Another year-end meme

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Happy new year, everyone! Guess I'll be kicking off 2009 with a meme (annoyingly fitting, if you look at the results of 2008). Snagged from goldenusagi.

Go to your calendar and find the first entry for each month in 2008. Post the first line/sentence of it in your journal, and that's your "Year in Review." (Commentary is in bold)

January: Just dropping by to wish you all a happy new year. (Post about what I did for New Year's)

February: Meme snagged from clawofcat (The first "ask me questions" meme - I think I did two or three this year)

March: Reply to this post, and I will pick three of your icons. (Icon meme)

April: Now gakked from just about everybody, that list of questions that's supposed to reflect regional differences (Word meme)

May: Let's see how well-read I am. (Book meme)

June: Never fear, all those who picked something different for your favorite. (“Closure” chapter 2)

July: I read a lot of writers' blogs, most of them geared toward script writing for TV, but often I find things that are applicable to writing across the board. (Meta on betaing)

August: I'm still working on answering the questions from this post. (Answering one of the questions from the second(?) “ask me questions” meme)

September: Stolen from goldenusagi. (Alternative life meme)

October: Funny how your flist can become completely overwhelming and totally unmanageable when left unattended for two weeks. (Post about my trip to Ireland)

November: Nicked from pfeifferpack. (Kitty meme)

December: In the process of betaing a fic, slaymesoftly asked me, "What do you think the door to Spike's crypt is made of?" (Spike’s door poll)

It's kind of disappointing that so many of these are memes. I know I didn't write as much as I did in 2007, but still... I wrote one chapter fic, four one-shots, and eight drabbles, plus I finished up two chapter fics I'd started in 2007. And the only thing that shows up here is "Closure." I'm probably making more of it than it is (maybe I just do my writing later in the month or whatever), but this has been a very difficult year for me, writing-wise, and I kind of see the memes as evidence of failure. They're what I post when I have nothing better to offer. Those months-long stretches where I posted nothing but memes? So discouraging.

Anyway, enough waffling. That's 2008, and let's hope 2009 is better.
 

Comments

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

LOL - yep, I would say you were the queen of meme last year. You did do a lot of writing, too, though; including Closure which was fairly long, so I'd say maybe you just post later in the month. :)

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Well, in comparison, in 2007, I posted ELEVEN chapter fics - five of which were similar in length to "Closure." It's kind of depressing to think that I was five times more productive that year than last year...

But I think it's less the amount of fic I produced and more the consistency that bothers me. In 2007, I was always writing, always posting, with hardly ever a lapse. I like it that way. I like the creative juices flowing (you know how I get antsy when I'm not working on something), so the periods in 2008 where I wasn't writing anything were very frustrating to me. I wouldn't care if I only wrote one fic this year, as long as I was able to work on it consistently.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

"antsy" is one word for it...lol Okay, missy. Back to the bunny box with you until you come up with something.