End of the Year Creativity Survey

Thank you to @imzadirose for inspiring this swap from her wonderful idea End of Year Book Survey 2015 swap. The sign-up date for that swap is Dec. 31.

The Write Now survey won’t be as long and will cover reading, writing and creative endeavors. Choose any 10 of the following questions and provide your partners with the answers. You cannot use one-word answers. Provide details and explanations for each question. (In addition to telling your swap partner, you are also, in essence, giving yourself an assessment of the year.)

Typing preferred, but legible handwriting is acceptable.

Choose any 10 of the following:

1. How did 2015 rate as a creative year for you?

2. If you could do it over again, what, if anything, would you change about your creative life in the past year?

3. What was your big writing goal for 2015?

4. Did you achieve your big writing goal or not?

5. What obstacles popped up to prohibit you from reaching the writing and creative goals you set for yourself?

6. What goal did you not get to in 2015 that will be a priority for 2016?

7. What did you write?

8. How do/did you feel about what you wrote in 2015?

9. How many books did you read and what were most of them about?

10. What’s the best book you read in 2015?

11. What was the best article, online piece or blog post you read?

12. Which book or piece did you most often recommend to others to read?

13. What books/pieces did you read as a result of other people recommending it or saying, “you have to read this”?

14. How many Write Now! swaps did you participate in in 2015?

15. Why weren’t you in more Write Now! group swaps?

16. What was your favorite group swap?

17. I'm not as active in the Write Now group as I'd like to be because:

18. What book did you buy or read and really wanted more of or thought would be better?

19. Favorite passage/quote from a book you read in 2015?

20. Name one book you didn’t get to this year that will be your number one priority in 2016?

21. What one thing do you hope to accomplish or do in your reading/writing/creative life in 2016?

22. The question that really should have been on this end-of-year survey is:

Snail mail. International. Group membership.