Random Thursday: What Hath She Wrote?

This post is mostly an exercise in convincing myself that I've been productive this year, even though I only had two pieces of fiction come out (and one of those was a self-published free novelette). I hope that it may have a second purpose, which is to entice people who don't follow my blog to consider doing so. I will freely confess that one of the reasons I blog so extensively is that pernicious voice whispering in my brain, "Maybe if you just write enough, if you research enough, if you make yourself useful enough to other people, maybe then they'll want to talk to you and be your friend." I recognize this for the fallacy it is. No one has contracted with me for this output. No one owes me eyes or attention. And there are wonderful people who would be my friend even if I weren't blogging. But there it is: I own that aspect of it. I even blogged about it. (Of course I did.)

For entries posted in the first 3/4 of the year, I'm mostly linking to Live Journal (exceptions being some of the longer series that have their own tag at the Alpennia.com blog). Entries from the last 1/4 or so of the year (after I set up a blog at my own website) are linked to my Alpennia Blog.

So what have I written this year? Here's a brief overview. The majority of this material either falls generally in SFF topics, or in historical topics (especially my lesbian history project and related material).

• General essays (11)
• Essays on the process of writing (does not include minor posts on writing progress or promotion) (41)
• Convention reports (4)
• Lesbian Historic Motif Project
  • Publications covered (27)
  • Podcasts (5)
  • Queer Sci Fi columns (4)
• Other Historic Research (includes the start of an extensive primary source material project) (3)
• Essays on gardening and cooking (6)
• Reviews
  • Lesbian movie reviews (an ongoing series) (5)
  • General movies (7)
  • Novels (23)
  • Graphic novels (5)
  • Audio fiction (7 but this includes some multi-item posts)
  • Live theater (6)

( Cut to be kind. )