#2016 stats

Steelers LB Ryan Shazier – 2016 stats and his Combine numbers from 2014.

Poetry as art. As fun. As a business. As a hobby. As a chore. Poetry this year took on categories and dismissed them and pondered them again. I’ve never seen my writing/submitting process in such a way as this—how much value does my poetry hold? What kind of value does it have? In turn, I was asking for my self-worth. I’m a poet. Whatever value I put on poetry corresponds with the choices I make. I can spend time submitting to non-paying journals that usually accept my work, or I can dedicate my time to paying venues that usually reject my work. I can get ornery about journals that don’t accept simultaneous submissions and require reading fees, or I can spend my time basking in the glory of that one poem that saw the light of day in an obscure international journal. Emotions bubbled, ravished, raged and settled. Work ethic powered up and dwindled over and over. Creativity gleamed, shimmered, fizzled, shone. Motivation revved on.

Thank you, Jess, for this experience. I can’t remember the last time I submitted so much in one year. I can’t remember the last time I got rejected so much in one year. Mostly, though, this is the first year I’ve been paid so much for my work, and that small payment—certainly not enough for survival—transferred into a feeling so much more valuable. Yes, what I’m doing has value. We read, we feel, we live, we share, and we grow so much through all of it. Having completed this year-long process of tracking and revealing, I feel like I’ve graduated from the School of Literary Citizenship, and I’m a much better person for it. 

STATS:

Date: December 2016

Submitted to: 9  journals in total

1 that does not offer payment: Whale Road Review

8 that do: Eye To The Telescope; Asimov’s Science Fiction; Blackbird; Black Orchid Designs broadside series; WordRunner; Cicada; Contrary; Inwood Indiana

Rejections: 7 The Pedestal Magazine; Moonsick Magazine; Rattle; Italian Americana; Existere; The Cincinnati Review; Black Orchid Designs broadside series

Acceptances: 0

Miscellaneous: I made a spreadsheet of all of 2016, and I found a math error somewhere! Note the grand total!

Money Spent in December: $0

Money Earned in December: $0

December total: $0

November total: $0

October total: $0

September total: $0

August total: $0

July total: $40

June total: $20

May total: $12

April total: $0

March total: $100.00

February total: $1.55

January total: - $5.88

2016 TOTAL: $169.14 based on Excel math! (Clearly, I made an error somewhere above).

Christina M. Rau is the author of the poetry collection Liberating The Astronauts (forthcoming, 2017), and the poetry chapbooks WakeBreatheMove (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and For The Girls, I (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). Founder of the Long Island reading circuit Poets In Nassau, her poetry has appeared on gallery walls in The Ekphrastic Poster Show, on car magnets for The Living Poetry Project, most recently in the journals Flapperhouse and Blunderbuss Magazine. She edits The Nassau Review at Nassau Community College where she teaches English full time. In her non-writing life, she practices yoga occasionally and line dances on other occasions. On Twitter: @christinamrau. For everything else including her blog that has moved from Blogger: http://www.christinamrau.com

  Drew Brees

Attmps 673; Comp 471; yards 5,208; comp % 70.0; 37 TDs; INTs 15; Long 98

QB Rating: 101.7

I was tagged by @archangel-with-a-shotgun! I’m a little late, but I’ve been hella sick and crazy busy at work, so this is the first opportunity I’ve really had to fill this out!

(How to find your stats: go to your Dashboard, click on “Statistics,” then click on the year you’re answering for!)

Total 2016 Word Count: 63335 Total 2016 Pages Edited: Uh. A lot. I edit while I’m writing though lol Total 2016 Hits: 9182 Total Kudos: 628 Total Bookmarks: 107 Total Comment (threads): 69 User Subscriptions: 58

Links and Titles to 2016 Works: Oh lord you’re making me do work ughhh

Star Wars:

Make Me Feel Like A God (E, Kylux)

I’d Die Without This (E, Kylux)

Waiting For Us (T, Kylux)

I Might As Well Be The One (T, Kylux)

Supernatural:

Up And Coming (E, Sabriel)

Holes In The Sky (M, Cabriel)

Saving You (M, Sabriel)

Gabriel Vs The World (M, Sabriel)

Bittersweet Eve (T, Sabriel)

Take Me Back To The Start (M, Gen)

Supernatural RPF:

Mrs. Vance (T, Gen)

Favorite Fic: Oh gosh...Even though I didn’t write a lot this year, I wrote some stuff that I really liked. I loved writing Gabriel Vs The World since it’s a fun fic based on one of my fave movies. I also had a blast writing Waiting For Us since it’s based on a parody song. 

