My first year in Ink

February first was a big day for me.

It marks the first year of my commitment to create art with words or use words to create art if you’re the picky type. 

I aim to please. 

Well sometimes anyway.

The plan was to try and write a novel in November, but by Jan 4th realised I couldn't wait that long to start. 


So start, I did.

Major (or minor - same difference) achievements:
In sequence, mostly

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• Completed 1st draft of something for the meantime that I will refer to as "the book about hell" 109 000 words (took five months - no outline) 

• Won camp nanowrimo July with 50k draft of "broken pumpkins" (really stoked about that one)

• Had two Haiku published in Halloween Haiku 2  - I know it's no big deal but my words in a printed book? No matter how you look at it it's pretty cool

• Launched a website with my name on it and produced a blog post every week since October (well except for Christmas time) here at the Artificial Blog or Unspoiled Reviews (every other week) 
  

• 75 word Flash fiction published on Paragraph Planet 
  

09 09 2014 paragraph planet

• Discovered Twitter, accrued 2000 followers since July 2014
  and in the process have made some truly awesome friends

 - you ALL know you are

• Won actual November nanowrimo with 50K and was a little more than chuffed to realise that I'd already developed a daily writing habit
  

• Entered a number of competitions with a number of short stories. Haven't won any (or even placed for that matter) but that was not the point, I've taken the prompt, run with it, produced a piece, edited and entered it on time. All good skills to be practicing.

• Have written at least 10 shorts that are in various states of repair. So more than a few still to play with. Mental Kombat anyone?
  

• Have Beta read for complete strangers that I’ve met online, they aren't strangers any more.
  

•  Have improved my prose and flash fiction by doing weekly drabble challenges with friends on twitter, 20 completed so far read a couple here

• About to publish some shorts on Amazon, Kobo and Smashwords.
  

Anyway enough tooting my own horn, I’ve got editing to do.
Books don’t just write themselves you know?

Good luck with your own projects what ever they may be. 

Come to think of it what are you working on? 
What are you proud of? 

Tell me
Tell me  
TELL ME!!

See you in a week!