Before I let myself get too carried away with excitement for the new year, I thought I should wrap up the one that’s coming to a close. For context and comparison, here is my ‘year in review’ post from 2015.
Earlier in 2016, you might remember I carried out what I called a “literary audit.” Since then, I’ve been keeping much better track of what I write. It’s been good to look back and it certainly makes posts like this a heck of a lot easier! Anyway, without further ado…
This month I wrote 4,000 words. During the entire year, I wrote over 100,000 – can’t say exactly because, like I said, I only started taking note part way through the year (it was 95,000 words total, April – December). I do know I wrote 55,000 words of fanfic (January – December) and a hell of a lot of poetry.
December saw me devouring four audiobooks, a Kindle short, and a novel-length fanfic, leaving my books read for the year at 54 (off a goal of 45). Goodreads have laid all my stats out in a handy chart, here.
Personal Highlights for Twenty Sixteen:
- Moving in with the love of my life
- Moving forward (by a lot) in business
- Coming to some pretty big conclusions about myself
Finally, 2017 Goals:
- Get married
- Read 50 books
- Join the Society of Authors
- Get a literary agent
- and a cat
- Take an official proofreading course
Also: In a bid to catch up on my ‘to be read’ pile, I’ve decided to not buy any new books for the first six months of 2017. I can still loan out books from the library, however, and I’m allowing myself to continue getting one audiobook a month during this time.
I am so excited for this!
Recently, I shared a piece of 
Four years ago, yesterday, I had the joint book launch for 
Ever since I first heard about 
Since I was a little kid, I’ve been kind of obsessed with the USA.
I used to travel all around the UK and Ireland a few times a year, catching trains, sleeping on people’s living room floors, and going to events.
I’ve been quite busy, this month, but the main thing to report is that I completed my 2016 Goodreads Reading Goal. That’s a total of forty-five out of forty-five books read, several weeks early.