[/2012][2013]
Jan. 1st, 2013 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmic_llinIt's been an interesting year.
I don't think I did one of these posts last year, it seems - and I feel like that was partly because I was so glad to see the back of 2011. I remember seeing the new year in and thinking, please, let this one be better.
And you know, it really was. I feel like 2012 was the first time since graduation that I could just concentrate on living my life, without having family stuff to worry about and obsess over. Not that I wasn't still sad sometimes, but it got a lot easier to concentrate on other things.
Not to mention the fact that it's when I redrafted my entire novel, mostly in my lunch hours, and started sending it out to agents. (Right now I'm reworking the beginning ready to start submitting again in the next couple of weeks.) And although I finished the first draft in 2011, 2012 was the year I really got to grips with what I wanted it to be, and what I want to achieve with it.
In 2012 I: saw Sharon Gless and Bonnie Langford live at the theatre (not in the same production!); went to Paris for the first time; baked more things in one go than ever in my life before; had an MRI; went to Croatia; visited the Harry Potter Studio Tour; saw some amazing people live at the Diamond Jubilee concert; went to Folk by the Oak; went to the Edinburgh fringe; moved house; saw lots of the Paralympics; read 86 books; and hung out a lot with some terrific people, and not enough with some others.
Also, obviously, 2012 was the year I got engaged! So that's pretty exciting. :D And I'm looking forward to 2013 being the year I get married!
Also for 2013 I'd like to sell more writing than I sold in 2012 (1 short story), and have a bit more money - that was the one thing that made 2012 not so great.
Let's see what happens.
I don't think I did one of these posts last year, it seems - and I feel like that was partly because I was so glad to see the back of 2011. I remember seeing the new year in and thinking, please, let this one be better.
And you know, it really was. I feel like 2012 was the first time since graduation that I could just concentrate on living my life, without having family stuff to worry about and obsess over. Not that I wasn't still sad sometimes, but it got a lot easier to concentrate on other things.
Not to mention the fact that it's when I redrafted my entire novel, mostly in my lunch hours, and started sending it out to agents. (Right now I'm reworking the beginning ready to start submitting again in the next couple of weeks.) And although I finished the first draft in 2011, 2012 was the year I really got to grips with what I wanted it to be, and what I want to achieve with it.
In 2012 I: saw Sharon Gless and Bonnie Langford live at the theatre (not in the same production!); went to Paris for the first time; baked more things in one go than ever in my life before; had an MRI; went to Croatia; visited the Harry Potter Studio Tour; saw some amazing people live at the Diamond Jubilee concert; went to Folk by the Oak; went to the Edinburgh fringe; moved house; saw lots of the Paralympics; read 86 books; and hung out a lot with some terrific people, and not enough with some others.
Also, obviously, 2012 was the year I got engaged! So that's pretty exciting. :D And I'm looking forward to 2013 being the year I get married!
Also for 2013 I'd like to sell more writing than I sold in 2012 (1 short story), and have a bit more money - that was the one thing that made 2012 not so great.
Let's see what happens.
