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November goes out, December comes in!
Dec. 2nd, 2010 07:50 pmWhoosh. What a fun month that was.
First, I wrote 50,009 words for Nanowrimo. The wordcount wasn't especially high for how I usually do, but this year (my 7th) turned out to be the year where everything I've worked on since 2004 really started coming together. The series is starting to make actual sense! Sort of! These were an outstanding 50,009 words. :)
Then, I somehow managed to crank out a couple articles for Bright Hub and a few more of the guides.
The first version of Igneous Rocks confused the hell out of the editor, but hopefully it's reasonably straightforward now. ;) People I've tested the final version on seem to like it, at least. Meanwhile, the longwinded tangent I removed is now going to become a second article about igneous rocks (that I'm currently procrastinating working on by posting here instead).
Then I also wrote a review of Bush Whacker on Facebook. It's an awesome RPG game, done in flash. I think I had too much fun taking screenshots of my character in different hats. I almost didn't get it done in time, being somewhat burnt out after finishing the Nanowrimo, and then Real Life burst in with some emergency paperwork, but then the managing editor said "I'm counting on you!" and I was all o.o ... and even though I "knew" (read: suspect) that he'd sent the same comment to 40 other articles, it still spurred me into action.
Of course, the work I dropped to complete the Bush Whacker review was a couple of guides that were due on that same day. Which I continued to ignore (because by then I was really, really burnt out). But, fortunately, the guide editors have faith in me and just bumped up the deadlines another couple weeks. :D I turned those in yesterday, they're still in the queue.
The ones that have made it out of the queue since the last time I mentioned these:
Mercury
scientific research
plant life
Comets in Space
The Milky Way Galaxy
NASA and National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The other two are about NOAA. I don't think I'm doing that again. I figured it'd be easy to do the same research for both at the same time, but writing the same material four different ways is not for me.
(ETA: NOAA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are now up. :) )
On to December.
I've got four articles in the works so far (and will tack in the planetary geology ones at the end of the month if I have time, otherwise they'll get done in January), plus another couple guides. Hopefully I'll be able to fit in some time for fiction as well.
First, I wrote 50,009 words for Nanowrimo. The wordcount wasn't especially high for how I usually do, but this year (my 7th) turned out to be the year where everything I've worked on since 2004 really started coming together. The series is starting to make actual sense! Sort of! These were an outstanding 50,009 words. :)
Then, I somehow managed to crank out a couple articles for Bright Hub and a few more of the guides.
The first version of Igneous Rocks confused the hell out of the editor, but hopefully it's reasonably straightforward now. ;) People I've tested the final version on seem to like it, at least. Meanwhile, the longwinded tangent I removed is now going to become a second article about igneous rocks (that I'm currently procrastinating working on by posting here instead).
Then I also wrote a review of Bush Whacker on Facebook. It's an awesome RPG game, done in flash. I think I had too much fun taking screenshots of my character in different hats. I almost didn't get it done in time, being somewhat burnt out after finishing the Nanowrimo, and then Real Life burst in with some emergency paperwork, but then the managing editor said "I'm counting on you!" and I was all o.o ... and even though I "knew" (read: suspect) that he'd sent the same comment to 40 other articles, it still spurred me into action.
Of course, the work I dropped to complete the Bush Whacker review was a couple of guides that were due on that same day. Which I continued to ignore (because by then I was really, really burnt out). But, fortunately, the guide editors have faith in me and just bumped up the deadlines another couple weeks. :D I turned those in yesterday, they're still in the queue.
The ones that have made it out of the queue since the last time I mentioned these:
Mercury
scientific research
plant life
Comets in Space
The Milky Way Galaxy
NASA and National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The other two are about NOAA. I don't think I'm doing that again. I figured it'd be easy to do the same research for both at the same time, but writing the same material four different ways is not for me.
(ETA: NOAA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are now up. :) )
On to December.
I've got four articles in the works so far (and will tack in the planetary geology ones at the end of the month if I have time, otherwise they'll get done in January), plus another couple guides. Hopefully I'll be able to fit in some time for fiction as well.
