MY 2012: benjikane

benjikane

MY 2012

Dec 31, 2012 10:21

I had a productive 2012 despite all the emotional ups and downs in my personal life and day job. Writing definitely became a second job for me this year and after two promotional tours I'm pretty spent in that department. I know we writers must "put ourselves out there," but after discovering and rediscovering how very little interest I have in why and what I write, I've decided any future tours will concentrate more on reviews. Ya know, what others feel about how I write, which is really the point. Beyond that, I'm going to be hyper-aware of any projects, whether short term or long term, I agree on. I'm glad to have the work, be it minor in the face of publishing itself, but I need to better choose the hills I live and die upon. It's tough to write, edit and market yourself all at the same time-- well, for me anyway. I haven't had much time to enjoy life lately and I'm a firm disbeliever in that.

I'll be astounded if my numbers grow larger than this in 2013 But here's to a New Year of more writing, reading and enjoying, but less stressing, hair pulling and agonizing over deadlines.

WRITING THIS YEAR:
25 interviews, 18 articles, 4 Short Stories, 1 Novella, 2 Novels

EDITING THIS YEAR:
21 short stories (for an anthology), 3 short stories (freelance), 4 Novels (Nomads, Bottled Abyss, Dungeon Brain and Nightmare Ballad), and 2 novellas (Locked Room Misery and LIMBUS: The Slaughter Man).

On the reading end of the scale, I was decidedly lopsided. I actually read a few other books and novellas that are not listed below because they were for blurbs and weren't up on Goodreads. I'll add them later. I read well within the horror and dark fantasy genre this year and I'd like to broaden that in 2013.

READING THIS YEAR:
Approximately 25 books (novels, novellas and collections included)