This last month…
15 July 2010
Month in Review:
- Finished the last third of Jumper: Griffin’s Story
- Critiqued 12,000 words for my writing critique group
- My baby got an ear infection
- Read The Lightning Thief
- Lost 8 days of my life to a sinus infection
- Spent one weekend gathering letters of recommendation (thank you for the contributors) and writing essays for a grad school application
- Critiqued 92,000 words for an anthology project
- Didn’t get a chance to write anything fictional
Over this last month I have learned that:
- I don’t like it when my baby has an ear infection
- Babies become, um, explosive when antibiotics are involved
- Sinus infections are awful
- Critiquing 104,000 words in one month is a large amount, and trying to get a group of people to critique that much is stressful
- It is difficult to get letters of reference and transcripts in a timely fashion
- I miss writing when I don’t get to do it
Did you like THE LIGHTNING THIEF? I liked THE SEA OF MONSTERS even better, but then I loved THE ODYSSEY, by Homer.
I’m sorry you didn’t get to write fiction last month and for the infections.
I did like The Lightning Thief. Rick Riordan has a very smooth writing style that allows the pages to just fly by. There was more violence than I like, considering the target age group, but I guess it wasn’t that much more than The Sorcerer’s Stone. I’m probably going to buy the next one, sometime – when I have time.
I’m right with ya, Ryan!
Definitely suffering from critique fatigue!
Yeah, critique burnout was a problem. For next year, we might do it differently – maybe break everyone into two review groups, a sci-fi group and a fantasy group. Don’t know, just thinking out loud. It would cut back on the critiques, both given and received. I believe there were six sci-fi pieces submitted and six fantasy pieces, so it would have been a good split this year. We’ll have to see when we get there.
Oooh . . . babies and antibiotics . . . I know about that one. I’ll just say that yogurt is our friend.
Glad you made it through the month!
Thanks, I’m glad I made it too. For a while, I wasn’t so sure I was going to.