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tripstaysnoided · 4 years ago

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Story and writing-related transparency update and my many shames...

The Question on Everyone’s Mind

“Hey you haven’t updated No Stars over Uptown in almost a year...”

Hmm, I hate it when you’re right. (This section has been rewritten ad-nauseam to curb back the bitchiness by the way)

So back in early/mid 2018, the idea was to divorce Uptown from a person who influenced it (and myself) heavily. She was my most important audience member, the closest friend I ever had, and unfortunately someone who used her power to bully, ostracize, and hurt others with my help. I cut contact when the hurt + some self-awareness finally reached me. Apologies were made and I feel like my work will never be done with it, but there was still Uptown.

Between censored comments, entirely recasting Axel’s save, different plot threads, and a load of disclaimers, there was nothing that would scrub her influence from the story. There was no way to cleanly drop everything because of how deep her influence went. It disgusted me to look back at it, and I had to private the blog because I feared what it endorsed, even if just in the past.

I pulled back from that sims writing community. I had its main thread on the Official Forums removed too (I guess if that was a mystery to anyone). It was a surrender that I never wanted to do, but I had it in my mind that if I was gone, then she wouldn’t be there either. Uptown became this cursed item, and as I quietly retired it, I noticed that she went quieter too. Not gone, but enough to make me sleep easier at night and even occasionally say hello to old friends.

And I hope deep in my heart that no one else is getting hurt in my place, but now this is gonna haunt me all day huh!

The two paths forward...

1) Complete Uptown rewrite that I’ve been threatening everyone with all year. While it won’t ever be clean because I can’t undo time, I do have a sound outline for a story that is much more true to my actual vision and how I’ve evolved, with a few necessary boundaries in place that are going to be there for all stories moving forward: no more casting calls and no more collaborative efforts. I am not going to open myself up to this happening again, even if the people have changed.

2) Same as above, but I continue the original Uptown as a favor to loyal readers alongside the rewrite. I would try to put the effort into it that I initially did, but with no promises on an update schedule and no advertising. I did ask myself “is there Patreon but without pledging money, just the private posts function” but it could operate as part of a private forum, a members-only part of a website, etc.

Also readers of the original would be beholden to a rule of “don’t spoil the rewrite for new readers, c’mon guys”. I mean, not really, but it is a good courtesy to extend to people.

Priority on this isn’t high but you at least will see what is!

I will probably make the blog public again either way due to the many broken links on my Tumblr but we’ll see. There are other things to deal with as I shall list!

Where Life’s Been Regardless

Been spending more time with my grandpa every weekend. Life’s pretty good and he’s warming up to my dogs.

Shiny New Webbed Site

Cucumber Fields Forever is a site I own now. We have a full domain, cucumberfieldsforever.com, a blog with one post, and the framework needed to host stories the way I want to and still through WordPress. The functionality of likes, comments, and following should still be the same but you know...I’ll take feedback too...

The main blog still has an undefined purpose though I do have drafts sitting around about:

The maybe/maybe not hoax band that was on the Metal Archives and the history of Funeral Doom Metal.

The curious case of when Sims 4 babies get their genetics and my only collaboration (read: was talking about it with a friend and might quote her if needed, it’s actually a bit of a doozy)

Amazon.com’s fake dried udon noodles, an actual issue by the way.

Things I’m reading! (This’d be a monthly feature if so)

For the sake of unity, I am thinking of solutions for hosting old and shameful content there including Uptown and for the real fans in my followers feed, Eight Cicadas...a world I totally have plans for too (not really). I don’t want them to be front-and-center, and that’s why I mentioned forums/members-only content. I finally have that power! Maybe.

Ooooh but what are the costs? Not too much to handle, that’s what. 😉 (Like really, I don’t need any hand-wringing about this, I can manage my finances)

Project Queue (In Order of Confirmedness)

Outrun the Scythe: have you seen me post out-of-context Sims 3 pictures? Did you want more? Did you hope it was Linda in Custody? If the answers are yes, yes, and “meh, whatever you want”, then you’re in luck.