Hardest Fic: Easily I’d Die Without This. It was a fic I wrote for an exchange and it definitely pushed me to my limits of smut and writing in general. I won’t go into details, but that fic has more triggers than an gun show in Texas. 

Do you plan to take Prompts in 2017: I don’t know. I actually have been writing more than I’ve been publishing, just because I’ve been trying not to post WIPs as much. I have about 4 or 5 long fics in the works that will hopefully be posted this year!

What was the best thing about 2016: Joining the Kylux fandom has been awesome (my kylux blog is @kyluxanonymous) and I’m so glad my fics have been doing well with them. :D

What was the worst thing about 2016: I’ve had like, a year long writer’s block that has really sucked. I’m really hoping I’m better this year!

Any last thoughts for 2016: THANK GOD ITS OVER.

Comparison with 2015: 

Total 2015 Word Count: 63209 Total 2015 Pages Edited: Again. A lot. Total 2015 Hits: 15762 Total Kudos: 1342 Total Bookmarks: 241 Total Comment (threads): 73

As you can see, I did much better in 2015 lmao

Mark Ingram

Run:  205 attmps; 1,043 yards; 5.1 avg; 75 longest; 6 TDs

Pass:  46 catches; 319 yards; 6.9 avg/catch; 22 longest; 4 TDs

I wasn’t tagged but @archangelsanonymous​ did this and it looked fun to try!

(How to find your stats: go to your Dashboard, click on “Statistics,” then click on the year you’re answering for!) Total 2016 Word Count: 34836 Total 2016 Pages Edited: No idea, probably a bunch Total 2016 Hits: 2646 Total Kudos: 232 Total Bookmarks: 17 Total Comment (threads): 46 User Subscriptions: 3 Links and Titles to 2016 Works: Dude there’s a bunch...

Fallout4

Trivia Night - (M, Mallout AU)

Wanted: A Way to the Show - (T, Mallout AU)

Things with my OCs (multiple fandoms, If they fits they sits)

BearHawk And Lore collection - there’s 8 stories of my OCs in this. Don’t feel like linking each one, most people don’t care anyways.

Supernatural

And Then He Walked Away  - (G, Gabriel)

Supernatural + X-Files Crossover

Fantastic Plausibility - (M, Sabriel) ((AO3 is telling me this is a 2017 fic, but I wrote over 75k words of it in ‘16 so I’m listing it anyways.))

Supernatural RPF (this is where MOST of my writing is)

Five times Rob said “I love you” (and one time Richard did) - (G, R2)

Extended Stay - (E, R2)

Puimini dei pioppo - (G, R2)

How much is too much caffeine - (G, R2)

Interrupted - (T, R2)

Not Fair -  (G, R2)

55 Gallon Drum - (T, R2)

Poke-what? - (G, Gen)

Hot Times  - (G, R2M broship)

Favorite Fic: 5 times or Hot Times, 5 times was what helped me make friends and got me more into the SPN fandom. Hot Times was my first challenge fic. Hardest Fic: Extended Stay, I flounder and fail when it comes to smut, but I tried with this one. Do you plan to take Prompts in 2017: Maybe? I usually find prompts. But I could probably take them too! What was the best thing about 2016: I made friends from posting stories!! What was the worst thing about 2016: I dunno? Any last thoughts for 2016: Glad I gave it shot and got up the courage to post things. Also I don’t know why it doesn’t count Fantastic Plausibility for 2016, is it because I’m still updating it? Comparison with 2015:  I did nothing so it’s all uphill from here.

View my Goodreads Year in Review here!

BOOKS READ

Total Books Read = 98 Average Books Read Per Month = 8.17 Best Reading Months = August (13 Books) Worst Reading Months = May (1 Book)

Pages Total Pages Read = 31,730 Average Pages Per Book = 318.35 Total Chunksters (450+ pages) Read = 13 Shortest Book = Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (108 pgs) Longest Book = Outlander (Outlander #1) by Diana Gabaldon (850 pgs), though one could argue Les Miserables by Victor Hugo would be longer at 997 pgs. (I read it in two volumes, though.)

