End of year roundup
Dec. 31st, 2018 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
potboyI had a great Christmas. Now that my family of birth is no longer in the picture, the stress and angst of the season is hugely reduced. I went off my diet and ate all the lovely things for about five full days. (You can't be on a diet while visiting the in-laws, where you should eat what you're given.) But I went back on it on the 30th, and although I'm unusually hungry today I can't say I'm really missing all the incredibly rich stuff.
Got a fantastic pair of handmade steampunk goggles and a pith helmet for my steampunk outfit. Which I only ever wear to go to steampunk markets, but which is intended to read as 'airship navigator lost in the jungle while searching for a forgotten city.'
I did no writing after the 15th, but I did update the keywords on all of my novels. It remains to be seen if that helped them sell any better.
I also finally learned how to knit! Woohoo. Not only have I made two scarves - one in knit stitch and one in stockingette - but I have also followed a simple pattern and made a hat. The hat is too small for an adult human, but you can't have everything.
In the vein of things going back to normal today, I printed out the first draft of my new space opera novel, which I'll start editing as soon as DH goes back to work.
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getyourwordsout with a pledge to produce 300,000 words in 2019, so I need to learn to edit fast if I'm going to produce new content.
New Year's Suggestions:
Read some steampunk and see if it's the sort of thing I might want to write in future.
Learn Photoshop.
Update my websites to a more professional appearance.
Get more of a handle on AMS and Facebook Ads.
Write four new books.
Only the last two out of those are absolute goals.
Got a fantastic pair of handmade steampunk goggles and a pith helmet for my steampunk outfit. Which I only ever wear to go to steampunk markets, but which is intended to read as 'airship navigator lost in the jungle while searching for a forgotten city.'
I did no writing after the 15th, but I did update the keywords on all of my novels. It remains to be seen if that helped them sell any better.
I also finally learned how to knit! Woohoo. Not only have I made two scarves - one in knit stitch and one in stockingette - but I have also followed a simple pattern and made a hat. The hat is too small for an adult human, but you can't have everything.
In the vein of things going back to normal today, I printed out the first draft of my new space opera novel, which I'll start editing as soon as DH goes back to work.
I've joined
getyourwordsout with a pledge to produce 300,000 words in 2019, so I need to learn to edit fast if I'm going to produce new content.New Year's Suggestions:
Read some steampunk and see if it's the sort of thing I might want to write in future.
Learn Photoshop.
Update my websites to a more professional appearance.
Get more of a handle on AMS and Facebook Ads.
Write four new books.
Only the last two out of those are absolute goals.