Another New Year
Jan. 2nd, 2018 07:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firethesoundHere we are again at the start of another new year, a day late and a dollar short with this post, but isn't that just in keeping with the epic clusterfuck that was 2017? Unlike 2016, which was a tough year globally but not personally, and unlike 2015, which was a tough year personally but not globally... 2017 managed to be terrible all the way around. It was a year of big changes and bigger disappointments, with just enough good mixed in to keep me putting one foot in front of the other.
...so I guess it makes sense that with everything else going on, this was my least productive writing year pretty much since I started writing again following a long hiatus in my mid-20s.
I wrote a total of 67,426 words which is way way down from last year. I added 7 new WIPs to the WIP Folder of Doom, and I'm starting off the year with 113 WIPs for a total of 365,913 unposted words. Which is... yikes. Just yikes.
I set some very reasonable goals at the beginning of the year, and didn't do so great meeting them:
----Be more present in fandom - I didn't do great with this. Real Life got in the way.
----Make this a year of very few fests - Success! I only did Draco-Tops this year, even though I was sorely tempted by several others. My success in resisting was more due to Real Life Nonsense than anything else, but I'll still take the victory.
----Write 300k in 2017 - AHAHAHAHAHAHA
----Get my WIPs down to double digits - I did the exact opposite of this. I have more WIPs than I started the year with.
----Comment Replies - I am deeply ashamed at how old some of my unreplied-to comments are. I'm still working on it.
This year I my goals are very similarsince I didn't complete a bunch of the things I need to accomplish
----This is going to be another Year of Very Few Fests, because it worked well last year. I'm not going to sign up for anything until I get my Fandom Trumps Hate fic finished and posted, but maybe we'll see where I'm at around the time holiday fest sign-ups happen. I like the idea of signing up to pinch hit, but we'll see where I'm at when I get there.
----I absolutely need to finish comment replies because at this point I have outstanding comments from over a two years ago, which is just shameful. I'm going to start putting in 30 minutes per (week)day until it's finished.
----I've signed up to GYWO again, this time aiming for a pledge 240 days in 2018 rather than a wordcount goal. I'm afraid that things will get busy and stressful again this year, so I figured this would be more doable than a wordcount goal if that happens.
----I've also set a wordcount goal for myself: 300k again, even though I was such fail at it last year.
----I want to get my WIPs finished because one hundred and thirteen is entirely unreasonable. Not changing this goal much from last year, as this is very doable as long as I can get myself to focus on it--I have a lot of short things started, and a lot of half-finished things that it won't take a huge amount of work to get finished--and I want to get at least seven of them done and posted this year. I'd love to get them down in the double-digits, but I think that might be a bit ambitious. As long as I get them back down to last year's level, I'll take that as a win.
----And in that vein, I want to continue with WIP Wednesday posts because it worked pretty well last year, as long as I was able to keep on with it. I was sort of hit-and-miss throughout the year, and I want to be better about it.
----And last but not least, I want to post more. Dreamwidth is quieter than Livejournal was, and I miss talking to y'all. So, I'm going to be the change I want to see and all that, and try to get back in the habit of posting more.
...so I guess it makes sense that with everything else going on, this was my least productive writing year pretty much since I started writing again following a long hiatus in my mid-20s.
I wrote a total of 67,426 words which is way way down from last year. I added 7 new WIPs to the WIP Folder of Doom, and I'm starting off the year with 113 WIPs for a total of 365,913 unposted words. Which is... yikes. Just yikes.
| 2017 Monthly Wordcounts | |
| January | 4453 |
| February | 8107 |
| March | 33,998 |
| April | 691 |
| May | 207 |
| June | 2182 |
| July | 1977 |
| August | 3179 |
| September | 721 |
| October | 4264 |
| November | 4763 |
| December | 2884 |
| Total--- | 67,426 |
I set some very reasonable goals at the beginning of the year, and didn't do so great meeting them:
----Be more present in fandom - I didn't do great with this. Real Life got in the way.
----Make this a year of very few fests - Success! I only did Draco-Tops this year, even though I was sorely tempted by several others. My success in resisting was more due to Real Life Nonsense than anything else, but I'll still take the victory.
----Write 300k in 2017 - AHAHAHAHAHAHA
----Get my WIPs down to double digits - I did the exact opposite of this. I have more WIPs than I started the year with.
----Comment Replies - I am deeply ashamed at how old some of my unreplied-to comments are. I'm still working on it.
This year I my goals are very similar
----This is going to be another Year of Very Few Fests, because it worked well last year. I'm not going to sign up for anything until I get my Fandom Trumps Hate fic finished and posted, but maybe we'll see where I'm at around the time holiday fest sign-ups happen. I like the idea of signing up to pinch hit, but we'll see where I'm at when I get there.
----I absolutely need to finish comment replies because at this point I have outstanding comments from over a two years ago, which is just shameful. I'm going to start putting in 30 minutes per (week)day until it's finished.
----I've signed up to GYWO again, this time aiming for a pledge 240 days in 2018 rather than a wordcount goal. I'm afraid that things will get busy and stressful again this year, so I figured this would be more doable than a wordcount goal if that happens.
----I've also set a wordcount goal for myself: 300k again, even though I was such fail at it last year.
----I want to get my WIPs finished because one hundred and thirteen is entirely unreasonable. Not changing this goal much from last year, as this is very doable as long as I can get myself to focus on it--I have a lot of short things started, and a lot of half-finished things that it won't take a huge amount of work to get finished--and I want to get at least seven of them done and posted this year. I'd love to get them down in the double-digits, but I think that might be a bit ambitious. As long as I get them back down to last year's level, I'll take that as a win.
----And in that vein, I want to continue with WIP Wednesday posts because it worked pretty well last year, as long as I was able to keep on with it. I was sort of hit-and-miss throughout the year, and I want to be better about it.
----And last but not least, I want to post more. Dreamwidth is quieter than Livejournal was, and I miss talking to y'all. So, I'm going to be the change I want to see and all that, and try to get back in the habit of posting more.
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Date: 2018-01-05 07:10 pm (UTC)Also omgggg your icon has me giggling!! XD