In a Nutshell

In a Nutshell: January 2016 Last year, I started doing monthly recaps. After a while, they got to be too much to keep up with, but I've always wanted to go back to them. Thus, I present a new bloggity feature thing: In a Nutshell. It'll be more condensed than my previous monthly recaps. I intend to use this as a way to let you know what I've been up to, as well as to keep as a record of what I've been doing in my life (since I am a very forgetful person). What was I saying? Oh. Well, let's get to it. Here's January 2016 in a nutshell.

earlier i managed to entertain two toddlers by letting them watch me pour my coffee. the world is amazing.
— skywalker (@skyofthetiger) January 11, 2016

In the Blogosphere

To kick off the year, I decided to take on the challenge of making myself an accordion menu. What resulted was a new novels page.

This was a busy month for me as far as writing blog posts goes. I posted here on Wednesdays and on The Fangirl Initiative on Thursdays. One of the biggest things was the accidental creation of Young and Sick, where I now post on Fridays. Integrating the word spoonie into my online identity was another huge thing, as was self love. Overall, I became bolder. I wrote some blog posts that terrified me, but I took steps towards becoming the writer I want to be.

It's been an amazing start to the year. If you want to see everything I wrote in January, click here. (I had to make this page for all of my blog posts because in two years, I will probably remember nothing.)

Here's What You Liked...

Beautiful People: 2016 Writerly Goals & Resolutions
My Year of Firsts: 2015 > 2016
On Self-Love (And Getting my Nose Pierced)
Even More 2016 Writing Goals (As Told by Tony Stark)
the writer's slump

Some of you came to this blog via these search results... Here's What I Liked...

Letting Go of Perfect @ A Life of Pages
Loving Someone with Chronic Pain @ Kate the Almost Great
Jason Fry's thoughts on the newest addition to The Millenium Falcon

While quite a bit of this month was dedicated to nonfiction blog posts, I still found time to occasionally work on Spaceboy. All of it has been written in January, as far as I know, so my writing came to a total of about 8k (ish).

Eyes Shut - Years and Years
Luxury - Jon Bellion
Lay It All on Me - Rudimental and Ed Sheeran
Polaroid - Imagine Dragons
Rumble - Brooke Waggoner
400 Lux - Lorde
Good to Be Alive (Hallelujah) - Andy Grammer
Love Yourself - Justin Bieber
Who Do You Love - Marianas Trench
Ooh - Jon Bellion
Downtown - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
House of Gold - Twenty One Pilots
Waiting for Love - Avicii
Trouble - Avicii

(There was also Hamilton. So much Hamilton. I'm in love with Hamilton.)

Tune in next time to see...

What about you? What was your January 2016 like?

P.S. - As some of you may have seen on Twitter, I'm contemplating starting a story and posting installments of it on Wattpad. Should I do this? Pros? Cons? Let me know!
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