Year in Review

So, I thought it would be fun to do a year in review kind of thing.  Cause, you know, no one is interested in that kind of stuff.  Personally, I don’t really care about that kind of stuff, the whole reviewing the past year and all that.  But.  It’s the new year and all that jazz, so I figure why the hell not.  And, it could be fun, right?
I’ll keep telling myself that and maybe it will be.
So, last year I was in a weird limbo where I wasn’t in school cause of some bullshit.  I was working in a job which I was fine with.  I was trying to lead a ministry while also serving in like two others.  I was trying to make things work on different levels last year in January.
In the past year, I have continued my school.  I have kicked major ass with my grades and learned a whole bunch about the writing thing through trial and error.  I left my job for various reasons.  Let’s just say a major point for that one was that I was, and still am, putting my education first in this period.  I left one of the ministries that were very close to my heart.  I am going to leave another ministry, but I am picking up another ministry (God told me to, so why am I going to say no?).
Then there are things that also have no “real” set goals or anything like that.  I learned to take better care of myself.  I learned to love more and to be more empathetic.  I learned that I was putting my own self worth in the wrong things.  I learned to love worship again.  I learned to be more vocal for myself.
Then there are the whole writing aspects.  I wrote a butte tonne this past year.  Like, literally a metric crap ton of words.  Countless (not really countless cause I can find them all and actually do the word count but I’m lazy) words written in this blog.  Poems and musings and short stories and my long-form stories and other things like reviews and testimonials and thoughts and snippets and all sorts.  Oh, and papers for class.  Disregarding those pesky papers, I learned a lot in story crafting and telling and putting my thoughts on paper.  And that kind of progress only happens with hard work.
This is a period of lots of growth for me in my writing.  Well, in my life too, but focusing on my writing is for this particular tab (Musings) so I’ll stick to that way.  I’ve challenged myself in writing by continuously churning out work.  Some of it has been good.  Most of it has been bad.  Either or, it is an experience that I have gained that I can take with me when working on my next story or my next poem or my next whatever.  It’s in these little stories and little things of mine that I can dissect myself and my thoughts.  It’s in these little stories and poems that I can learn more about how I want to convey a particular story or a particular idea.
You only get better by doing.  And last year I focused a lot on churning out work so that I can keep on doing.  And keep on experimenting.  And keep on trying and learning.  That’s my goal again for this year.  If you can call it a goal.  At some point, it becomes less a tangible answer and more of an intangible goal that I can never quite reach.  At some point, it seems like I will reach the end, but there is always more for me to do and more for me to learn.
Writing every day is a good start.  Let’s keep it up, even if it sucks.