This has been a good year for me, in terms of growing as a writer. Honestly, I think every year since 2007 (which is probably the year I knocked the training wheels off an got serious about I’m Going To Be A Writer) has been an improvement. But 2011 was a year with a few notable highlights:<\/p>\n
First and foremost, there’s acquiring Mike<\/a> as my agent. This has been such a joy and relief in my life this year. I really am quite happy to have him in my corner. Getting an agent has become such a huge (and sometimes insurmountable-seeming) step in the path to publication, I really can’t express how glad I am to have moved up to the next step. <\/p>\n And while I did have an excellent time attending the DFW Writers Con<\/a> this past year (and would recommend the experience to those seeking agents), I’m glad I don’t have to do that again.<\/p>\n This year is also when I decided to be diligent and post here on the blog every Monday and Thursday. It’s a project that’s sometimes challenged me (I almost forgot that today was a Monday), but I’ve been pleased with the results. It’s built the regular readership, and driven traffic to my blog. So that’s been a good thing.<\/p>\n This was also my first year at ArmadilloCon<\/a> in a panelist\/professional capacity, as well as a coordinator and teacher for the Writers’ Workshop. This was a fantastic experience, and I do owe a lot of it to Stina Leicht<\/a>. She’s been a fantastic source of moral support on this journey. <\/p>\n What else? This year I have Thorn<\/i> finished and shopping, Holver Alley Crew<\/i> redrafted and (hopefully) ready to shop. This year I also finished the draft of Maradaine Constabulary<\/i> and will hope to have the revision ready to send to Mike in just a few weeks. I wrote a couple short plays, including Entropy<\/a>, produced by Austin Scriptworks. <\/p>\n So it’s been a pretty good year. Fingers crossed for 2012 being even better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This has been a good year for me, in terms of growing as a writer. Honestly, I think every year since 2007 (which is probably the year I knocked the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,51,24,8,57,100,153,52,47,26,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agents","category-austin-scriptworks","category-business-of-writing","category-conventions","category-holver-alley-crew","category-maradaine-constabulary","category-out-of-ink","category-short-plays","category-theatre","category-veranix","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrmaresca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}