This is not the first time I’ve had a post emerge into this webspace on this calendar date; I’ve done it before in 2018 and 2021. While I do comment about the end of the calendar year, I have tended to leave retrospection to my anniversary posts, 17 June of each year since I got started in this webspace. (I have another one of those stubbed out, in fact, something reasonably easy to do given the commonality of those posts. It works well enough for me, really.) I don’t know that I’m going to do much different this time around, really; it’s enough to look back at what I’ve written this calendar year to get an idea of how it went for me.

What seems more fitting than looking back is looking forward. There are things I mean to do in this webspace, and there are things I will doubtlessly attempt that I don’t yet realize I’ll try. As to the former:

• The Robin Hobb Rereading Series will continue. So will the Fedwren Project, even if I can’t work on it quite as regularly as I can the Rereading. The two are more or less why I pivoted from my earlier “professional” webspace to this one. I’ll press on as I can with them.
• I mean to try my hand at NaPoWriMo again. I didn’t think when I started it this year that I’d do it; I rather backed into it, honestly. As I noted after it was over, however, I think I’ll approach it with a format and a theme in mind. I wonder if I might open up selection of each to my readers, putting up some kind of poll for it. Perhaps that might be something I offer as a premium perk for those who want to contribute to my bad habits writerly endeavors. Perhaps I ought to make such support more formal…
• I’ve racked up quite a few scholarly somedays, not only in the Hobb reread, but also in some other places. I really should address some of them. I do still do some academic conference work, after all, and it is also helpful to have longer-form material for this webspace. It serves as something of a writing portfolio for me, after all, and the variety is a useful thing to display.
• I’ve had occasion to pick up my horn again. It will need some repair soon; it’s simply part of an embodied existence that maintenance is required. But it has been good to get music back under my fingers. I’ll doubtlessly have some things to say about it.
• Similarly, I’m still working out, if perhaps not as much as I really should. I mean to continue doing so; I expect I’ll write about it, too.

Again, I can’t completely predict the year, even if I can express some hope for it. (I have to express some hope for it. The other way…isn’t helpful.) There’ll be other stuff emerge, I’m sure, but I look forward to seeing it, and I look forward to having my dear readers come along with me as I do.

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