2017, Looking Back (Patreon)

 Wow! 2017 was an adventure (and then some) both here as Misty and in my more mundane day-to-day life. While my situation has improved overall and I am really looking forward to my new position, there is a lot I still feel uncomfortable about sharing in an open venue.

I do, however, feel at ease being transparent about how my writing has been going. By the numbers, I improved over last winter’s output (Q6 vs Q2) and last summer is kind of an unfair comparison since Q0 is just Jun’16.

As I have said before, I am pleased to have met my goal (just barely) of getting 300,000 words published in the year, but that is a bit below where I want to be on a words per day basis. My mentor in my MFA committed to at least 1000 words every day, whether in her novel or writing reviews and that metric is my true goal. I do think that I am going to get better at tracking the word counts of things like the community posts I am doing for Ultimate Pump and my rambles about things over on @mistyfandom and had I thought about it earlier, I would have kept better track.

By my count, I have 33 outstanding stories. A couple of them are works put on hold by the commissioner. A few are merely parts of a larger story broken up and nearly half of that number (16 to be exact) are requests from 2016 that I still want to get done. No bones about it, I want to crush this number hard and get back down to a single digit backlog by March.

For those curious about how the year looks, my Word Count dashboard is below the jump if you ever wondered just how many words I put out in a given quarter span or how 2017 stacks up to 2016. The screenshot also includes “lifetime” metrics for total word counts based on story size, how many of each I have written, and how many words each size category story has on average. 

Working on a goals post and will have that up soon. Until then, be excellent to each other!