If you look at the data, 2025 was disappointing. But there is so much that the data didn't capture.
Category: Author Lifestyle
2024 Year in Review
Now, at the end of another journey around the sun, it’s time to look at the data and validate my feelings. This is my 2024 Year in Review! The seventh data-backed story of my year. Wasn’t 2024 going to be the year I bounced back? Well, I sort of did.
2023 Year in Review
I’ve placed nothing in magazines, but received the best rejections of my life. I’ve published next to nothing on my blog and Substack, but I have more followers on my TikTok account than I ever thought I would have. I’ve also logged the least amount of hours for writing this year than any other year … Continue reading 2023 Year in Review
2022 Year in Review
If you’re sick of yearly round ups from people who’ve written a million words, climbed Mt. Fuji using only their hands, and developed rippling abs, you’ve come to the right place. I set many resolutions last year and kept only one of them. But many wonderful things happened this year that I never expected. I wanted to share the numbers and explain how they don’t express the larger message: that I’m getting close to writing the kinds of stories I’ve always wanted to write, and the life to support my writing. This is the fifth data-backed story of my year.
2021 Year in Review
What did I achieve? What did I miss? What went sideways, and what pleasantly surprised me? This is the data-backed story of 2021.
Productivity, the pandemic, and me
I’m thinking about how I can’t separate doing from being. You are what you do, not what you think. So what have I been doing? I’ve been trying to stick to the productivity routine I had before the pandemic. Thoughts on loneliness and productivity.