a new year and all that stuff
I scheduled myself a “down-time” for December (which was a good thing because last year, I tried to dedicate myself to all kinds of writing/editing/whatnot, and burned myself out). Now, it’s January, and I’m back to do stuff.
This will be a boring year, mainly consisting of editing and just a bit of new writing done (and that only because there’s NaNoWriMo).
So, to list all my (as I said, very boring) resolutions.
1) Edit Vega. I have restarted working on that, and it seems that finally I understand what I was supposed to do in HTRYN. This is a complex plan which includes write-in in English, type-in in Latvian (which sounds slightly less crazy than it is… theoretically, I do have the skill to do that) and then getting back to English somehow.
2) Write a short story that I’ve promised to write, in Latvian. I’m feeling apprehensive about this, mainly because this requires me to change my thinking from writing-as-a-hobby to writing-as-a-job. However, I have a decent idea, and this seems like a good opportunity to change my thinking. (Temp title “Contused”.)
3) Write NaNoWriMo.
4) Participate in local writing group for beginning writers (I will be leading the crit sessions, with occasional advice on practical aspects of the writing–the heavy theoretical part will be covered by a guy who actually knows theory).
The editing is definitely the biggest project; big enough for me to dread it if I look at it as a whole. However, the separate bits of the project might just be doable. So that is what I’ll be doing, going step by step and looking out of snags.
The most important thing about editing, for me, is to realize that editing is not a punishment for bad writing. Editing is a brand new thing to do on the basis of the existing project. Of course, it is sort of horrible to look at my own writing and realize that 1) it is very rubbishy 2) I was actually very happy with it as I wrote it, but well. I guess that at least one thing will happen during editing: I will figure out the main shortcomings of my writing and probably work on fixing them.
