The Last Writerly Ways of the Year

No big thinky thoughts on writing, just my year in review. You can find my professional year here. I'm proud of it. So please go have a look.

I have non-erotica plans for the year too. They are as follows.

1. Find more willing first readers.

2. EDIT Splinters of Silver and Cold Iron I think that it could be successful. It's a YA urban fantasy/mystery with seers and werewolves. It's set in Madison and I wrote it years ago. I have no idea why I just can't get it edited.

3. FINISH Beneath the Torn Sky, my dieselpunk mystery. Placid, Julian and Melantha need their story told. I even started book two for nano 2013. I'm feeding this to my writers group now so I must finish it.

4. Keep noodling around with the faux Viking thing. While the character is pansexual, I don't see this as an erotica. If I don't get much interest in it, i will try the erotica publishers second.

5. Get a damn word press website made for Jana (if anyone knows how to do this and wants to help out, let me know. I'll work out something for your time).

6. Do camp nano and nano again this year.

And I think that's it. I have plenty of other things I could be working on. I'm trying to keep my to-do list more manageable in the hopes I'll DO it. And with that idea in mind, I'm going to keep my word count lower this year since a lot of what I want to do is finish and market things. I'm only shooting for 100K.

I am curious if there is anything you'd like to see me tackle (especially for Kept Tears). If anyone wants to volunteer for #1, we can work something out.

I'm not doing a yearly review for fanfic AGAIN this year. I've just not been reposting anything. I haven't even posted last year's big bang or even edit it. So another goal is to post the damn fanfics.

I did make my goal for this year. I am happy.

Yearly Word Count -

125311 / 125000
(100.25%)

The Somogyi effect

This refers to a bout of hypoglycemia followed by a rebound hyperglycemia and it sums up my WHOLE day. I went to bed just before 2 and at 2:30 I started getting nauseous. I thought what's this about since it was way after dinner. It was followed by shaking and diphoresis (massive bout of sweating). I took my sugar. 55. That's very low, dangerously so. I'm out of sugar pills. Not to fear, I stagger to the kitchen and load up a plate of cookies and some salami for protein and sit at the computer until 3 AM until I was no longer shaky. I'm coverd in sweat and pretty well sick of cookie.

This morning my sugar was over 300 and I was so dizzy I could hardly stand. When my sugar does this bounce shit, I'm worthless. I literally did nothing but lie on the couch watching Harry Potter and Indiana Jones and trying to write a little and I still feel like I ran a marathon.

I only roused myself to bake a pie for tomorrow and wash clothes.



( pictures )