2025 End-of-Year Writing Meme
Jan. 3rd, 2026 03:10 amMy writing year started out strong; then I crashed for a few weeks in March, and by the time I was recovering, it all fell into a ditch due to work-related lack of time and sheer exhaustion. July and August ended up my worst writing months since the start of WED. But I recovered toward the end of the year, even though work picked up again in November, so the end result was pretty good anyway!
Some statistics:
Total number of posted stories in 2025: 12 - one fewer than in 2024; I hope to write more things again in 2026!
Total word count (posted): 88,174 - about 18k more than 2024: while I wrote fewer stories, many more of them were on the longer side. In fact, this is the second-highest amount of words I've posted in a year, only beaten by 2018 with 97,933 words.
Total word count (written): 155,611 - about 6k more than 2024. The last time I wrote more than this was in 2018; I hope to get back there some day.
Highest monthly word count (posted): 30,631 (December) - almost 20k of this is due to
Highest monthly word count (written): 57,548 (February) - my best writing month since I started keeping track in a spreadsheet back in 2014! Of course part of that was that I ditched my
Most words written in a day: 6,583 (1st March) - the final rush to the HA finish line!
Fewest words written in a day: 1 (9th September) - before my writing started to recover a bit towards the end of the month.
Months I actually posted fic: 6 - one fewer than 2024.
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Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
Mainly, I want to write more words than in 2025, finish more stories, and post fic in more months.



