Welcome to a Very Exciting 2013!

Well! There have been some amazing changes around here, all within the last month, and I'm really just trying to get a hang of it all. Here's to 2013 starting out with a bang!

First of all, I left my job at YourTango, more or less in a leap of faith out into the unknown. Through a series of amazingly fortunate events (largely inspired by my hectic scheduling of networking events since moving to New York), I wound up as an "Internbusinessdataanalyst Person" at an awesome startup called Knodes. I'm happy that my first foray into Silicon Alley turned out to be so successful!

And that's not all. I've got a hugely exciting announcement to make (which will be of special interest to authors, bloggers, editors, artists, creatives, and anyone who likes speculative fiction/science fiction). I'm not quite ready to spill the beans yet, but stay tuned here for more good news.

As part of my upcoming project, I'll be looking for people of the above types (and more) to partner with. If you're interested, go to my About Me page to find my contact info and send me a message. Or wait to get more juicy details in a post soon to come!

Looking Forward to the New Year: Writing in 2012

I have to say, I'm really excited looking towards the next year. I know, I know, it's really just an arbitrary date change, but like many people I find it useful at some point during the year to take stock, and this is as good a time as any.

A lot of changes have happened in 2011, both writing related and otherwise. They include a move, career exploration, and a huge shift in the ways that I've managed to leverage my freelance writing. Despite all of the changes, a lot of the year (like many years before) felt like a set-up for things to come in the future. I hope 2012 will be the year the wheels actually start turning.

There's mixed opinion out there as to whether it's better to share your goals or keep them to yourself (I probably mentioned this before, but it's worth repeating). Derek Sivers of TED talk fame says not to share; a host of others, among them The Change Blog and Goalmigo, have the opposite opinion. I've found both techniques to be equally useful (or useless, as the case may be), though certainly writing them down for personal use is better than leaving them to rattle around untethered in your head.

So I've decided to describe the coming year as a seer might, putting out ideas rather than hard-and-fast goals. Mmm, yes, the crystal ball is showing me something... I can see clearly now... There is another move in the near future. Writing, lots of writing. More fiction. More blogging. More connecting with writers and helping to showcase their work. More opportunities. And something else, it's not quite certain, but I'll be doing something next year that's unlike anything I've done to date.

Okay, so maybe the crystal ball was a bit of a bust. Anyway, the point is I'm excited to be going forward, and I hope that all of you are, too!