The Bill for 2022 December 22, 2022 Twenty twenty-two was a year of change. It started out much as 2021 had, with quotas for writing and submitting being hit with ease. Then in April there was a death in the family, which put everything else on hold for almost six months. But that time away from writing made me consider perhaps I was too focused on sheer word-count as the metric for writing progress, and to realize that my writing life had become lopsided.[1] I made some changes and my writing-life balance not only seems much better, but I'm just about as productive as I was before. (However, I _did_ fall down on getting back to my previous level of submitting--something I plan to correct in 2023.) Here are my writing stats for 2022: o Submissions: 66 o Publications: 2 (1 short story, 2 poems) o Hours spent writing: ??? (stopped tracking in April) My publication rate (submissions to sales) was around 5 percent for both genres in which I submitted this year. I completed a first draft of a novel and wrote a reverse outline of that draft, in preparation for the second draft (which will start in 2023). I also posted "A Writer's Guide to Vim," a set of tips and tricks for prose writers who have vim. I hope in 2023 to make some time for a few short stories in and around the second draft of the novel. We'll see how that goes. Well, that about sums up this year. Best of luck in writing and in life in 2023. [1] https://www.andrewgudgel.com/blog/taking-stock.txt (c) 2022 Andrew Gudgel email. contact [at] andrewgudgel.com