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Year In Review
5 years ago
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It's increasingly clear to me I won't be able to finish any other stories by New Year's, so now is as good a time as ever to wrap up 2020.
For extremely obvious reasons, this year was not the best. It started out with promise, got very interesting in February, then March 11 happened, and life got weird, and life refuses to stop getting weird. I mean, on December 29, we had to put down a cat. That's a vengeful year.
On a personal level, I honestly am doing OK. My mental health is spotty, but my physical health and financial position are stable. I'm very lucky for that, and I know others are less lucky. But if this is luck, it certainly feels monkey's paw-esque. I have people I love in my life, and I have someone special I love very much. I'm grateful to have that, even with the horrors this year held.
One bright spot this year was furry itself. Y'all, every time I opened FA, it seemed like I had new watchers and favorites. Given that I hosted a raffle giveaway in February for reaching 750 followers here, and by October I gave away another story for 1,000 followers, the support everyone has given me this year is very encouraging. I averaged more than one watcher per day over the whole year. That's special. :)
Once JT the fursuit arrives in 2021 (darn postal service delays), I'll have the fruits of my labor from writing here this year. By my count, I uploaded 38 stories and roughly 234,600 words of content. If my stories were collected in an anthology, the book would be 520 pages long. That is a lot of output, my second-highest level of writing ever in the fandom, just about 20,000 less than my peak in 2018 and a huge increase over last year's 180k.
But that's not all. I don't want to get ahead of myself, but the consistent love and support you've all shown for my stories is incredible. Before this year, I believe I only had two stories receive more than 100 favorites. As of today, I have EIGHT, four of which I wrote this year! I continue to try to improve my writing as much as I can, implementing new styles and inspirations when possible, and I'm so incredibly grateful for the new watchers and all of the support in return.
Another fun stat - in skimming over my stories after my friend Round asked a very interesting question, I determined that there have been approximately 158,000 pounds of fat gained by characters in stories I've written this year. While the majority of that comes from "The Return Of The Curse Of The Fatsune," in which JT gains a whopping 60 tons, there was a hell of a lot of chonk happening this year.
What's to come in 2021? Fursuit content once the USPS gets its shit together. More stories, and some shifts to commissions and pricing. I expect I'll be raising my prices as writing time has been more difficult to get lately, and I will also be offering fewer commission slots as my work's busy period will ebb and flow in the winter before hitting hard from late April through early June. Depending on when I get a vaccine jab in my arm, that schedule could be further complicated by cramming two years of travel into four months over summer. But hey, at least there seem to be reasons to be hopeful on the horizon, right? That's more than we've been able to say for a good chunk of this year.
For extremely obvious reasons, this year was not the best. It started out with promise, got very interesting in February, then March 11 happened, and life got weird, and life refuses to stop getting weird. I mean, on December 29, we had to put down a cat. That's a vengeful year.
On a personal level, I honestly am doing OK. My mental health is spotty, but my physical health and financial position are stable. I'm very lucky for that, and I know others are less lucky. But if this is luck, it certainly feels monkey's paw-esque. I have people I love in my life, and I have someone special I love very much. I'm grateful to have that, even with the horrors this year held.
One bright spot this year was furry itself. Y'all, every time I opened FA, it seemed like I had new watchers and favorites. Given that I hosted a raffle giveaway in February for reaching 750 followers here, and by October I gave away another story for 1,000 followers, the support everyone has given me this year is very encouraging. I averaged more than one watcher per day over the whole year. That's special. :)
Once JT the fursuit arrives in 2021 (darn postal service delays), I'll have the fruits of my labor from writing here this year. By my count, I uploaded 38 stories and roughly 234,600 words of content. If my stories were collected in an anthology, the book would be 520 pages long. That is a lot of output, my second-highest level of writing ever in the fandom, just about 20,000 less than my peak in 2018 and a huge increase over last year's 180k.
But that's not all. I don't want to get ahead of myself, but the consistent love and support you've all shown for my stories is incredible. Before this year, I believe I only had two stories receive more than 100 favorites. As of today, I have EIGHT, four of which I wrote this year! I continue to try to improve my writing as much as I can, implementing new styles and inspirations when possible, and I'm so incredibly grateful for the new watchers and all of the support in return.
Another fun stat - in skimming over my stories after my friend Round asked a very interesting question, I determined that there have been approximately 158,000 pounds of fat gained by characters in stories I've written this year. While the majority of that comes from "The Return Of The Curse Of The Fatsune," in which JT gains a whopping 60 tons, there was a hell of a lot of chonk happening this year.
What's to come in 2021? Fursuit content once the USPS gets its shit together. More stories, and some shifts to commissions and pricing. I expect I'll be raising my prices as writing time has been more difficult to get lately, and I will also be offering fewer commission slots as my work's busy period will ebb and flow in the winter before hitting hard from late April through early June. Depending on when I get a vaccine jab in my arm, that schedule could be further complicated by cramming two years of travel into four months over summer. But hey, at least there seem to be reasons to be hopeful on the horizon, right? That's more than we've been able to say for a good chunk of this year.
About your stories, they are wonderful i love to read them. Your description, characters and situations all so good and entertaining.
Whishing you a bright new year and many more stories to come!