I had thought that I’d do so much more with my writing and editing this year, but I guess that the fact I have achieved something (setting up this blog, restarting Heartwood) counts.  I’ve had a few editing jobs, but hadn’t seriously settled into trying to drum up business as I knew that I would be too busy to dedicate myself as fully as necessary.

The wedding was successful, and the honeymoon lovely,  We went to Albuquerque for a week.  The high point of the trip was taking a balloon ride during the Balloon Fiesta.  Incredible.  I hadn’t realized that it would be as much fun to watch balloons land as to see them ascend.  Took the train there and back, which was awesome and makes me wish that there were more routes available.

Participated in NaNaWriMo (www.nanowrimo.org), although I didn’t “win.”  For some reason, started writing by hand, which was going well, and then I got totally derailed by the election.  I wish I could say that the results surprised me, but the reason we got married this year was because I was afraid that this would happen.  I get knots in my stomach just thinking about it,  Nothing that’s happened since has made me feel any better.  Anyhow.  I ended up with around 20.000 words (I’d guess).  The idea had occurred to me last year, and I had taken notes but not written much on it as I was trying to work on Heartwood.  In hindsight, I should have worked on this idea instead, as it faded as I wrote it this year.  Currently I don’t even have a working title for it, which probably says a lot.

I did rearrange my office, which has made me feel much more sane.  It was a lot of work (I moved furniture and went through everything), which was a reason I hadn’t done it before.  I should know better.  It’s still not quite finished (I need to hang my small white boards and some decorations back up), but it’s so much better.  I crave order: a place for everything, and everything in its place.

I still need to do all my name-change stuff.  Sigh.  So many places to update.  But it’s one of those things – better to do it when you think about it and get it over with.