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rallamajoopIn 2008 I moved out of home, quit my job, went back to university to start a PhD, visited Melbourne and attended my first con out of the state, visited Japan and attended my first con out of the country, finished a novel, made two-and-a-half (counting one that's still in progress) new costumes from scratch, barely made it to the skating national champs, and generally ran myself off my feet. It's been one hell of a year, and that's without even touching on all the crazy big international stuff (which mostly doesn't affect me personally but is bound to be how 2008 goes down in history) that's gone down in the last few months (or the fact that we finally got Good News Week back on TV at long last. \o/)
I did not get nearly as much writing done as I might have hoped, but that's probably not something I should beat myself up for too much under the circumstances.
Overall, 2008 was mostly pretty awesome. But I can only hope 2009 will be a whole lot less exciting.
And then I spent the first week of 2009 variously a) building a giant A.B.A. key, or b) procrastinating about building the giant A.B.A. key, but it's actually done now ZOMG! (save painting), so it was not a week utterly wasted. (No, that is not me in the photo, that is instead the prospective A.B.A. cosplayer who will have to actually lug it around on the day - and as you can see they are getting on very nicely and probably planning to elope the minute my back is turned. But those are my feet sticking in on the left side if anyone is curious.)
The 2008 Annual Fic Round up
Tsubasa/xxxHOLiC
The Telling of One Billion Ghost Stories
17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 FINISHED!
Epilogues for others' fic
Wait epilogues
The Incubi continuation ficlet
Other
Superheros - Part 3
Guilty Gear
Collateral
Magma to Ash
Will Not Rest (or, Rage)
Red
Two Sol/Ky ficlets
50 Sol/Ky Sentences
Wait and See
Electricity
Ky Birthday ficlet
Discworld
Quod Erat Demonstrandum
(For comparison, the corresponding posts from 2006 and 2007)
In Total
All that comes to a total of 89,000 words posted during 2008 (57,000 of which were part of Ghost Stories), which is a good 20,000 less than my 2007 tally. Looking back on that list now it doesn't feel like I've written all that much this year, so all excuses aside I am definitely going to have to try and better that for next year.
Goals for 2009
Everything on this list, which I did hope I might be able to shorten down a bit by the end of December but... kind of failed miserably to get around to in the end. On the upside, I did make a good start on editing Ghost Stories (though am still woefully short of the halfway point) and the first fic on the list is back from my beta reader now and well overdue to be posted.
I'd hope I'm going to get a whole lot more than what's on that list written too, of course, but there's more than enough in that list to keep me going for as long as I have any desire to plan for.
In related news, I was earlier this week suddenly struck by the desire to open the word document containing the first part of That Original Story I Have Been Honestly And Genuinely Meaning To Continue Someday for the first time since 2005, and though I retain my plan to revise it heavily before it gets shown to anyone else again, didn't totally and instantly hate everything in it, which is an encouraging sign with any piece of writing you've left untouched for that long. So we will see if this actually, finally goes anywhere useful~
I did not get nearly as much writing done as I might have hoped, but that's probably not something I should beat myself up for too much under the circumstances.
Overall, 2008 was mostly pretty awesome. But I can only hope 2009 will be a whole lot less exciting.
And then I spent the first week of 2009 variously a) building a giant A.B.A. key, or b) procrastinating about building the giant A.B.A. key, but it's actually done now ZOMG! (save painting), so it was not a week utterly wasted. (No, that is not me in the photo, that is instead the prospective A.B.A. cosplayer who will have to actually lug it around on the day - and as you can see they are getting on very nicely and probably planning to elope the minute my back is turned. But those are my feet sticking in on the left side if anyone is curious.)
The 2008 Annual Fic Round up
Tsubasa/xxxHOLiC
The Telling of One Billion Ghost Stories
17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 FINISHED!
Epilogues for others' fic
Wait epilogues
The Incubi continuation ficlet
Other
Superheros - Part 3
Guilty Gear
Collateral
Magma to Ash
Will Not Rest (or, Rage)
Red
Two Sol/Ky ficlets
50 Sol/Ky Sentences
Wait and See
Electricity
Ky Birthday ficlet
Discworld
Quod Erat Demonstrandum
(For comparison, the corresponding posts from 2006 and 2007)
In Total
All that comes to a total of 89,000 words posted during 2008 (57,000 of which were part of Ghost Stories), which is a good 20,000 less than my 2007 tally. Looking back on that list now it doesn't feel like I've written all that much this year, so all excuses aside I am definitely going to have to try and better that for next year.
Goals for 2009
Everything on this list, which I did hope I might be able to shorten down a bit by the end of December but... kind of failed miserably to get around to in the end. On the upside, I did make a good start on editing Ghost Stories (though am still woefully short of the halfway point) and the first fic on the list is back from my beta reader now and well overdue to be posted.
I'd hope I'm going to get a whole lot more than what's on that list written too, of course, but there's more than enough in that list to keep me going for as long as I have any desire to plan for.
In related news, I was earlier this week suddenly struck by the desire to open the word document containing the first part of That Original Story I Have Been Honestly And Genuinely Meaning To Continue Someday for the first time since 2005, and though I retain my plan to revise it heavily before it gets shown to anyone else again, didn't totally and instantly hate everything in it, which is an encouraging sign with any piece of writing you've left untouched for that long. So we will see if this actually, finally goes anywhere useful~
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Date: 2009-01-07 12:02 am (UTC)oh, and i got your phone call, i'll be jig-sawing it out tonight after my day job, before my night job :D
then the shapping will be done hopefully sometime this weekend...(though with doing bootcamp performances at Gen-Con, and not knowing the full schedule), i will more than likely get the base of the sword sculpted and sanded, ready for treatment/painting/dressing by you next week/weekend at very latest. That is 2 weeks before the con.
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Date: 2009-01-07 10:57 am (UTC)