Outrun the Scythe is a Sims 3-based tale of a young gay man and his zombie grandma, as they are both offered separate roles of being the undying intermediaries between the world of humans and the influence of a race of space daemons. It’s pretty familiar if you’ve been following me pre-Uptown, taking some cues from stories I’ve kept under lock and key like Eight Cicadas, The Chains of Lyra, and the not-so-locked-up Ironstar Immortals (of which Outrun is just the direct sequel to sans any retconning...ah the smell of early 2013 and performative heterosexuality)

Ah, back to my roots.

It’s a hybrid of gameplay, story, and lore about my little race of daemons with a lot of my own idiosyncrasies that I’m not really ashamed of: basing it off a super-polarizing Sims 3 challenge from a site I moderate, using a lot of EA’s pre-made townies and their genes, lots of unnecessary posemaking, stupid references. It’s a comfort to have in my roster.

While the first few chapters are in the middle of revision, I have around six in the queue and will be making this public when I have ten. I’m guessing December then?

Undocumented Black Widow Challenge: I just did this for fun/forum kudos (yes, in fact I have joined many forums), there was going to be a short story but it was quickly becoming something against my code of ethics. I mean, sims die and all. (read: I had to choose between “heterosexual widow” and “widow with some same-sex marriages that still end in tragedy, reinforcing negative stereotypes to the public for the sake of me not getting bored and detached during gameplay” so there were no good choices. Except for her affair with the mailwoman, 10/10) I hope to finish this before October ends and get my medal on Boolprop, I’m pretty far through it all. I might upload the sims involved anyways. This is for TS4.

I mentioned it because it’s keeping me busy. But not for long!

NaNoWriMo 2020: Dipping my toes into that again! It’s not sims-related, just a tale of lesbians, nosy neighbors, a haunted beach house, and some light murder and kidnapping. And I actually got my brother to scout out locations for me this weekend. If there’s any demand, I can share chapters as the rough drafts are finished, especially for the sake of proofreading.

Not saying I’m publishable, but wouldn’t it be nice? Will keep me occupied for much of November.

Untitled “Dear Diary” Challenge: Tired of feeling left out of the fun on the Boolprop forums, their “Dear Diary” challenge was the one that appealed to me the most on first glance. Why? Probably once I found an idea that let it be set in the early/mid-2000′s to begin with and explore some interesting characters through diary entries (which I have mixed feelings on as a literary device but I think that’s just me saying “well I didn’t like Dracula”, yes you get bonus points for writing it like a diary)

Also writing is the one skill I’m good at across multiple games. Wanna hear me bitch about the cooking skill tree in TS4 or riding in TS3? I’ll spare you.

I guess I could have included “spending time on Boolprop with old and new friends” in where my life has been. It’s a nice lil community if also a place with its own idiosyncrasies as well. So it doesn’t feel like I’m promoting another community if/when I make a thread there for Outrun the Scythe, I want to have a couple chapters of this ready to go by Outrun’s release, though it’s not gonna be the highest priority compared to it nor as long because I think I can blast through the gameplay quickly.

This one will be played in TS4 due to it having the easiest writing skill/I dunno variety is the spice of life. And hopefully another December release.

Defunded or Forgotten?: Oh shit I actually released stuff in 2020 and told no one? I do have a “mortifying ordeal of being known” sinking feeling whenever I get a site hit because it’s not my best work (but good enough) and veered sharply into issues I may be over my head in, though I try to be a good noodle with research and listening. Maybe hiding is bad after all.

Being based off a very flawed and incomplete Sims 3 challenge I found in the annals of the Official Forums, there’s a lot of behind-the-scenes work just making sense of things. And I’m scared of working on reconstructing the house but I haven’t abandoned the project yet. The story has eight chapters so far and is pretty game-based with some additions here and there. Scared of how long it could be though!

