What Has This Year Taught Me?

It is really hard to say if the past 356 days have taught me anything new or just refined what I already knew. I think it is a little or possibly a lot of both. One thing I learned is hard work is its own reward. I was able to get one Magazine published , eight individual newsletters published, more jazz interviews published. I also met some really great people like Christopher Moore, Carolyn See, Steve Hockensmith, Matt Pallamary, Daniel Handler, John Daniel, Abe Polsky and many more.

I wrote and finished the first draft of two manuscripts, built another web site, a blog (this one), read a ton of really great books, All of which I think I could write. So the one thing I learned is hard work is its own reward and you get confidence, and the ability to compare your work to others.

I learned just how much my craft means to me and I learned that if you do one thing that you really enjoy and makes you feel good, you can manage all of the things that don’t.

I will continue with these reflections on the year after all there are resolutions to be reviewed and to be made.

All of you procrastinating shoppers it isn’t and never will be too late to buy Bright Beginnings and to subscribe to O’Brien’s Literary Speculator.

It is not too late to write for O’Brien’s Literary Speculator Volume 1 Issue 1, which is accepting material until February 15, 2008. The first issue of the first full volume will include a work by master Science fiction writer Kimberly Kells. Until tomorrow