Last year, I used Adi’s blog to make my NYR. Let me account for the results:
I wanted to take part in NaNoWriMo again. This one was a great success! Not only did I participate and won, despite of all the trouble I was into, what with me travelling and being off from my laptop, but I also FINISHED my novel. Yes, believe it or not, I completed it and put down the coveted THE END at the bottom of it, centered, all caps 🙂 Oh, and even though it’s still unedited, I published it. On Smashwords. It’s still free. 😉 Once I finish the edit, it won’t be free anymore. As of now it has a lot of emptiness, especially in the beginning, while I was still honing my pen 😀 The artist is still working on the cover art, so the picture you will see is about to be replaced by the real one.
I also planned to take part in Nov PAD Challenge. This one was a partial success. My travelling and study schedule allowed for only one big event in November, and I made that NaNo. Anyway, I poemed steadily somewhere till Day 18, and then faltered a bit. I believe I miss around 5-7 poems.
My other resolution was taking part in NaPoWriMo, Apr PAD, or 30Poems30Days, which is just like November Poem-A-Day, only done in April. Uh, it was a failure. I started very strong again, having a lot of inspiration and sweet memories from November PAD. Sometime around Day 8 I faltered and could not get back in line for about a fortnight. Apart from having a tough time at work (which is not an excuse, as a poem could be a couple of lines and as such should not take that much time to write), I think my greatest mistake was that I tried to follow many prompt sites that cooperated in the NaPoWriMo. Having so many prompts to choose from, one has a hard time. While in November I only had the Poetic Asides, whether I like the prompts or not. Next April I will choose one site and go for its prompts only.
My other project was to complete my first NaNoWriMo novel. Well, not really a success. It still needs a lot of work. I actually think I will start editing the text, for I need to make major changes in it, and then I will move on to finishing the story. It’s not like I have no idea what to do. I even thought out the ending.
Well, now to the complete failures: translation projects. I had many. One of them was translation of a paranormal fantasy book a blogging friend of mine wrote a couple of years ago, which I started just after she posted it on her blog. Unfortunately, I never made it past Chapter II.
The other project was translation of short stories. Uhm, I have completed all the translations which I have started, in fact. Some of them still need editing and there are some that still need to be typed in, for they were hand-written. As for new translations, I don’t see it in the future.
So. My major mistake in NYR was that I made for unfinished work from previous years, while I should have left some space for new things to to.
What I managed to do, although it was not on my list, is the Sombre Chapbook. It’s ready, complete, edited, beautiful and is also on Smashwords. Well, it has been approved for other sellers, as well. So, Apple and the rest will start selling it soon.
Next year
1. I will edit and complete Orange.
2. I will make one more Chapbook. Maybe it will be a Lover’s Chapbook and out for St. Valentine…
3. I will publish my works in more sites.
4. I will again take part in NaPoWriMo. Hopefully, to a better success.
5. November PAD – same,
6. and NaNoWriMo. I am thinking of writing a book for children. Yet, I still have ideas around the Lemonpie sisters. We’ll see.
7. I will continue doing sports
so… what else? Learning to cook or improving in something… I don’t know. I think I’m pretty satisfied with what I do and how I do it. I can only wish I have the good luck to be fit and able to continue doing it.
What are your New Year Resolutions?
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Great job, Mary! Even though you faltered a little here and there, all things considered, you’ve accomplished A LOT! Seriously. A LOT! Congratulations on finishing your novel! YOO HOO! I will have to read it of course 🙂
I still can’t believe you were trying to do both NaNo and PAD! That’s just insane, if you ask me 🙂 I wouldn’t have done anywhere near as much if I’d tried it, so you should be very proud of yourself!
Good luck with your resolutions for 2012! They all sound doable! 🙂 May you be in good health and never lack inspiration, so that you can accomplish all of them!
Happy New Year!
Adi
Adi, thanks a lot! I don’t see any of YOUR resolutions for next year, though 😉 Of course, you still have like two or three days left to think them over, but please, hurry up, or the New Year will come and you will simply have to take what it serves 😀
I think I know why my resolutions are all doable. I’m tired of overexerting myself and, as a result of my incomplete successes, aka – failures by my vocabulary, feel poorly about myself. I just need higher self-esteem, to start with. Ha, spoken like a true shirk…