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a new year of me
My unfocused thoughts regarding birthdays, my personal numerology, and the arbitrariness of new year's resolutions refuse to coalesce in a useful order in my brain, so perhaps I shall just go on to goals for the next year. (This year, I have decided to count the new year by my own personal calendar, rather than the conventional one-- it's less than a week off, anyway.)
If I am going to go about calling myself a writer, I had best start with writing. So, I have one mostly-complete novel (in beta, kind of!) and three sequels in very messy 2/3 sketched rough drafts. By the end of this year, (or November, or advent of [[potential semi-planned huge life change]], as applicable,) I want to have book one in submittable shape and in search of a home, and the trilogy in at least solid rough draft form. Also, I should continue writing & submitting short stories, because, why not, really? What I end up doing for NaNo (or if, depending on factors outside my direct control) will depend on the outcomes of the above, but I do plan to keep using that as a tool as long as it continues to be helpful to me.
I also need to get back on that website redesign (er, since currently thanate.com is sitting there with a note promising to be back up in a week or three, dated July...) I know more or less what I want to do with in, but this involves drawing things, and I haven't done it yet.
My 50 crafts for the year list is up to 55 completed, and I haven't actually written down quite everything I've finished, so I guess I'll photograph that soon, and then wipe it & relist the things I haven't done but still intend to complete. I'm not sure how much it's a productivity tool and how much it's just a tool for remembering that I have been productive, but either way, worth continuing. In a similar vein, I'm planning to put up the calendar that the NWF sent me (which has some very cool pictures in it) in my writing loft once we escape carpet limbo and can move into that space. Not quite sure what I'll do with it, but I'll come up with something-- computer-based trackers are all very well, but I like pens and paper, too.
I want to keep on tracking money spent on gasoline vs money spent on native plants & other pollution-saving efforts (I don't have year-end totals yet, as I probably ought to fill up in the next week, but I will be finding a charity for the balance.) and as the idiots next door came back cut down all the trees along our property line (apparently banks hate trees-- who knew?) I have free reign to plant whatever the heck I want along that side of *our* property in the spring. I am trying to be excited, and not beyond furious about the waste. @grauwulf (um, he's on twitter far more than lj these days?) wants an ash, and I'm thinking a couple beechs, which will be happy under all the tree cover we've got, and take off to give us a little more shade if the main oak doesn't make it.
And in the particularly short term, I've got more paint rollers, and about three more walls, plus the closet ceiling still to paint. With luck, even if we don't manage to have carpet and moving going on (as the carpet people were all ready to get it in this week-- and then it turned out that we have to wait for the carpet to be *made* first, since it wasn't in stock at the warehouse), we will have the space at least semi-aired out and ready to put down an air mattress for garden_goth when she comes to visit the week after next.
Xposty from dreamwidth, but yes, I'm still here.
If I am going to go about calling myself a writer, I had best start with writing. So, I have one mostly-complete novel (in beta, kind of!) and three sequels in very messy 2/3 sketched rough drafts. By the end of this year, (or November, or advent of [[potential semi-planned huge life change]], as applicable,) I want to have book one in submittable shape and in search of a home, and the trilogy in at least solid rough draft form. Also, I should continue writing & submitting short stories, because, why not, really? What I end up doing for NaNo (or if, depending on factors outside my direct control) will depend on the outcomes of the above, but I do plan to keep using that as a tool as long as it continues to be helpful to me.
I also need to get back on that website redesign (er, since currently thanate.com is sitting there with a note promising to be back up in a week or three, dated July...) I know more or less what I want to do with in, but this involves drawing things, and I haven't done it yet.
My 50 crafts for the year list is up to 55 completed, and I haven't actually written down quite everything I've finished, so I guess I'll photograph that soon, and then wipe it & relist the things I haven't done but still intend to complete. I'm not sure how much it's a productivity tool and how much it's just a tool for remembering that I have been productive, but either way, worth continuing. In a similar vein, I'm planning to put up the calendar that the NWF sent me (which has some very cool pictures in it) in my writing loft once we escape carpet limbo and can move into that space. Not quite sure what I'll do with it, but I'll come up with something-- computer-based trackers are all very well, but I like pens and paper, too.
I want to keep on tracking money spent on gasoline vs money spent on native plants & other pollution-saving efforts (I don't have year-end totals yet, as I probably ought to fill up in the next week, but I will be finding a charity for the balance.) and as the idiots next door came back cut down all the trees along our property line (apparently banks hate trees-- who knew?) I have free reign to plant whatever the heck I want along that side of *our* property in the spring. I am trying to be excited, and not beyond furious about the waste. @grauwulf (um, he's on twitter far more than lj these days?) wants an ash, and I'm thinking a couple beechs, which will be happy under all the tree cover we've got, and take off to give us a little more shade if the main oak doesn't make it.
And in the particularly short term, I've got more paint rollers, and about three more walls, plus the closet ceiling still to paint. With luck, even if we don't manage to have carpet and moving going on (as the carpet people were all ready to get it in this week-- and then it turned out that we have to wait for the carpet to be *made* first, since it wasn't in stock at the warehouse), we will have the space at least semi-aired out and ready to put down an air mattress for garden_goth when she comes to visit the week after next.
Xposty from dreamwidth, but yes, I'm still here.