Mel's Year In Review: 2016

At the end of 2015, I reported that I had the worst year of fiction writing. 2016 went a little better. Unlike 2015, I had an excuse not to do so much writing: I was putting together a music publishing company, which I knew would take a lot of time. For 2016, I had set some low grade fiction goals, and I did decently well.

I successfully finished the 6th draft of my novel, "Justice." I've chosen an editing service, which I will approach in early 2017, and I'm still on track to releasing the novel in 2017.

I successfully completed the first draft of "The Last Actuary," which I will submit at the end of January 2017 to another contest.

I made six submissions to magazines, which was twice as many as I submitted in 2015, but I still fell short of my goal of 26. This is my biggest regret for 2016, but I felt I made great strides in other areas.

Other stats for 2016:

• 23 posts in this blog (same as last year).
• 7,685 pageviews, bringing the total to 60,381 (up 15%).
• The Mormon Mel had 3 new posts and 382 new pageviews for a total of 1,576 (up 32%).
• The Music of Mel had 14 new posts and 1,381 new pageviews for a total of 4,812 (up 40%).
• The Econo-Mel had 2 new posts and 364 new pageviews for a total of 1,999 (up 22%).
• The Melkim Blog is a new blog with 10 posts. Evidently, since it's a Wordpress site, I haven't yet figured out how to capture the number of blog posts. (Something fun to research this next year).
• My YouTube videos had 32,273 views for a total of 327,389 (up 11%).
• I reviewed:
• 13 movies
• 10 TV shows
• 5 books
• Evidently, this past year, I only had one non-review/update post, and here it is:
• Struggling with Justice (how I overcame my writing woes and got back to work)

How did you do in 2016?