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Resolutions for 2022 and Status on 2021 Goals

My goals for last year were based on upping my reading and writing to a More regular daily basis. My reading goal for this year was at 60 books and I managed to read just under 100 this year. My writing goal was much improved, since I managed to get my poetry anthology published this year. I also enlisted in NaNoWriMo for 2021 and managed to reach the 50K writing challenge with a new writing world. I did not get as far on my NaNoWriMo project during December as I would have liked but with Christmas in the mix it’s always hard for me to get in a writing rhythm.
For 2022, I think I would like to keep my reading call higher than I usually keep it, at around 100 Books. As for my writing goal, I would love it if I could get another anthology out and my NaNoWriMo draft finished and through beta readers revisions. It would be awesome if I could get it to the editor and published this year, as well. What about you guys? How did you guys do on your goals for 2021? Or was your goal just to simply survive, which is a valid year legal amidst this pandemic chaos.

New Year’s Resolutions Anyone?

Well, here we are again at the beginning of January with the winter wonderland around us. It’s that time of year again, to review our goals or resolutions and see how well we did last year. I am one of those people who prefers to call them goals instead of resolutions. I feel like I do better with them if I keep them in that mindset.

My goals were to read and write more than I did in 2019. I apologize if yours were based more in reality and the pandemic special of 2020, wreaked havoc on many of those types of goals, I am sure.

Reading is an easy one to measure since I have been religiously tracking my reading habits on Goodreads since I finally made an account there. (Profile is:https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/117151645-gail-marie, if you want to add me). My books read in 2019 was a sad, 16 with many from the same author. I managed a respectable 55 this year from a much wider genre base. This year, I am planning to up this to 60 and hope I can squeeze in a few more. There are so many great books out there I am looking forward to.

Writing is harder to measure and requires me to be honest with myself about my goals. With the COVID pandemic forcing us into quarantine early this year, I did manage to create a quiet second space I can lock myself into with only Wattpad and my google docs to keep me focused on my writing. I won’t deny I have issues procrastinating and they usually involve wasting unnecessary time on Twitter and Pinterest. So for 2021, I want to write more but also more predictably. The goal is always everyday, so I will work towards that.

How did your goals for this year go? Were they writing or reading related?

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