Shiny! Fancy! Congratulations! How the hell can you say you were slacking? I'd say that any Disney trips were mental health breaks. And conventions are work.
You aren't the only person I know who could look at 4 novels in a year (or equivalent work-levels) and consider it to be slacking off, but you are in a rare circle. Thank you for giving me such awesome words to read!
Not asking for more details, but to resolve a possible point of confusion:
You *did* announce a Toby Daye-universe novelette, titled "Full of Briars", back on the 11th, and you don't mention having written that novelette in 2015. (I also don't immediately note a project matching the parameters of "Full of Briars" on going back through your current-projects posts, but then as an unannounced project, I can see why it might not have been listed.)
Just to clarify, then: is the above-noted unannounced Daye-universe novella a different project than "Full of Briars", thereby giving us two things to look forward to as opposed to one? [I hesitate to rely too much on the use of "novella" vs. "novelette" in this context, especially when the publisher page for "Briars" describes it as a short story....]
A novella and a novelette are very different beasts. When calculating how much I had written in 2015, I wrapped novelettes into "short story," because otherwise I would have had to open every short story file to check the word counts. I did not mention any novelettes written in 2015.
I'm sorry to have caused you undue stress. I should have realized -- especially considering how long I've been following your journals -- that this is an area where you do speak precisely, and that that precision answers the question I asked.
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How the hell can you say you were slacking? I'd say that any Disney trips were mental health breaks. And conventions are work.
You are awesome, and thank you for being you.
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(also, hi, i'm the person you and your friend spoke with repeatedly at Chessie. :) )
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Even more Yay to more Toby.
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Have a happy happy end of 2015/start of 2016!
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Hoping 2016 is a banner year for writing, health, love, kitties and naps.
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You *did* announce a Toby Daye-universe novelette, titled "Full of Briars", back on the 11th, and you don't mention having written that novelette in 2015. (I also don't immediately note a project matching the parameters of "Full of Briars" on going back through your current-projects posts, but then as an unannounced project, I can see why it might not have been listed.)
Just to clarify, then: is the above-noted unannounced Daye-universe novella a different project than "Full of Briars", thereby giving us two things to look forward to as opposed to one? [I hesitate to rely too much on the use of "novella" vs. "novelette" in this context, especially when the publisher page for "Briars" describes it as a short story....]
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A novella and a novelette are very different beasts. When calculating how much I had written in 2015, I wrapped novelettes into "short story," because otherwise I would have had to open every short story file to check the word counts. I did not mention any novelettes written in 2015.
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That said, I thank you for the amplification.
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<3
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