The Year in Review
Several people have been doing these, and I figured it might not be a bad idea to take a look at how I'm doing too.
It seems like I've been back in fandom forever, even though it's only been ten months. But what a ten months it has been! I'm not the world's fastest or most prolific writer, but I'm pleased to discover that I've had a decent year overall.
Earth 2 - 25,383 words
Firefly - 14,264 words
That's a total of 43,791 words for 2008. This figure doesn't count NaNoWriMo or the Voyager rewrites. I've also only counted the final version of "Lent." In other words, I'm really over 50,000. It'd likely have been even more were it not for some real-life issues that developed in late October and which, unfortunately, are still going on.
They will be for some time yet - the earliest I expect them to start clearing is June or July - but I've started to get a time-type handle on them so I've been able to start writing again. Dealing with them will still slow me down, however.
As I mentioned, I'm not the kind of writer who casually knocks out 5-10K words at a time, so I'd have been surprised to see a number like the six figures I've seen from some people. I believe 2008 has actually been my best year ever - even if it was only about ten months long.
It seems like I've been back in fandom forever, even though it's only been ten months. But what a ten months it has been! I'm not the world's fastest or most prolific writer, but I'm pleased to discover that I've had a decent year overall.
Earth 2 - 25,383 words
- Called Out (773 words)
- Final Words (560 words)
- In All Fairness (628 words)
- Leaf Season (1,258 words)
- Lent (7,328 words)
- Make it Go Away (597 words)
- New Pictures (759 words)
- Normal Biological Functions (840 words)
- Out of Hibernation (709 words)
- Perpetual Memory (667 words)
- Slow Turn (553 words)
- Tag (723 words)
- Treasure (893 words)
- Unwelcome Answers (1,241 words)
- Turning Circles (unpublished) - 1,105 words
- Three random unpublished items - 3,450 words
- The Level of Her Dreams, Part 1 (incomplete, part of Seventeen Months) - 3,299 words
Firefly - 14,264 words
- A Life of Constant Travel (1,150 words)
- Back Where She Belongs (808 words)
- Battle Fatigue (1,111 words)
- Believing in Dreams (1,316 words)
- Cruising Speed (1,041 words)
- Hooked (300 words)
- Mice Don't Dance (734 words)
- Movement (474 words)
- Natural Beauty (518 words)
- Saying Too Much (692 words)
- Four snippets posted in LiveJournal only - 1,385 words
( here, here, here and here) - Packing Up the Dinosaurs (unpublished) - 1,193 words
- Three random unpublished items - 3,542
That's a total of 43,791 words for 2008. This figure doesn't count NaNoWriMo or the Voyager rewrites. I've also only counted the final version of "Lent." In other words, I'm really over 50,000. It'd likely have been even more were it not for some real-life issues that developed in late October and which, unfortunately, are still going on.
They will be for some time yet - the earliest I expect them to start clearing is June or July - but I've started to get a time-type handle on them so I've been able to start writing again. Dealing with them will still slow me down, however.
As I mentioned, I'm not the kind of writer who casually knocks out 5-10K words at a time, so I'd have been surprised to see a number like the six figures I've seen from some people. I believe 2008 has actually been my best year ever - even if it was only about ten months long.