So it’s a year since I started keeping track of this sort of thing. Despite last years cynicism, I don’t actually feel particualry bad about what I have to report for this year in told. What I said last year still holds– Tell me what you did this year and what you hope to do next to keep it public to add accountability.

• I guess the big one is I had another baby. That’s two. We have replaced ourselves with smaller, more beautiful and probably more intelligent hybrids of our combined DNA. I’m already a more recovered and happier mom than I was, but a lot of that is because I didn’t have major sugry with this birth and I’m no longer a first time mom. (Duh.) I’ll call that a win.
• Tina gets smarter and more beautiful everyday. We’re talking about getting her a desk top next year because she’s already so computer literate. Every time she shows me a craft she’s done or a picture she’s drawn on the computer I tell her, ‘just beautiful.’ Every time I say it, I’m really saying it to her.
• I’m still getting paid to write, and now I’m starting to eek out a qualified career making enough money to get by.
• I think I’ve sold about another 15o,000 words this year, writing about 170 to 180,000 in total. Next year I’ll have a better count. (HA!)
• I’ve spoken at at three Cons this year and helped David land similar apperances, which boosts both of our careers and rocks pretty hardcore.
• I’ve actually seen physical copies of books I’ve worked on, three of which are on my shelf as we speak.
• I wrote for and got accepted in my first anthology. Buried Tales of Pinebox, TX is awesome and you should buy a copy if you haven’t already.
• I’ve been published on The Escapist and now have a regular blogging job at Altern8.com.

Looking over last year, there’s a few things I didn’t get to I wanted to this year, but I’m not too down about it.

• I didn’t hit 250k this year, but I did have a baby so I’m just going to have to live with that.
• I didn’t write and produce any radio drama. I just… forgot about it. What a damn shame. Maybe this year, assuming they go to a 36 hour day all of the sudden.
• I did not get Unhero out, but I’ve come to terms with the rewrites I’ll need to do first so that’ll just have to happen over time instead.

Plans for this year?

• I hope I can get more personal writing done, fiction and the like. I have a few creative writing classes this Spring so I don’t have much choice on that, but after the classes and in terms of novel writing we’ll see.
• I am dying to see Maschine Zeit finished up. I love it so much and believe in it it’s just a matter of time, like everything else.
• I’d like to speak at more cons this year. I have a few lined up, but really any excuse to travel and get out of the house is better than the last.
• I want to read more books this year.
• I want to get back to learning Italian. This entirely novel-writing related.
• And how about a totally arbatrary goal? I want 500 twitter followers by 2011. I have no control over that, it sees like a pretty random thing, so that should be fun to look at next year.

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If it’s cool on the internet, you know I’m right there, doing it three years later. So, that said, here’s what I got done last year and some goal setting for next year to make me feel bad at the end of 2009.

If you’ve got a year in review, link it to me in comments. If you’ve got goals for next year, link it to me so we can share successes together next year.

In no particular order:

1. I made money as a writer this year, and it didn’t involve taking my figurative clothes off.

2. My daughter went from a baby to a genius in the course of a year. I’m going to call that my accomplishment.

3. My husband made money as a writer, again, that has something to do with me.

4. I finally feel like an adult with a house almost to the point I want it. Or at least, I got it to the point that I’m comfortable, and I can live with that.

5. We got my sister-in-law the fuck out of bumblefuck Ohio, and now she’s starting a life out here in society.

6. Here’s the big one: I SOLD over 100,000 words. Not wrote. Sold. (Hard to say how many words I wrote. I’ll have a better idea next year.)

7. I got shit together to go back to school. Very anxious about it, but I guess it’s the best way to step up my game. I hope.

I think I have more goals for next year then I have crap done this year, but that’s how a career gets started, I guess.

1. Over all, I want to write about 250,000 words next year. That’s a ton of short stories and gaming work. If I sell a percentage of that, it’ll be awesome.

2. I’m going to get UnHero out to every agent and publisher in the free world until someone is dumb enough… Erm.. Clever enough to buy it and give me lots and lots of money.

3. I will get a few radio dramas up on the net for everyone to enjoy. I love the medium so much, and I have the technology. Time to get that show on the road.

4. With or as its own word count, I think I need to start another novel. Feels like time.

So that’s last year and the next. What about you, what are you doing?

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