Improve – Age of the Diary

2024 Masterlist (Life Plans, New Year’s Resolutions, Advice, Top 4 Goals, etc.)

January 17, 2024

Reflections about 2023:

I don’t remember my 2023 new secret goal for personal growth
I attended yoga classes so that was a goal that I met
I set up Patreon but haven’t earned from it
I submitted seven times, got accepted twice, one still has no result. The two acceptances are for feminist conferences.
I said BOS wasn’t important anymore but now I’m thinking to restart it.
I did not bike once a day. Recently I haven’t been biking at all
I was able to lessen sugar but this Christmas I increased again
I don’t know why the important descriptions don’t call to me anymore.

2023 Masterlist (Life Plans, New Year’s Resolutions, Advice, Top 4 Goals, etc.)

March 27, 2023

Reflections about 2022:

This is a very late post because I forgot to do this. I think I wasn’t blogging recently.

I realized I want to get published still but now I’m going to look for publication opportunities that pay me or are good opportunities that will make me happy.

LDA and BOS are no longer important. I have abandoned these goals.

My 2022 blog posts have been: mostly old songs, then I mostly blogged on Patreon. My Patreon tags are poem (34), fiction (16), speculative fiction (9), Ethical Financial Life (9), experimental writing (7), performance poetry (6), song (4), feminist fiction (4), eco-lit (3), notes (2), political (2), recurring (1), All-Girls School Series (1), Ja the Weird Kid Stories (1), art (1), concrete poetry (1), long personal essay (1). I want to fix my Patreon and I want to earn from it.

Some parts of my masterlist now sound unrealistic but I don’t have the heart to delete them.

Should I share my story? Ask for consent

January 13, 2023

A friend shared this post and I realized that I do a) without thinking even if I know that some people might interpret it as b). As I was thinking about this, I thought of a solution, which I borrowed from my experience as a sexual justice advocate. It doesn’t seem connected at all but I swear it will make sense.

2022 Masterlist (Life Plans, New Year’s Resolutions, Advice, Top 4 Goals, etc.)

January 19, 2022

Reflections About 2021:

I have been trying to organize my writing life, and I did submit a few times, but I’m beginning to realize that maybe I don’t really care about getting published. Why? I mean, I care about the prestige. I wish I didn’t. However, there’s still a part of me that wants to be validated as a writer. On the other hand, I don’t care about being published because, in the past, my published works have vanished online, and I mostly did not get compensated for what I submitted. This makes me think, what’s the point in submitting when I can just publish it in my blog? At least in my blog, I can ensure that my work will always be online and also that the format is something I can control. Yes, I won’t get paid when I post it in my blog, but neither will I be when I submit to publications. This year, I’m exploring other platforms.

Things that Make Me Sad (2021)

December 18, 2021

I noticed that my post Things that Make Me Sad was getting a lot of hits. It was surprising because I don’t think there’s anything special about that list. Curious, I read the post again, and I realized new things about that list. I decided to make another version instead of initially thinking of updating the original post. The new version has new categories, which enabled me to have new realizations, and there are also other edits.

SELF

Chastising myself: