We’re in what people tend to call an aimless time of the year—the bit between Christmas and New Years, where it feels like a vague haze of “where am I going?” And eating holiday leftovers. In the past, I also dwelled in that fog of autopilot, but in recent years, I’ve found these few last days of a given year to be a lovely time of productivity and reflection.
This year has been far less productive than I had hoped, but in the end, I made progress, and that’s what’s important. I had planned to have the print edition of Lunar the Moon Rabbit available a month or two after I finished it, but come autumn I still hadn’t found a way to make it happen. I’ll let you in on a secret—technically, Lunar the Moon Rabbit already is published and available for sale on Amazon, but I’ve kept it quiet. I wanted to be able to order author copies and verify everything turned out okay without the garish “not for resale” label covering my book. Thanks to some help from the crew at Amazon, I think it’s finally ironed out. The extended time working on getting the darn thing out there took some of the wind out of my sails, and it definitely bogged down my work elsewhere. But I’m still pleased with what I’ve done. I completed Lunar this year. I got it just about done for print and general publication. I published the eBook of my novelette Circadia. I started my new series Detective Rosengarten, and I’m working on getting volume one completed. I reevaluated my strategy for creating comics, and have changed some of my scheduling and work ethics. I’m working smarter, but still hard—just dedicating my energy elsewhere instead of having to pour it all out in one place. I had time to make assets to share with other creators. Thanks to help from readers, The Pumpkin Sells Real Estate made it into the Webtoons ad revenue program, and had a huge boom of subscribers. Wrong About the Stars took off, too, and it’s got the biggest reader base out of all of my comics on Tapas. I made new friends this year, and I hatched a lot of schemes and ideas. 2020 wasn’t the best year, but for me, it was still alright. I’m cautiously optimistic about what I can do in the fast approaching new year. I have plans. I have so, so many plans. I’d like to make another blog post soon about my plans and ideas, whether I’ll truly pursue them or not. Having somewhere to drop my brain is helpful—I do a lot of thinking on the fly. Here’s to the end of 2020, and the onset of 2021. Raise a cuppa tea, and let’s make it better than last. Hope your Christmas was great, and hope it’s a happy New Year. All the best, -Lissie Dixon
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