December Results and 2021 Year End Wrap Up

December Results

Finish an Open Project

December seemed to get away from me this year. I had lots of plans to write and create and finish an open project, but with getting sick (thankfully not COVID, but a nasty chest cold), working long hours through December and finishing up a class for my Bachelor’s program, finishing a writing project wasn’t as easy as I had hoped. I still made a lot of progress and wrote every day, but some projects will need to be extended into 2022.

Read One Book (That isn’t related to school)

In December I managed to start a lot of books, mainly non-fiction. I have a few novels I’ve started to read and then had to put down, but I am happy to say, I finished a book. And even better than that, it was an actual print book. I can’t remember the last time I sat down and read an actual book with pages. Even better than that, the book also has a sequel so I definitely know what I’m reading next. Stay tuned!

Word Count: 9,643

2021 Year End Wrap Up

Write every day of 2021:

As hard as I tried this year, it was not possible to write every day. Whether it was a distraction such as a new job, or taking a day off for vacation or studies, this year it simply wasn’t possible to write every single day. While there were some days where not writing was necessary, a lot of it also had to do with sheer laziness or distraction. Still, I persisted and toward the later half of the year I set up good habits for myself

Here are my percentages for the months of 2021:

January: 97%, with a total of 30/31 days.

February: 96%, with a total of 27/28 days.

March: 77%, with a total of 24/31 days.

April: 33.3%, with a total of 10/30 days.

May: 67%, with a total of 21/31 days

June: 100%

July: 100%

August: 100%

September: 100%

October: 100%

November: 100%

December: 100%

Finish writing at least 4 novels:

1. Strange Birds- Finished February 4th, 2021
2. Coming Back as We Are- Finished July 24th, 2021
3. My Heart With You- Finished September 29th, 2021

Read at least 6 books:

1. Piece By Piece- Tori Amos and Ann Powers- finished February 2021
2. A Court of Silver Flames- Sarah J. Maas- finished March 2021
3. Bridge of Souls-Victoria/V.E Schwab- finished May 2021
4. Shakespeare Sonnets and Plays: Henry V, Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Hamlet- September to October 2021
5. Steal Like An Artist/Show Your Work- Austin Kleon- Finished October 2021
6. Spellbreaker- Charlie N Holmberg- Finished December 2021
   

Gain More Confidence in my writing abilities:

1. Participated in NYC Midnight’s Short Story competition- January 2021
   Unfortunately, for this competition, I didn’t make it past round one. It was definitely fun to write something in a genre I never have before.
2. Participated in NYC Midnight’s Microfiction Competition- May 2021
   Unfortunately, I didn’t make it past round one in this competition. Still, I put myself out there and had some fun writing a story in under 100 words.
3. Participated in NYC Midnight’s Flash Fiction Competition- July 2021
   This year, I really enjoyed the Flash Fiction Competition. My first genre was historical fiction, but the round I had the most fun with was the second round where I got to write a horror story. I was super excited to get second place with my horror story. I didn’t quite make it to round three, but I am quite proud of my work.

Send out something for Publishing:

This year, I started with an editing plan. I was going to finish editing this novel I’ve been sitting on for years, send it out and hopefully hear back by the time 2022 rolled around. Unfortunately, with distractions and new projects and everything else going on, I didn’t send out anything original for publishing. I did however post a lot of pieces online and through Fanfiction websites.

Miscellaneous, but Writing Related

1. Started a creative writing bachelor’s program.
2. Built some book shelves, got chairs, a new desk lamp, and a new office chair to make a true writing space for myself.
3. Created a new instagram for my doodles.
4. Participated in Instawrimo and Inktober and built up my online presence.
   

Yearly Word Count: 221,122

One Final Note: Thank you to you, reading this. Thank you for spending some time with me in 2021 as I create and blog. May 2022 be a great year for us both!