fredbassett

After an abysmally dire 2016, 2017 perked up a bit, although Brexit still cast a long shadow over our lives with the continuing uncertainty now hanging over the pet passport scheme which threatens the time we spend at our house in France. The UK seems more fucked up than ever and I despair for common decency here.

But it was a good year in fandom, with the excellent 52 Weeks of Primeval on primeval_denial, now to be followed by 12 Months of Primeval Denial, celebrating our own corner of fandom.

I set myself a writing target of 2,000 words a week and, unlike other goals in past years (such as writing every day), this one mostly stuck. There were some weeks towards the end of the year where I lost ground, but I made a big effort in December to catch up, and when I totally my words for the year, I was absolutely delighted. I managed 149,466 of Primeval words (a considerable improvement on 76,493 in 2016), 2,045 of Musketeers RPF, and 3,138 of original fic bringing my fiction total to 154,629! Yep, over the moon with that. I also wrote 75,685 of other words, mostly reviews and website articles, which is a slight increase on 2016.

My goals for 2018 on the writing front are to continue with the 2k a week, as that seems to have worked for me, but on top of that to really knuckle down to the editing on my original fic novels, aiming to get the first one sorted. I know what I need to do, it's now just a case of doing it!

2017 was a good year for travel, with the usual trips to France, one to Florence and one to Vienna, plus five trips away in our campervan and various Denial meet ups, including one to see Tim Haines' Dinosaurs in the Wild in Manchester.

Thanks to all my LJ friends for your friendship and support in 2017. I hope 2018 brings good things to all!