Happy 2008

The new year has been and gone. For us, it was celebrated quietly with friends. Just what we needed.

In many respects, I am glad to see the back of 2007. I lost two family members and watched my father battle ill health. My own health waxed and waned, but was, in retrospect, better than it had been in previous years.

The one thing I regret is that I spent too much time being distracted by too many things. I have a habit of wanting to do everything. And frankly, I just can’t.

I want to use 2008 to focus more on what I really want to do. Writing. I have a handful of novels in various levels of completion. Thought and Memory is halfway through a third draft, and will likely require another. Its sequel/companion is in embryonic form in my mind. Shaede is currently with an agent, and its sequel is in first draft form. Over the last few weeks, another novel has begun to form in my mind. I have at least another couple that are at the “vague idea” level.

Somehow in this, I find myself wanting to work on some short fiction again. I did have a couple of anthologies I’d been eyeing for submission, but I suspect the cut-off dates have passed. Short work isn’t my forte - I don’t, as a rule, generall enjoy reading a lot of it, and I think this reflects in my own writing.

I’m not a fan of resolutions for the new year, but I’ll make one for 2008. To put the writing first as much as I can, and push myself to do as much of it as I can.

[cross-posted from my website]

Happy 2008

The new year has been and gone. For us, it was celebrated quietly with friends. Just what we needed.

In many respects, I am glad to see the back of 2007. I lost two family members and watched my father battle ill health. My own health waxed and waned, but was, in retrospect, better than it had been in previous years.

The one thing I regret is that I spent too much time being distracted by too many things. I have a habit of wanting to do everything. And frankly, I just can’t.

I want to use 2008 to focus more on what I really want to do. Writing. I have a handful of novels in various levels of completion. Thought and Memory is halfway through a third draft, and will likely require another. Its sequel/companion is in embryonic form in my mind. Shaede is currently with an agent, and its sequel is in first draft form. Over the last few weeks, another novel has begun to form in my mind. I have at least another couple that are at the “vague idea” level.

Somehow in this, I find myself wanting to work on some short fiction again. I did have a couple of anthologies I’d been eyeing for submission, but I suspect the cut-off dates have passed. Short work isn’t my forte – I don’t, as a rule, generall enjoy reading a lot of it, and I think this reflects in my own writing.

I’m not a fan of resolutions for the new year, but I’ll make one for 2008. To put the writing first as much as I can, and push myself to do as much of it as I can.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

Happy 2008

The new year has been and gone. For us, it was celebrated quietly with friends. Just what we needed.

In many respects, I am glad to see the back of 2007. I lost two family members and watched my father battle ill health. My own health waxed and waned, but was, in retrospect, better than it had been in previous years.

The one thing I regret is that I spent too much time being distracted by too many things. I have a habit of wanting to do everything. And frankly, I just can’t.

I want to use 2008 to focus more on what I really want to do. Writing. I have a handful of novels in various levels of completion. Thought and Memory is halfway through a third draft, and will likely require another. Its sequel/companion is in embryonic form in my mind. Shaede is currently with an agent, and its sequel is in first draft form. Over the last few weeks, another novel has begun to form in my mind. I have at least another couple that are at the “vague idea” level.

Somehow in this, I find myself wanting to work on some short fiction again. I did have a couple of anthologies I’d been eyeing for submission, but I suspect the cut-off dates have passed. Short work isn’t my forte – I don’t, as a rule, generall enjoy reading a lot of it, and I think this reflects in my own writing.

I’m not a fan of resolutions for the new year, but I’ll make one for 2008. To put the writing first as much as I can, and push myself to do as much of it as I can.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.