2022: A Year in Review
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osprey_archerTen Things I Did This Year
1. Through the kind agency ofskygiants, joined a Zoom theater group where we put on sundry plays, not least Euripides’ Medea, which knocked my socks off. Who would have expected that ancient Greek theater was so riveting!
2. Visited New York City! This is my first-ever trip to NYC and it was delightful.
3. Published Tramps and Vagabonds.
4. Adopted Bramble, an adorable black cat who likes sitting on laps, purring, and jumping up on the counter where he knows he is absolutely not allowed.
5. Became EXTREMELY invested in Arthuriana, so far only in retellings, although one of my 2023 projects involves reading Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur and also, perhaps, Chretien de Troyes.
6. Published A Garter as a Lesser Gift, an MMF World War II Round-Table-as-RAF-pilots retelling of “Gawain and the Green Knight.”
7. MassachusettsTrip2022! I visitedskygiants and genarti (we hit up the Boston Athenaeum and heroically did not try to hide ourselves in the stacks) and then asakiyume (we baked an apple pie!) and then Micky, my friend from all the way back in elementary school, who now has a two-year-old son who is VERY into trains and trucks.
8. Failed once again to finish a draft of Sleeping Beauty. Do you know how much I could have accomplished in the time that I poured into this blasted book? Do you know?
9. Did not get the full-time library job I applied for, which I choose to interpret as a sign from Fate that I am meant to buckle down and focus on my writing. To this end I am giving Patreon another go, this time posting short tropey ficlets, extras from my published books, and excerpts from my works in progress. We shall see how it goes! (Currently as a sign-up bonus anyone who pledges gets to prompt a ficlet.)
10. This is not something I did per se, but my brother’s wife is having a baby girl in March. I’m going to be an aunt!
1. Through the kind agency of
skygiants, joined a Zoom theater group where we put on sundry plays, not least Euripides’ Medea, which knocked my socks off. Who would have expected that ancient Greek theater was so riveting! 2. Visited New York City! This is my first-ever trip to NYC and it was delightful.
3. Published Tramps and Vagabonds.
4. Adopted Bramble, an adorable black cat who likes sitting on laps, purring, and jumping up on the counter where he knows he is absolutely not allowed.
5. Became EXTREMELY invested in Arthuriana, so far only in retellings, although one of my 2023 projects involves reading Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur and also, perhaps, Chretien de Troyes.
6. Published A Garter as a Lesser Gift, an MMF World War II Round-Table-as-RAF-pilots retelling of “Gawain and the Green Knight.”
7. MassachusettsTrip2022! I visited
skygiants and genarti (we hit up the Boston Athenaeum and heroically did not try to hide ourselves in the stacks) and then asakiyume (we baked an apple pie!) and then Micky, my friend from all the way back in elementary school, who now has a two-year-old son who is VERY into trains and trucks. 8. Failed once again to finish a draft of Sleeping Beauty. Do you know how much I could have accomplished in the time that I poured into this blasted book? Do you know?
9. Did not get the full-time library job I applied for, which I choose to interpret as a sign from Fate that I am meant to buckle down and focus on my writing. To this end I am giving Patreon another go, this time posting short tropey ficlets, extras from my published books, and excerpts from my works in progress. We shall see how it goes! (Currently as a sign-up bonus anyone who pledges gets to prompt a ficlet.)
10. This is not something I did per se, but my brother’s wife is having a baby girl in March. I’m going to be an aunt!
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Date: 2022-12-31 02:26 pm (UTC)My first, abortive attempt at college (by which I just mean I didn't stick with the college--I transferred after the first year) had some redeeming features, and one of them was reading Greek tragedies in translations. Yeah, they blew my head off. SO INTENSE. The Oresteia was my jam but Medea... no one beats her for Actual Intensitude.
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Date: 2023-01-01 06:22 am (UTC)YES the Greek tragedies are SO intense, (I say, with my vast experience of one (1) Greek tragedy). But still. SO INTENSE.
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Date: 2022-12-31 07:53 pm (UTC)one of my 2023 projects involves reading Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur and also, perhaps, Chretien de Troyes.
Ooh, I’ll look out for your reviews if you do! I’ve always WANTED to be well up in Arthuriana but never got around to it somehow lol. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the classics.
now has a two-year-old son who is VERY into trains and trucks.
It starts young. The other day I took Minimonster out to watch the recycling truck go by our house, and he was so excited I could hardly hold him.
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Date: 2023-01-01 06:16 am (UTC)I've been contemplating the best way to gather my Malory thoughts. Do I want to do a weekly post? Or a post per book perhaps? (There are nine books in the first volume and presumably just as many in the second.) Leaning toward the post-per-book approach but it will depend how much I end up having to say about it.
God, to be so thrilled by the sight of a recycling truck. To recapture that childlike sense of wonder!
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Date: 2023-01-01 02:40 am (UTC)Euripides is my Greek theatre playwright bias sorry to Sophocles but he could never.
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