Because at the actual end of the year I never feel like doing this…
I started 2009 editing Ben. I did okay–it took forever, but I got it in a shape where I could have whipped it into a real book.
Then (in March) I got a partial request for Taro and had to write a synopsis. That led me to some plot issues I’d missed, and I went back to fix them once I’d sent the partial.
In April, fed up with editing, I went back to Fidelis. I had about three thousand words on it; I added another 25K before the Doomy Summer of Editing DOOM was mostly a bust.
In September I realized that NaNo was coming, and I wanted to do Hiro’s second book when I hadn’t finished the first. So I did, finishing it on October 4th.
In Nano–well, the first two weeks of NaNo–I wrote Hiro’s second book, complete in first draft. (yay!!)
So here I am. NaNo isn’t over, but I done did it. And now I’m working on Fidelis again. I’d planned to turn to either my Victorian ghost-chasing boysmut or to editing Flame, but…well, no. Not enough plot on the first, and on the second–while I’m in no position to turn my nose up at any agent, I’m not sure I want one that doesn’t think he can sell the bulk of my work. I won’t be sliding Eve and her entire universe (consisting of SEVEN COMPLETED NOVELS) under my bed just yet.
So. Fidelis. Paranormal Steampunk YA with wings. Yay!