I'm not dead, I promise

Man, what a downer of a post to leave my blog on for months and months!

 I don't feel like doing a full 2012 goals recap, but suffice to say that I've actually started my Etsy shop now, so my days are filled with more knitting than I'd ever imagined they would be! Nothing much to show for it yet, as far as being in the shop--like with everything, I'm great at being motivated to start new things, and rubbish at actually seeing them through to the end. Getting stuck at 96% for weeks because I can't bring myself to do an hour of finishing work is the story of my life lately. Alas.

start of july goals recap: take that, mid-may!

Rewrite (at least) one of my novels.
Well, I didn't get it done in June, but I have been working on rewriting Clockwork. I polished my first scene up nicely before realizing I should probably be editing for story before doing line edits. So I'm in the process of summarizing all my chapters and scenes on notecards to try and get an idea of the shape of the story. It's hard because the only way to get better at rewriting is more rewriting, which you don't have a clue how to do unless you've done some rewriting. . . .

mid-may goals recap

All right, rather than trying to catch up on (what feels like) months of missed blogging, I'll just jump in today as if nothing happened. Kinda like I tried to do for my 366 project, which has flickered out yet again.

Rewrite (at least) one of my novels.
I've decided this is a June goal, since that's when the createspace offer from last year's NaNo expires. So, I haven't made any progress on this front recently. I finished another novel though, and at 48k words it's definitely my shortest. Might be a good one to start a rewrite on.

I could have been working on it this month, but I was planning to do Story a Day in May. That's also kind of fizzled out. I suppose I could still try for it this last week, but I have almost no motivation to do so. I feel kind of blah overall, regarding my writing. :/

february goals recap

Rewrite (at least) one of my novels.
I've been focusing more on writing lately--trying to finish one WIP before starting in on a sequel for my second finished novel, since my writers' group is doing our own NaNoWriMo in March. Maybe I'll take the summer to focus more on this goal?

Finish my fanfic.
Yeah, just 'cause I said I was writing, doesn't mean it was this . . . sorry story alert peeps.

january goals recap

More than halfway through February. Because that's apparently how I roll. Plus, I can be so unusually creative at finding ways to procrastinate while avoiding writing, so I figured I may as well take the time to do something at least slightly productive by finally updating this thing!

new year

I hate new year's resolutions, but it sounds like a good thing to do a blog post around. A week late. 'Cause that's how I roll, apparently. So here I go:

Rewrite (at least) one of my novels.
I finished my first two novels last year, and haven't really looked at either since. Now that I've succeeded at that first big step of actually writing ' The End', I want to get at least one of them to the point where my writing group can go over it. This will likely be quite the hurdle: I've never rewritten anything longer than a short story.