I'm not gonna lie, this kinda slipped my mind this year, the same way it slipped my mind that December 3rd was my 13th FAnniversary. Man, time flies...
But at least I remembered to do this journal before the end of January, eh? :B
2018, as you might recall from last year's journal, was very unproductive for me because I spent so much time focusing on the story bundle. I had hoped that once I got it out, 2019 would be much more fruitful, but as it turns out, I'd gotten my head so twisted up somewhere along the way that I found writing to be difficult in and of itself, and ultimately I feel like things actually got worse. Whoops...
Either way, I feel like keeping a record is good, so I can have something to look back on in the future and compare myself to. That being said, let's take a look!
January ---
February A Family Affair: After years of toiling away, I finally finished a bundle of ten romantic sibcest-themed stories (which is, incidentally, still availble for purchase if you're interested, hehe... #ShamelessSelfPromotion), and all it cost me was my sanity. :B
Joking aside, I was very proud of myself for finally getting it all finished. It may have been the most accomplished I felt last year, and that's nothing to sneeze at. n_n
March ---
April ---
May ---
June Getting Over Her with T.L. Green: After getting dumped by his girlfriend Samantha, Matt Abara locks himself away in his room and spends days on end wallowing in his own misery, to the point where his mother asks his little sister Rachel to see if she can cheer him up.... though Rachel indulging in her secret attraction to Matt was probably not what their mother had in mind.
More than a little embarrassed that I didn't get a public story online until the summer, but that's the way the cookie crumbles, I guess. Only one person seemed to notice the name was a reference to the deliberately frustrating climbing game, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, but I still found it hilarious to do that. n_n
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August ---
September ---
October Tying the Knot: After a series of successful dates, Isaac Ostrander (a cat) and Richard MacGregor (a dog) become a very close, loving couple, despite their initial reaction to each other's Inherited genitals. After a few years of happily living together as boyfriends, they're heading off to celebrate one of their friends graduating from college... and Isaac has no idea he's the real reason they're throwing a party.
Inspired by a fairly short and simple idea, this ultimately evolved into a very long tale, even for me. That seems to be a trend lately, and I'm not entirely in love with it, but trends aside, I still adore the way this story turned out, all warm and romantic and yet still delightfully lewd and smutty. Plus, who doesn't love a good tying scene? :3c
November ---
December ---
Hoo-boy. So there you have it. Strictly speaking, I only put up two stories last year, which means I've only publically posted six stories in the last three years. That certainly doesn't spark joy, I must say. Must admit, with January almost over, and the story I'm currently working on both proving to be very long and yet still not near a conclusion, I find my initial prospects for 2020 a little disheartening.
BUT! You could also choose to look at 2019 as me posting two stories publically and publishing ten more within the bundle, so you could say I actually managed to post twelve stories in twelve months last year, from a certain point of view. Hey, it worked for Obi-Wan...
Either way, I hope to find a way to get back into the right frame of mind for writing this year, and it is my deepest, truest wish that when I sit down to write next year's journal, there'll be fewer blank spaces in 2020. Knock on wood! :-)
Thank you all for following me on this journey, I hope you enjoy whatever I do manage to come up with this year. n_n
