Once again, thank you to everyone who’s supported me throughout the year, especially my generous and lovely patrons! This will be the last post for 2018 from me. I hope your year is ending on a high note and that 2019 will be off to a delightful start for you all! <3
Well, 2018. You were… quite a year, weren’t you? Like always, I’m not sure how we got from January to December so fast and yet here we are again. So I guess it’s time to start looking back at the year, to see what I’ve accomplished and done.
Yearly Happenings
Well, 2018. You were… quite a year, weren’t you? Like always, I’m not sure how we got from January to December so fast and yet here we are again. So I guess it’s time to start looking back at the year, to see what I’ve accomplished and done.
I… don’t have much to say about the year itself, to be honest. The biggest things I’ve done are that I’ve sold an essay and officially opened for editing and author services.
One ting I definitely want to look at very critically is this yearly round-up post. Did I catch everything you wanted to know? If not, what did I miss? I am hoooooooooopeleeeeeeeess. :/ (That said, I should probably warn you that I already have trouble tracking very broad and general statistics, so something like “a detailed breakdown of your reading this year!” is… not likely to happen.
But also wow I did quite a lot of things. That’s… so much more than I expected. O_O You’d think that with all the stuff I did is why I didn’t quite manage what I’d hoped with DemiPrincess2, but it actually isn’t. I did a bunch of things – and this isn’t everything, just the things I’ve completed – that I did to wind down or because my mental health was just that low. :/ Blargh. But hey! I finished effectively 1 novel, 2 novellas, 8 essays (some of them quite long and technically it’s more like 14 if you count unposted ones and ones I had to rewrite from scratch), and one short story! I’ve got another short story and a short poem in edits too.
Also I did a ton of other stuff. I’m re-evaluating the other stuff in part because the way I handled them this year – especially the livereacts – isn’t actually working for me. If it’s not working for me, it’s a sure sign it’s not working for anyone else either. I wound up doing far less with some things than anticipated too. I only recorded a few of the short stories that I’d wanted to record. Although that’s partially because my mic developed issues that took me forever to figure out. (Basically, don’t put electronics next to your mic.)
And, um, yes. That is… basically been it. I think? Did I miss anything? Tell me I didn’t miss anything!
Publications
- Among the Glimmering Flowers
- The Ice Princess’s Fair Illusion
Patreon Story Perks:
- Patreon 2018 Story Collection – All of the pieces below in one handy ebook version!
- Fiction: The Night I Met the Girl that Lives Outside of Time
- Drabble: The Rain Door
- Short Story: The Thirteenth Child
- Short Story: The Tooth Fairy
- Short Story: All I Have
- Short Story: Icarus
- Short Story: Lânik and the Archives of Se Chatyn
- Short Story: A Little Gentleness
- Short Story: The Artist’s Muse
- Poetry: The Haunted Woods of Devil’s Hand
- Short Story: The City
- Poetry: The Northern Shore
Patreon Essays:
- Essay: Asexual and Aromantic Tropes in Fiction
- Personal Essay: Carry On Expectations: Experiencing Asexual Representation in Carrie Pilby
- Essay: A Darkened Mind: Writing with Aphantasia
- 13 Dos and Don’ts for Ace and Aro Panels and Talks
- Essay: Grand Passions: Asexuality and Aromanticism in M.C.A. Hogarth’s The Dreamhealers Saga
- On Retelling Thrushbeard in The Ice Princess’s Fair Illusion
- Influences on The Ice Princess’s Fair Illusion
- Whose Words Matter Anyway? On using identity labels in The Ice Princess’s Fair Illusion
Completed Stories
- RibbonDancer
- The Sea Horse of Moezerdam
Completed Livereacts
Doctor Who:
- Series 11: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6, Episode 7, Episode 8, Episode 9, Episode 10
Regal Academy:
- Season 1: Episodes 1-6, episodes 7-14, episodes 15-20, episodes 21-26
Lost Song:
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power:
Anne with an E:
- Season 1: Episode 1, episode 2, episode 3, episode 4, episode 5, episode 6 & espisode 7
- Season 2: Episodes 1 & 2, episode 3, episode 4, episode 5, episodes 6-10
My Only Love Song:
Steven Universe:
- Season 1: Episodes 1-6, episodes 7-12, episodes 13-18, episodes 19-24, episodes 25-30, episodes 31-36, episodes 37-52
Record of Lodoss War OVA:
- Episode 1, episode 2 & 3, episode 4 & 5, episode 6 & 7, episode 8 & 9, episode 10 & 11, episode 12 & 13 (were mysteriously lost)
Princess Tutu:
- Episode 1, episode 2, episodes 3-7, episodes 8 & 9, episodes 10 & 11, episodes 12 & 13, episodes 14 & 15, episodes 16-22, episodes 23-26.
Assorted non-TV-shows
- Book: Mindtouch by M.C.A. Hogarth
- Book: Mindline by M.C.A. Hogarth
- Book: I Fell In Love with an Asexual Kindle Sample
- Film: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
- Book: A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams by Dax Murray (Part 1)
- Book: A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams by Dax Murray (Part 2)
- Film: To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before
- Film: A Christmas Prince
- Film: Carrie Pilby
- Books: Various novelettes
- Book: ‘Drukkers, boekverkopers en lezers tijdens de Republiek’
– Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, 6 & epilogue - Book: Let’s Talk About Love (spoilerfree)
- Book: Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folk
Yearly Wordcount
Fiction: 207,281 words
Nonfiction: 76,517 words
When I started the year, I had one goal. Well, no. I had many, but when it comes to my total wordcount, I had just one. Well, technically it was two, but I’ll get to that. The one goal I had this year was to cut down on the amount of nonfiction writing I was doing and try to shift to writing more fiction. I know I can get a decent wordcount in a year. I just… kind of wanted the majority of that word count to be fiction.
And oh look I succeeded fantastically. My secondary goal, however, is one I failed to make because I’m not even going to try and write that many words in a day. (I mean, I could. I’ve done it in the past, but I’m not too fussed.) My secondary goal was to write 300,000 words in both fiction and nonfiction. I’m a little over 15,000 words short. And that’s okay because the main goal was to write fiction and whoot I did that! I’m really proud of myself. Is it where I want to be? Hell no, but it’s nearer to where I want to be than last year, so let’s see if I can keep up the momentum!
Odds and Ends
- Lynn reads… The Thing with Feathers: or, The Hope of Oak Town
- Lynn reads… Phee
- Lynn reads… Saeftinghe
- Lynn reads… The Little White Snake
- Lynn reads… The Fish Killers
- Lynn sings… Is This What I Want? (Draft 1?)
- Lynn sings… I’m Not Here (Draft 1?)
- Lynn sings… Wuthering Heights
- Lynn sings… How Far I’ll Go
- Video: Asexuality in Fiction #1: A rough overview from 1985 to 2018.
- Video: Sea Foam and Silence Ebook Boxset: Making the ToC
- Video: Sea Foam and Silence Ebook Boxset: Decorative Title Pages
- Video: Let’s Play Armello and Some Bookish Updates
- Video: Book Design Basics #1: Getting Things Ready
- Video: Book Design Basics #2: How To Make Paragraph Styles
- Video: Book Design Basics #3: Paragraph Styling continues…
- Video: Book Design Basics #4: Master Pages
- Video: Book Design Basics #5: Getting fancy
How about you? What’s your year contained? Good things, I hope.