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:
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:
| Okay, so the first half of the year wasn't awful exactly, but it did start out with a failure, even if it was a predicted one. I've never been able to write anything with a particular holiday theme, though I keep getting an urge to try. And since it was only a slight distraction from continuing to draft AG4, I didn't see it as any kind of portent of doom. However... following that small, reasonable and predicted failure... I proceeded to not finish anything... |  |
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:
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:
 | Again, the first half of the year was honestly solid. I managed 6 months in which I got over 40k drafted in a single project. That's not as good as I managed in 2020, but it's still nothing to sniff at. I totally would've been able to just call it a solid try and leave it there if not for the disaster of Aug-Dec... |
Still, I managed to meet my Year End Word Count Goal, squeaking out just enough in Nov and Dec to really make it over the finish line: Final Count = 573,470.
| Not bad at all, to be unbiased about it. I'm still leaning towards being harsh on myself because until August, I was on a trajectory to hit near a million words, and I'm still not entirely out of my slump (so the weight on self-criticism is overdrawn), but I'm forcing myself to focus on the bright side: I DID actually accomplish the official goal. Which isn't something I can say about any of the other goals I set for 2021... |  |
| 2021 Accomplishments vs Goals: - Finished drafting (if not posting) Multiverse Mishap, both the BatFam Version and the SPN Version. I should be able to finish posting both stories by mid-February.
Which isn't a great showing for 2021, but it's a better result than could have happened. It sets up 2022 for a reasonably auspicious start and I'm gonna run hard with that lead... | Goals for 2022: - Land Publishing Agent Contract. - Query at least 12 Literary Agents. - Finish Drafting Assassin's Game Book 4. - Draft & Post 1 New Fanfic over 50k. - Draft 2 additional New Fanfics over 30k. - Draft 1 New Original Fic over 50k. - Finish 2 more Semesters with 4.0 GPA. - Experiment with vlog, podcast, tiktok, etc... expand to more dynamic review platform in some moderately measurable ways. - Gain a following of 30 more Patrons. - Acquire more appropriate employment. - ReDraft Duchess & the Dragon or Wirewolves... ? (Bonus Goal?) It's another rehash of 2020, more or less. I've culled a couple projects, moved one to being on the table just for bonus points, and added one more about expansion potential that I've been thinking about for a long time. We'll see what happens. I'm putting a lot of faith in the concept of new beginnings (even ones that aren't what I might've otherwise wanted) pushing hard on the motivation to make other changes too. Here's to a fantastic slice of potential! GOOD LUCK, MY LOVELIES!!! |
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