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Well, I didn’t blog more this year. Definitely didn’t talk about the books I read - a final count for 2025 of 244 novels, novellas, & graphic novels.
While I wanted 365, I’m happy with what I read. Although I did realize just after Christmas that an awful lot of what I read was just indifferent - I did worse than usual at reading things I actually felt were good.
I wanted to write 60k words of prose & 60k words of RPG book. What I got was 25,881 words of prose, & 15,696 of RPG book, which I kept putting off, because preparing for the next session of the next game I was running was more important.
If I counted my session notes towards my writing goals, I’d have blown my goals away. I’m running ten games, now that it’s my day job, and I probably wrote at least 10,000 words of session prep per game. So I’ve got the habit of regular writing down, it’s just a matter of work-life balance. Putting the words on the projects I want to be putting them on.
I kept admitting out loud when I was wrong. It continues to be good for me.
For 2026, I’m setting the same three goals at the same levels. I’m also setting three more.
First, I want to finish All Gentle Sounds, the eldritch ghost story murder mystery near-future sci-fi slow burn polyamorous romance I’ve been working on since 2020. Towards that end, if anyone would be interested in reading it, I’ll post chapters, locked & filtered. Getting fresh feedback is hugely motivating for me, and my writers’ group, the Unstable Orbitals, hasn’t met since the pandemic started. Please let me know if you’d like to be added to that filter!
Second, I’m going to finish at least a draft of The Callous Corps Officers’ Handbook, the RPG setting book I’ve been only slowly adding to since 2024. Not sure how best to drive my productivity there; I’ll think about it (is that something people would also like to see excerpted or discussed here?).
Third, in February I was diagnosed with diabetes. I’ve made some major lifestyle changes accordingly and saw some great early improvement on my blood glucose numbers, but I backslid quite a bit over the holiday, and I didn’t manage to start any regular exercise. So I want to do that, and make myself accountable for that.
All of those things probably mean more blogging, if only because doing this stuff where other people can see it keeps me honest.
While I wanted 365, I’m happy with what I read. Although I did realize just after Christmas that an awful lot of what I read was just indifferent - I did worse than usual at reading things I actually felt were good.
I wanted to write 60k words of prose & 60k words of RPG book. What I got was 25,881 words of prose, & 15,696 of RPG book, which I kept putting off, because preparing for the next session of the next game I was running was more important.
If I counted my session notes towards my writing goals, I’d have blown my goals away. I’m running ten games, now that it’s my day job, and I probably wrote at least 10,000 words of session prep per game. So I’ve got the habit of regular writing down, it’s just a matter of work-life balance. Putting the words on the projects I want to be putting them on.
I kept admitting out loud when I was wrong. It continues to be good for me.
For 2026, I’m setting the same three goals at the same levels. I’m also setting three more.
First, I want to finish All Gentle Sounds, the eldritch ghost story murder mystery near-future sci-fi slow burn polyamorous romance I’ve been working on since 2020. Towards that end, if anyone would be interested in reading it, I’ll post chapters, locked & filtered. Getting fresh feedback is hugely motivating for me, and my writers’ group, the Unstable Orbitals, hasn’t met since the pandemic started. Please let me know if you’d like to be added to that filter!
Second, I’m going to finish at least a draft of The Callous Corps Officers’ Handbook, the RPG setting book I’ve been only slowly adding to since 2024. Not sure how best to drive my productivity there; I’ll think about it (is that something people would also like to see excerpted or discussed here?).
Third, in February I was diagnosed with diabetes. I’ve made some major lifestyle changes accordingly and saw some great early improvement on my blood glucose numbers, but I backslid quite a bit over the holiday, and I didn’t manage to start any regular exercise. So I want to do that, and make myself accountable for that.
All of those things probably mean more blogging, if only because doing this stuff where other people can see it keeps me honest.
