It's time again for the annual pat-myself-on-the-back post. Past years can be viewed here: 2022, 2021 (Apocalypse Year 2) 2020 (Apocalypse Year 1), 2019 (including decade-in-review), 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013. Let's jump right into 2022's I Did Its! Shall we?
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| Andy Goldsworthy landscape installation at Alnoba in New Hampshire, here for no reason other than it's a place I visited this year and never got around to writing about it. Also it's cool! |
- Drafted a novel in my own version of National Novel Writing Month (NANOWRIMO), which I called JANOWRIMO. (And I love it!)
- Finished revising and illustrating and writing a book proposal for my second nonfiction book, and submitted it to my publisher for consideration.
- Did some work on my idea for a third nonfiction book.
- Attended five book promotion events for Uphill Both Ways.
- Recorded two podcasts promoting Uphill Both Ways (one of which can be heard here, and one of which will come out soon!)
- Did a big freelance project.
- Freelance articles: 2
- Essay Submissions: 5
- Essay Acceptances: 3
- Essay Publications:
- "Faith in a Seed" Rooted 2: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction, Summer 2023 (reprint)
- "Inflection Point: The Birth of a Mother Writer" Literary Mama, March/April 2023
- Other publications:
- "Growing an Essay" Rooted 2 Substack, December 2023
- "The Ever-Evolving Journey: An Interview with Majka Burhardt" Literary Mama, September/October 2023
- "Where Are They Now? An Interview with Anne Liu Kellor" Literary Mama blog, March 2023
- Residencies applied for: 3
- Residencies accepted into and attended: 1 (a little about it here).
- Newsletters: 10
- Blog posts: 27
- Workshops taught: 2
- Workshops taken: 2
- Got through >75% of my book coach training program.
- We went to Europe!!! Can't really top that.
- Went on some local adventures to museums and other sites of interest around Maine, and one in New Hampshire, with family, friends, and on my own.
- Did *some* kayaking, but much less than in recent years.
Arts & Crafts I Did Its!
- Knit *one* pair of mittens!
- Took up mosaic-making (mosaicing?), and made three projects, including these two:
Other I Did Its!
- Got my older kid graduated from college and the younger two from high school. (Is this really my accomplishment? I don't care--I'm taking credit for it!)
- Got the younger two kids off to college.
- Hosted my parents for a couple of weeks in the spring (around those grads) and my sister for a few days in the fall.
- Created a true space of my own in the vacated bedroom.
- Maintained pretty regular yoga and walking routines (not-quite-daily).
- Kept a daily journal and a fairly regular morning pages routine.
I have some ideas about what I want to accomplish in 2024, writing-wise, and otherwise. But for now I'll just bask in the glow of self-congratulation for having written a novel and traveled to Europe and learned a new craft.
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