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?

So, I took a look at my google calendar today, and after one last thing sent to the Pale Puppy this evening, I am solicitude deadline free. My first thought was 'WWWOOOHAGA! I'm done with all my deadlines.'

My second thought was, 'oh fuck! I'm out of deadlines!"

So it's back to the grind for me, waiting for all calls, tossing out pitches and submissions, waiting to hear on those. A lot of scrambling to hurry up and wait. Yeah, I love being a writer. Money might be an issue, but money is always an issue.

On the bright side, I can work on my own stuff again. (UnHero? I know you're there baby, we'll get you all cleaned up and ready to go by February, I promise. Jack? Yeah, I'll have that audio script done for you soon, I mean it.)

So if anyone out there is reading this, let's exchange leads, shall we? Where have you had luck, fiction, gaming, or otherwise?

I'm excited to say White Wolf has released some new titles I can name. World of Darkness Immortals has been announced, I wrote for that!

I'll also be doing two (yeah, two!) short SASs that go along with an upcoming Hunter title, it is way awesome. Nothing more on that, yet.

I feel like this is all writing progress, at least in that it's paying some bills.

That said, I'm thrilled to be working on Nano this year because it is writing for me. I'll have more thoughts on that as I go, but my goal this year is for consistant writing. I know I can churn out huge word counts in a small amount of time. At this point I need to get better at writing those magical 2,000 a day. So, starting all that silliness off, here's someone else's advice on how to write. Luckily, he's really cute!