Happy 2021!
Jan. 1st, 2021 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cmk418I'm currently surrounded by boxes as I'm in the midst of my annual room clean & purge. I've got a bag of clothes, a box of miscellaneous stuff and a couple of boxes of books and DVDs that I'm going to be donating. It's a little after 10 now so I doubt I'm going to finish tonight- still have the filing cabinet and a couple other shelving units to go.
I wrote over 100,000 words last year (post on what I wrote to come at the end of the month). NaNo was a big part of it, but that's still about 48K from other sources (and I never count journaling which I've fallen away from). I think I'll shoot for 125,000 this year. Rearranging my routine to give me a little extra writing time in the morning should help. I'm just going to have to look at some of the dozens of prompts that I have around from last year and start plugging away.
I read like a fiend this past year as well. I haven't done a count but I did go through a stint where I was reading a hockey romance every day or two (one of the series has 20 books total in it and I read them all, usually I'm lucky to read 20 books in a year). Part of the reason for that is my job and that everything settled down for me work-wise as soon as I changed jobs in January.
I started to work on what's going to be one of my goals for this year and that's to transfer my fanworks over to Ao3. I'm not abandoning LJ, but I just think it will be nice to have another place for my work to be displayed. It's slow-going, but will ultimately be worthwhile. (If nothing else, it's a nice ego boost to get love for things that I haven't looked at in a while.)
Hockey starts in 12 days and I am looking forward to it. Not sure how I feel about the whole Blues-in-the-West thing, but I can deal with it for a year and I'm sure those antagonistic feelings I have toward Chicago may settle in just fine somewhere else for the next 7 months (you're on notice, Vegas).
That's all I've got for the moment. I'd like to say that I'll update about my personal life more regularly, but it always seems to start out ok and then I'll go from March to August without anything. So, we'll see.
Here's to a terrific 2021!
I wrote over 100,000 words last year (post on what I wrote to come at the end of the month). NaNo was a big part of it, but that's still about 48K from other sources (and I never count journaling which I've fallen away from). I think I'll shoot for 125,000 this year. Rearranging my routine to give me a little extra writing time in the morning should help. I'm just going to have to look at some of the dozens of prompts that I have around from last year and start plugging away.
I read like a fiend this past year as well. I haven't done a count but I did go through a stint where I was reading a hockey romance every day or two (one of the series has 20 books total in it and I read them all, usually I'm lucky to read 20 books in a year). Part of the reason for that is my job and that everything settled down for me work-wise as soon as I changed jobs in January.
I started to work on what's going to be one of my goals for this year and that's to transfer my fanworks over to Ao3. I'm not abandoning LJ, but I just think it will be nice to have another place for my work to be displayed. It's slow-going, but will ultimately be worthwhile. (If nothing else, it's a nice ego boost to get love for things that I haven't looked at in a while.)
Hockey starts in 12 days and I am looking forward to it. Not sure how I feel about the whole Blues-in-the-West thing, but I can deal with it for a year and I'm sure those antagonistic feelings I have toward Chicago may settle in just fine somewhere else for the next 7 months (you're on notice, Vegas).
That's all I've got for the moment. I'd like to say that I'll update about my personal life more regularly, but it always seems to start out ok and then I'll go from March to August without anything. So, we'll see.
Here's to a terrific 2021!
