kiri-catastrophe

I'm late in welcoming the new year, eight days late, in fact!

However, with a new year comes new goals and resolutions, so here's hoping 2012 will be more productive than 2011. I've got a lot of writing projects I want to work on —  especially PRIDEA, the poor, neglected thing — but this year I'm going to be focusing on writing, writing and writing. It doesn't matter what I'm writing as long as I'm writing something (and no, roleplaying posts don't count, not really).

I've made it a goal to write 200,000 words this year — either in short stories or in Pridea — which will, hopefully, get my butt in gear! I've also made it a goal to at least submit something to devART at least once a month. However, I'm not going to be submitting Pridea excerpts to devART anymore. If I write excerpts, they'll be in my semi-private LJ, so I can keep track of who sees what and to make sure my novel ideas aren't being displayed to the world, haha.

If I submit writing to devART from now on, they'll  be for community prompts or contests. I want to get involved in the Lit community here on devART as well; if not a lot, then just by submitting writing to the various contests, prompts or events that are constantly going on around here. In short, I'm going to start wasting time. There's 365 days in a year (but I've heard this year is a leap year?), and I'm not planning on wasting a second!

Hey, whaddya know, another monthly update!

It's December, and there's a ton of stuff going on for me right now, as I'm sure there's a lot going on for the rest of you! I'm doing my own Christmas shopping this year, which has given me a new look on Christmas... It's all fun and games until you have to go out in the cold to bargain hunt! Besides Christmas, all of my Senior Project due dates are coming up, which means I'll probably be spending this December shopping, writing my research paper, putting together a visual aid for my speech, and finally, practicing my speech. At my school, Senior Project is a huge deal - it's either pass or fail... So let's hope I pass!

But I'm definitely not here to talk about myself (I've got a blog for that), I'm just here to give you guys an update on what's going on with my writing, of course.

The latest piece I've uploaded was Nightingale, which was Pridea excerpt. So far, it's probably the best chapter I've rewritten in this series. For one, I finally was able to work with the illustrious Chex Monroe, the character of penguinpuffypants, who's allowed me to use him in the novel. This permission was granted awhile ago, but I had never really made full use of it until she told me she wanted to finally see an excerpt with him in it. With her prompting, writing Nightingale turned out to be the best piece so far in the Pridea saga, so I definitely have her to thank!

Uploading Pridea pieces is always a double-edged sword: for one, they're always my best work, but some of the excerpts don't have the necessary background information in them for the pieces to be understand by the general public (that's you guys!) I love writing them, and to be honest, there's a lot more of them to come, but I've always got a ton of short stories (as in one-shots, they're over and done with in one pieces) and chaptered works (as in five or so chapters - longer than short stories, but they pack more punch) that I want to upload! I'm definitely not stagnant because of lack of ideas, but mainly because I'm working on getting my Senior Project over and done with, so I can graduate and not have to worry about it.

However, I do want to try uploading something before the month is over, so don't expect a month of inactivity from me just because I'm busy! After all, a writer doesn't let all the things in her way stop her from getting things done, right?

In case I don't see you guys until then, happy holidays!
- Kiri