Date for this unknown.

Untitled Sunlit Tides Decadynasty: another year-long abandoned TS3 project with a much stupider reason why. Last update was about Hua getting ready for her wedding, and I wanted to do some poses for a bait-and-switch wedding chapter because to put it mildly, her real one was an absolute disaster.

Blender decided to fuck up its interface again, I got discouraged (this probably does account for some of the Uptown delays too), and when I decided to plow forward, it was for other projects instead.

Meanwhile I played all the way to Gen 5′s teenhood and the only thing stopping me is time (it takes almost 30 minutes to load the file right now, though they’ll be looking at moving towns in a couple gens) and maybe fear of the Logic skill.

Date for this also unknown but it’s easy to pump out updates once I’m in the groove for it. My third heir had a difficult life so maybe I’m just trying to bury it.

Also I just noticed the view count there was really good and probably because I linked it here on Tumblr last year. Thank you so much guys. I can’t really fret over views on Carl’s forum these days thanks to the years-long death spiral pretty much every forum anywhere has been riding on. But it’s a nice surprise. And it’s an alright little challenge recap to read during your lunch break or whatever.

The Wawas

I figured I’d end on the real news everyone wants! Both the chihuahuas are a year and a half now and reached their adult size around a year ago. For the most part, they are happy and healthy dogs.

#state of the uwunion #long post

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prettylittlelyres · 4 years ago

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2020: My Year in Reading

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I also re-read “Midnight” by Jacqueline Wilson, which was even better than I remembered. My sister and I have been re-reading a lot of Jacqueline Wilson’s books recently, and, in doing so, have found that all our hang-ups about them were actually… just a bit twitty. They’re great stories, they keep you turning the pages, and the pure sass of some of the characters just goes right through the roof. “Midnight” however, is a story I’ve always loved – no silly hang-ups could ever touch it – in part, I guess, because Violet just feels so Sapphic-coded, and also because she had a room full of fairy dolls that she’d made out of love for her favourite series of books, “The Flower Fairies” (sadly fictional, but I would quite frankly die of happiness if Jacqueline Wilson wrote and published even one as a novelty!). That might seem an odd reason to love a book, but, when I was at primary school, I was obsessed with the “Rainbow Magic” books by Daisy Meadows (by several ghost-writers, actually, but I digress) when I first read it, and had my very own “India the Moonstone Fairy” doll, which my mother had helped me to sew! As far as I was concerned, I was Violet, minus the horrid (misunderstood) big brother, and plus a lovely (the best, actually) big sister. Didn’t hurt that I was a baby gay, either, and that I had a close friend who played dolls with me (and with whom I might have been a bit in love). I’m seriously considering writing to Jacqueline Wilson to tell her how much I adore “Midnight”, even at 22. (I’m just not sure how to do that without coming across as a sycophant.)

Somehow, I’d managed to forget how heart-breaking “Vicky Angel” and “My Sister Jodie” were (also Jacqueline Wilson), but re-reading them at the beginning of December brought all the Big Tears flooding back. I managed not to cry outwardly, but these books hit me hard! I loved the Gothic atmosphere of “My Sister Jodie”, though – it was quite a bit like “Midnight” – and all the references it had to “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett (which I need to read, actually; I’ve only ever read the Ladybird version). The descriptions of Melchester College as the family sees it for the first time, and then looks around their living quarters, are great, such a strong contrast between this beautiful vista and the drab dreariness of life-behind-the-scenes.

