For about five years now, I've been trying to get back into writing in earnest, on personal stuff rather than 'whatever prompt a writing group I happen to be in gives me'. See, between 2001 and 2004 I wrote a ton. About a year and a half of that was putting stuff out weekly. Less frequently but still relatively active in 2003 and 2004. And while I wasn't really aiming to get back to anything quite as frequent, particularly since most of that writing wasn't prose and prose takes longer than the more script-based stuff I was mostly writing back then (Although I was still also writing more prose back then than I'd been writing since. On top of the weekly stuff.), I was trying to get... You know. One bit of short writing a month, maybe?
And for about five years now, I've failed to manage that. Except that in December 2021, someone linked me to someone trying to archive the stuff the community I was in in 2001 had been writing in a more systemic way than the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine (Remember, kids. Preservation of media matters. Even the shitty fanfiction you were writing when you were 15.), and I dunno that sort of lit a fire in me and over two weeks in 2021 I wrote about 20 short pieces in the format I was writing that weekly series in back in 2001, albeit hopefully higher quality since, you know, 20 years later.
And throughout 2022 I've been managing to keep up a weekly upload schedule, although the buffer has waned and swanned. And I've been putting that up on a NeoCities site for the past year and not really linking to it anywhere outside of sending a link to a couple of discord servers relating to it, although I've picked up about 100 weekly readers judging by my site metrics.
And it feels good? Having a buffer rather than not having a buffer means the site gets updated even if I haven't managed to get in the mood to write. It's not great literature, but it's nice to be writing something - anything - again. Even if it's the same sort of nonsense I was writing back when I was 15.
But not only that, it's felt like I've been doing more writing not relating to that stuff as well. (Although I don't think I got any of that uploaded anywhere - I got at least one piece out of drafts and into my 'sitting' folder waiting for me to start doing editing passes on it, though. And didn't finish that much of it, a fair bit 'one segment short of being finished'. But I got more projects into a state that feels like they're being worked on, with trajectories that I can finish up, rather than sitting as unstarted ideas on a computer, never to be touched).
It's only this past month or so that it's felt like I've hit a stable rhythm for writing - It's been very spurts and stops throughout the year, and it's been productive spurts and stops, but without getting into a rhythm it hasn't felt sustainable long term.
I don't make new years resolutions. But I had an aspiration going into 2022 - That I'd maintain weekly updates on the project I started working on towards the end of 2021, and I managed it. And I've got an aspiration for 2023 as well. That I maintain something resembling this rhythm. Not necessarily the same 'get one or more things relating to writing done each day' I've been managing this past few weeks - Not always anything major - a couple of paragraphs, an editing pass, etc - but doing that 2-3 times a week would probably still feel like I'm in a solid rhythm, but maintaining some sort of rhythm with it. We'll see how I do with that.