Welp. Whoops? There were extra appointments and ER visits than planned for the month so that quickly fell through. I think it’s safe to say everything for 2025 has just been a complete fail on my part.

But, next year will be another chance to try, try again! I’m in the process of setting up a new challenge on even months for 2026. I’m going to try to alternate between an art and a writing challenge. I will start fairly easy in February with one painting a week. Since April is Poetry Month, I will attempt to write daily or mostly daily poems – maybe at least 5 a week. For June, I will complete a sketch every other day (15 total) of original characters, and in August I will write one short story every other day involving those 15 sketches.

Most of that shouldn’t be awful. The months where I know I have a lot of plans get skipped with the every other month idea, except for February, which should be relatively light work. It’s later in the year that things might fall through. October is known by some people as Inktober. I don’t know if I will do a full Inktober, or 30 days minus my birthday, or every other day yet. But the goal is to complete a drawing and then ink it. And I will shift the novel writing to December, but with the holidays and everything else going on, it seems very likely that will fail too, so I don’t know if I want to make an extra short novella or shorten the daily word allotment or do that every other day also… So for those last two months, I might alter the plans… or just fall through completely!

But, the fails happen! And that’s okay. We’ll see how next year goes.

(Hopefully better. I mean, it can’t be worse, right?) (Isn’t that the magic phrase to make it worse though?) (…fuck)