Monday 2 January 2012

Some announcements

The start of a new year. A new beginning. Something like this tends to make me re-evaluate various items, but I'm behind on that right now (yeah, yeah, I know, the year's just started and I'm already behind - doesn't bode well, does it?)

Due to my "behind" status, I'm going on a little hiatus. During that time, I'm going to work out some changes for the blog and hopefully (fingers crossed) make some good progress with my rewrites.

Before I disappear off into the web-o-sphere, I have a few things I'd like to mention:

1) I loved participating in Laura's SantaFest, and thank you so much to whoever made me this lovely blog award. I will be awarding it out to other worthy souls when I reappear.

2) I'm so glad I joined a critique group at the very end of 2010. Critiquing others' work, and having such talented people critique mine has definitely made me a better writer. I feel that's one of the better things 2011 gave me.

3) I've been awarded the Great Comments Award by The Golden Eagle and Cherie Reich - thanks, guys!

Generally, the award is supposed to go to the 20 most recent commenters, but my blog is still a tight-knit community, so I'm going to restrict the list to 10 on this occasion, and here they are:



I think that's about it. Thanks for all your support on my blog over the last few months. Hope to see you again soon :).

22 comments:

Laura said...

Hello!
Thank you so much for the award - that's amazing of you. I'm glad that you enjoyed SantaFest - it was fun to run, and great to see all the lovely prssies everyone came up with. Please don't stay away too long - I will miss you !
Laura x

Mina Burrows said...

Hi, sweetie! Happy New Year! I'm so sad you're going on hiatus, but I totally understand.
Let me know when you're back!

Cherie Reich said...

Happy New Year! I'll miss you during your hiatus, but I'm looking forward to your posts when you come back.

M Pax said...

Happy 2012! Hope your break is productive and I look forward to your return.

Golden Eagle said...

Happy New Year! :)

I hope you have a great blog break.

Stina said...

Talk about keeping us in suspense. I can't wait to see what you have planned.

Enjoy your blog break, CD. :D

Anonymous said...

Thanks for thinking of me... love the award:) And huge congrats.

Theresa Milstein said...

Congratulations on your award. Good luck catching up. Happy New Year!

C D Meetens said...

Thanks everyone. I miss you all already, but I'm enjoying having a bit of extra time. Just need to sort my planning and my rewrites out.

Aubrie said...

Congrats on the awards! Good luck taking time off from the blog!

Nicole Zoltack said...

Enjoy your hiatus and congrats on your award!

BragonDorn said...

I hope I am back again soon! This is excellent stuff :)

Matthew MacNish said...

Congrats on the award! Nothing has improved my writing more than being part of a critique group.

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

Sorry, I am really late to the party here! Congratulations on the award.

Unknown said...

Good for you taking a break for rewrites. I've just begun rewrites on my crappy first draft of a YA that took me two years to write. I'm actually having fun, believe it or not!

Hope to see you around the blogosphere soon. Have fun!!

AmieSalmon said...

Congratulations on the award! I hope your hiatus is going well, and look forward to seeing you back soon! :)

Jeremy Bates said...

See ya when you get back! I am ready to see what the new page looks like. Cheers1

Mina Burrows said...

It's been too long CD. Hope all is well. Miss your blog. :)

Laura said...

Hello - I miss you - are you coming home? Gosh doesn't Santafest seem like a long time ago!
Laura xxx

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the great award and congrats on getting it too:) Hope you catch up on everything during the time off...I"m thinking I need to do the same until the new year:)

Laura said...

I don't know how else to find you to say a huge THANK YOU for what you did today - really appreciate it - and it gave me an excuse to FB it - and that has already brought in another donation -so thank you so much!!!
Laura x

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