What I done did in 2012
2012 was the Year of the Unresolution--the year of trying to be goalless, and just doing things that made me happy.
... it went pretty well, actually. And I Created Things this year, too--thus proving to me that I won't entirely sit around like a slug when given permission to. Then again, deadlines help a great deal, and I had a few of those helping me out this year.
Without further ado, bullet points!
So... what's on the schedule for 2013? I'm still pondering that. A lack of resolutions worked pretty well for me this year! On the other hand...
I want to write. Specifically, I want to write more regularly and in greater quantity than I already do. I want to establish the habit of creating before I consume. I want to finish something I consider to be publishable. I want to get into and attend Viable Paradise, the sf/fantasy writer's workshop on Martha's Vineyard with awesome authors, including Brust.
Let's go.
... it went pretty well, actually. And I Created Things this year, too--thus proving to me that I won't entirely sit around like a slug when given permission to. Then again, deadlines help a great deal, and I had a few of those helping me out this year.
Without further ado, bullet points!
- Accomplishment #1 is definitely finishing my Dragaera LARP, Cracks in the Orb, and running it at SLAW. In the process I probably wrote a novel's worth of content, although it's really hard to be certain with Vellum.
- I wrote a couple of other short fiction pieces, too - a silly fic based on my run of King's Musketeers, and "The Battle of Christ's-Mass," an alternate history piece
- I wrote my bustle treatise, and presented it as a panel at the first NELCO. I also wrote essays on cast list secrecy and the social contract of LARPing of which I was particularly proud.
- I also taught a Beginning Sewing for LARP workshop at NELCO
- I played in 26 LARPs, one of them a weekend-long, King's Musketeers
- I helped to run two LARPs--High Rollers and The Garden of Forking Paths
- I wrote one of the factions (Team Something Blue) in Mission: Engaged, the guerilla larp for natbudin and v_cat's wedding reception.
- I made... some amount of progress on Gods and Fathers.
- I took a few seven-week sessions of introductory fencing, but ultimately decided not to continue.
- I read seventeen new-to-me books. That's a relatively low number--even for the slow reader I usually am--but I also re-read some of my favorites (the first two Company novels, the first two Khaavren Romances, Dragon, etc). Notably, I also didn't read much self-help dreck.
- I traveled to England to participate in Consequences, my first international LARP con. I also visited Windsor Castle while I was there, which was hugely exciting to me as a history nerd.
- I traveled to Montréal and went to the Biodome and the Botanical Garden. Less far afield, I also went to the Butterfly Place in Westford, which was still an amazing nature experience.
- I made an 1880s waist and skirt for HMS Eden, and a 15th century gamurra for Venezia
- I played a lot of SWTOR, and got my Scoundrel, Jjaro to max level, and discovered I love healing in the process. I know, it's silly.
- I knitted a pair of socks for my dad (which I still need to send to him... dammit)
So... what's on the schedule for 2013? I'm still pondering that. A lack of resolutions worked pretty well for me this year! On the other hand...
I want to write. Specifically, I want to write more regularly and in greater quantity than I already do. I want to establish the habit of creating before I consume. I want to finish something I consider to be publishable. I want to get into and attend Viable Paradise, the sf/fantasy writer's workshop on Martha's Vineyard with awesome authors, including Brust.
Let's go.