My 2024 // Goals, Writing, Reading, and Publishing Recap!

[@malikamaybe]

I wrote 'The End' on a book for the first time in a couple years after a very long burn out and queried for the first time in seven years in 2024. It's so lovely to hear about all your good health days and all that you accomplished (ahhhhh I'm so excited for Bitter Bones!). Congrats, congrats on all your hard work!

[@AmandaKayWRITES]

I love your videos, they've been really inspiring as I struggle in the query trenches lol. Uncontrollable out of my hands goal for 2025 is to get an agent. More within my control goals include finishing a rewrite and outlining a new project :)

[@BayleyMae]

As someone who also deals with chronic pain, I'm so so happy for you!! You're right, when your health is doing well, everything else is so much better. And I'm glad you're doing well!!! LOVE Critical Role and yay for learning to crochet!! I taught myself to crochet a couple years ago and it's just so nice and relaxing and it's fun to have a finished little thing at the end. Excited for Bitter Bones! This year, I wrote my first chapter book AND my first adult manuscript. Both were a big change from only ever writing MG, but lots of fun.

[@AJMurphyWrites]

I always look forward to your videos and am also thrilled that you enjoy CR! I am also a fan of DnD and the collaborative storytelling aspect. Thank you for sharing the ups and downs of 2024. Excited to see what 2025 has in store! Last year/early this month I was able to finish the first draft (very rough) of a fantasy novel and start some self-edits/revisions.

[@jackiereadsandwrites]

Making new friends as an adult is soooo hard! Totally related to what you were saying there, and I think that's awesome you were able to find some new people to hang out with IRL. Congrats, Lindsay, on all your accomplishments from this past year!

[@CodyTheWriter]

Love all the cozy hobbies!! 2024 was my first year on AuthorTube! I managed to finish draft 4 of my debut mystery/thriller (that comes out this year *screams*) and I finished the first draft of a second book! :D Hope 2025 is a great year for you!!

[@AliCatWrites]

I became a Critter in 2021 and to say it changed my life and my art would be an understatement. 2024 was tough in a few aspects, but great in others. I figured out the reason my physical reading had dropped off was because I needed glasses, now I’m reading like mad. I finished an extensive detailed outline for my high fantasy Vikings meets King Arthur story. And I’m outlining a cozy fantasy for folks who love Critical Role, Legends and Lattes, and The Spellbook. 🥰 Also, SO happy about your pain free days. I used to suffer from chronic back pain and I know how difficult that is mentally and physically. So glad you’ve found some relief this year!

[@apeacefulwriter]

I've been waiting for this one!! LOVE your stats woohoo! Wishing you a happy 2025!

[@WritterElenaNicole]

Congratulations on selling your book! And great job finishing most of your goals! All the best going into the new year!

[@RellyMoring]

As a fellow disabled author, gosh, I am so so glad for you that your health was so good this year! You’re so right, when your health is good, everything else feels euphoric! I can’t wait for Bitter Bones!

[@rylanwow]

i'm so happy you had so few pain days last year!! also congrats on finishing campaign two!! i always ugly cry at yasha and caleb's epilogues. thing i'm proud of doing this year: I finished applying to writing MFA programsss it's something i've been meaning to do for years and finally did it waiting for the rejections lol. anyways have a lovely day c:

[@annastride]

Sounds like an amazing year! By the way, I hope you know you are a crocheting prodigy. My coworker is very good at knitting and all sorts of crafts like that, but when I showed her the goat you made, she said it was fake news and she demands an investigation because she had been working for a week on what she called “one stupid granny square” and couldn’t even master that 😅

[@TaniaChaconWriting]

Health improvements and making actual friends in real life? I'm so happy for you! You can be massively proud of that alone (saying that because I struggle with both and know it ain't easy) My best thing of last year, though? I don't know, I can barely recall anything that happened last year🤭 But lots of good books for sure

[@romeoandthechickenfeather]

I don't think healthy people (like me) fully appreciate what it is to be healthy until it's taken away, so I'm glad that your year was the most pain-free yet! Recently, I've forced myself to finish bad books - I try to analyse why they don't work for me (but also because they secretly give me hope. After all, if they could get published, why can't I... heh heh).

[@alexwolfe3359]

I made the hard decision to not do Nanorwrimo on my second novel project novel to instead focus writing a TTRPG campaign guide that is going to come out in the spring! However after that a friend and I will be putting our heads together on our own writing challenge to each knock out first drafts of our next books!

[@catiehall416]

love you Lindsay! great video as always 🥰

[@hufflepuffins]

loved the video, always excited when I see you posted something new 💛

[@soiconic9446]

Hi Lindsay ❤

[@alesswonderland]

Congrats on a great year! I finally started Kings of the Wyld based on your description of it. It's so interesting so far! Hearing how many health goals you reached makes me excited to put in that effort after graduation. Edit: Hmm I'm not sure what my best thing of 2024 was besides focusing on making me happy. I did read the whole Well Met series and Gwen & Art Are Not in Love and adored them!

[@suzinelson2977]

In 2024 I graduated with a Masters Degree in Creative Writing. I don’t give myself enough credit for this because I haven’t finished the first draft of my novel but I did good, really good.

[@eminorthworld]

I loved listening to this so much. I am all for toxic cosy hobbies as well and damn I can't get fixated on critical role enough to finish it. in review of 2024: I did finish a book, I don't talk enough about (Cookie and The Sprite Garden). I also been through job hunting trenches so it was a weird year. I really need to learn to DNF and pick books from you as I have real pain to DNF at the moment. All ears for recommendations as did read a few of your picks! I need more MG and disability representation recs!

[@rachelmoore5085]

Hey! I'm curious about your experience with weightlifting and neck/arthritis and nerve pain. I have Palindromic Rheumatism as well as beginning-ish stages of degenerative disc in my neck and am looking for anything to help strengthen around the vertebrate but had never thought of lifting for this. What are you doing, and how are you doing it?? Were you nervous to begin?

[@JoeyPaulOnline]

Making friends is real life? Sounds fake but okay 😂 I don't think I've done that in decades but I don't really go out much there are people out there 😅 but glad you had a good year! 💜

[@lendralit1174]

I thought 2024 was going to be my year (as I was finally out of a years-long writing burnout), but then my brother and my grandpa passed within two months of each other in the spring. So 2024 went right in the garbage! 😅But I did still find moments of joy in 2024, my son and I were healthy, and I finally finished a book I'd been working on for 10 years, which felt soooo great! I can't wait to see all the Bitter Bones stuff this year--cover and release day fun! 🦴🎈