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curiouswombat ([personal profile] curiouswombat) wrote2013-01-06 08:39 pm
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Twelve MonthReview Thing

I first saw this, and started to do it, quite a few years ago now.

It is the review of the year done by posting the first sentence, or paragraph, of the first post of each month.

I have put it here

January; The Middle Earth Fanfic Awards (MEFAs) results are out. These are the Oscars of the Tolkien Fandom - chosen by peer review - and so I am very, very proud of my results!

February; The next chapter of the tale of The Elves and The Key in The West... Tindómë is still avoiding her mother-in-law, as is someone else, and there are still questions about the proper recognition of rank.

March; Where did that week go? Well I did get the next chapter of Immigrants finished, just waiting for my beta to finish fine-tooth combing it for me; and I have, finally, got the results for the prescriber's exam I sat in mid January - I passed, thank goodness!

April; Our nice weather continues - today has been clear and sunny - but not as warm as earlier in the week. Niece number 2 is 21 tomorrow - and we had a lovely family lunch today to celebrate, at a hotel on the seafront in Douglas.

May; This is just a post to show the contrasts we can get in weather, here in the Irish Sea. I took a few pictures when I visited a patient in Derbyhaven last week - in a storm, and a few today, about 4 or 5 miles away at Port Erin, on a calm day.

June; This is a set of drabbles written for Tolkien Weekly.

July; My icon wombat is worn out - so am I. I have been busy for two evenings trying to put together a 'photo-album' online, to be printed as a gift to a family who are leaving church to move to Scotland. I tried it via Photobucket last night, as a lot of the pictures were there - I took about 3 hours and then discovered that it would be printed in the USA and the postage would cost $40.00! So I abandoned that and started again on Snapfish this evening.

August; I've been a bit missing in action this week... I've been watching the Olympics almost every minute that I've not been at work!

September; I've been a bit missing in action for the past few days - mainly because I've been glued to the TV most evenings watching the Paralympics.

October; At the beginning of 2011 there was something of a scandal on the small island - a GP was summarily removed from a practice by his partners with no notice, and no explanation except to reassure everyone that it had nothing to do with his medical skills.

November; Such a shame that so many of my friends seem to have got caught up in the latest round of 'OMG - we're all going to die unless we go to Dreamwidth'; I will miss you.

December; I know a lot of my friends are doing the December Meme - which I think of as the Decememe because it amuses me.


Hmm - More of it about writing than I expected for the year - and that repetition in August and September amuses me. Interesting too that the MEFAs didn't survive much past that point in January - but the post about that was later in a month. Other interesting things missed this review meme altogether as they didn't happen at the beginning of a month.

Realising that there is more of it about writing than I thought, i have decided to also have a look at the 'what have you written this year?' meme. And the answer seems to be I wrote 45 drabbles, and 45,725 words of other fic in the Returnverse! And a Nativity Play, as well!

[identity profile] just-ann-now.livejournal.com 2013-01-06 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, the MEFAs. I hadn't participated in the past couple years, but I'm stil l very sorry to see them go.

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2013-01-06 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It was very sad - I don't think any of the people who pointed out problems with the rule changes actually meant 'this is so bad you should just give up' - most of the comments that set it all off were quite sensible and the people making them were saying 'these need rethinking as they are going to be very difficult to interpret'. I was on the ratings panel and I was thinking 'Meep! These are going to be impossible to interpret fairly!'

I think, in the end, the people who organised them were probably worn out by it all and were quite glad of the excuse to fold up the tent and close the circus.

But the phoenix that rose from the flames might well be just as good - we shall have to wait and see.