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i evidently published more books than i finished reading last year :/ which is a pretty terrible look sorry everyone
i did a horrible job keeping track of what i read on storygraph and now i dont get a nice 2025 wrapped infograph so maybe i'll learn my lesson this time. the most enjoyable book i read was the tainted cup by robert jackson bennett which is fantasy nero wolfe basically.
whenever i read a blurb with so and so's "adult epic fantasy debut" i immediately stop, ponder did this person used to write ya?, and then assume they did and scroll. is that wrong? AITAH? just kidding i don't care.
i can't enjoy dark erotica because whenever they do something unhinged i'm like no they should have done this depraved thing you're doing it WRONG and then i'm like ffs do i have to write everything and--no. please, no. i just want to vibe with an author who knows when to be soft and when to give someone a urine enema. and sadly nobody threads the needle quite like me. i may have to start reading fanfic again? undecided.
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It's that time again. This year put almost everyone through the wringer, I think. I was a whiny wah-wah for a while but I got my shit together and changed my goals for this publishing thing.

What kinda year was it? Welllllllllllllll

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Me me me me

I saw the writing on the wall mid-year and recalibrated my estimated yearly earnings from $10k to $7k. Assuming something completely crazy doesn't happen the last day of the year (One year I sold around 200 books on 12/31 for reasons still unknown to me and THAT WAS AWESOME), I made about $7,500 this year before taxes and expenses. My royalties increased by $500 this year, which was less than I expected for my backlist and amount published (2 novels, 2 novellas, 5 shorts, and a bundle).

My bestselling book is my newest novel, which made $440 over the last 6 months. I pulled $1,000 on my best erotica bundle, and I had 3 books cross the $1,000 lifetime threshold which for me is a nice milestone. A while back I set extremely modest "earn out" thresholds of $2k for novels, $1k for novellas and $200 for shorts. I've had some bombs (one book only made $53 even though my superfans lost their minds over it) but generally speaking, the novellas and shorts usually hit those targets in about 2 years if they sell at all.

After really struggling with my SFF projects, and beating myself up about not fully crawling out of the romance/erotica pit, I've decided to embrace the creative wisdom I am where I need to be.

I am where I need to be. I will get there. In the meantime, I've drastically overhauled my short/mid term goals.

Writing is officially a hobby now. It is not a business, it is a thing that accidentally makes money sometimes, and I will make it as stress-free as possible.
Consequently, I am scaling back admin to basically zilch.
My genre is now AO1 (audience of one, aka books for myself). I write what my heart desires and accept it's what I need to be working on at the moment no matter how weird or gooey or difficult to cat it might be
My goal is to finish up the ghosts hanging around (languishing WIPs) and build up a backlog of unpublished books to trickle out once or twice a year.

This is very different from goal list I set last year or even six months ago, but right now the focus is writing consistently and enjoying myself. I adopted this mindset in mid-November. So far so good.

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Something I have been thinking about for far too long but haven't gotten around to because ⋆.ೃ࿔.𖥔 ݁ ˖*:･༄ life oh life ⋆.ೃ࿔.𖥔 ݁ ˖*:･༄ omfg (꩜ _ ꩜)

Getting reading to start a low-commitment Creative Practice community that is all inclusive: fandom works creativity, original works creativity; writers, artists, graphics makers/graphic designers, photographers (virtual, digital/film, video), fiber craft/fiber arts, musicians, programming/making electronic things for fun, etc etc.

The idea is far less about showing your work --- there are already many places for that --- and far more about committing to a creative practice, maintaining that practice, and setting challenges that make sense for you, and reflecting on your creative practice. Goal setting where goals are widely defined to include not just output but the kinds of experiences you want to have while creating or with other creators. Self education info. Etc.

Considering challenges like:

(1) Creative Practice Bingo Cards with a wide range of possible prompts to make cards very customizable

(2) Monthly Creative Practice Pledges that focus on practice, process, and learning rather than output goals (because we already have many other challenges for that)

Also want the community to serve as a place for:

(A) Collecting and sharing various info on creativity, creative practice, creative process, etc.

(B) Providing encouragement, waving pom-poms, finding accountability partners, etc.

(C) Sharing progress, insights, and different approaches to starting or restarting a creative practice, to keeping it going, to juggling different kinds of creative activities, etc.

(D) ??? TBD !!!

Will make DW the primary space for the community in order to community-lock members' post but also use one or more other sites (tumblr, etc) as satellite spaces. Might eventually consider creating a Discord if there is enough interest and someone offers to help with that further down the road.

If this interests anyone or anyone has an idea, suggestion, or question, please comment!

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After a very intense last few months scrambling to get everything prepared, I successfully defended my thesis at the beginning of December and have finished my PhD.

It feels weird.

I was kind of a mess in my late teens and early twenties. I had no direction, no drive, and no idea how to be an adult. I dropped out of college twice and then fumbled my way through a series of minimum wage jobs until I found one that seemed okay—this gave me some much-needed stability, but at some point I was staring down the barrel of the rest of my life and just thought, "I can't keep doing this."

On little more than a whim, I decided I would go back to school to get the highest degree in a field I had absolutely no natural aptitude for.

That was over 12 years ago.

As I went through the process—community college to undergrad to grad school—I never really had the end goal in mind. I had to keep working full-time for six years until I got to grad school, so I didn't have the time or mental energy to even think about where I was going, beyond "forward." I was just trying to get to the next homework assignment, the next exam, the next semester. I'm still not sure how I got here.

I think that's probably why I'm still trying to sort through my emotions about all of it. At some level I'm proud of myself, and conceptually I understand that I accomplished something monumental, but I haven't been able to bask in that feeling at all. And a big part of that is because I was fortunate enough to land a job halfway across the country, so I've been trying to prepare for all of that. And I'm sure another big part is the lingering adrenaline rush of slapping together a 300+ page dissertation in a matter of months—I know that's not going to disappear overnight. But it's led to this persistent low-grade tension for the past three weeks. I want to properly enjoy this time before my new job, but I just feel off, like there's a constant hum of anxiety trying to convince me I have more to do, I must be forgetting something important, what if the UHaul breaks down on the way to New York, maybe I should have bought the insurance for it, I need to send more emails and make more phonecalls and keep packing, I have to see my family for Christmas and I don't want to, oh my god what do you MEAN I have to go grocery shopping AGAIN?!

I guess I thought graduating would feel more definitive, like the end of a very, very long book. Maybe moving to a new city will give me the sense of closure I'm looking for? I don't know.

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