Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

Year in review, a Year in planning.

What is there to say? You've heard me whine enough this year about the bad head space which is true. 2019 lasted an entire decade in and of itself and it was a pure dumpster fire. I didn't have enough in me to world build but I kept writing via fanfic.

Yep here is what I did word count wise

33642 / 100000 words. 34% done!

I put it in an obnoxious color because I failed badly. Even my nano was fanfic. Sigh.

But I DID publish three stories in 2019 and you can find them here

Modified and Sacred

Ghosts Gangsters and Garland (which could really use some reviews!)

Santa's Little Library And yes you haven't really heard me talking about this because it's the last thing I'll be publishing with Dreamspinner. Between the implosion of DSP AND RWA I'm glad I was already planning to put Jana to bed in the next few years.


However if we put fanfiction into the picture, I more than made my 100K goal. For Like Stone (Buffyverse) and Come Undone (Prodigal Son) alone I wrote 130K. Let THAT sink in for a moment. Yeah I'm scared too.

I've written 20 stories in a new fandom (Prodigal Son), I've written in WAY too many writing challenges (which I will not be doing next year). I'll be along in a day or two with all the year in review fanfic stuff

My Goals for new year

1. rewrite/shop around my urban fantasy YA Splinters of Silver and Cold Iron I've said this for what? the last decade? god...

2. Expand my paranormal FLorida based novella

3. Finish These Haunted HIlls, my m/m paranormal romance set in the Hocking Hills

4. write my Boston based UF story for nano

5. finish my Physicians of Myddia research and pub it

6. Ignore Come Undone who's whispering we need a sequel (you aren't even finished yet) and commit to one fanfic, doing another ancient Buffyverse story for wipbigbang but maybe find one that is more finished than Like Stone was....


That's it, keeping it simple. Yeah I need to. Also I could use beta readers for any or all of them.


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Professional Envy

Using What We Know To Imagine What Might Have Been

THE SURPRISING SILVER LINING OF UNSUCCESSFULNESS

Comments

[alexseanchai]

…the link I clicked is https://mythcreants.com/blog/character-agency-its-what-that-sexy-lamp-is-missing/l and the link that loaded is https://mythcreants.com/blog/labeling-your-dialogue/ wtf

[cornerofmadness]

wow I have no idea why because it was the right link when I copied and pasted it.....let me check

[alexseanchai]

the first link is what I got by right-click Copy Link Location on the hyperlink in your post, though, so like I don't know that the problem is on your end?

[cornerofmadness]

Fixed it. In other words removed it entirely. the link was right for the character agency so I have NO idea why it was rolling over to the other one. And if you do a search on their site for that article it came up with the dialogue one.

[alexseanchai]

weeeeird

[cornerofmadness]

It was because I copied the url (which did read character agency) and the title right off the web page. that is just so strange

[duskpeterson]

Fanfic definitely counts, even if you fell short of your professional goal. You're still writing; you're still teaching yourself how to write better.

[cornerofmadness]

I agree, it certainly helps and without fanfic, this year I'd have written next to nothing so I'm happy to have it. That said, I do need to back burner it like it has been most of the decade so I can concentrate on other things but that may not happen until June (it's going to be a second hellacious semester)