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Blogging/Writing Resolutions for 2013

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Delilah Night

2012 was a really big year for me in terms of writing.

I had my first publication with the inclusion of Renewal in Irresistible: Erotic Romance for Couples edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. I was even lucky enough to have some kind comments sent my way in the Amazon reviews of Irresistible.

This was the year I first started calling myself a professional writer, which was a really big shift for me. I’ve always been a writer–going through papers I found a “story” I wrote when I was seven or eight, along with some highly embarrassing fanfic from highschool and a bad Christopher Pike rip-off story from the same time period. I’ve been doing erotica for just over 10 years, but never took myself seriously. Changing that has been exciting and a little bit scary.

I submitted five pieces. Four were rejected, and one was accepted (for the 50 shades of glitter anthology I mentioned in this post). I’ll pass along when you can buy and support 50 Shades of Glitter once I know more.

I worked on a novel for NaNoWriMo. Between kids and travel I only hit 17K words, instead of the 25 or 50K I’d hoped for.

I wrote 24 blog posts here, which was far short of what I’d hoped for. To be fair I also wrote 182 posts at my personal blog and about 40 as part of a pro-blogging job.

So what do I hope for in 2013?

1. Submit 6 or more short stories for anthologies

2. Have a full first draft of the ghost story

3. Blog here on a regular schedule. Maybe every weekend? One x per week.

I hope you’ll be with me on the journey.

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2012 in review

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Delilah Night

Below are my blog stats for 2012. What I learned from these stats are that I suck at blogging here and that people want a lot of information about BDSM during pregancy (as did I, which I why I wrote that post in the first place–there’s a dearth of info about it).

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,300 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 4 years to get that many views.

Click here to see the complete report.

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Outlining

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Delilah Night

I’ve always been a bit on the fence about outlining–I wasn’t great at doing it for research papers in college and I’ve never been terribly good at doing it for my stories, either.

However, given that I am trying for something on the longer side, I don’t necessarily want my characters to hijack me off onto some side journey I wasn’t planning on. The year I successfully completed NaNoWriMo, my secondary characters totally hijacked my story and I ended up caring more about them than my primary characters. This is deeply deeply ironic given that it was a romance semi-sort-of based on my partner and I and a “what if” scenario.

Of course the flip side is that doing an outline (even if it’s just a few sentences for each planned chapter) does give some structure and tells me what I need to know before I get started on Nov 1–for example, I know very little about video games and how they are made, so I need to learn that or change something about my planned story.

Doing/thinking about my story outline is also helping me feel like I’m writing when what I’m actually doing is a major housecleaning project and baking for a birthday party this week.

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