine, but I'm going to try and dig a little deeper. I'm just going to say which goals I am the most proud of achieving. And one I didn't achieve, wah.
Proud Goal The First, With Backstory: At RadCon 2009 my buddy Ken Scholes advised us to write a short story every month. That seemed like a pretty good goal to me. I had already written a short story in February and done a fairly good revision in January, so I decided to go on with it.
And I did. One every month. (I didn't write one in December, but I wrote two in July so I counted the second one for December).
Proud Goal The Second: I kept at least seven submissions out to different markets all year long. I've been trying to do this for a long time and I finally broke down.
I realized that I couldn't wait any more for the "incredibly awesome" stories I had in my head to pop out. I could only submit what I had. And so I started submitting like mad. And I got me TWO SALES this year. That might not seem like much to some folks. To me it seems like it doubled my previous sales. And not so much seems like as it did. Double them.
Not So Proud Goal Because I Didn't Finish It: I really wanted to finish writing The Great Faerie Strike in 2009. It's not done yet. It's close--maybe ten thousand words close--but not done. And it will probably end up around 100k, which is 25k longer than I wanted it to be. Pfff. Why must I be verbose?
All in all, it was the most productive year in writing I've had... well, ever. Seriously. I suppose I might have written as many words in other years as I did this year. But nothing has been quite this diverse, with gobs of short stories, comic books and two very different novels. Self, I am proud of you.
Not me. I have never questioned my chinuality.
This is a quality I share with a few select individuals, like Megatron.
May the chin live forever.
A lot of my friends have been posting a personal Year in Review, listing their writing achievements. I thought I'd do mine, but I'm going to try and dig a little deeper. I'm just going to say which goals I am the most proud of achieving. And one I didn't achieve, wah.
Proud Goal The First, With Backstory: At RadCon 2009 my buddy Ken Scholes advised us to write a short story every month. That seemed like a pretty good goal to me. I had already written a short story in February and done a fairly good revision in January, so I decided to go on with it.
And I did. One every month. (I didn't write one in December, but I wrote two in July so I counted the second one for December).
Proud Goal The Second: I kept at least seven submissions out to different markets all year long. I've been trying to do this for a long time and I finally broke down.
I realized that I couldn't wait any more for the "incredibly awesome" stories I had in my head to pop out. I could only submit what I had. And so I started submitting like mad. And I got me TWO SALES this year. That might not seem like much to some folks. To me it seems like it doubled my previous sales. And not so much seems like as it did. Double them.
Not So Proud Goal Because I Didn't Finish It: I really wanted to finish writing The Great Faerie Strike in 2009. It's not done yet. It's close--maybe ten thousand words close--but not done. And it will probably end up around 100k, which is 25k longer than I wanted it to be. Pfff. Why must I be verbose?
All in all, it was the most productive year in writing I've had... well, ever. Seriously. I suppose I might have written as many words in other years as I did this year. But nothing has been quite this diverse, with gobs of short stories, comic books and two very different novels. Self, I am proud of you.
posted by Spencer Ellsworth at 7:22 AM
6 Comments:
oh you are so welcome.
You wouldn't have gotten so much done if I didn't go down to my parent's every weekend.
I too am proud of you! This seems like a positive, helpful, satisfying kind of year-in-review. If I wanted to write more and do other things less, I would make such a goal (1 story a month). And seven submissions out at any given time--way to go!
Oh the comment from Spencer at the top was by me. He leaves himself signed in on my computer, and I forget to sign him out.
Whatever, Chrissy. We all know Spencer is just congratulating himself. Quit trying to cover for him.
Spencer - this is awesome. And you JUST started writing The Great Faerie Strike (which is a title I kind of even like! Nice job!) not that long ago - who cares if you didn't get it done in 2009? It's arbitrary to say the year ends there, anyway. The Zodiac year ends March 20th, so do it then if you want. And you'll probably be able to cut a lot when you revise.
Impressive.
Your chin is so Gaston.
No one's got a swell cleft in his chin like Spencer... except for Adia, whose cleft is coming along nicely.
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