The worst: The Web del Sol fiction class I took. A waste of valuable time and money on a class that turned out to be sub-standard academically, run in an un-professional manner, and sophmoric in its critiques.
The best: I won first place overall in the Georgia Writer's Association monthly contests for the year. $50 and an attaboy.
Highlights:
- The Pulitzer Reading project. I read over fifty Pulitzer prize winning fiction books, both novels and short story collections. Surely some of that reading has affected my writing?
- I wrote a lot of short stories, both for the GWA contests and because I wanted to.
- I finished the first draft of my latest novel, code named "Devil's Walking Stick". The title will change, as will a lot of the words, as I struggle to edit it.
- The Web site has really come together and been an excellent way to keep track of my reading and writing.
2007 goals:
- Take another writing class. I'll go back to the Gotham Writing Workshops, for a professionally run class this time. where I know I will get my moneys worth.
- Continue with the short stories by entering as many of the GWA monthly contests as I can.
- Devote time to getting a short story published. If I spent as much time polishing and submitting the stories as I do writing them I might be able to get something published. It's not as much fun, but it needs to be done.
- Edit the DWS novel.
- Continue the reading project, expanding it to include the National Book Award winners and runners-up. Also branch out and read as many new and noteworthy novels as I can find cheaply.
- Keep track of everything here and on my writing wiki.
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