I took December to make my way through my small (but growing!) library of writer’s craft books, with “Writing Deep Point of View” and “Fiction Pacing” by Rayne Hall, and “Writing Your Story’s Theme” passing a few hours on a rainy afternoon by reinforcing all I learned at A’ Level and teaching even more, and “Ghost Stories and How to Write Them” by Kathleen McGurl giving me a much clearer idea of how to craft something spooky, as well as how to market it. I don’t really write many short stories, but that’s something I want to change, so I thought it would be a good idea to start with some craft revision! Further to wanting to write more spooky stories, I also took December to finish “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James (more popularly known since the brilliant Netflix series as “The Haunting of Bly Manor”!), and the novel we were set in our French class, “Et si c’était vrai” by Marc Levy (the basis for the film “Just Like Heaven”, which I adore).

I’ve been trying to get into more subgenres of Alternate History and Fantasy, as I’m really enjoying “Kushiel’s Dart” by Jacqueline Carey, but I’m painfully aware that it’s Eurocentric in the extreme. I’m so glad I made an effort to push my reading horizons further this year, because I loved reading “Daughters of Nri” by Reni K. Amayo, and I’m looking forward to reading “Children of Blood and Bone” and its sequels by Tomi Adeyemi. I tried to read the first one two years ago, but my brain was mashed potato at the time, and I couldn’t concentrate on it at all. I’m doing much better now, so it’s on my reading list for 2021!

I also finally read “Alone: A Love Story” by Michelle Parise, which is the novel-version of a podcast with the same name. It helped me through a horrible time a few years ago and is just so beautifully written that – despite it being attached to some nasty memories – I really love it, and still listen to it to go to sleep. Obviously, I knew exactly what was going to happen, because it follows the same “storyline” as the podcast, but the book is just as excellent. They are both the author’s memoir, focussing on how she’s learned to enjoy living alone, being single, and carving out an independent life for herself. Suffice to say, it was the first step on my ladder to “feeling OK”. Steps 2, 3, 4… 10, 15… 86, etc. were spontaneous day trips to Winchester, where I would proceed to hole up in a coffee shop with a ball of yarn and a crochet hook, sipping tea while I worked, and tried not to think about what was making me sad. Those steps were not as good as the first one, and if I’m going to recommend you pick just one, I’d say, “Pick Step 1, and read or listen to “Alone: A Love Story” by Michelle Parise.”

For far too long, I’ve had “On Beauty” by Zadie Smith, and “The Returnees” by Elizabeth Okoh on my Kindle app (I don’t like Amazon, so I’m looking for alternatives!), and hadn’t read either one of them through to the end. I’d picked them both up on occasion, but only on short bus journeys, or while I was passing time, waiting for tea to cool; it made it hard to get into them, but I decided I’d sit down and read them both from the beginning, and not stop until I reached the end, and they’re both fabulous. I love Elizabeth Okoh’s painting of life in Nigeria, and as a British-Nigerian, and Zadie Smith’s lavish descriptions of everything are just wonderful. I can’t wait to see what Elizabeth Okoh does next (“The Returnees” is her debut novel), and I’m looking for my next read from Zadie Smith.

More speculative fiction finished off my reading in December! “Gone” by Michael Grant is perfect for fans of “The Society” (Netflix – please renew it! I would so love to see further seasons!), and “Q” by Christina Dalcher was deeply upsetting, but a gripping read. At last, I also finished “The Left/Right Game” from the r/NoSleep subreddit. I stayed up late, late, late, and then woke up early, early, early, to read the last chapters, on the morning of New Year’s Eve.

So, there you have it; a condensed overview of books I read in 2020. Condensed? Yes! Condensed quite a bit! This article is over 6,000 words long as it is, so I think I shall split it up into several posts, and queue them to be published, one per day.

I hope that I’ve helped you find something to read, or that I’ve reminded you of a favourite book you now want to re-read! Happy New Year to everyone, and may 2021 be much better!

#writeblr #reblog #my year in reading #reading list #bookblr #books #book recommendations #book rec #bookrecs #book reviews #book review #writer's life #2020 my year in reading #2020 in books

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starstruck-thirst · 5 years ago

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Ask Cont. My Writing Process

Sorry I didn't get back to this part of that ask ( linked here ) for a while. I won't make excuses... I forgot. Like I kept meaning to write it all back out (this was one of the things that I typed on tumblr then accidentally refreshed and lost), but then I just plum forgot. I apologize.

