You Never Know What The Year Will Bring | Part 3

Take a look at parts 1 & 2 of this three part series, linked below:

A Writer's Thank You:

There aren't any words to describe how grateful I am to everyone who has supported and encouraged me this year. I've been able to do so much this year in my life and in my writing, that I know has partly been in thanks to all of you. Your comments helped me on my dark days and made me feel a little less alone in my moments of self-doubt.

So thank you so much for it all.

Here's to next year.

Year's Statistics:

Stories Written: 104 total

Breakdown: 01 (1), Beat (1), Fiction (19), Geeks (9), Horror (2), Humans (1), Motivation (3), Poets (59), Psyche (3), Styled (1), Viva (2), Wander (1), Writers (2)

Top Stories (Read) *as of 12/31

1. The Woman in the Cafe, September 9 - 68 reads

2. Goodbye, January 23 - 67 reads

3. The Imposter, June 4 - 53 reads

4. I Will Be Your Mirror, June 19 - 52 reads

5. I'm glad I waited until after high school to care, October 7 - 48 reads

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Top Stories: 18 total

January (1): Goodbye

February (1): Ophelia

March (2): Spring In Winter, Leap and Burn

April (2): Saying Goodbye to the Blues, I Should Have Asked For Better

May (1): The Price I Pay

June (3): The Imposter, In The Pauses, I Will Be Your Mirror

July (1): Timothy

August (1): Scream

September (1): The Woman In The Cafe

October (3): I'm glad I waited until high school to care, stopping to smell the roses, The Dying Source

November (1): You Never Know What The Year Will Bring | Part 1

December (1): Reclaiming Myself

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Challenge Placements:

When It Is Safe - 2nd place in Real Poetic's Secret Writers Challenge

Grandma's Sweet Potato Pie - runner-up in Poppy's Prompts | March Edition

Is It Love? (Ask Me in December) - co-winner in Bab Iverson's Ask Me In December Challenge w/ Christy Munson

Dinosaur Town - runner-up in Poemosaurus Rex Challenge

Letting Go - runner-up in Breakup Nonet Challenge

183 - micro-fiction winner in D.K Shepherd's Keep It 100 Challenge

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Other Achievements:

*February 8 - Vocal+ Assist: Winner for Captain Caption

*February 29 - Real Poetic's Secret Writers Trivia Challenge Winner

*April 1 - Vocal+ Assist: Author of the Day

*April 6 - Vocal Social Society: Part of Dynamic Duo w/ Christy Munson

*June - reached 1,000 reads

*June 21 - back-to-back Top Stories

*December 20 - published my 100th story of the year

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Year's Table of Contents:

Title [Community] (Challenge Submission)

Golden girl's secret [Poets]

Your eyes inspired a love poem [Poets] (Unfiltered)

Intimacy [Poets]

Are Some Dreams Too Big? [Motivation] (#200)

The Last Piece Of Him [Fiction] (Mackenzie Davis' Official (Unofficial) Ekphrastic Challenge)

Miscommunication Trope [Poets] (Abecedarian)

My 2 AM Haikus [Poets] (Poppy's Prompts | January Edition)

Goodbye [Poets] (Abecedarian)

The Architect, the Blacksmith, the Carpenter, & the Surgeon [Poets]

Ophelia [Fiction] (Misplaced)

When It Is Safe [Fiction] (Real Poetic's Secret Writers Challenge)

When It Is Safe: The Poems [Poets]

Saying Goodbye to the Blues [Psyche]

Under the Snow [Fiction] (Snow Micro)

The Necessity That Is Social Media [01]

The Uphill Battle [Viva] (Love Unraveled)

Spring in Winter [Poets]

Grandma's Sweet Potato Pie [Poets] (Poppy's Prompts | March Edition, Snacktime Sonata)

Peddlers [Poets]

Leap and Burn [Poets]

The Eclipsed Bookworm [Poets] (In Eclipse)

Past the Dragon [Fiction]

My Mind Is Blown #1 [Geeks]

My Mind Is Blown #2 [Geeks]

My Depression is the Moon [Poets] (In Eclipse)

My Mind Is Blown #3 [Geeks]

Is It Love? (Ask Me in December) [Poets] (Bab Iverson's Ask Me In December Challenge)

