Lucid Waking

Archive for December 31st, 2008

2008 in Review

        Everyone has his or her traditions on New Year’s Eve and I’ve always had mine. But this year Dec. 31 snuck up on me. I didn’t have time to look up this year in review or go over the already numerous sources on what happened in 2008. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”…enough said. If I promised anything special, I’m going to apologize in advance that this isn’t going to be very special. But I think it’s important to reflect just how far Lucid Waking has grown over the past year and since its fruition in 2005.
        I wrote 97 fiction posts this year, pushing myself to a record high of 25 non-recycled posts in July. Last year, I only wrote 94, so despite November, I made progress. The first post I wrote for Lucid Waking was the Music Box. Unfortunately, Shades of Pink has disappeared off the face of the earth, so you can follow this link to see the first post that I ever published on the web. (Eesh!) If you need a refresher on what I write like now, click here. I think I’ve made some progress with my writing. But Lucid Waking will always remain a practice spot.
        I also made some gains with my artwork. The both new galleries are up and running sporting 54 photographs and 49 pieces of art. My deviantArt page was started in June, for prints. Lucid Waking, however, will have more artwork than deviantArt on the basis of keeping this an exclusive spot for my latest artwork.
        In June this year, lucidwaking.com turned 2 years old! With this year’s contribution, I have published 307 fiction posts on lucidwaking.com in that time. The commentary page turned into a general What’s New—not big news, but still a change all the same. The Best of the Blog contest was canceled and gotten rid of, due to no participation. It wasn’t worth it to keep it going, but Author’s Choice is still being updated on a rolling basis.
        In an effort to make the world a little better, I’ve decided to add links to the side bar on ways that you can help out. To Write Love on Her Arms is a site where you can buy some very awesome merchandise and the others you can help out for free. Every so often if I find a site that I like where you can do good in the world, I’ll put it up.
        And I suppose that’s it for the year! Not too shabby. Let’s hope 2009 is just as good, if not better. And again, I hope everyone has a healthy, safe, and productive year!