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The year so far.
Jan. 2nd, 2011 04:27 amThis is an odd hour to post, even for me, but at the moment the blizzard and my own nightowl habits, as well as having friends and neighbors who work the late shift, have conspired to make Megan and I temporarily nocturnal.
Anyway. In the spirit of keeping my New Year's Resolutions, I want to be public about my progress with them (which may help me keep the resolution to blog more), because peer pressure seems to work reasonably well to keep me working.
So far this year, I have written 843 words, so I'm a little more than a day ahead of my game! Which, you know, okay there have barely been 'days' at all yet, but it's a good start and I'm enjoying it. Nine of those words, the first of the new year, were added to Jaws of Darkness, my unfinished YAVNC project (does anyone else even remember YAVNC?). The other 834 were all added to an unnamed project that has been taking up time I MEANT to be putting in on Mutilation of the Hermai or The Hellion Prince. It... looks like I'm writing a sequel to my Yuletide project, The Knight of the Star. I put the blame for this entirely upon my friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kitsunehime_aki , who listened attentively to my ravings about why the Holy Grail stories made no sense, how much Galahad annoys me, and the role of the fey in Arthurian mythology.
Just before New Year's, I also put in a page of work on Tumulus, an Arthurian short story I blame on the same source, in which I scratch my itch for gratuitous amounts of research and historical accuracy, and also postulate that the Old Ones of Britain might be, in fact, the Great Old Ones.
I'm always pleased to be productive. But these aren't the directions I intended to produce! If I include the KOTS-expansion as a novel (and God knows it may end up long enough), that means I have four unfinished novels and sixteen unfinished short stories to write.
We'll see what happens.
Anyway. In the spirit of keeping my New Year's Resolutions, I want to be public about my progress with them (which may help me keep the resolution to blog more), because peer pressure seems to work reasonably well to keep me working.
So far this year, I have written 843 words, so I'm a little more than a day ahead of my game! Which, you know, okay there have barely been 'days' at all yet, but it's a good start and I'm enjoying it. Nine of those words, the first of the new year, were added to Jaws of Darkness, my unfinished YAVNC project (does anyone else even remember YAVNC?). The other 834 were all added to an unnamed project that has been taking up time I MEANT to be putting in on Mutilation of the Hermai or The Hellion Prince. It... looks like I'm writing a sequel to my Yuletide project, The Knight of the Star. I put the blame for this entirely upon my friend
kitsunehime_aki , who listened attentively to my ravings about why the Holy Grail stories made no sense, how much Galahad annoys me, and the role of the fey in Arthurian mythology.Just before New Year's, I also put in a page of work on Tumulus, an Arthurian short story I blame on the same source, in which I scratch my itch for gratuitous amounts of research and historical accuracy, and also postulate that the Old Ones of Britain might be, in fact, the Great Old Ones.
I'm always pleased to be productive. But these aren't the directions I intended to produce! If I include the KOTS-expansion as a novel (and God knows it may end up long enough), that means I have four unfinished novels and sixteen unfinished short stories to write.
We'll see what happens.
