Bookwormish, first half of 2015
Well! I read 45 books in the first half of this year.
I certainly don't expect to repeat that feat in the second half of the year - it had to do with being temporarily unemployed at the beginning of the year, which I very much no longer am - but right in this moment, I'm feeling pleased with myself. Read the last pages of book number 45 right around midnight on the last day of June, so that all seemed very fitting.
Also, looking back I see I've posted 17 fics so far this year (of much-varying lengths and across a range of fandoms), and that's not even counting the 4 more currently in progress on my desktop (one enormous, two quite mini, one collaboratively written and multi-chapter), so I've not exactly been idle, have I?
The original fiction, not happening so much, but instead I've put my time into learning how to properly write songs for the first time, which is incredibly exciting. And I do some beta reading, and I do think I get a better and better eye for what works and doesn't work in writing, the more I look at it from an editor's perspective. So that's a writerly activity, too.
Sheesh. Why do I spend so much of my time berating myself for not accomplishing enough?
I certainly don't expect to repeat that feat in the second half of the year - it had to do with being temporarily unemployed at the beginning of the year, which I very much no longer am - but right in this moment, I'm feeling pleased with myself. Read the last pages of book number 45 right around midnight on the last day of June, so that all seemed very fitting.
Also, looking back I see I've posted 17 fics so far this year (of much-varying lengths and across a range of fandoms), and that's not even counting the 4 more currently in progress on my desktop (one enormous, two quite mini, one collaboratively written and multi-chapter), so I've not exactly been idle, have I?
The original fiction, not happening so much, but instead I've put my time into learning how to properly write songs for the first time, which is incredibly exciting. And I do some beta reading, and I do think I get a better and better eye for what works and doesn't work in writing, the more I look at it from an editor's perspective. So that's a writerly activity, too.
Sheesh. Why do I spend so much of my time berating myself for not accomplishing enough?