Jul 16 2011
I’m on pace to beat my 2011 resolutions…
This year, my main goals were to build my audience by 25% and post 100 writing articles.
- Last year, I averaged about 13,000 visits and 32,000 page-views per month. So far this year, I’m averaging 20,000 visits and 43,000 page-views per month. So far, that’s roughly a 50% increase in monthly visits and a 35% increase in monthly page-views. However, a lot of the new traffic was driven by superhero movie launches, and I can’t count on that year-round. (For the most part, superhero movies only come out from May-August).
- My goal was 100 writing articles. So far, I’m on pace for 106.
- My final goal was to get published. I haven’t put in enough work on that front.
Me, I wanted to finish any one of my novels* this summer, and Strawberries and the Meaning of Life doesn’t count since it was last year’s NaNo.
…Halfway through, nothing has happened. Granted, I was on vacation for 2 weeks. I also wrote a series of pointless AU sidestories which did very little. At least I got some worldbuilding down…
And next school year I have SANDWICH (the Superiorly Artistic Network of Dedicated Writers Interested in Creating Happiness), the finest writing club I have ever co-founded. So all is not yet lost.
– Wings
*Most likely Darken’s book, Chessmen, or Crepuscular, which was elevated to novel status after I realized it was so much more than a mere Twilight rewrite.