It's Been a Good Year!

I pondered writing an all-out, 2009-year-in-review.

I decided against it.

For one thing, it's easy enough to scroll through the past 12 months and rediscover the highlights. Cool contests and hefty critiques. Status reports on my WIP progress. A plethora of awesome comments from my beloved readership. And TWO CLIENT SIGNINGS BY SECRET AGENTS. (Yes, I shouted that.)

It's been a stellar year.

The main reason I've forgone the year-in-review is, well, I don't want to take the time to do it.

How lame, huh?

Until I explain that I am only about 500 words away from completing the third draft of my WIP. In fact, by the time you read this, that number may be smaller.

Or even zero.

So you can can where my priorities lie. I set December 30th as my deadline, and I'm hitting it. Today. With much rejoicing and the shooting off of virtual fireworks.

After the celebrating, I'll hunker down for a line-by-line clean-up of the whole thing (with yummy things on small plates for grabbing with nimble fingers in between edits).

Then. It goes to my readers.

Then. I either start querying or throw myself from the rooftop, depending on overall reader feedback.

So there it is. A happy Authoress has met her final writing goal of the year and is thankful for the support and encouragement of her blog community.

Rabid blogging will begin again next week. We've got a January Secret Agent contest coming up! So brace yourselves. And in the meantime, Happy New Year.

And may your dreams and hopes for 2010 wrap their arms around you and become reality!