Aurora Dimitre's Books and Rambling

 Another year is done, and that means it's time for my TOP 19 of 2023. This is, top ten books, top seven movies, top artist a la Spotify, and top game that I finished . No re-reads allowed, and also no re-watches, and I haven't played enough games for that to be an issue.  So, first up, easiest thing out of the way: according to Spotify, what was my top artist?  It was Marianas Trench. I listened to Ever After and Fix Me a whole lot this year. Over and over and over again. It has Aughts Boys reasons, I guess.  Top game? I actually finished four games this year. My favorite was definitely Pesterquest , mostly because when I got to the Dirk one at the end Unite: Synchronization started playing and I started crying, like, a little, and also I didn't let myself look up how to get good ends for any of them except for Dirk, because sue me, I'm a Dirk girl, and I just thought, you know, to myself, as it goes, like, WWDSD? And the answer was definitely look up how to win at ...

 

 

 

 A bitch loves a spreadsheet.  By a bitch, I mean me.  Let's take a walk through of all the spreadsheets I am desperately waiting for January 1st for, because then I can start using them.  First up, all of the ones that will be transferred from my '2023 Spreadsheets' folder to my '2024 Spreadsheets' folder on NYE.  'book series' is just a spreadsheet that gets sporadically updated whenever I pull a book from the book wall to read, but I haven't read/don't own the whole series. 'book wall' is a list of all of the unread books that I own. 'chores' is a list of chores that I add to my to-do list. 'creative income' has a different sheet for each year. I had the wherewithal to start it when I started self-publishing in 2020 and now it even adds everything for me like a good spreadsheet. 'every book i've read ever' is not every book I've read ever, but I did start it this year to attempt to make 'What's your ...

 

 Well, 2023 has come and (almost) gone, and I did, again, manage to publish 6 books, so good on me for keeping that streak alive. At the end of the year I will publish my sales and which of my books did the best (spoiler alert: it was One More Sad Song ), but let's talk about my writing plans for next year.  First up, I do plan on writing first drafts in April, July, and November. I'm hoping that if I do both Camps and then NaNo, I can not like, write a million first drafts. I haven't yet decided what these first drafts are going to be but like, I'll figure that out. Second, I do want to write between 25,000-50,000 words worth of short fiction, whether that be short stories, essays, blog posts... I do even count fanfiction in on this, because yeah, I do still write fanfic sometimes, and you can pry my AO3 username from my cold, dead hands.  And then the novels.  First up, I will be finishing Guillaume and Class B. They're the two holdovers from this year. Guillaume ...