I didn’t write much this month, nor did I teach any lessons for anything. I ended the year with a word count of 1456 for December. I wrote one poem and some short journal entries. The only big writing related thing that happened was being voted in as the secretary for our local area writers guild for next year. Next week, once I’ve compiled all the information, I’ll do my annual Writing Year In Review.
Real life had various holiday parties, Christmas with the extended family, etc. I went on a reading spree towards the end of the month and finished all of those partially read books that I’d left languishing earlier in the year. Some of them I had just 10-20 pages left on, some were more like 2/3 of the way left to go. So my December Goodreads list looks funny this year – “What She Left Behind: A Haunting and Heartbreaking Story of 1920s Historical Fiction”, “The Kill Fee” (Poppy Denby Investigates, #2 on audio book), “Aesop’s Fables” (audio), “Understanding Alcoholism as a Brain Disease” (homework for couples therapy), “FICTION FORMULA PLOTTING PRACTICE”, “Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning” (homework for my personal therapy), “The Creative Writing Student’s Handbook”, “A Kiss for Midwinter” by Courtney Milan, and “Clockwork Boys” by T. Kingfisher (audio).
Lisa Holcomb 