2010 Year In Review - Projects

[rsadelle]

For reference, my 2010 Projects and Goals post is here.

Reading
I ended up giving up both of my ongoing projects (nonfiction and poc authors) in favor of just getting back into the reading habit. I'm still working on that. On eleanor_lavish's suggestion, I created myself a bedtime routine that involves reading for 5-10 minutes before bed, which is helping me start books during the week. Once I'm into them (assuming they're worth reading), I will generally finish them on the weekends. (The danger to this is that if it's a really good book, I'm liable to stay up too late reading.)

Dance
I never did figure out how to fit dance into my everyday life. I stopped taking belly dance in August, and I'm still not sure if I don't want to go back to ballet or if I'm just stuck in inertia and will love it if I just go sign up again.

Writing
Let's see, from last year's list, I finished the first book and started the second, posted the Mike/Kevin story as never finished fic, gave up on the Fuck City boywives AU, wrote the actor!Gabe/director!Victoria story for big bang, and started the Leighton/Vicky-T Good Girls Go Bad AU.

Aside from those specific projects, I think there are three big things I did with my writing in 2010:

• I wrote a lot. I always write a fair amount, but thinking about just how much through a combination of fan fic and my novels is kind of staggering. I'm guesstimating that I wrote a total of about 200,000 words of fiction. And I was employed full-time for the entirety of 2010.


• Writing my novels is teaching me to write differently. I'm learning to pad things out. I also learned that I really need to pay attention to word counts to keep my sections even.


• I wrote differently about women having sex. I know I keep harping on this and you might be tired of reading about it, but it's important to me.