Happy New Year everyone!

With 2008 over, I decided to take quick stock of things with respect to my writing and blogging.

Writing

I spent all of this past year working on my current fantasy novel. I've been documenting the progress in a weekly series, so I won't go into that angle of it too much. The fact that I only worked on one "thing" is kind of disheartening. I've been thinking of trying my hand at short fiction, but most of my ideas tend towards a larger scope, so the novel format is really the best. But the idea of starting and finishing something in a reasonable amount of time is alluring.

I'm not one for New Year's resolutions. I'm already doing the things I want to do—writing, reading, cycling, programming. But were I to make a commitment of that kind it would be to finish my current novel. That, and to author more content-rich blog posts. I've been slacking a little lately only because I've been trying to focus on my writing. Blogging is great, but it's an aside and not the real purpose here.

Blogging

Of course, now I want to briefly look at my blogging progress. I started blogging in June of 2006. That first blog is still out there, and really just morphed into this one when I acquired the domain name that goes along with my real name. That happened in January 2008. Since then, I've penned 157 posts (this makes 158). Probably a third (or more) of those are from my weekend links and writing progress series. Also, I recently started a new blog, called itscodingtime.com, which focuses on technology and programming "stuff". It creates some more work for me, but I've increasingly needed a technical online presence and a place to organize my software engineering pursuits much like I organize my writing pursuits with this one.

So, a good year, I think. But there's more work to do. Good luck with your own pursuits and make 2009 a good one.