Let’s see…

Wasn’t a big fan of 2002, really. It seemed sort of bitty and like I didn’t do very much…

I wrote two and a half short stories in 2002.

- Vayland Rd. (Won a couple things with this)
- Something I called “Winds” (submitted for a short fiction contest that I’ll hear about just before my birthday, I think).
- The half was a rewrite of this one poem/prose thing that no one but me likes that I just can’t let go of.

Wrote the first draft of Hidden Things, started the second draft of Strange Weapons.

Wrote two game modules, both of which have been well received by their intended audience.

Got the prelim work done on a international game campaign set in the fictional 1930’s.

Lost my old job. Got a new one.

Refinanced our house.

Stuff for the new year:

Now that Vayland Rd. is off the front page at Banshee Studios, I really want to give it another re-drafting and start submitting it to paper magazines. I have high hopes for this, leavened by the fact that it’s long: after the re-edit I think it’s still going to be around 6500 words, which is pretty meaty for most short fiction guidelines. We’ll see if it matters.

By the end of January I’d like to have proper 2nd drafts going on both Strange Weapons and Hidden Things… by that I mean I’d like to have the first 20% (40+ pages) cleaned on both of them so that I can start sending them both off to agents. Sooner is better, obviously. I’d like to be writing stuff right now, but what I really need to do right now is second drafts and get that ball rolling. Once I’m in the groove with submitting stuff, there’s some short fiction I’d like to do to build up my list of credits :)

That’s really all I have coming up for 2003 in the way of resolutions: write consistently, submit consistently, and keep going to the rec center most nights.