Genres Total Nonfiction Books Read = 12 Total Autobiographies/Memoirs Read = 7 Total Poetry Books Read = 2 Total Adult Fiction Books Read = 5 Total Romance Books Read = 8 Total Comedy/Satire Books Read = 3 Total Mystery/Thriller Books Read = 7 Total Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novels Read = 9 Total Plays Read = 2 Total Short Stories Collections Read = 6 Total Graphic Novels Read = 16 Total Young Adult Books Read = 18 Total Children’s Books Read = 10 Total “Classics” Read = 17

Categories Total Audio Books “Read” = 13 Total Ebooks Read = 11 Total Print Books Read = 74 Total ARCs Read = 5 Total Books Reread = 11 Total Books Read for Book Club = 9 Total Books Read for Adultbooklr = 27 Total Books Read for Squgs = 33 Total Books Reviewed = 9 Total Series Read = 37 Books, 21 Series Total Single Books Read = 61 Total “Page to Screen” Read = 17

Authors Total Lady Authors Read = 40 Total Male Authors Read = 34 Total New-to-Me Authors = 62 Total Repeat Authors = 22

Ownership Total Books Read that I Own = 38 Total Books Read that I Don’t Own = 60

Publishing Year 2016 = 20 2010-2015 = 44 2000s = 15 1940-1995 = 6 1920s = 5 1840-1900 = 6 1590-1610 = 2 Earliest Publication = Richard II by William Shakespeare (1595) Latest Publication = Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick (November 15, 2016)

Ratings 5/5 Ratings = 11 4/5 Ratings = 50 3/5 Ratings = 34 2/5 Ratings = 2 1/5 Ratings = 1

CHALLENGES Goodreads 2016 Reading Challenge: 98/50 Books Read 2016 TBR Pile Challenge: 11/12 Books Read 2015-2020 Classics Club Challenge: 15/50 Books Read

MY THOUGHTS

My goal was increased this year to 75 books BUT I READ 97 WHAT

I always seem to have my best reading month in August. Middle of summer slow-down, I guess. Now, in the busiest month, I can’t remember what that’s like!

May was my repeated worst-month. I am definitely seeing a pattern.

Holy chunksters! Thirteen?!

Reading the entire 13-book series of A Series of Unfortunate Events definitely contributed to my total, not just in book count, but because they were so short I was able to read more in the same amount of time.

Holy crap, ab, stop making me read books.

Thanks to BookCon I was able to add an ARC section! I’m excited for more opportunities to read advanced copies and to be a beta reader. Not sure if this is plausible if I can’t make it to BookCon again.

I really REALLY utilized the library this year. Which is great, but I neglected my own shelf. (affecting my TBR challenge.) 

TWENTY NEW RELEASES?! Usually that’s a ZERO. (Well, Saga is an exception.)

I read more but still somehow came short on my TBR challenge. I’m incredibly disappointed in this, but things came up in December that I didn’t plan for. (I did read one extra last year so it balances out, right?)

I won’t be taking on any additional annual challenges because I need to read books I already own, primarily! No distractions!

Looking at my Top 5 list, Fantasy and sci-fi really won me over this year.

Goodreads Stats

I saw @tenoko1 do this and since it’s my first year of writing, I’d thought it would be fun to do! I’m also terribly curious to see what my stats are.

Total 2016 Word Count: 223,111 Total 2016 Kudos: 283 Total 2016 Hits: 4,055 Total 2016 Comment Threads: 17

I honestly cannot believe I’ve written that much since April. Nanowrimo definitely helped that word count, but I also dived right into writing without a second glance.

Story Links:

Way too much to link here. Just check out my masterlist.

Favorite Fic: Do I have to pick just one? Right now, I love my Losing You series. It’s given itself a special place in my writing heart. Lyrical Love was a very fun piece to write that I spent a lot of time on, and when it was finished, I was very, very proud of the finished product. The Magic of Melty Chocolate was a super fluffy, written-on-a-whim piece that actually turned out wonderful. And let’s not forget Yellow. I never knew I could be so poetic.

Hardest Fic: The Boyking I think takes the cake on this one. It was both a challenge to reach the word count for it during WriMo, but it was also difficult because of the subject matter. I began the story worried about doing it justice, but then realized that I needed to just write. Errors and things can be fixed later. It’s also a darker story than what I have written before, so that was challenging as well. I’ll be revising it in the next couple of months, so I will be posting more parts. I hope you guys will love it as much as I do. 

Do you plan to take prompts in 2017? I don’t take prompts. At least, not on a regular basis. The exceptions to that are, of course, celebrations or the random ask that may come in from time to time. *cough cough* Looking at you @impala-dreamer. 

What was the best thing of 2016? The fact that I started writing, if we are staying on that subject, and that I “started” this blog. Other subjects... I graduated college this year, I saw The 1975 in concert, I’ve made new, close friends on here and irl, friends got married, I went on a mission trip...there have been a lot of fun things I’ve gotten to do this year. 

What was the worst thing of 2016? I’ve had my first cases of writer’s block that worried me. I’ve felt crappy about my writing and I’ve thrown out a couple pieces that suddenly weren’t going anywhere. Other subjects, I had a friend pass away this year, we’ve had lots of family and financial troubles, I had to postpone going to grad school, and at the beginning of the year, I had a friend go through some truly terrifying things.