Anyway here we go. A somewhat condensed down version of how I write:

First thing is it is important to know that I am one of those people that generally thinks in pictures and not in words. Now I can have thoughts in words but overall I'm a picture thinker. So with this in mind a must have for me personally is music.

Music with words is best for me. I have playlists I specifically make for characters, fandoms, moods, etc. So I put on the playlist I need to help fuel my mental images. I teased a playlist for "She Wants Revenge" (here is a Spotify link to it if you are interested) in a previous post. And sincerely I put that on and put it on repeat as I wrote. The feeling I get from music helps fuel my imagination and gets me into the mood I want to set.

If you can't do music with words then try music without if you can. It really can help set a scene in your head.

The next part is also hard for me to translate to everyone but I will try.

So since I am generally a picture thinker, when I am writing a scene I am literally seeing it in my head. What I write is what I am personally experiencing, or would like to. If you aren't a picture thinker this might require more pre-planning scenes and conversations so that you can write more smoothly. I myself make no real plans. I have a rough outline in my head of what I want to happen and then I release my imagination as I write.

But no matter how you think or write here is my personal most important Star Technique Requirement: Do Not Stop Writing.

I know everyone says this and it is easier said than done but sincerely I cannot recommend it enough. If to do this you have to have an outline written and open in another document or written out on physical paper, do it. Do whatever you have to to be able to write uninhibited for as long as you can. And please note those last words "as long as YOU can".

This stage will be different for everyone. I can sit down and slam out 2k in one sitting without a break. Maybe for you it is going to be 500 words. That is okay! But try to get at least 100 out in my opinion.

The second part of this stage is do not revise/ edit yet.

See the thing about writing is you have to make it exist before you can nit-pick it. If you allow yourself to get hung up on a word, or a specific part of a scene too long you will become derailed. Don't do that to yourself. Just keep going until you have a good portion of the piece done, or if you can wait until you complete a full rough draft.

In general I will not edit at all until I have finished the part/ chapter. The exception to this rule is if I write half of it now and half in two days. Because to get back into the flow I have to re-read what I wrote so it flows seamlessly. But even then the edits are restricted to "Oh this word is spelled wrong. I need to add a comma." Other than that I'll maybe highlight the sentence if it flows incorrectly, but otherwise I leave it for when I read it all after the rough draft is done.

FINALLY I edit the document. Now I personally keep music on for this. I don't want to lose my flow and the feeling I'm trying to create. Since I am an atmospheric focused writer (or at least I try to be) this is important to me. It helps me get a sense of "is what I'm reading having the effect I want it to?" And if that answer is no this is the time to tweak it.

A suggestion I adore for the editing process is to change the font each time you reread it for editing. You would be amazed by the things you catch in a different font. For me I type in a serif font so I edit with a sans serif font, that way it is drastically different.

Now here is the time that you get a beta reader. Someone who isn't a true 'editor' to read the thing and give you feedback. Not everyone is fortunate enough to have this person, but if you can find that person do it. They can give you insight into what is working and what doesn't work (and catch that last 'teh' that you kept missing.)

I myself will now read the thing one more time after this with the intention of not editing it. Just enjoying what I wrote. Trying to turn off the writer's brain and see if it is enjoyable.

Then finally I post it.

To be honest I am bad about posting at 'high' volume times and tend to post when I am done because I get EXCITED like a child. But I'm trying to use the queue more for that so I don't keep posting things at weird hours. (Although you can't queue responses to questions.)

But that is generally it. The only other thing I'll add is sometimes I have a picture of the character (or two) open on my computer as well. I'll either keep it minimized or I'll have it open literally side by side with my doc if I feel I need the extra inspiration. But generally I don't need to do this. I do tend to keep the character wikia open as well as a dictionary and thesaurus. If I need a word quickly I can use these without getting too distracted.

