2022 Writing Wrap-Up

This has been my worst writing year in terms of overall word count since I started writing. To give some context, it's about 60k lower than my next lowest WC year, which was 151k in 2020. Which in turn was about 40-50k below the average of all of my other writing years, which have been 190k+. I know for a lot of people, 90k words in a year may still seem like quite a lot, but as you can see, I'm used to writing more, and I've felt that difference in terms of my output. Like a lot of people, this has been a really rough year, almost especially because nothing terrible has happened at all. But mentally I have been seriously depleted, which has understandably taken a toll on my creative energy. I'd really love to try and regain some of that in the new year, but we'll see how it goes.

Total fics posted in 2022: 22

2022 Total Word Count Goal: 93,865 / 150,000

2022 Total Writing Days Goal: 202 / 220 

2022 Fest Participation: spnkinkbingo,brobonebang, hd-wireless, hpdarkarts My Bloody Valentine fest, hp-nextgen-fest, bbtp_challenge, spnmasquerade, smpc, & spn_j2_bigbang.

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2021 GOALS

2021 Total Word Count Goal: 150,000

2021 Total Writing Days Goal: 220

I just managed to hit my 150k WC goal for 2020, so I'm going for that one again in 2021, and we'll see what happens. I'm lowering my writing days goal as I didn't hit that one last year. My fandom feels were really waning at the end of 2020, and it's hard to know if that's a temporary blip or more permanent, so time will tell.
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Because I am obsessed with reading, I'm doing another challenge! :D

My goal for the year is 100 books, and though I have a ton of books just sitting around my apartment waiting to be read, it's likely they will be thrown over for newer, shinier (easier) books. Which is where the TBR Pile Challenge comes in! (thanks for bringing this awesome thing to my attention, josephinestone)

Basically you pick 12 books that you haven't read yet that have been sitting on your bookshelf for over a year, and you read them within 12 months!

I'm currently finishing up the Heroes of Olympus series before they are due back at the library (1 down, 4 to go!), but then I will pick one of these! Any suggestions about where I should start?

The List
1. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling (review)
2. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
3. Persuasion by Jane Austen (review)
4. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
5. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (review)
6. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
7. The Gauntlet Thrown by Cheryl Dyson (aka dysonrules)
8. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
9. Oh the Glory of it All by Sean Wilsey
10. Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
11. Mr. Perfect by Lisa Howard (review)
12. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Alternates
1. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
2. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

(Wow, finding books was a lot harder than I thought it would be! Turns out I don't have very many books lying around that I haven't read!)

Day 13

In your own space, talk about setting yourself a fannish goal. Big or small, it doesn't matter. Some great examples include: complete a bingo, sign-up for a Big Bang, write that fic you've been thinking about for years, podfic that story that you love, make a fanmix for your fandom, post that bit of meta or reclist you keep postponing. Maybe resolve to be better at leaving feedback, or answering comments.

So I already kind of did this in my New Years Resolution post (here) but, to recap...

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