everyting I write lately is a novella, and it's starting to piss me off.

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Because it's going around, the "What I published in 2007" meme:

Short fiction:


"War Stories" in Baen's Universe (http://www.baens-universe.com/)
"Cryptic Coloration" in Baen's Universe (http://www.baens-universe.com/)
"The Rest of Your Life in a Day" in Baen's Universe (http://www.baens-universe.com/)
"The Something Dreaming Game" in Fast Forward Pyr Books, Lou Anders, ed.
A portion of the forthcoming novel One-Eyed Jack & The Suicide King (http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/summer-2007/fiction-an-excerpt-from-one-eyed-jack-and-the-suicide-king-by-elizabeth-bear/), serialized in Subterranean.
"Matte" in Fictitious Force
"Inelastic Collisions" in Inferno from Tor books, December 2007, Ellen Datlow, ed.
"Abjure the Realm (http://coyotewildmag.com/Winter2007/Winter2007_Bear.html)" in Coyote Wild
"Tideline (http://www.elizabethbear.com/tideline.html)" in Asimov's
"Orm the Beautiful" (http://www.clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_01_07.html) in Clarkesworld
"Black is the Color (http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/summer-2007/fiction-black-is-the-color-by-elizabeth-bear/)" in Subterranean, Summer 2007
"The Ladies," at Coyote Wild, December 2007
"Hobnoblin Blues" in Realms of Fantasy, Febrary 2008 (but really, out now.)Books:

New Amsterdam, Subterranean Press, May 2007
Whiskey & Water, Roc, July 2007
Undertow, Bantam Spectra, August 2007
A Companion to Wolves, Tor, October 2007 (with http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif (http://truepenny.livejournal.com/profile)truepenny (http://truepenny.livejournal.com/))


Things I did this year:

Long fiction:

Wrote and revised Dust
Rewrote All the Windwracked Stars
Revised Ink & Steel and Hell & Earth
Wrote and revised Refining Fire (with http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif (http://coffeeem.livejournal.com/profile)coffeeem (http://coffeeem.livejournal.com/))


Short Fiction:

"Boojum" (with http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif (http://truepenny.livejournal.com/profile)truepenny (http://truepenny.livejournal.com/))
"The Girl Who Sang Madder Rose"
"Shoggoths in Bloom"
"Black in the Color"
"Annie Webber"
"King Pole, Gallows Pole, Bottle Tree"
"Knock on Coffins"
"Overkill"


Plus some nonfiction--columns and essays. And this blog. And about 30,000 words of fanfiction. Ahem.

Only counting fiction, my output was around 300,000 words. Which is about half of my best year ever.

I have slowed down. A lot.


Things I still need to do this year:

Revise "King Pole, Gallows Pole, Bottle Tree"
Revise "Overkill"
Write Bone & Jewel Creatures, or at least start it
Write a short story for Baen's Universe, if possible
Write a short story for Subterranean, if possible


Things I need to do early next year:

Revise By the Mountain Bound
Write Chill
Write Wehrwolf
Write the Boojumverse thing with http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif (http://truepenny.livejournal.com/profile)truepenny (http://truepenny.livejournal.com/)


Things I need to do by the middle of next year:

Write "Wind-Up Boogeyman"
Write "Smoke and Mirrors"
Write a short story for Doselle


Things to do by the end of next year:

Rewrite The Sea Thy Mistress
Revise One-Eyed Jack & the Suicide King
Revise Chill


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