Granted, I expected it to evaporate a *little*, since I was participating in NaNoWriMo again, and because we were hosting Thanksgiving this year (complete with in-laws staying for a week or so), and because I was working on The Journal 5.1. But it evaporated a *lot*.

 

NaNo didn’t go so well (though I did have some success), but the other parts went OK (I’m suspecting that I got as much work in on TJ5.1 as I did because I was avoiding NaNo, but that’s a different topic).

 

Still … *evaporated*. November started, then ended, in quick succession.

 

Now it’s December (already), and I have to wrap up 2009 and plan for 2010.

 

Planning for 2009 was pretty simple: Finish The Journal 5. In fact, I think that single-minded focus through most of the year is a big part of why November evaporated. I got stuck “betwixt and between” a completed (major) goal and the end of the year, unsure what I was supposed to *now*. The Journal 5.1 came out of that existential spinning-of-the-wheels since it was easy to keep doing what I had been doing. Certainly easier than thinking up and writing a batch of new stories (I got 9 done, plus I [finally] wrote the [long overdue] ending of a novel). So wrapping up 2009 should be pretty simple, as well.

 

Planning for 2010 will require a bit more thought. Can’t have it evaporating too.

 

-David