Hello, 2010!
Jan. 4th, 2010 06:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuSadly, in the fictional 2010, we sent a SECOND mission to Jupiter to find out what the hell happened to the FIRST mission to Jupiter in 2001. In the real world, we couldn't even get back to the MOON in less than years at this point. That's just sad.
So, it's 2010 and I've rededicated myself to writing. Among my goals for this year:
Write, finish and mail a story a week.
Write, finish and mail 3 novels by December 31, 2010.
Learn as much as I can about writing; mostly via the Carnegie Hall route (practice, practice, practice), in part by reading writers I admire as well as books on how to pick up my game.
I'm also going to keep track of the books I read this year. I haven't generally bothered, but I decided that I'd try it this year. So. First out of the gate was Blood Lite, which is "a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper the jagged edge."
Some of the stories were very good. Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Kelly Armstrong and Sherrilyn Kenyon, among others, bring it. Others...were not so good. Still, I'm glad I read it. In progress: Flashforward by Robert Sawyer. I read it years ago, but decided to reread it now that the book's been made into a television series.
Stories in Circulation: 12
Rejections: 24
Stories Accepted: FIVE
So, it's 2010 and I've rededicated myself to writing. Among my goals for this year:
Write, finish and mail a story a week.
Write, finish and mail 3 novels by December 31, 2010.
Learn as much as I can about writing; mostly via the Carnegie Hall route (practice, practice, practice), in part by reading writers I admire as well as books on how to pick up my game.
I'm also going to keep track of the books I read this year. I haven't generally bothered, but I decided that I'd try it this year. So. First out of the gate was Blood Lite, which is "a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper the jagged edge."
Some of the stories were very good. Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Kelly Armstrong and Sherrilyn Kenyon, among others, bring it. Others...were not so good. Still, I'm glad I read it. In progress: Flashforward by Robert Sawyer. I read it years ago, but decided to reread it now that the book's been made into a television series.
Stories in Circulation: 12
Rejections: 24
Stories Accepted: FIVE