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A five year plan - a great leap forward?

I happened to glance tonight at part of my blog’s behind the scenes bits and realized it’s five years old. Now, the posts per year have declined greatly. I wrote 63 posts and 67,000 words in 2014. I wrote 27 posts and 47,000 words in 2015. I wrote 11 words and not quite 16,000 posts in 2016. I wrote 4 posts and 1600 words in 2017. I wrote one 1200 word post in 2018. I’m at two for almost 1500 words so far in 2019, which puts me on track for this to be the best year in a few, writing-wise. (The music writing I’ve done for myself follows a similar pattern, except shifted slightly - peak years 2016 and 2017, and very little in 2018.)

The point of the writing is a kind of self-making and skill-acquisition, and also just for the sake of the doing. I think some of it’s good, at least relative to my abilities and time, but above all it’s the quantity of words and time spent, and the discipline and what I think is some degree of improvement, that I’m most pleased about.