It’s the first Monday of the first full week of 2024 and my official start to the new year. I always like to start off a new year looking back at the last year and seeing what I accomplished and try to plan for what I think I can do better in the upcoming year.
2023 in Review:
- Overall, I wrote 160,202 words
- January – 14,454
- February – 33,559
- March – 27,344
- April – 6,387
- May – 29,548
- June – 8,742
- July – 25,341
- August – 1,671
- September – 1,571
- October – 5,100
- November – 5,119
- December – 1,456
- 3,105 written for this blog
- 40, 036 for Caro’s Quest
- 13,676 in my journals
- 45,436 for the Hannah Project, which makes my heart sad
- 3,024 in poetry
- 7, 723 in little flash fiction bits during writing groups
- 1,495 in short stories outside of other writing groups
- 2,250 for a non-fiction essay which was accepted for publication in an anthology about chronic illness
- 15,838 in my social media accounts
- 24,083 in lessons and worksheets and speeches for various writing groups
- And 4,022 at the end of the year on the Lake House Mystery
- (Most of this did not include background writing for various novels in progress – just writing that ended up in the draft)
So, I did pretty well for the first half of the year…and then health woes (both mental and physical) slowed me down considerably. So for next year, I will work on powering through the pain and not letting myself get distracted by non-writing side projects as much as I did this year.
Lisa Holcomb 