well, that was pitiful

Six entries for Holidailies this year. How's that for sad? I'm reading entries from people complaining that they "failed at Holidailies" because they didn't write for 1 day or only had 20 posts. No, you didn't fail. I didn't even fail, despite my disappointment with my writing output

This year, I wanted Holidailies to be more about sharing than about racing to hit a number -- not just for me, for everyone. I told friends to go ahead and sign up and if they posted four times, that was four more times than they posted last month, and we'd have four entries to enjoy reading. Still, I was hoping I'd write more than I did. We didn't even have prompts for the last few days of Holidailies because I couldn't think of anything else and felt tired of brainstorming ideas.

Sadly, this website is at the bottom of the priority list when I'm writing, even during Holidailies. Freelance always comes first, but even the dishes took precedence over this site this time. I would like to do more personal writing. I took extra time off between jobs this year in the hopes of doing more personal writing, but I never found my groove.

However, I've enjoyed reading all the Holidailies entries this year -- it seems like we did have an even larger number than usual of excellent stories and blog posts to read. The Best of Holidailies team does a great job of picking outstanding selections but there are many more entries I found and loved. Thanks to all of you who participated this year, whether you wrote or read.

I'd love to tell you that Holidailies helped me jump-start my writing in some way, that I'll keep up with this website all year, but I suspect that's a big fat lie. You can read my stuff over at Slackerwood, if you like reading about movies. I'd like to do some more non-movie writing in 2010, who knows?