Now, it’s time to look ahead, and make some plans about what I’ll be doing for 2026. Possibly even set some goals. I won’t have a wordcount for the year. First time in quite a few years. We’ll see if I maintain that, or if I decided midyear that I need to start counting words […]
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I have three of these essays planned. This one will be a retrospective for me of health, exercise & diet, writing & publishing. Then I have a connecting piece about changing my perspective, followed by a looking forward piece. 2024 was one of the hardest, most stressful years of my life. 2025 was very much
I set word count goals at the start of every year. Then, midyear, I review them and make changes if necessary. TLDR: sticking with my original goal of 500K. Think that’s doable. Longer version: For the first four months of this year, I was doing 50K a month. That was awesome and I’d really hoped I could
Midyear Review 2025 Read More »
2024 wasn’t the best year for me. I was more productive by the end of the year than I thought was possible. That still doesn’t make it a good year. Overall, I wrote over 360K words. Considering that I was only planning on 400K, and given how the year turned out, that isn’t bad. It’s
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I wrote 50K words during the month of October 2024. YAY! GO ME! The last time I managed that was October 2023. That was also the only month in 2023 that I wrote that much. The last year that I consistently wrote 50K per month was 2019. I’d really like to get back to that.