First goal review of the new year! Exciting!

I Want to Read:

– Zero Sum Game by SL Huang
– Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis

I Want to Edit:

A Promise Broken

I have accomplished exactly one of the items on this list. And not the one I was most supposed to accomplish. I read Zero Sum Game by SL Huang. Other than that I’ve either been distracted by gaming (my fault entirely) or a bad cold (not my fault, but especially annoying when you’ve just solve the issue that was your fault). And then the rest of the time I had available was spent on things related to writing, but entirely getting ahead of myself, such as sorting cover issues and poking ebook layout possibilities. Which reminds me that I also still need to poke the older ones and sort those out. *adds it to the list*

So I’ll just have to make up for it in February. ^_^

I Want to Read:
– Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis
– Women Destroy Fantasy by various authors
– Shadowplay by Laura Lam

I Want to Edit:

A Promise Broken

As you can see, still staying fairly quiet. I don’t think there are any games coming out that are going to make me obsessively play them to the exclusion of everything else, so that should be fine. Still, I want to be sure that I focus on the best editing that I can.

I think it’s time for yet more lists.

Meep! How the year has flown. Feels like yesterday that it was August and look where we are now! Another year over, another year older. Another set of goals to reach for a new month.

Here’s the list of old stuff just as a reminder of what I wanted to do in December.

I Want to Read:
– Lightspeed Issue #49: Women Destroy Science Fiction!
– Under Nameless Stars by Christian Schoon

I Want to Write:
– Ribbit Charles Wilson

I accomplished the reading goal! I actually read about six books this month. (If you’re curious, that’s significantly down from previous years where I read about 15 books on average.) I failed utterly on the writing goal, but that’s largely because I spent all my writing time this month on polishing up A Promise Broken. I’m close to done. The whole month turned out a little more eventful than I’d anticipated, so I didn’t quite get to the very end before 2015 began.

Not counting my editing in December, I wrote about 217,073 words of fiction, though a chunk of these were various drafts of the same story. The spreadsheet I use works by days rather than projects, so I didn’t keep decent stats on how much was what. Still. That’s about a novel less than last year, which makes sense when I consider the struggle some of these pieces were. Although I’m having to tell myself very firmly that this is not as shabby as I think it is and I really need to learn not to compare myself to people who can work at the speed of 500,000 words a year when I know that’s not (at present) a feasible number for me. 250,000 is perfectly respectable. That’s five 50K novels’ worth, after all.

So for January I’m starting off slow.

I Want to Read:
– Zero Sum Game by SL Huang
– Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis

I Want to Edit:
A Promise Broken

See? Slow. This is partially because we’re continuing the whole trend where I expect my months to be more complicated than I assume. Ideally I’d finish A Promise Broken in a few days (actually, ideally I’d already be done) and switch to a short story project I’ve been putting off. (Because evolutionary genetics hurts my brain. It’ll be so worth it, but ow my brain.) I also have thinky thoughts on energy and social spoons. Well, and me. And I want to talk about Under Nameless Stars. And I want to sort the blog out a little more. I’m still on official hiatus until mid-January, so if there’s anything you particularly want me to be aware of please drop me a note, thank you!