Why am I writing about my 2021 writing successes?
Well, children’s author Julie Hedlund challenged participants of her 12 Days of Christmas for Writers series to post SUCCESSES (rather than resolutions) on our blogs this year. She believes the way New Year’s resolutions are traditionally made comes from a place of negativity – what DIDN’T get done or achieved in the previous year. Instead, she suggests we set goals for the New Year that BUILD on our achievements from the previous one. I decided to participate in this Anti-Resolution Revolution! Here is my list for 2021.
- Finished a draft of Rowan
- Finished a second draft of StarRacer
- Published 19 newsletters (it will be 20 before the year is out)
- Published through chapter 54 of Hope Gardens (on Channillo)
- Wrote 2 picture book drafts
- Improved my paperback formatting skills
- Wore a couple of poems and a vocabulary booster story for my website.
- Came up with more than a hundred story ideas in Storystorm 2021
- Redesigned my website
My 2021 writing successes list feels a little flat to me after the successes of last year, but as I look it over, it’s far from nothing. I feel a bit better about how this year went, writing-wise, than I was feeling before I started this exercise.