Getting Back To It, Whatever 'It' Is

For the two people who read this blog, you might have noticed that I didn't do an entry for December. I also neglected to do book reviews for the couple of novels I read towards the end of the year. To be fair, I was busy. Holidays and getting my old house ready for sale has taken up all my time. Not that I didn't have time to make an entry into a blog no one reads, but more to the effect that I didn't have anything to say. At least in regards to writing. Still kind of don't, but I felt the need to check in with my plans for the future.

The house is ready to sell. More or less. Some productive people I know, stay productive by following the 80% rule. Basically, you work on something until you complete 80% of it because the remaining 20% isn't really worth it. I stop working on the house around 95%, but that's just how I am. Hopefully, it won't take too long to sell. Or, to be more actuate, it won't take long to sell it at the price I want.

NaNoWriMo was a failure. I shot out of the gate and landed on my face. I had some friends who needed my help and it completely threw me off my game. Don't get me wrong, helping my friends was more important. I was just hit with situation after situation that ate up all my free time to write. I was hoping to get a good start on the new book and work on it first thing in January. My biggest problem was that I still couldn't decide on a narrative voice. Plus, what I did write didn't make me feel like I was writing at my best. So, in light of this, I decided to go back to the Colony Earth project. God help me.

I should also start querying agents next week. I've been putting it off for the holidays, but I can't use that for an excuse anymore. I did query an agent in early December, but that was more a matter of timing than anything. According to her twitter, she plans to be caught up on most queries by February. So I should be getting that rejection letter any day now.

I've gotten a slow start to the new year, if you can't tell by the date stamp on this entry, but it's back to the grindstone for me. Writing goals being to finish the draft for CE by the end of the year, query everyone, and get back to my short form work. I know I know. There's enough bad poetry in the world without me adding to it. But, if it wasn't for my shitty prose, how would you tell what is good?