Another year is in the books… another year wasted. Sorta.
2008 brought my first (and only) writing cred, but it’s not much to write home about… a non-publication Honorable Mention in WotF is great for a day, but really means nothing.
My goals for 2008 were as follows… included in blue is how I landed on meeting them:
- Submit to WotF for every quarter. Update: only met this by 50%, submitting for the first two quarters of 2008, but posting no-shows for the final two. On a good note, my HM came from only my second submission, but on a downer, I let two chances to improve on that performance go by. Boo. I could go into excuses, but I’ll spare you the gory details.
- Complete the NaNoWriMo challenge. Update: sorta, kinda. Call it 50%. I ended the month of November with ~48k words of my novel written. But, I realized I was only about halfway through the story. The point of NaNo is to complete a novel… oops.
- Sell a short. Update: nope. :(
All-in-all, I fell like 2008 was fairly successful. I fell short on a couple of things, but also hit some other milestones. I currently have 7 stories making the rounds. I passed 250k total words written since I started on this crazy ride a few years back. I took two online writing classes and did some work-shopping.
Am I disappointed? Sure – the WotF goal especially stings. But, I’m happy, and in the end, that’s all that really matters.
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