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I did it! I met my Get Your Words Out Goal this year! It was my second time participating in Get Your Words Out. It was also my second consecutive year in a row for it, and my second year doing the 120 Days Habit Challenge. I met my quota of days writing or working on writing on the Winter Solstice, which is meaningful for me, and which I think is so cool. However, I would prefer to cut it much less close next year, as far as meeting the deadline goes. But I am very pleased and proud of myself, and feeling pretty accomplished. I would like to write much more consistently throughout the year next year, but I wrote far more consistently this year than last year, so I am making progress.
I wrote 8,867 words that I consider countable (and remembered to count) in 2019. That's ten percent of what my goal was and way less than last year. But I wrote much more consistently in 2019 than I did in 2018, and as I believe I said or alluded to elsewhere, I would much rather write and work on writing consistently than have a higher word count. I realized that my (very similar) word count goals for the previous two years were incredibly unattainable for me at this point in my life, and so rather than set myself up for failure again, I dramatically decreased my word count goal for next year. It may need to be adjusted again. I'll see how it goes next year, and adapt it accordingly.
In reading updates, I finished reading 25 books over the course of 2019. I'm pretty pleased with those numbers. I know that 's several more than I read in 2018, though for months I haven't been able to figure out where the list is that I was basing 2018's books read numbers on. It's possible I only tracked it fully on my phone and then deleted it at the end of last year. But according to another blog post I wrote, I finished reading 15 books in 2018. That worked out to about a book and a quarter each month. 25 books finished in 2019 is ten more books than last year, and works out to having read just over two books a month, which sounds and feels accurate. It's still not the number of books I would like to read in a year, and I would have liked to have finished two or three more books by the end of the year than I did, but it is dramatic progress over last year, and I'm very pleased with it. I also need to remember to factor in that six of the books (the Kushiel's Legacy series) were incredibly long and very detailed reads. Also, I think almost all of the books I finished in 2019 were first time reads, which usually take me significantly longer than rereads do since I got sick. I also started but didn't yet finish two other books in 2019, and there are several other books that I began before 2019 that I haven't yet finished -- none of which I counted towards the total I just gave. For to begin reading in 2019, I don't think I stuck to my list at all, and while that mildly irks that detail and goal-oriented perfectionist in me, in this instance, I think it was very beneficial. And on the other hand, when it came to finishing reading books I had previous started, but not yet finished, I stuck to the list very well, which I'm pleased with (though I think it took me until about April to really hit my stride with that). I do wish I had finished a few more, but I'm okay with that. Overall, I'm really pleased with my reading this year, and I hope to improve upon it for next year.
I use this blog fairly exclusively for tracking my reading and writing and I'd like to keep it that way, but I also accomplished and/or made significant progress on a few other things in my personal life this year, which I'm also really pleased with and proud of.
I wrote 8,867 words that I consider countable (and remembered to count) in 2019. That's ten percent of what my goal was and way less than last year. But I wrote much more consistently in 2019 than I did in 2018, and as I believe I said or alluded to elsewhere, I would much rather write and work on writing consistently than have a higher word count. I realized that my (very similar) word count goals for the previous two years were incredibly unattainable for me at this point in my life, and so rather than set myself up for failure again, I dramatically decreased my word count goal for next year. It may need to be adjusted again. I'll see how it goes next year, and adapt it accordingly.
In reading updates, I finished reading 25 books over the course of 2019. I'm pretty pleased with those numbers. I know that 's several more than I read in 2018, though for months I haven't been able to figure out where the list is that I was basing 2018's books read numbers on. It's possible I only tracked it fully on my phone and then deleted it at the end of last year. But according to another blog post I wrote, I finished reading 15 books in 2018. That worked out to about a book and a quarter each month. 25 books finished in 2019 is ten more books than last year, and works out to having read just over two books a month, which sounds and feels accurate. It's still not the number of books I would like to read in a year, and I would have liked to have finished two or three more books by the end of the year than I did, but it is dramatic progress over last year, and I'm very pleased with it. I also need to remember to factor in that six of the books (the Kushiel's Legacy series) were incredibly long and very detailed reads. Also, I think almost all of the books I finished in 2019 were first time reads, which usually take me significantly longer than rereads do since I got sick. I also started but didn't yet finish two other books in 2019, and there are several other books that I began before 2019 that I haven't yet finished -- none of which I counted towards the total I just gave. For to begin reading in 2019, I don't think I stuck to my list at all, and while that mildly irks that detail and goal-oriented perfectionist in me, in this instance, I think it was very beneficial. And on the other hand, when it came to finishing reading books I had previous started, but not yet finished, I stuck to the list very well, which I'm pleased with (though I think it took me until about April to really hit my stride with that). I do wish I had finished a few more, but I'm okay with that. Overall, I'm really pleased with my reading this year, and I hope to improve upon it for next year.
I use this blog fairly exclusively for tracking my reading and writing and I'd like to keep it that way, but I also accomplished and/or made significant progress on a few other things in my personal life this year, which I'm also really pleased with and proud of.
