Master list revisited

Here we stand on the end of a year and I can look back on a great many projects that I have done, some listed here and some not, with some amount of pride.

I learned many things and am looking forward to doing more and learning more in the coming year.

Right now I'll be reviewing what I have done and then over the next few days I will be refining a list of to dos to post up as my next master list.

Here they are
1 - Write the rest of my 2007 script frenzy,
I've been procrastinating this one but I still have time to apply some effort to it this year, or I can roll it over and try next year.

2)In 2008 rovingjack went nutters and convinced himself that not only would he write a script frenzy idea he had passed on but that he was going to try his best to get 5 script frenzy scripts written. Operative term is try. He wants to try one each of graphic novel/manga script, Movie script, TV, Radio and Stage play.This was a project for April, which I am happy to say I succeeded at. Though much of these works reached their qualifying goal some are in need of an ending and all need editing.

3) Return to my previous nano writings and finish, expand and edit them.

I'll likely have to use part of january for this but I can hopefully have the first nano winner ready for sumbission at the end of january.

4) Submit one or more of the above writings to some form of public (published, or web posted).

I'm calling a minimum technical success on this as I did sort of write a collection of short stories and then submitted several to online groups for whome they were intended. Not to mention I have released a book of hand drawn mazes to the public.

5) Design a greeting card a month, and see about printing them through an on demand publishing company.

Twelve done, three in my shop (only available one at a time right now but hopefully soon I'll expand my store.

6) draw a map to be used in a piece of fiction of mine.

Done and is now something I'm exploring more of as a side bussiness idea.

7) Learn some of the basics of the Sumerian language system.

I learned some of how the system of language works, but found out it's likely to take an increadible amount of memorisation and a very flexible interpretation to use it. It's rather cumbersome as far as languages go. So technically done.

8) Use knowledge of English, Mandarin, and Sumerian (among others like Latin and Gaelic) to devise a fictional language for a setting.

Okay I'll call this done though it feels a little like cheating. In my latest novel I have used butchered versions of greek, spanish , mandarin an a bit of gaelic as languages. They are not technically fully created languages but at the same time a native speaker of the language used as a basis would not fully be able to recognise what was being said. So it's a start.

9) Learn a computer programming language.

While it's not really a programing language I did study HTML and can do a bit with that so I'm again saying done..

10) Illustrate and write a picture book that conveys a deeply powerful message (this idea came to me a few years back and is something I have to do).

Never even got around to doing much of anything with this. sad really but I'll have to keep it on the list somewheres.

11) Make a project from Make Magazine.

I have to be strict here and call it half done. I did technically try a project from make and in fact worked with two projects of intrest from the magazine but one was completed with the use of an outside kit and the other failed to be successful. I'll say done but continue to come up with and tinker with some projects.

12) Build and use a pinhole camera.

I did it and hope to get some of the film developed soon and see the results of my work.

13) Take a Lampwork glass, or stained glass class.I did in fact take a stained glass class in April while writing 5 scripts. I enjoyed it and think that I may return to it when time and space can be found.

14) Make a possible action figure for another project.I’m trying to get the things I need for this so that I can complete this by the end of the month. It’s the little things that keep getting in my way.

I've designed one but have failed to make it physically real. So I'm calling that a not successful.

15) Grow a bonsai tree.

Though they have since died from cold an lack of light in my crumby room, I had some promising little ones that I'd even experimented with shaping a little.

16) Relearn mathematics in a way that works for me.

I made a breakthrough discovery that has improved my math substancially and am looking forward to getting even better.

17) Design a new origami object each month.

Sigh the modified version of this is done in it's way. I have tried new forms and folded some new ones each month. I also have learned that perhaps I'd been too limiting in my avoidance of kirigami and modular forms. I'll call it done and set it aside to stew while I start to think of how to complete the project that this was to be the foundation for.

18) Design One hand drawn maze a day.

I've done this faithfully and have one book for sale online, and two more to come.

19) Water color paint again.

Done

20) Send a message in a bottle, but my message will be art, and my method will get it to people and make sure I'm not littering.

http://groups.google.com/group/mess-n-bot

21) Generate three hundred dollars through some creative project before June. Use the money to get a wireless laptop and repeat for investable/savable money.

Creative financing and creative interpretation of the dealine and definition of the computer allow me another technical success. Considering it's not june yet and I have a computer (which is current suffering some problems that make it not fuctional to me). I'll call it done with a bit of anger at the parts that were out of my hands.

22) Integrate my spiritual world and my day to day together better.

I’ve done this to some degree, and I won’t go slinging it around as some big important story, it’s enough that I took some steps and continue to walk my path.

23) Bring into being a community benefitting project.

http://firstgiving.com/rovingjack

24) Look into getting a house of my own
did it learned some intresting things and now have to apply them.

If I don't miss my count I think I can call that 21 done out of 24. That's better then I figured. It stings that they didn't all go the way I planned but I've done something with them and learned about the projects and some I'll know how to do better next time. A started and not terribly impressive project result is better then none at all.

I think I can be a bit hard on myself. When I look at a project that didn't go as planned I tend to consider it not done, when I could say it was done (all be it done badly) and it's a good experiance for me to learn either how to do it better or that it is not where I wish to direct my energies.

That makes for a happy year end for me. and an intrest in doing more and better this coming year.

I'll work on my list for the coming year and get back to you.
Take care of your selves.
Roving Jack