#star answers #sorry for taking so long #let me know if you guys like this stuff #also let me know if you listen to my playlist #if you do we're friends now #that is the rules

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Who this course is for:

Anyone who wants to be an app developer: This is a complete course, just like my Complete Web, iOS and Apple Watch courses. It will teach you how to make money from your apps as well as how to code.

Anyone who wants to learn to code: Java is a fantastic language to learn how to code with.

Anyone who wants to understand how computers work: Learning to code is so much more than being able to make apps - knowing how computers work is your key to a hugely powerful world.

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2017 Retrospective

2017 was a year unlike any other. For a lot of people, it was scary, stressful, and a struggle to get through. But that’s not all it was.

I may not have ended my year with a signed agent, but I definitely made some forward progress.

I queried 31 agents, attended 2 writing conventions (including my 1st trip to Europe!), finished my second novel, wrote a third novel, and revised my first novel twice, (then edited it twice, cause you kinda got to after revising). I even got an R&R (Revise and resubmit) request from one agent!

Between Balticon and WorldCon: Helsinki, I hit 29 panels, 6 workshops, 2 presentations, 2 book launches, and 2 autograph signings. (Despite mostly having to queue up an hour before each Worldcon panel!) Plus, I met up with/made 3, no, 4 new writing friends in person. 🙂 And that doesn’t include the dozens of new friends I chat with weekly.

That all sounds pretty impressive! But, let’s look at the numbers.

My Writing Goals Last Year

I made sure to set SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, results-focused, and time-bound) goals.

By January 12th of last year, I was already starting to slip. But I didn’t give up.

Here are my admittedly mediocre results.

2017 Goals

☑ Edit my first novel with editor ☑ Finish rough draft of my second novel [minimum 5k a week until done] – Knocked this out quickly!

☒ Edit my second novel [minimum 50 pages a week] — Nope. Didn’t touch it. ☒ Send my second novel to beta readers — Nope. ☒ Write a short story —HaHaHa. Well, did this in October and December, instead. ☑ Attend Balticon

☒ Revise my second novel [Notecards, rip to shreds, rebuild] — Nope ☑ Attend some-other con – Like WORLDCON!

☑ Plan my third novel – I did! ☑ NaNoWriMo my third novel [writing 50-75k words] – I finished the rough draft at just over 51k. ☑ Revise my first novel or my second novel as needed ☑ Keep querying? or R&R if requested? – Had FEEDBACK from a reject letter about my opening chapter, with what I believe was a R&R, so I worked on that.

Monthly Goals

■ Post 1 book review on Amazon/GoodReads – Fell short. Overall, I reviewed 5.5 books (the last review didn’t go up until this year) and ranked 25 books.

■ Submit 3 Queries for both my first novel and picture book- Fell short. Overall though, I queried 31 agents, which was only 5 short of my target. If you ignore that I’m combining totals from both books’s queries…

Morgan in a “Burr Shot First” shirt, holding a book on “The Guide To Literary Agents” and the print-out of her latest draft shrugging and wondering if she should query again.

Morgan smiling at the camera with the river at Thingvellar behind her

WorldCon panel, featuring George RR Martin

Morgan in a red top, showing the crowd at George RR Martin’s panel

Top Lifetime Post

Posted towards the end of 2016, this post only had 53 views that year, but it became a sleeper hit and is now the main reason people who aren’t already following me find my blog. In 2017, it had 1,092 views!

10 Questions To Ask Your Beta Readers

In fact, I submitted an edited version of that blog post to the “Insecure Writers Group” for their essay anthology and it was selected! Becoming the first essay in the anthology and my first published work. (Free on Kindle!)

