writerly ways - first one of the year

[cornerofmadness]

Not that I have much to say. I'll give findyourwords and origfic_bingo another plug. My goals for this year are as they are usually. Write. Polish. Submit.

However, I know I need to work harder than I did in 2010. I didn't meet my yearly goal. I spent far too much time on Facebook playing around and I did almost anything I could to keep from editing anything.

I need to finish something this year. As we roll on, I'll have you guys poke me and ask me, 'have you fixed up Machiavelli Moon?' 'Have you finished Splinters of Silver and cold Iron' (since that one I can see finishing)

I'm thinking of maybe doing a few word war challenges with interested parties from time to time. those worked so well for us all during the nano write ins. With the various IM's we could do this in the slow periods. Anyone interested? If you win I'll give you a virtual gold star.

So right now I have to work on my two big bangs and springkink stuff in the fandom world. You'll be seeing the word counters for those very soon.

My yearly original fiction word count goal this year is 125K. I think it's doable. I don't count the fanfiction overall word count. it'll frighten me.

I also fell behind on reposting. Almost 75% of the stuff I wrote for fanfic_bakeoff and for fma_fic_contest never got reposted so be expecting me to use the winter to fix that


And I'll just make this the whole post for the day. All I did was move 500 pounds of holly jolly christmas crap back into storage. So much for me accomplishing any work at all of my own.





My cousin V was on a 'honoring New Year's traditions' kick this year. Like ALL of them. ones I've never even heard of like this big German sweet pretzel. yank off a piece for luck. Food traditions that don't suck. whee

And yes that is the entire LoTR series + the hobbit in front of my 12 y.o. cousin. This boy should have been my son. HIs parents don't know where he came from and call him mini-Dana

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[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Well, in a great "does not bode well for my New Year," I did nothing at all I planned on doing this weekend, such as cleaning the floor (steam-mopping), finishing the book I'm reading, re-writing Chapter One of Long Way Home, nothing got done. Did put away Christmas stuff yesterday, and knitted a great deal, and played Sudoku, but very little else...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah we're not off to a blazing start

[lynx212.livejournal.com]

I can feel your pain with the writing and editing as well as with the reposting. I put fics up all the time in bakeoff or for a contest and forget to post it in my Lj or on FFnet >.< *sighs*

i wish you the best of luck this year with your goals!

PS - did that giant pretzel taste like a donut?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i used to be really good about it but 2010 just sucked

thanks and same to you

and yes that pretzel did

[lynx212.livejournal.com]

LOL thanks it looked like it would so I had to ask! YUM!

I to have aspirations for getting more done in the writing world for 2011...namely finishing Falling Away (Inuyasha) and Underneath it All (FMA) all while fighting the urge to start another ongoing/multichapter work of fiction.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it was good

I'm always trying to write 100 things at once I swear

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Awww, your little cousin.

WANTS THE BIG PRETZEL.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it was tasty

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Was it? Recipe?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

you'll have to ask the bakery

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

TO THE INTERNETZ

[seatbeltdrivein.livejournal.com]

Ohh, word wars. I'd be interested, though I'll probably stick to fanfic rather than original. If you end up organizing any online word wars, definitely count me in!

The FMA Bigbang, man, I need to get a move on with that! I'm only half way done, and the countdown is moving a little too fast for my liking. How far along are you?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I'll let you know. when it comes to word wars, fanfic or original it won't matter

I'm close to my word count (21K since i had it started already) but i'm floundernig around and my Saiyuki bigbang is onlyhalf done

[seatbeltdrivein.livejournal.com]

Floundering is a good word for it. I'm in that position with my fmabigbang. I have the thing outlined but I'm just stuck. My brain seems to be preferring my springkink prompts instead right now.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that is why i'm not even looking at them just now

[winters-queen.livejournal.com]

Word wars would help me. I signed up for the findyourwords and just started at 100,000 for my year goal. Doing NaNo would be half that so I should be able to manage an extra 50k. If I go over, that's a good thing.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah that's always my thought too about nano. and find your words is totally low pressure. it's just nice to keep accountability.

you're one of the ones i was thinking about with the word wars

[winters-queen.livejournal.com]

Woot! Awesome. :D

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

That is one impressive pretzel.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

isn't it though?