52 weeks of finishing

[eimarra]

My two goals for the year, you will recall, were to finish something each week, and to get something up for sale each month. Here’s how that went.

Things finished:
1. January sun senryu, written and posted on Facebook
2. “The Call” (flash story), written and submitted
3. Redemption of Earth, aka Daniel’s story
4. (flash story), written
5. proofreading job (freelance work)
6. “The Children of the Ordlen,” written and submitted
7. proofreading job (freelance work)
8. haiku on not being able to think
9. flash about body on the floor written
10. March wind haiku
11. book review for Vision (Scalzi on Writing)
12. Web review for Vision (Fantasy-Faction.com)
13. index update for returning client
14. another haiku
15. proofreading job (freelance work)
16. tanka from word prompts Bonnie passed on
17. short story (“Loaves and Fishes”) written to accompany Christmas Tree Farm Murders
18. Does painting the kitchen count?
19. proofreading job (freelance work)
20. proofreading job (freelance work)
21. indexing job (freelance work)
22. proofreading job (freelance work)
23. proofreading job (freelance work)
24. indexing job (freelance work)
25. proofreading job (freelance work)
26. proofreading job (freelance work)
27. proofreading job (freelance work)
28. proofreading job (freelance work)
29. proofreading job (freelance work)
30. wrote “Ice Cream and Butterflies” flash
31. proofreading job (freelance work)
32. indexing job (freelance work)
33. wrote drabble “Last Words”
34. first pass copyediting finished (freelance work)
35. guest blog post on NaNoWriMo
36. 46-word short for Oxford Dictionary contest
37. wrote flash “Into the Dark”
38. finished the final pass on copyediting (freelance work)
39. wrote the first episode of NaNo
40. finished Jekylls
41. proofreading job (freelance work)
42. wrote round-robin chapter
43. wrote “Moonbreak” (flash piece)
44. proofreading job (freelance work)
45. proofreading job (freelance work)
46. proofreading job (freelance work)

Up for sale:
• January — “Rise of Kencha,” uploaded 1/27
• February — “Winter White,” uploaded 2/27
• March — Farwalker, uploaded 3/27
• April — Christmas Tree Farm Murders, uploaded 4/25
• May — Nothing
• June — Nothing
• July — Redemption of Earth, uploaded 7/31
• August — “Ophid Dei,” uploaded 8/31
• September — Nothing
• October — Nothing
• November — Jekylls, uploaded 11/26
• December — Dream Afar, novella trio, uploaded 12/7

For the people who like actual stats, that’s 45/52 things finished (including short stories, novelettes, novellas, novels, articles, and business projects) and 8/12 things up for sale. Of the 45 items completed, 23 (just over half) were freelance work, 8 were flash pieces, 2 were short stories, 1 was a novel, and 1 a novella.

Not a bad year, by any measure, but this coming year, I’ll be pushing to complete something written each week, whether or not I’m also doing freelance work. I’m planning on taking a week off every three months, which means I’m aiming for 48 written works in 2013.

Originally published at Erin M. Hartshorn. You can comment here or there.