My Version of the Creative Output Meme Thing

[labingi]

I am awed and cowed by the creative output of so many people on DW. For me, this year has been one of energetic deflation, culminating in my basically allowing myself to do almost nothing but the daily necessities (teaching, parenting, housework), and in terms of psychological and physical health, that's been good for me but it's sucked for anything like creative output.

Here's what I got:

Short Fiction:
* Polished up, sent out, and got a rejection for my near-future, climate apocalypse story, "Oxymorons." I need to send it out again but have not yet had the energy.

Novels
* By the skin of my teeth, I "finished" a draft of The Ninth Clan. That is, I got to the end. Now I need to reread it, add/modify a bazillion things, then find readers to beta it.
* Finally succeeded in getting decent proof copies for the third edition of my first novel, Perdita, an eco-science fiction novel about intersections of fanaticism and technology, so it's very close to being on sale.

Video:
* Completed a music video on the burning of my home in California.
* Did a spot of editing on The Eater--but not much. It's my new years resolution to get it done or as close as I can.

Other
* Did two pilot workshops for Workable Utopias, my framework for structuring ideas for social reform (either in fictional worldbuilding or real life activism).
* Have continued to edit for Theresa May's forthcoming, Earth Matters, a history of ecology in American theater, a very good book!

Comments

[egret]

I would be excited to read Perdita when it is ready. :)

[labingi]

Aw, thank you! I'm just following up on some quality control stuff with my proof copies now. (They came out with faint ink, but that may be because proofs are printed on the cheap.) I'll definitely post when the books are available. :)