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2015: The obligatory year end post
Dec. 30th, 2015 03:20 pm2015 has, overall, been a very successful year for me.
Healthwise, for the first time in a long time, things seem to be improving. New medication is making a huge difference, and while I’m still not able to work a “normal” full time job, I am generally doing better than I have been for the last handful of years. It’s kind of awesome, and I am frantically knocking on wood, lest it end.
I’ve got to watch my son keep on growing into an amazing individual. He finished his first full year of school, and has done incredibly well with it all. There have been some hiccups along the way, but such is life. Sometimes I find myself just watching him do things and just be utterly floored by the fact that he exists. Parenthood (or more precisely, parenting a baby and toddler) has been one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do, and I am so grateful that I’ve had the chance to do it.
Writing wise, it’s been a slower year in terms of getting things finished than I’d like, but there’s been forward motion. A few years ago, I sat down and wrote out a list of achievements that I would like to make in my writing career. This year, I achieved three of them. The last one I can’t talk about yet (but hopefully soon, for I am incredibly excited about this project). The others? I had a story, Escapement, nominated for both a Tin Duck and a Ditmar (my first non-fan writing nominations) and had the same story reprinted in a Year’s Best anthology). I am so thankful to the good folks at Ticonderoga Publications and editor extraordinaire for publishing my weird steampunk dystopia story.
I do feel like I’ve levelled up a bit as a writer, and I am really happy with the works I’ve had published this year – Broken Glass in Hear Me Roar and The Flowers That Bloom Where Blood Touches Earth in Bloodlines, both from Ticonderoga. Huge thanks as always to my brilliant critique partner, Pia van Ravestein, without whom none of my stories would be what they are.
In terms of reviews, I’m less than happy. I did manage to finish my Australian Women Writers Challenge pledge, but I have fallen way behind on my Netgalley reviews. Next year, I really want to tackle them and try to increase my review percentage.
Overall, though, a fairly good year. Only a few more days, and then we’re onto 2016.
Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.
