2011 was a pretty exciting year for me creatively.
Write Club, our writing critique group, is going strong. We've collectively sold 1 novel, published 6 poems, and produced several essays and stories.
I've joined a Wednesday night Dinner-and-Writing Group, that eats and writes respectively. The hostess, Hope, also happens to make dynamite ice cream. Here we are, all dressed up, on a field trip to The Magic Castle. One of our friend's husband's just happens to be a magician.
I finished a draft of my novel in the first part of the year.
(My agent stopped agenting. I got angry. Then I got back to work.)
I wrote two comic book stories. I just had a signing of one the books last week.
*My song was "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side"
And I got to work with the generous, talented cartoonist Tara Abbamondi (Aka GingerCurls.)
I also wrote a comic book story, Seeing-Eye Sheila, for Womanthology, a comic anthology by women artists and writers, with proceeds going to Global Giving. I was paired up with Canadian illustrator Joanne Ellen Hansen to create our story.
I wrote two essays. One essay, "Me, Myself, & Gwyneth" for the zine, GirlCrush. GirlCrush got a ton of press, and was put together by two inspiring, savvy chickies: Jenna Wortham and Thessaly La Force.
Oh, so good...
I also wrote an essay for Dear Teen Me, which was really fun. Check it out online.
I attended the Mighty Summit, a conference run by the ever inspiring @lmayes and @maggie, that made a surprising impact on me. It also made me rethink some of the issues that I deal with in the creative process.
I'm now working on several of the goals I set at the Mighty Summit, including:
I'm working on a new writing project.
And I just signed up for a four week Italian language class that I'll start in 2012!
By the way, I was also in a Mighty Summit pyramid. I'm on the bottom and looking down, but damn it, I was in a pyramid.
I was the Days of our Lives Social Media Fanbassador for the Day of Days Event. Here's a couple of shots with some of my favorite actresses!
And, I was hired as the Head Content Writer on a new social advocacy start up, ChangeMyWorldNow.Com, that launched October 1st. I worked on it until this month, and will start again in on it in 2012.
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Looking forward to more creating in 2012. What about you?
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