What’s New In 2022
Has it been a ride to get to 2022 or what? It’s certainly felt like it! There were so many things I had wanted to accomplish in 2021, and while some of them I am working on, many things felt like they had fallen on the wayside.
But it is a new year, and a fresh start. As I write this post, I sit in home quarantine at my parents’ place, meeting them after almost two years. My kids – the younger of whom is meeting them for the first time – are asleep, and I can make some headway on one of the things I want to accomplish this 2022, namely, get back into blogging.
It can be difficult to balance work and life. Work, for me, are my creative endeavours – my writing, my blogging and other bookish things, my bookmark designing and now digital art. A small step towards that in 2021 was Ko-fi, where I started posting stories and poetry, and Twitch, where I have started streaming productivity sprints and art. These small steps have helped me work through the anxiety that comes with sharing my creations with people.
This year, I look forward to creating more, reading more and blogging more. With a soft rebrand on the blog, I aim to not just write about books, but also other media, food and life. I want to try and support other creators as much as I am able to.
2022 is here, and with it I hope to:
- blog more frequently. I am aiming for two posts a month.
- start filming videos again. They will be a mix of booktube and authortube videos.
- stream consistently.
- write and edit short stories for ko-fi subscribers. I hope to post one short story every quarter of the year.
- restart my bookstagram with at least one post a week.
- edit my poetry compilation, and try and finish a draft of one of my longer stories.
- interact more with the writing and bookish communities.
- set up and start my discord server to help with the last point.
Of course, this is a very straightforward and seemingly simple list of things I would like to accomplish this year. Life can be unpredictable, and plans can change, but so far, with the uploading of an old short chaptered story on Ko-fi, this looks quite doable.
You can find a similar post about my hopes for the year – more focused on the Ko-fi side of things – here. Here’s hoping 2022 is a good one for all of us.
What are some of your hopes and goals for 2022? How was 2021, and what might you have learnt last year?
Come chat with me, and tell me one thing you are changing from last year!
Ara
I’m Ara, a Southeast Asian writer who someday hopes to have published a novel, and who is currently losing herself in the worlds created by others. I love books and food and television and blogging and I get distracted and sidetracked easily.