Writing Wrapup (2020)

Well, I haven’t blogged regularly at ALL in quite awhile, but I wanted to post a wrapup of my writerly accomplishments this last year, if only so I’ll be able to look back on it one day.

It was definitely a slow year of writing, for me. I have difficulty writing when I’m stressed, so between that and spending a good deal of extra time on my copyediting business, the words were rather fewer than usual. But at least some writing happened!

2020 WRITING (ISH) ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Writing

• Total words written: 76,160 (not my usual 100K+ but ah well)
• 53K of Tare/Kedran’s Wood books (starting book 3 for NaNo plus some edits on book 2)
• 12K of Operation Foxtail
• 11K on short stories — The Secret Piano (hopefully coming soon to a newsletter?), and three serial episodes of Girls, Spies, and Other Things the Faeries Stole. (I had written the first episode in 2019. The second was posted last January. So I have two more written, and one more planned, which would total 5 episodes. I hope to share them on here when I get the chance!)
• I also did some plotting and editing on various works, including making some exciting breakthroughs in various books!

Blogging

I didn’t have home internet for the last 8 months of the year so any blogging that actually got done . . . I’ll take it. 😛

• Blog posts in 2020: 49
• Page Dreamer: 36
• Here (Road of a Writer): 13

Faves:

• Christopher Tolkien: A Tribute
• My Diana Wynne Jones Journey (Part 2)

Instagram

(My top 9 most popular Instagram pics of 2020. Lots of googly-eyed books, some Tolkien, Cress, and of course that time I cosplayed as Selene Ravenwood back in February.)

I also focused more on my Instagram in this last year, largely due to said issue of a lack of internet aside from my phone. I can’t really blog on my phone but I can Instagram on it, sooo…

• 285 Bookstagram posts (daily posts aside from a couple of hiatus months and breaks when I got busy)
• Hit 800 followers
• I finally did more with themes, even seasonal ones (which was fun) — and aaall the flowers!
• Finally made a Linktree and some highlights. XD *is almost getting the hang of this Instagramming thing*

Copyediting Business

(Some of the books I had the honor of copyediting last year.)

• Words copyedited or beta-read in 2020: 2.9 million words
• Novels/novellas copyedited: 15
• Short stories copyedited: 11
• Beta projects (for friends etc.): 8
• (Curious to know more about my freelance copyediting? Info is here! :))

Miscellaneous

• Writing journal pages: 136
• Won my 11th NaNoWriMo and 20th Camp NaNo (actually did two camp sessions this year)
• Attended Hutchmoot: Homebound online (delightful), as well as a one-day writing conference in January, and read 6 books on writing
• Sketched my character Teague
• Was “in print” for the second time (I mean, just like the first time, it was a private bindup collection for authors of the Modern Bard blog stories, so it’s not like it’s… available? But it was still neat to see A Night in the Life of Glassman printed in a real book, personal collection though it may be!)
• Set new word-sprinting records during November
• Got a new laptop (after 9 years of writing adventures with my first laptop)

(2020 November writing stats)

So there is a brief (?) look at my 2020 in writing! Although the wordcount was less than I’d hoped, and I didn’t finish any novels (two-thirds into both Operation Foxtail and Kedran’s Wood 3), it still wasn’t a bad writing year, apparently. I’m quite happy with a lot of these things. 🙂

I hope you enjoyed that! Thanks for reading — and let me know if there’s a writing-ish accomplishment you’re proud of from last year!