2024 Reflections from an Emerging Writer

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that 2024 was a really good year for me. I want to take a moment and reflect on that.

This year, I

• Wrote 39 stories (and started 9 incomplete stories)

• Wrote 16 poems

• Submitted 18 stories to 48 markets

• Received 2 acceptances (possibly 3? I received a conditional acceptance this month)

• Received 28 denials (denials are important, too!)

Some other highlights from 2024:

• I was published four times! Feels good! You can read the stories for free here.

• I self-published a collection of short stories, which you can find on Amazon.

• I picked out a rad book cover for my upcoming novella, Sorority Zombies in Space!

  
  

• I settled on an author bio I can be proud of.

• I started organizing my writing in a spreadsheet. I love my spreadsheet.

• I became a Taylor Swift fan! This post on Taylor Swift's rhetorical devices went semi-viral on Medium. Viral for me, anyway.

• I became more involved with writing communities.

• I started putting myself out there more—joining new groups, sharing my writing, submitting way more, etc.

How was your year? Let me know in the comments!