Post by account_disabled on Jan 6, 2024 9:03:56 GMT
The end of the year is approaching, we are at Christmas and Blue Pen, as I already mentioned some time ago, is on duty during the holidays. For the last day of the year there will be a classic post, about the best that appeared here during 2014, but I decided to make it a little different than usual. New Year's Day opens, as usual, with the famous 3 words. Old readers will remember them, I hope, and new ones will discover what it's about. A mini series of 2 posts on blogging and content for 2015 will be released right after the holidays. But the end of the year also brings us to take a look at what we have done during the twelve months and so I wanted to take stock of what I have done and how, based on the mistakes and small successes, you can also do you a budget. Of course in terms of writing and blogging. Creative writing: an assessment Only 7 stories appeared on the blog this year. Few, to tell the truth. I don't want to turn the blog into an anthology, but about one a month is fine.
Why so few? Because I started PU, which after more than a year still doesn't reach 50% of the first draft. Too slow. In fact, I interrupted it twice, thinking of abandoning it and dedicating myself to a simpler novel, but Special Data then something clicked and I picked it up again. Then, in mid-August, I had the idea for a book on blogging, something that doesn't exist out there. Years ago, I had already written a book on creating and managing a blog, which a publisher first accepted and then rejected, but this is different. So I started writing it and it's almost finished. I would like to finish it by the end of the year, at the beginning of January at the latest, then a month to settle and proceed with the revision. And then by sending it to a publisher. And the other book on blogging? That will be taken up and completely rewritten and, after editing, will be sold in self-publishing. What does 2015 have in store for my creative writing? First I have to finish that novel. Absolutely. Then, to tell the truth, I didn't make any plans.
Ideas for new stories keep coming, I write them down somewhere, but a birth must also lead to an embryo that develops into a complete individual. I don't want to make any plans until I finish that novel. Once finished, before the revision, I will analyze the various ideas and notes taken for the other stories and I will choose the one that I am most passionate about at that moment. Overall I'm not satisfied with the quantity of what I've written, but I think the quality has improved compared to last year. Your budget in creative writing Do you want to write it in the comments? Or create a post on your blog? Free choice. Analyze what you wrote in 2014: does it satisfy you? Could you have done more? What were the successes and what were the failures? Was it a better or worse year, in terms of quantity and quality of stories written, than 2013? And what do you intend to write or finish writing in 2015?
Why so few? Because I started PU, which after more than a year still doesn't reach 50% of the first draft. Too slow. In fact, I interrupted it twice, thinking of abandoning it and dedicating myself to a simpler novel, but Special Data then something clicked and I picked it up again. Then, in mid-August, I had the idea for a book on blogging, something that doesn't exist out there. Years ago, I had already written a book on creating and managing a blog, which a publisher first accepted and then rejected, but this is different. So I started writing it and it's almost finished. I would like to finish it by the end of the year, at the beginning of January at the latest, then a month to settle and proceed with the revision. And then by sending it to a publisher. And the other book on blogging? That will be taken up and completely rewritten and, after editing, will be sold in self-publishing. What does 2015 have in store for my creative writing? First I have to finish that novel. Absolutely. Then, to tell the truth, I didn't make any plans.
Ideas for new stories keep coming, I write them down somewhere, but a birth must also lead to an embryo that develops into a complete individual. I don't want to make any plans until I finish that novel. Once finished, before the revision, I will analyze the various ideas and notes taken for the other stories and I will choose the one that I am most passionate about at that moment. Overall I'm not satisfied with the quantity of what I've written, but I think the quality has improved compared to last year. Your budget in creative writing Do you want to write it in the comments? Or create a post on your blog? Free choice. Analyze what you wrote in 2014: does it satisfy you? Could you have done more? What were the successes and what were the failures? Was it a better or worse year, in terms of quantity and quality of stories written, than 2013? And what do you intend to write or finish writing in 2015?