Every year, after my holiday break, I say, "Man, it wasn't productive, but it sure was relaxing!" I determined I wasn't going to do that this year. To help with this, I even made a schedule, telling myself where to be at every hour ( Read more... )

'Tis the season for such things.

I'm happy with what I did and who I was in 2014. Really happy, actually.

Here's what I wrote last year's summary:

What's next for me in 2014? More writing and editing. I gots a novel to edit and submit. I don't want to set a goal like "be published in 2014," because that is not entirely in my control, but I want ( Read more... )

This was a pretty productive month for me, although I could not manage to live up to the impossible goals I set for myself.

(This is something I need to work on, this setting impossible goals. They never seem unrealistic to me at the time I make them).

I did write my 7500 words on Lioness. I also made significant progress in the snowflake ( Read more... )

Dear elenuial wrote that he enjoyed watching me "gain confidence in [my] writing" this year. I think that is a pretty good summation of 2013, actually.

... which is handy, because "I want to write" was my 2013 aspiration. In particular, I said:

I want to write more regularly and in greater quantity than I already do. I think so? I don't know the exact ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

Writing- Two, two brainstorming/outlining/writing sessions for my new novel--and one an early morning one. Wrote some 250 words of actual text, and much more in notes. It's hard to judge progress at this stage? but I feel like it's moving in a positive direction, very slowly ( Read more... )

Writing
- Wrote two LJ posts

Reading
- Finished listening to the audio of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Finished (re)listening to the audio of Carry On, Jeeves

LARPing
- [Cracks in the Orb, Intercon M] The Intercon run is full!
- [Intercon M] Signed up for The Ballad of Jess-Belle as my second pick

Entertainment/Social- ( Read more... )

Two weeks here -

Writing
- Wrote two LJ posts
- [Cracks in the Orb] Put together a list of potential edits for the Dice Bubble 2013/Intercon M runs

LARP- [Consequences F] Assembled my costumes for Fennas Drunin, Time for Tea, and Sword Day ( Read more... )

Writing
- Four brainstorm/outlining sessions for my next novel
- Wrote one LJ post

LARP
- [Cracks in the Orb] Sent out a feedback survey
- [Cracks in the Orb] Updated Intercon blurb, and game website, with most recent info
- [Consequences F] Assembled my costume for A Turn on the Radiance Rose/Midsummer Mischief

Crafts- [Knitting] Finished the ( Read more... )

A little bit longer period here--seven days instead of eight--but hell, I was in the middle of running a larp!

Writing
- [Cracks in the Orb] Wrote TWO HUNDRED dance insights.
- Wrote five LJ posts

LARP- [Cracks in the Orb] Printed ALL THE THINGS--name badges, rulesheets, bluesheets, contingency text, contingency labels, faction cards, ability ( Read more... )