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ellenmillion) wrote2021-12-21 08:39 am
ellenmillion) wrote2021-12-21 08:39 am
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2021 in review.
2021...was certainly a year.
I have a lot of complicated feelings, looking back on it, and the year was definitely not without its challenges. (*laughs in understatement*)
I spent most of the year feeling like I was getting nothing done, but I still somehow wrote more than 275,000 words.
I published four books, three collections, six novellas (some were reprints!), six short stories (mostly reprints), was in two anthologies, put Shifting Sands Resort in hardcover, ran and fulfilled a T-shirt kickstarter, drew 30 tiny unicorns for #junicorn, and designed several postcards and bookmarks (and a tattoo!).
I also designed covers for other people and taught a nine-year-old new math and past participles. (Which entailed LEARNING past participles.)
I feel like I've leveled up as a writer and an artist...maybe even as a person. I'm not sorry to see 2021 out the door, but ultimately, I'm proud of what I did with it.
(I can post this now because I am planning to do absolutely fuck all with the rest of the year. I'll do goals later.)
(PS: Sorry if this is repetitive from Facebook, but I know some people are understandably not there! I've updated the graphic a few times as I remembered things...)
I have a lot of complicated feelings, looking back on it, and the year was definitely not without its challenges. (*laughs in understatement*)
I spent most of the year feeling like I was getting nothing done, but I still somehow wrote more than 275,000 words.
I published four books, three collections, six novellas (some were reprints!), six short stories (mostly reprints), was in two anthologies, put Shifting Sands Resort in hardcover, ran and fulfilled a T-shirt kickstarter, drew 30 tiny unicorns for #junicorn, and designed several postcards and bookmarks (and a tattoo!).
I also designed covers for other people and taught a nine-year-old new math and past participles. (Which entailed LEARNING past participles.)
I feel like I've leveled up as a writer and an artist...maybe even as a person. I'm not sorry to see 2021 out the door, but ultimately, I'm proud of what I did with it.
(I can post this now because I am planning to do absolutely fuck all with the rest of the year. I'll do goals later.)
(PS: Sorry if this is repetitive from Facebook, but I know some people are understandably not there! I've updated the graphic a few times as I remembered things...)