2020 in Review: A Look Back · 11:18pm Jan 4th, 2021
Hello readers, and welcome to 2021! That’s right, the calendar has flipped, the months have passed, and we are in a new year once more. Which means, as I tail out of my vacation, that it’s time to take a look back at the last year and take stock. Also, to apologize for the lateness of this post; my staycation has caught up with me. In fact, I feel as though my leaving my warm bed in the afternoon should have been narrated by Attenborough, saying something like “Forced to leave his warm burrow by a dying battery, the creature finally emerges from his hiding place in search of power.”
Anyway, in lieu of a classic Being a Better Writer post today, I thought I’d use today as the perfect time to take a look back at the site and my writing over this last year and see what 2020 ended up as. What came out of 2020. What did I accomplish? What did I achieve? Did I release anything? How did the site perform? How were sales?
You get the picture. So, today, I deliver to you readers a summary of the year past. Writing done, books published, site stats … all of it. Hit the jump, and we’ll get started. It’s time to look at some good from 2020.
Outstanding news about the site metrics, especially with BaBW posts appearing in those FAQ answers that google searches sometimes spit out. (And it's pretty funny that your mentor's website is now second in the search results to your own when it comes to talking about his own laws.
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Mixed blessings on the income front, looks like. On the one hand, it's almost like you got monkey's-pawed out of your part-time job. On the other, it seems to be actually working out, and things are looking up on the book-sales front. Did I read it right that your sales-dollars went up by a similar 40% factor to your BaBW site metrics?
Sad to hear that only fourteen people saw the finale of Fireteam Freelance. I enjoyed reading it, even if it wasn't your best, most polished work. On the plus-side, I suppose that means a whole lot of people won't recognize it when you rerelease it into a less episodic and more book-like format.
And it's great to hear that Axtara's finances appear to have a long tail.