[Insert cheesy New Year\u2019s greeting of your choice.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m back, and after going on hiatus for a couple months to focus on my academic work and then spend winter break doing some thinking, I have news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To start, a quick, obligatory year-in-review. Overall, 2021 was a success in the writing arena: I started a new novel and won Camp NaNo in July, left a workshop program I had been part of for years, finished and revised a novelette that had been on my to-do list for forever, completed the fiction writing track portion of my English major, and finally established a regular writing habit recently. I’ve also been thinking about what I want to do with various parts of my platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, I\u2019ll be shifting the blog content. The rest of my platform (what I write, Twitter, Discord, email list) is now built around increasing the amount of aspec (asexual and aromantic spectra) representation in YA fiction, so my blog is falling in line with that. Specifically, it will be targeted towards other writers who are writing aspec characters, so it’ll mostly be posts about writing and about being aspec & aspec issues. (Although I’m definitely not deleting anything, so the Atheism posts and random stuff like college application advice will still be there if you scroll down far enough.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second, I’m switching from bi-weekly to monthly posts, both because it\u2019s easier to keep up during the semester, and so I can save some articles for guest-posting instead of having to throw everything at the blog to keep up. I’ll publish posts on the 1st of the month, and you should wake up to the email alert on the 2nd :).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(EDIT: I’ve gotten professional feedback on my platform strategy since publishing this post, and am keeping everything on one list. If you’re reading this paragraph after February 2022, please disregard the info.)<\/em> Finally, I\u2019m separating my blog and email list.\u00a0 Currently, I have a single list that receives both new posts and the (pretty rare) email with other news.\u00a0 However, I\u2019m starting to have more news and other things to share with people, and as the list grows bigger I\u2019m assuming not everyone will want both types of content.\u00a0 So, to make sure people are only getting what they’re interested in, I’m keeping the existing list as just blog<\/em> subscribers (since that’s almost exclusively what I’ve been sending to it already), and starting a second group for just email<\/em> subscribers (obviously you\u2019re more than welcome to be in both).\u00a0 If you only want to keep getting new post updates, then you don\u2019t have to do anything. If you want to be on my email list and get the other news, resources, and updates too, then you can subscribe here: [removed].<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s all the big news I think. Since it is the 1st of the year after all, here are my goals for 2022 while I\u2019m at it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, what about you? Anything you want to brag (or complain) about for 2021? Goals for 2022 you want to share?<\/p>\n\n\n\n P.S. You may have noticed that Writing for Life is now purple instead of blue – this is because purple is the ace flag color :).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Insert cheesy New Year\u2019s greeting of your choice.] I\u2019m back, and after going on hiatus for a couple months to focus on my academic work and then spend winter break doing some thinking, I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-blog-business"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}