Jan
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2012
I’ve been a sluggish, lately, when it comes to my aspirations to be a writer. The holiday season came and went as quickly as having my tires rotated. I did some writing, but nothing of value to add to the 2011 goal I set forth with this blog. Keeping it simple, my writing goal for 2012 is to finish two stories along with my continuance to write. The first story that I want to finish is a short I started last year. It is, at the time of this post, sitting at 20% complete. Secondly, I’d like to finish a draft of the novel I started for NaNoWriMo in November ‘11. I have 12 months to work on these two stories. As excited as I am to start, I have a few hang ups before I can make real progress.
Over the next three months I need to pull two A’s out of my college classes I’m taking this quarter. My husband and I promised our son we’d get him into Karate, which means I need more time to run him around. The last hang up is my house clean out task. We have been moving our things into storage to help prepare for selling/buying a new home (hopefully) this year.
What You Saw Last Year (2011)
- A start to writing, the creation of this blog, which includes both technical posts and writer posts. Over the last six months my one SharePoint technical posting has received over 36% of the page views. It was followed by my character sheet template at 14.61%. Let just say I’m not very popular, yet. I’m sure when I sell my first book I will have people flocking to want more from me. You can probably subtract 10% from each value below due to my hits and initial publishing. I’m alright with it though, this isn’t about fans… it’s about writing.
- 16 Thoughtful Dreamer posts & 3 Thoughtful Tech posts. 9 of the dreamer posts are actual writing scenes from story concepts.
- An attempt at NaNoWriMo—just wasn’t ready for the commitment yet. Here is my take away from NaNoWriMo. I did successfully start working on my largest novel idea, which is a great win for someone like me. I have just over 4 chapters written, including a prologue.
What’s Coming This Year (2012)
- I threw out a challenge to my friend Maki on November 25, 2011 to help me create a one-page comic of my character Phoenix. He has committed to trying the task and I truly hope I get to show it to you when he is finished. I’m calling it a Clip Comic (the phrase one-page comic isn’t that flashy). The story within my Phoenix mess happens right before the First Appearance of Phoenix.
- A short story, fan based fiction, on a major character in the world of The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences by Philippa Ballentine and Tee Morris. This is the short that is 20% done, but in my head I know where I want it to go.
- More dream posts. I have a whole set of alien dreams that I haven’t told you about yet. I also started a new dream story line about an emotionally and physically scared female whose friends hire her dream man (a celebrity) to snap her out of her depression. It’s a Beauty and the Beast story, but with no magical physical transformation into a beautiful woman. The celebrity that is currently filling the role in my mind is Jason Hartley, aka Oliver Queen (Green Arrow), from WB’s Smallville. This is a dream and not even a lustful one, just a story about the impact of an idolized celebrities affect on another person’s depression. The power of a star. Is Jason Hartley my number one star? No, he was just in a recently watched episode of Chuck, so I had him on the brain. I actually haven’t determined who my top hottest celebrity is, probably because my husband is not a celebrity (LOOK OUT: Rare moment of affection).
- For Christmas I received a game for writers called Storymatic from my friend and husband to my sister. I haven’t had time to play with it yet, but when I do I will post any writing products on the blog. I will also provide more details about this game in a later posting.
Best wishes for your 2012 goals!