Wrapping Up the Writing Year 

by Alycia W. Morales,@AlyciaMorales

If your year has looked anything like mine, you’ve been super busy, faced trials and frustrations, and you’ve come into December wondering what on earth you’ve managed to accomplish in the last eleven months. January is just around the corner, the holidays are upon us, and we’ve got a few more projects we’d like to complete before the end of the year.

As we wrap presents and prepare for our final hurrahs in 2017, it’s important to take a look back, as well as a look forward. It’s important to recognize our accomplishments and take an account of where we can grow. Here are 17 things for us to consider as writers as we wrap up 2017:

1. What’s one thing you’ve learned this year?
2. What’s something you’d like to learn next year?
3. What’s one new thing you’ve tried this year?
4. What’s one new thing you’d like to try next year?
5. Who did you meet this year that made the greatest impact on you?
6. Who would you like to meet next year?
7. What are your social media numbers?
8. How do your social media numbers compare to last December?
9. Were you consistent in posting to your social media sites, blog, and/or website?
10. How could you be more consistent in the new year?
11. What is are your top three goals for the new year?
12. What’s one creative way you could meet one of those goals?
13. What’s one thing you really want to accomplish in the new year?
14. What can you do differently next year to increase your performance?
15. What’s one personal goal – not related to writing – you have for the new year?
16. What is one thing you want to write that you haven’t written yet?
17. What is holding you back from writing that one thing?

Take an inventory of what you’ve accomplished in 2017 and note that you’ve succeeded in at least one area.

Alycia W. Morales is an award-winning freelance editor and author. Her clients have won the Selah Award, BRMCWC Director’s Choice Award, and many others. Her writing has been published in Thriving Family magazine, Splickety Love, and several compilation books. She is a member of ACFW, the president of Cross n’ Pens critique group, and a BRMCWC Conference Assistant.
Alycia blogs at The Write Editing and Life. Inspired.
When she isn’t busy writing, editing, and reading, Alycia enjoys spending time with her husband and four children taking hikes in Upstate SC and NC, creating various crafts, coloring in adult coloring books, and watching TV.