2025 Recap
Dec. 29th, 2025 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainwaterspark2025 has been a weird, busy year for me. I moved (which somehow felt like it ate up several months of the year), I dealt with a lot of emotionally draining family drama, and I failed to get an agent for Novel #5.
Pretty much my only achievement this year was that I finally learned how to cook (even if my cooking repertoire is pretty limited). In the last few months, I’ve kept busy watching C-dramas and playing Where Winds Meet. Next year is honestly the first year that I’m more excited about upcoming C-dramas than upcoming books, which is…saying a lot.
But speaking of C-dramas, I really enjoyed both Kill To Love and Whispers of Fate this year. Next year, I’m most excited about Southern Anecdote (a Tomb Raider-esque mystery/adventure + China’s Republican Era + Ding Yuxi!) and Shadow Punisher (killer premise, murder mysteries, and Luo Yunxi and Fang Yilun team up again!!). I’m also eagerly anticipating Liao Zhai (starring Chang Huasen) and Vow of the Phoenix (starring Xiao Shunyao!!).
My goals for 2026:
- I’m going to try submitting Novel #5 to Bindery’s next open submission as one last hurrah, and if it gets rejected again, I’ll work on self-publishing it. Which would be a significant undertaking.
- Focus on my physical health in general: (1) Go to the doctor (I haven't been in years because I haven't liked my PCP and it's been something I've put off because of how much stress I was under for the past few years); (2) Cut down on sugar (for years, I didn’t eat many sweet treats while I was at home, but from September this year until now, a combination of trying a lot of Trader Joe’s sweet snacks plus baking (and eating the baked treats) has probably been terrible for my sugar levels. T_T I’m committed to cutting down on sugar starting January); and (3) More exercise. I screwed up my hip for weeks after one weekend of accidentally playing Animal Crossing for two days straight, so I should really get in the habit of stretching more.
- Dating…sigh. The goal that I set every year and never meet.
Pretty much my only achievement this year was that I finally learned how to cook (even if my cooking repertoire is pretty limited). In the last few months, I’ve kept busy watching C-dramas and playing Where Winds Meet. Next year is honestly the first year that I’m more excited about upcoming C-dramas than upcoming books, which is…saying a lot.
But speaking of C-dramas, I really enjoyed both Kill To Love and Whispers of Fate this year. Next year, I’m most excited about Southern Anecdote (a Tomb Raider-esque mystery/adventure + China’s Republican Era + Ding Yuxi!) and Shadow Punisher (killer premise, murder mysteries, and Luo Yunxi and Fang Yilun team up again!!). I’m also eagerly anticipating Liao Zhai (starring Chang Huasen) and Vow of the Phoenix (starring Xiao Shunyao!!).
My goals for 2026:
- I’m going to try submitting Novel #5 to Bindery’s next open submission as one last hurrah, and if it gets rejected again, I’ll work on self-publishing it. Which would be a significant undertaking.
- Focus on my physical health in general: (1) Go to the doctor (I haven't been in years because I haven't liked my PCP and it's been something I've put off because of how much stress I was under for the past few years); (2) Cut down on sugar (for years, I didn’t eat many sweet treats while I was at home, but from September this year until now, a combination of trying a lot of Trader Joe’s sweet snacks plus baking (and eating the baked treats) has probably been terrible for my sugar levels. T_T I’m committed to cutting down on sugar starting January); and (3) More exercise. I screwed up my hip for weeks after one weekend of accidentally playing Animal Crossing for two days straight, so I should really get in the habit of stretching more.
- Dating…sigh. The goal that I set every year and never meet.
