Suzanna and Writing

Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller

Suzanna Anderson Creates ♦ January 5, 2015 ♦ 1 Comment

I wrote a review of the graphic novel “Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller” by Joseph Lambert. Check it out!

NaNo Novel–Complete

Suzanna Anderson Creates ♦ January 4, 2015 ♦ Leave a comment

I finished the first draft of my 2014 NaNo novel. My 2013 NaNo novel draft did not reach the end of the story, and that draft is still unfinished. So I tried to do better with the 2014 NaNo Novel. I finished the draft on January 2, and I printed it out. Now to do some research on life in Victorian England and revise my novel.

I’m using Don’t Break the Chain to write fiction every day.

Doodle a Day

Suzanna Anderson Creates ♦ January 2, 2015 ♦ Leave a comment

Doodles 142 to 159.

Goals for 2015

Suzanna Anderson Creates ♦ January 1, 2015 ♦ Leave a comment

My word of the year for 2015 is Create, which was also my word of the year for 2012.

Read 365 poems
Write 365 poems

Read 365 short stories
Write 52 short stories

Make 365 sketches
Make 52 art pieces
Make 52 handmade books

Read 52 books

Submit 250 times

Make 3 videos a week, for a total of 156 videos

Finish the Nightwish Poetry Project by April
Polish a novel draft by June
Put together a book of poetry by July
Continue Doodle a Day–July 27, 2015

Goals for 2014–December Update

Suzanna Anderson Creates ♦ December 31, 2014 ♦ Leave a comment

Poems read: 1594/365
Poems written: 433/365

Short stories read: 425/365
Short stories written: 22/52

Books read: 129/52

Submissions: 6/24

Videos made: 9/100

Sketches made: 379/365
Art pieces made: 56/52

Bookbinding–made 36 books this year

My favorite reads:

The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
Capacity by Theo Ellsworth
A Humument by Tom Phillips
Visit Sunny Chernobyl by Andrew Blackwell
127 Hours Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
Middle Men by Jim Gavin
Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin

Organizing Notebooks

Suzanna Anderson Creates ♦ December 26, 2014 ♦ 1 Comment

I love sitting down and organizing my books, my writing journals, and my art supplies. This time, I found two blank journals for one of my novel projects and two blank journals with no designated project (oh, the freedom!). And there are plenty of notebooks that aren’t finished. So they will stay in this shoebox until they are complete. Most likely, they will contain fragments of fiction, since I want to write more fiction next year.