2017 way less productive than 2016

I was just doing my usual fic round up on tumblr for the month of September and the year to date and I've posted 46 new fic this year, finished 1 WIP from 2016 and have one WIP still on the books for a total word count of 118,633 this year.

All of which is obviously great but when I compare it to my 2016 output of 107 fics totalling 210,831 words, it becomes clear that my output has DRASTICALLY reduced. And I'm honestly not sure why!

I'm enjoying my writing hobby as much as I ever have and am still stupidly in love with the mcshep pairing and the SGA fandom. I don't feel like I'm spending any less time writing this year than I did last year but I must be, right?

::shrugs:: I can't explain it.

Life Update

How is it October already? How!!!!!?????

September's been a pretty non-descript month but there was some really great news. My Gran got the final all-clear (well, as much as she can for now) on her breast cancer which is awesome! She has to go for annual scans to keep an eye on it but it's looking good. It was her 80th birthday last week and we went out for a family meal last night which was fairly drama free. Honestly, I'd been looking forward to some entertainment as it would be the first time in almost 10 years that my Mum and her brother were in the same room after an epic fall out but he chickened out of coming. Which is good because it meant no drama on my Gran's night but also sucked because, come on dude, that's your Mum's 80th birthday!

I've been off work for the past fortnight, as has George, which has been really nice. We've not done much with it; a couple of day trips, lots of pokemon go, an overnight trip to Glasgow and decorated the spare room. I'm not back at work until Thursday next week and we have a Neil Diamond concert before then which will be our 5th time seeing him!

A mutual love of Neil Diamond is one of the things that we bonded over on our first date many moons ago and he's a huge part of the Ashleigh and George mythos so we always try to see him when he's in Scotland. Honestly, he wasn't great the last time we saw him (old age comes to us all) but I'm hoping that was an off night and that he'll be back to his usual self this time.

September also marked the 14th anniversary of that first date which is a little unreal! Especially consdering we only agreed to go on a date in the first place to get a mutual friend who was trying to get us together off our backs! If you'd told me then that we'd still be together now I would have laughed in your face but I'm very happy with how things turned out.

Roll on October where Neil Diamond is the first of 3 (possibly 4) concerts we've got tickets to.