January was a month full to bursting of time-heavy demands on me and my meager reserves of energy and attention. I am in the process of transitioning to a new role at one of my jobs and also of shifting course within my COVID de-railed academic career, so I've been hella busy (in a GOOD way, something way better than any other sort of busy, over-worked-ness that I've been subjected to in the last few years.)
That said, I still managed to get within a negligible distance of my word-count goal for this month. With respect to the fact that I am still recovering my creative groove after the past summer's burnout, I aimed for simply not backsliding. I've been slowly getting back to the 50k a month I usually produce, but in small spurts (ie, 5k in October, 15k in November, and 24k in December). So my goal this month was 25k

Not great, certainly, but also not too bad.

I have plenty of room to improve, but I'm trying not to beat myself up about anything here because I'm still doing better than last month and since progress is not a destination but a trajectory, and as my current trajectory is still pointing in the right direction, this month is a success. It's important for me to keep focused on that part of it.

And to start looking forward towards a brighter future, because next month is full of particularly amazing promise.
It's more exciting for me in the immediate future than it can be for you, but I am embarking on the production of a short-vlog sort of new content! It's part of a semester project and will be posted on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, but only after I post it here, of course. It's hopefully going to be part opinionated media-review and part informative cultural/historical analysis, and I'm very excited about its potential!

I probably won't finish scripting / filming / editing any of it until at least March... but I'll likely start up with posting in-production pics and teasers almost immediately after I get the pitch approved by my professor!

Aside from that, I'll almost certainly be able to finish up with posting the Multiverse Mishap story (both the BatFam version and the SPN one). And I should even be able to gear up for posting a brand new story, but that's a secondary goal and won't be at all plausible until at least three weeks yet...

So, LOTS of stuff in the pipeline and it's all really exciting!
But, as always, we'll just have to see how things play out.
In sincerely hope it goes well, so me, and for whatever you guys have on all your plates at the moment!

GOOD LUCK, EVERYONE!!

Honestly, while 2020 was a raging dumpster fire of a YA dystopian novel that hit everyone hard, 2021 turned out to be the personally tragic and gut-wrenching set-up found in the first 5~10 minutes of a classic Disney movie. I can only hope that 2022 turns out to follow through on the rest of the movie and the theoretically inevitable (but deeply implausible) happy ending...
2020 was a literal disaster, and involved a significant number of personal setbacks, but I still managed to accomplish things on a personal level.
2021 was basically abject failure on a majority of counts and it was so particularly awful that I can own up to that without embarrassment or shame or anything but weariness.

Here's my 2021 summary report:
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      Yup, that's right, I pretty much didn't finish anything at all. Technically, I've finished the draft for both sides of the SPN/BatBros Multiverse Mishap story, but I haven't been able to get the remaining chapters prepped for posting yet. Nor have I got a new story situated to begin posting at a reasonable moment post-completion of Multiverse Mishap...           Soooo, yeah, I don't quite count that as finished.
       And everything after July is just an aberration of personal collapse.
      I DID get 3 months with over 75k written, and 6 months with over 50k, so I do count the first half of the year as not-horrifically offensive, even if I didn't managed to get anything wrapped up. Progress isn't only measured in finished projects, after all, it IS really more of a trend-line trajectory than any kind of destination, so I didn't get much finished but I still got stuff done. If I hadn't collapsed into a black hole of awful, I'd probably be able to count that a win and even with my backslide, I'm still walking away from a year where I do have something worthwhile to show for my labors.

Here's the breakdown of how focused I stayed each month: