Keeping myself honest
It's time to see how well I did at keeping my New Year's resolutions for 2013...
Finish Dust & Water and put it on sale. (Done - I published it on 30 March.)
Finish the short story about dragons that I was working on around the end of 2011. (Not done, but I wrote another 2,000 words of it over the holidays. This means that it's no longer a short story, but a novelette, at least according to SFWA's categories for the Nebula Awards.)
Visit Dublin with Breda. (Not done. Maybe next year...)
Write more than 13 blog posts. (Not done. I wrote 11, or 8 if you don't count the ones about my books. I think I'm going to have to give up on any goals to write a specific number of posts, and just blog as and when I have something to say. My everyday life just isn't that interesting - or I'm not egotistical enough to think it's that interesting, anyway. I could say a lot about my books or about writing in general, but I don't want this to turn into yet another writer's blog that appeals only to other writers. Plus which, I already dispense plenty of writing advice on Yahoo! Answers and Wattpad.)
Upload at least ten minutes of edited video, not including any videos that promote my books. (Done. I uploaded about 22 minutes of non-book videos in total, though about 12 minutes of that was videos I made in previous years. You can watch them here.)
Publish another novel. I have an unfinished one that I put aside a few years ago to concentrate on the Barefoot Healer series. (Not done, though I finished the first draft of it a few weeks ago. It's the one whose first chapter is in my previous post. When I said I wanted to have it on sale this year, I thought it would be shorter than it turned out. I should know by now that brevity doesn't come naturally to me...)
So in terms of number of goals met, that doesn't look too impressive, but in terms of what I achieved, it's been a pretty good year. Come back in a few days to see what I want to do in 2014!
Finish Dust & Water and put it on sale. (Done - I published it on 30 March.)
Finish the short story about dragons that I was working on around the end of 2011. (Not done, but I wrote another 2,000 words of it over the holidays. This means that it's no longer a short story, but a novelette, at least according to SFWA's categories for the Nebula Awards.)
Visit Dublin with Breda. (Not done. Maybe next year...)
Write more than 13 blog posts. (Not done. I wrote 11, or 8 if you don't count the ones about my books. I think I'm going to have to give up on any goals to write a specific number of posts, and just blog as and when I have something to say. My everyday life just isn't that interesting - or I'm not egotistical enough to think it's that interesting, anyway. I could say a lot about my books or about writing in general, but I don't want this to turn into yet another writer's blog that appeals only to other writers. Plus which, I already dispense plenty of writing advice on Yahoo! Answers and Wattpad.)
Upload at least ten minutes of edited video, not including any videos that promote my books. (Done. I uploaded about 22 minutes of non-book videos in total, though about 12 minutes of that was videos I made in previous years. You can watch them here.)
Publish another novel. I have an unfinished one that I put aside a few years ago to concentrate on the Barefoot Healer series. (Not done, though I finished the first draft of it a few weeks ago. It's the one whose first chapter is in my previous post. When I said I wanted to have it on sale this year, I thought it would be shorter than it turned out. I should know by now that brevity doesn't come naturally to me...)
So in terms of number of goals met, that doesn't look too impressive, but in terms of what I achieved, it's been a pretty good year. Come back in a few days to see what I want to do in 2014!
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