Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

#WordWeavers 25.12.30 How has your writing been this year? Any achievements/wins/lessons you want to celebrate?

Wrote fewer features and books compared with 2024, but I did finish the new #Autocade Year of Cars annual a few weeks earlier. So the Christmas lead-up was less stressful. Like so many things, you have to make the time, and I found it a little harder to find it in 2025.

Dec 30 at 6:26amWeb
Show threadBecDec 30

@jackyan I submitted my novel and exegesis for marking and got some really great feedback and a pass from both examiners. And somehow, now I have a PhD (!!!) which is a cause for celebration, even though it's also faded into the background of everyday life, you know?

In the aftermath of that long, protracted process, I've been finding it hard to get motivated to do much other writing (or even to look back over the PhD novel to edit it, with a view to pitching it) but some good long conversations – some 'fat chats', to coin a delightful term that my kids use! – with some writer friends has helped. I'm planning to take a few more months of just reading and music and gardening and then maybe get back into things at the end of March.

Show threadJack Yan (甄爵恩)Dec 30
@teadrinker Congratulations, Bec, or should I say Dr Bec?! That’s really cool, what a great way to finish 2025!
That sounds like an ideal way forward. Time to unwind the brain after the Ph.D. I’d do the same and re-examine things in March. I have two book ideas for 2026, one a collaboration with a friend, but I don’t think I’ll start on them till then, either.