Sunday, January 06, 2008
2007: Reading and Writing
Around the end of summer, last year, I stopped logging the books I finished reading. I've done my best to figure out what I read, but still come up about five books short of my book-a-week goal. Here's what I read:
I did manage to read a short story a week, making it through all 31 stories in the Dorothy L. Sayers anthology and 24 stories in The Art of Fiction (plus the short stories we read in class).
Although I did worse than recent years in the reading department, I more than made up for it with writing. 18 short stories and satirical "news" articles published, second-placing in the Genesis contest (opening pages of novel), two stories slated for publication this year (with another one or two in limbo). All that and upwards of $800 makes for a pretty good year for me.
How was your 2007?
- Fight Club
- Unfortunate Events: The End
- Masterpieces in 3-D*
- Seventy Times Seven
- Germ (ARC)
- The Hard Goodbye (graphic novel)
- Trinity (3 of 3 - graphic novel)
- Batman Gothic (graphic novel)
- Deadline
- House of Invention*
- Coral Moon
- Lisey's Story
- Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories
- It's Not Funny if I Have to Explain It
- 10 Classics in 10 Minutes
- The Utter Zoo Alphabet
- Mystery & Crime (The NY Public Library Book of Answers)*
- The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
- 24 Declassified: Cat's Claw
- Star Trek: The Modala Imperitive (graphic novel)
- Cell
- Tribulation House
- Unknown Man No. 89
- Teaching for Student Achievement Guidebook*
- The Complete Guide to Editing Your Fiction*
- The Crucible
- Broken Prey
- Elementary, the Cartoonist Did It
- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Of Mice and Men
- A Raisin in the Sun
- Napalm and Silly Putty
- Secret Window*
- Shutter Island
- Of Other Worlds*
- Art Masterpieces in 3D*
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Iron Joe Bob
- Rising Stars (graphic novel)
- The Death of Superman (graphic novel)
- Firefly: The Official Companion - Vol. 1
- How Fiction Works*
- Coach's Midnight Diner
- The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
- Soul Circus
- The Pearl
- The Gashlycrumb Tinies
*non-fiction; average pages per book: 266
I did manage to read a short story a week, making it through all 31 stories in the Dorothy L. Sayers anthology and 24 stories in The Art of Fiction (plus the short stories we read in class).
Although I did worse than recent years in the reading department, I more than made up for it with writing. 18 short stories and satirical "news" articles published, second-placing in the Genesis contest (opening pages of novel), two stories slated for publication this year (with another one or two in limbo). All that and upwards of $800 makes for a pretty good year for me.
How was your 2007?
Mikesell
4 Snarky Remarks:
Impressive! Especially when you figure the teaching job in there. Proud of you, Chris!
Jenny, at 6:53 AM
Plus moving to Texas and starting a new job -- very productive indeed. I'm proud of you. My year was moderately productive, (for me) but I hope to do better.
looks like you're moving up in the world, my friend.
i'm moving sideways.
i'm moving sideways.
Yeah, I'd say it was a good year. Any year you get any money for writing is a good year.
I can't remember what I read last week let alone the whole year. I should start posting it on my blog so I'd at least remember.
I can't remember what I read last week let alone the whole year. I should start posting it on my blog so I'd at least remember.