My Top 10 Posts of 2017

PitchWars is Coming! #PimpMyBio

Top 10 Tricks For a Better Query Letter

Confession: I’ve Been Struggling

How To Handle Rejection Letters

Morgan’s LASIK adventure

Writing Diversity

The #1 Reason I Won’t Let You Read My Manuscript

When Your Rough Draft Is Really Rough

3 Things That Make a Great 1st Line

A Message To My Fellow PitchWars Hopefuls

My Top 3 Posts of 2016

5 Stages of a PitchWars Hopeful

5 Big Things I’ve Learned About Editing

An Outline to Write By

My Top 3 Posts of 2015

Packing: Editing Your Life

I’d Make a Good Henchman

Handling the Unavoidable Info-dump

Social Media Stats

I like stats and tracking progress, so here are my numbers for 2017. I tried to be both engaged and engaging, but outside of Facebook, I may have been more of a creator than a consumer of content.

(Click HERE to answer 3 multiple choice questions on what you’d like to see more/less of in this blog!)

Followers

First off, I worked on getting more followers for my twitter and FB Page. Then, I started my own Youtube channel! Between all my social media accounts, I added 3,099 followers, with over 2/3rds being twitter followers.

The FB groups I run are where most of my engagement is, though. So, if I want more of my followers on twitter to even see my posts, I should probably post there, and actually reply/retweet people’s posts a little more regularly.

Content

This year I continued to keep my streak of blogging at least once a week. Once I started the vlog, I added to it at a weekly rate as well. My Goodreads stats are a bit deceptive as I added a bunch of books I’d read in years gone past when I created my account last year.

Some thoughts: I don’t see me posting here on the blog more often unless it’s quotes or images, but I should post to Instagram at least once a week. And if I’m going to use Pinterest, it would make sense to make mood boards for all my Works-In-Progress. Both for myself, my beta-readers, and my future fans! 😉

Account Break Down

WordPress – I started this blog in April of 2015.

Of my 81 posts, 21 of those were video versions of the weekly post. I think I’m going to combine these from now on.

Altogether, this blog had 7,778 views, 5,211 visitors, 912 likes, and 210 comments.

Twitter – MorganHzlwood – I joined in March of 2016

Tumblr – MorganHazelwood – I joined in June of 2016

In 2017, I posted 213 times. I counted. No clue how many posts prior.

Instagram – MorganHazelwood – I joined in 2015

Pinterest – MorganHazelwoo – I joined in 2015

Facebook Pages – MorganHazelwoodPage – I joined in 2015

Facebook – MorganSHazelwood – I joined in 2013.

Google+ – Morgan S Hazelwood – I joined in 2013

Stats! 28 likes and 2 comments. I counted.

GoodReads – Morgan Hazelwood – I joined in January 2016

I did 3 reviews and 27 ratings last year, for a total of 7 reviews and 279 ratings.

In Conclusion

I didn’t do as much as I’d hoped.

Some of that was external. People who are reading your work out of the kindness of their hearts and working around their own schedules aren’t necessarily going to adhere to your schedule. (Speaking of… I’ve been sitting on a 2 chapter critique since OCTOBER. Bad Morgan!)

Some of the was consequences of decisions.

I had LASIK in May, which impacted the amount of time I could read/etc.

In the fall/early winter, I applied for and got a new job. That required prep time, reviewing computer languages I hadn’t played with in 6 years, and some stress.

I’m running 2 Facebook PitchWars support groups and administering another SFF writer’s group. That takes time, energy, and spoons.

I’ve scheduled social time with friends Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. Add in my blog post writing and uploading Wednesday nights and full weekend social schedule and I’m simply not making my writing a priority. Most of the social stuff is low key, not more than dinner and TV time, but it’s still a major time chunk. I love my friends and family, but I might have to talk with them about changing this schedule.

