I didn’t have much published this year, but here are my award-eligible works from 2017, one short story and four poems:<\/p>\n
Short story:<\/b> Poetry:<\/b> 08\/2017 “Sunharvest Triptych” in the anthology Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk & Eco-Speculation<\/a>, edited by Phoebe Wagner and Bront\u00eb Wieland.<\/p>\n 10\/2017 “Artemis–<\/a>” in Issue 1<\/a> of Blossomry<\/a>.<\/p>\n 10\/2017 “When They Belittle Your Nature<\/a>” in Issue 1<\/a> of Blossomry<\/a>.<\/p>\n The poems are all eligible for the short poem category of the Rhysling Award.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n YEAR IN REVIEW<\/b><\/p>\n My writing goals for 2017 were:<\/p>\n Well. Ambitious goals, considering I’m also working on a PhD, and this year was difficult in many other ways too. I obviously didn’t succeed with all of my writing goals, thus. <\/p>\n However: the novel is almost entirely revised to be the best I can make it. I’ve worked on it a lot<\/i> this year: most of my writing hours were spent on it, which is partly why I’ve not succeeded so well at the other goals. Writing a novel is a long slog, and takes a lot of energy and time. But the time I’ve spent on the novel has paid off: the novel is at the polishing stage, and – importantly – I still love it. I’m looking forward to finishing it in early 2018.<\/p>\n I did not have the energy\/time to start submitting the novel to agents, or even to properly start doing my agent research. But that is something that I don’t want to rush: the novel has to be good first. <\/p>\n Re the poetry collection mentioned in my goals: I did basically nothing to it because the novel gobbled up my time\/energy. I will eventually try to do stuff to it, though. <\/p>\n I didn’t write many short stories – again, because of the novel. BUT I did complete one new short story, wrote part of another (should get back to it!), and am almost done with a third. <\/p>\n I did not get back into the poetry habit, sadly. I wrote 13 poems, most of which are just short things and not too many of them good. I’d like to get more poetry written: should do some poetry exercises in the new year. <\/p>\n I didn’t submit that much stuff in 2017. 17 poetry subs (14 rejections, 2 acceptances, 1 pending), and 12 story subs (11 rejections, 1 joyous acceptance to Fireside). I have no stories out on sub right now: should try to fix that soon. And also write more stories!<\/p>\n I did not have time to do anything about my previous Nanowrimo novels – but I wrote a new one instead in November. It’s not very good, but it’s proof that I can still plonk out 50,000 words in a month. <\/p>\n As for my final goals for 2017: I haven’t played around as much with writing as I’d have wanted, mostly – again – because I’ve been busy with the novel. But I have managed to compare myself less with other writers. I’ve been so damn busy with work and other life things that it’s a wonder I managed to get through 2017. <\/p>\n Every creative word written is a win, especially when you’re working on a PhD. Really, I’ve done a lot this year even though the brainweasels tell me it’s not enough. My novel is almost submittable – I’ve done some other creative writing on the side – and even though I haven’t submitted much stuff, I submitted something<\/i>. I kept going, kept writing.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n My writing goals for 2018, then:<\/p>\n Happy New Year, dear readers. I hope it’s a better year, a happier year, a more hopeful year. No matter what, I will keep writing words of hope and kindness in the face of hardship. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I didn’t have much published this year, but here are my award-eligible works from 2017, one short story and four poems: Short story: 07\/2017 “Don’t Look a Wish Horse in the Mouth” in Cosmos Pen, the English special issue of Finnish SFF magazine Kosmoskyn\u00e4. 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\n07\/2017 “Don’t Look a Wish Horse in the Mouth” in Cosmos Pen, the English special issue of Finnish SFF magazine Kosmoskyn\u00e4<\/a>. Short story, 2065 words.
\n — This is a bit hard to get hold of since it’s in a Finnish print magazine, but I’m happy to provide anyone who asks with a digital copy of my story.<\/p>\n
\n01\/2017 “The Queen, After<\/a>” in Through the Gate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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