I Should Have Asked For Better [Poets] (Bab Iverson's Ask Me In December Challenge)

My Mind Is Blown #4 [Geeks]

My Mind Is Blown #5 [Geeks]

Hank's Monster [Fiction] (Just A Minute)

My Mind Is Blown #6 [Geeks]

My Mind Is Blown #7 [Geeks]

Postcard [Poets]

The Price I Pay [Fiction] (Randy Baker's Writers Challenge | Prompted #4)

even butterflies need to land [Poets]

My Mind Is Blown #8 [Geeks]

Flatlander on the Hill [Wander] (Travel Snaps)

Because A Rock Crashed [Poets] (Poemosaurus Rex)

Dinosaur Town [Poets] (Poemosaurus Rex)

The Imposter [Psyche]

In the Pauses [Poets]

A Sickly Update [Writers]

I Will Be Your Mirror [Poets] (Dialogue Poetry)

Love, It Still Fits [Poets]

Timothy [Fiction] (Belle's The Conviction [an unofficial challenge])

Pretending [Poets] (Breakup Nonet)

Letting Go [Poets] (Breakup Nonet)

His 'Thank You' Left Me Broken [Poets] (Breakup Nonet)

Vanilla Lies [Poets] (Breakup Nonet)

it hurts for a reason [Poets] (Breakup Nonet)

I'll still be happy without you [Poets] (Breakup Nonet)

Famous [Poets] (Breakup Nonet)

Lemons and Friends [Poets]

Scream [Fiction] (L*pogram)

Don't Hold On [Poets] (Kayleigh Fraser's One of Us Unofficial Poetry Challenge)

I don't want to miss out on tomorrow [Poets] (Kayleigh Fraser's One of Us Unofficial Poetry Challenge)

Strawberries Mean Death [Fiction] (Overboard)

Angel of Vengeance [Fiction] (Epic Beginnings)

This Is Where It Begins [Fiction] (Epic Beginnings)

In Quiet Memoriam [Poets] (Moment of Silence)

DND [Poets] (Moment of Silence)

Previously... [Fiction]

The Flowers Died Today [Fiction]

The Woman in the Cafe [Psyche] (Small Kindness)

The White Room [Fiction] (Unreliable)

5-4-3-2-1 [Poets] (Sensational II)

stopping to smell the roses [Poets] (Sensational II)

The Morning After (I fall deeper with every thing you do.) [Poets] (Sensational II)

WWRD? [Fiction]

I'm glad I waited until after high school to care. [Styled]

right now [Poets]

A Lasting Witness [Poets] (Sky-ku)

In the Scream House [Horror] (Spooky Micro)

Pareidolia [Poets] (Sky-ku)

Redefining Femininity [Viva]

Glitch [Horror] (Spooky Micro)

Are We Stars? [Poets] (Sky-ku)

Dandelion Dreams [Poets] (Sky-ku)

The Dying Source [Fiction] (Fantasy Prologue II)

The Chess Game [Fiction] (Fantasy Prologue II)

never tire of those three words [Poets] (D.K Shepherd's Keep It 100 Challenge)

183 [Fiction] (D.K Shepherd's Keep It 100 Challenge)

A Winter's Morning Debut [Poets] (Frosted Verse)

i much prefer limes [Poets]

Love = Leave [Poets]

Lemony Problems [Poets]

I am more than a color [Humans] (Letters of Gratitude)

what are girls for? [Poets]

Trinket [Poets]

Dancing Into the Finale [Geeks]

Dedication [Poets]

You Never Know What The Year Will Bring | Part 1 [Motivation] (Echoes of the Year's Lessons)

thankfulness requires perspective [Poets]

A Writer's Vow [Poets]

Little Musical Thoughts [Poets]

the difference between a boy and a man [Poets]

Snow Angels [Poets]

wherever the wind takes me [Poets] (Raymond G Taylor's Oh Jeff flash fiction Challenge)

the theory of special relativity [Poets]

Reclaiming Myself [Beat] (The Soundtrack of Your Year)

You Never Know What The Year Will Bring | Part 2 [Motivation]

will you hurt me? (love's a dagger) [Poets]

You Never Know What The Year Will Bring | Part 3 [Writers]