...I promise this is the last of these and then we're back to weird business as usual.

Here is ( all of 2015 in twelve first lines )


...apparently 2015 was a year of making lists and doing stuff. But mostly making lists.

I had a list of ten goals for the year that I posted last January:

( Last year's goals )

...that's, like, 7/10 if I count fractions? Whoo?

Have this year's goals, many of them recycled:

( Ten things for 2016 )

...also keep up with all the stuff in Habitica.

To get started, here's that WIP meme everyone is doing, with "Go to the seventh line of the seventh page of your wip, and post the next seven sentences". This is from the nearly-finished original story:

( From a meeting )

...None of that is going to be in the final version because I belatedly realized that Ellysh does nothing in this story except stand around and be pretty, which admittedly is xir primary goal in life, but does not make for efficient storytelling, or make it worth worrying about another person in all the group scenes, even if xie does also stand in for some important worldbuilding.

Which brings me to a question for you all: this will be the first original story I have ever finished that is getting major, major revision right off the bat. It'll be over 8,000 words once it's done. How do revision? Does anyone have any have any useful resources they can point me to for revision on original stories, especially in the short-to-novella range?

(I will want beta readers eventually, but I've been changing stuff on the fly and not going back to fix it, so right now it's too incoherent for even an alpha read.)