And some of it was clear, outright laziness. Binge watching the West Wing and cheesy Christmas Movies. Spending hours staring at facebook…

However…

I DID do a lot of writing, more revising on my first novel than anticipated, started a vlog, critiqued novels for friends and family, and read an average of more than 2 novels/novella’s a month. I queried my first novel on average more than twice a month and my Picture Book 4 times.

I may have fallen short, but you know what Les Brown says about that?

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Les Brown [Image of Milky Way by A. Fujii, NASA]

How well did you do on your goals?

Had you given up on them in January, did you rock the BLEEP out of them, or did you do okay but think you might do better with concrete, SMART goals?

2017 Retrospective

2017 Retrospective 2017 was a year unlike any other. For a lot of people, it was scary, stressful, and a struggle to get through.

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Anyone who wants to understand how computers work: Learning to code is so much more than being able to make apps – knowing how computers work is your key to a hugely powerful world.

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The Complete Android Oreo Developer Course - Build 23 Apps!

Learn Android O App Development using Java & Kotlin - build real apps including Super Mario Run, Whatsapp, and Instagram!

What you'll learn The Complete Android Oreo Developer Course - Build 23 Apps!

Make pretty much any Android app you like (your only limit is your imagination)

Submit your apps to Google Play and generate revenue with Google Pay and Google Ads

Become a professional app developer, take freelance gigs and work from anywhere in the world

Bored with the same old, same old? Apply for a new job in a software company as an Android developer

Requirements

A Windows PC, Mac or Linux Computer

ZERO programming knowledge required - I'll teach you everything you need to know

Description

The Complete Android O Developer Course

Why choose me?

What’s so good about Android 8.0 Oreo?

And the potential market right now?

Learn all the new features to Android Oreo, like Adaptive Icons, Picture-in-Picture, Downloadable Fonts and Virtual Reality with Daydream.

Dive into Augmented Reality with our ARCore section. Learn how to mix the physical and digital world through a user's camera.

Learn essential skills like Bluetooth, game development, and sending users notifications.

BONUS MINI COURSE:

And that’s not all folks! You’ll also get my BONUS BUNDLE to support you through your learning journey…

All for just one pocket-friendly payment of $200.

Not a penny more.

Here’s what you’ll get:

$100 Amazon AWS Credit for hosting your own social apps.

$500 WORTH of exclusive app templates, images, and audio resources to use in your apps

24/7 project support: via our buzzing course forums.

One year of FREE WEB HOSTING on Eco Web Hosting's Advanced Package, worth £119. *Limited to one year per student, not per course*

What have you got to lose?

Why take this course?

For the last three months, my team and I have been diligently exploring, interrogating and appraising Android 8.0 Oreo.

Our goal?

Is this course for you?

This is a one-size-fits-all course for beginners to experts. So, this course is for you if you are:

A total beginner, with a curious mind and a drive to make and create awesome stuff

A fledgling developer, with a glint in your eye and a passion for cutting-edge tech

A confident coder, looking for the key to the secret club (app developers unite!)

A pro app developer-heavyweight, with an itch to build your dream app

An entrepreneur with big ideas

Benefits to you

Risk-free 30-day money-back guarantee

Freedom to work from anywhere (beach, coffee shop, airport – anywhere with Wi-Fi)

Potential to work with forward-thinking companies (from cool start-ups to pioneering tech firms)

Rocket-fuelled job opportunities and powered-up career prospects

A sense of accomplishment as you build amazing things

Make any Android app you like (your imagination is your only limit)

Submit your apps to Google Play and potentially start selling within hours

Who this course is for:

Anyone who wants to be an app developer: This is a complete course, just like my Complete Web, iOS and Apple Watch courses. It will teach you how to make money from your apps as well as how to code.

Anyone who wants to learn to code: Java is a fantastic language to learn how to code with.

Anyone who wants to understand how computers work: Learning to code is so much more than being able to make apps - knowing how computers work is your key to a hugely powerful world.

The Complete Android Oreo Developer Course - Build 23 Apps!

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