Year in Review

12 months ago I declared my New Years Resolution: to produce 12 distinct creative outputs in a single year. I wanted to challenge myself to actually complete things instead of just daydream about completing things. Quality was a goal, but not a requirement. The only absolute requirement was to publicly press the submit button 12 times.

Mid year I got into trouble and missed a deadline, and never really recovered. In the end, I had to submit 4 entries in December in order to catch up. Quality certainly got very hairy at times, particularly right at the finish line. But I got there.

The 12 projects were: a sketch self portrait, a short story, a video mashup, a web comic, a sonnet, a short play, cross stitch, a computer game, a food blog, a treasure hunt, a short video, and a caricature self portrait.

My favourites are the sonnet and the cross stitch. The most time consuming was definitely the cross stitch. The one I'm proudest about getting finished (it was really hard) is the short play. The forms I hope to continue experimenting in are the short play, the poetry and the short video.

Thanks for following along this year. It's been both fun and very stressful. There will be a different challenge for 2014. The resolution is ready, but the explanatory blog might take a few days to arrive. Stay tuned.