Last thoughts of 2013

I promised to write a post today, did I? Really? Why did I do that?
I just got home, and now I'm cooking and eating and blogging and showering at the same time, because I need to be back in the city in an hour and a half, because I'm gonna go see Gravity.
And I'm not yet sure how I'm gonna spend the rest of the day, so I'm gonna have to write now, even though I have no time. So it is going to be a short post. But I'm pretty sure it's ok, we have written enough for the year. Beginning next year is all yours. I will be waiting for Friday.

I have a few things to say about the story we wrote. I just don't remember any of it right now. But I'm gonna try.
First. I'm just curious. Did you see the mom coming? I'm basically asking because neither of the two people I know have read the whole thing didn't. Not at all. I don't see how that's possible, because there was enough talk about the mom all the way through the story that there had to be something bigger about the mom coming up later. The point is that the only thing I knew from the very beginning is that the mom will have something to do with what happens in the end. After it was established there was a Queen, it was clear that's her. Or at latest when the Freedom Fighters showed up. Or in general, what did you expect to happen in different parts of the story?
Second. How are the pictures coming along? We want pictures!
Third. You never commented on printing the story with the åictures. Or rather have some guy at a photobook company print it.
I had some other thoughts, too, but I can't remember them right now. The most important thing is I had a lot of fun!

It is the last day of the year.
It was the year I went to Ausrtalia.
It was the year I went back to school.
It was the year I met (or at least saw) some of the greatest fantasy writers in the world.
It was the year you moved to US. And I'm sure you did some other big stuff too.
It was a year we both (as far as I've understood) spent trying to figure out what is life. Though I'm pretty sure it will not be the last one.
I hope the next one will be just as good.

One thing that I have learnt this year is that the best advice you can ever give anyone for any situation is, in fact, Don't panic.

~matu