Ah, December. Can I start the end-of-the-year posts yet?

It’s been a wild ride this year, and no, I’m not about to launch into a goals-met-and-not-met post, but I have realized this week what fun my professional life has been over the last twelve months. I completed my second semester at Berkeley a little confused, to be honest, about the path I should be taking. Multimedia? Short videos? Documentaries? Radio? I left the US, and suddenly the writing work left no time for anything else.

It was only when our plans were near completion that the decision to return to India was made. And since I’ve returned, it’s been a challenging but wonderfully rewarding time, knowing that this was the year I either pushed hard and made it through, or figured out how to make this journalism career work in a different capacity. I knew it was no longer an option for me to be barely getting by.

I’m not starting my year-end calculations early this year, because I still have a lot of work coming in (and hopefully money, too) and 30 days seems like enough time for me to be make a bit of a dent in the goals I haven’t yet achieved. Hundreds (thousands?) of writers wrote 50,000-word novels as part of the National Novel Writing Month challenge in November. Surely, I can write a few more articles?

In fact, this year, I’m hoping to do a big end-of-the-year push in my writing and marketing, to make a greater effort in the last lap to reach the finish line with goals that if not exceeded, are at least met.

What do you say? Who’s with me?