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Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2020 - Day 4
Jan. 7th, 2020 03:46 pm
Challenge #4
In your own space, set some goals for the coming year.
To start with, I thought I'd better look back over my goals for 2019, which were:
1.) Stay organized with school, stay on track, and keep up a regular study schedule.
I'd say 50/50 here? I am a bit more organized than I was last year, though I still can't say I've come up with a regular study schedule. I'm also a bit more willing to not have an extremely organized schedule, so long as I get things done when they need to get done and don't procrastinate too much, so I'll call this one a win.
2.) Read regularly.
This was dependent on a lot of other things, like schoolwork, time management, other projects, and just general stress, but overall I think I stuck to it pretty well--and cleared my Goodreads challenge by twelve books, which was nice.
3.) Write more! Try not to stress about comments and kudos.
I did write a good bit (I'm not going to check how many stories I wrote in 2018 vs. 2019; in that way lies madness) in terms of writing regularly and in terms of writing some longer stories; my longest was just over 12,000 words, which is pretty decent for me. I also plunged into quite a few new fandoms (new in terms of me writing fic for them, not necessarily new in terms of me discovering them, though there were a couple of those, too): Greek mythology, Black Sails, the Earthsea series, the Queen's Thief series, Ghost Quartet, Peaky Blinders, Eleanor & Park, Hadestown.
Comments- and kudos-wise...I don't think I stressed about them too much? Especially towards the end of the year I was too stressed about other things to care too much (though obviously I always appreciate both), so there's that.
4.) This one is conditional on my actually getting and sticking with and original story idea, but: Write, or try to write, more original fiction.
Eh? Not really. Then again, I didn't have many ideas for original stories, especially ones I especially wanted to write, so I'm not too bummed over this one. I did try to write a couple, which I'll count as a win, since there've been years when I didn't even do that.
To start with, I thought I'd better look back over my goals for 2019, which were:
1.) Stay organized with school, stay on track, and keep up a regular study schedule.
I'd say 50/50 here? I am a bit more organized than I was last year, though I still can't say I've come up with a regular study schedule. I'm also a bit more willing to not have an extremely organized schedule, so long as I get things done when they need to get done and don't procrastinate too much, so I'll call this one a win.
2.) Read regularly.
This was dependent on a lot of other things, like schoolwork, time management, other projects, and just general stress, but overall I think I stuck to it pretty well--and cleared my Goodreads challenge by twelve books, which was nice.
3.) Write more! Try not to stress about comments and kudos.
I did write a good bit (I'm not going to check how many stories I wrote in 2018 vs. 2019; in that way lies madness) in terms of writing regularly and in terms of writing some longer stories; my longest was just over 12,000 words, which is pretty decent for me. I also plunged into quite a few new fandoms (new in terms of me writing fic for them, not necessarily new in terms of me discovering them, though there were a couple of those, too): Greek mythology, Black Sails, the Earthsea series, the Queen's Thief series, Ghost Quartet, Peaky Blinders, Eleanor & Park, Hadestown.
Comments- and kudos-wise...I don't think I stressed about them too much? Especially towards the end of the year I was too stressed about other things to care too much (though obviously I always appreciate both), so there's that.
4.) This one is conditional on my actually getting and sticking with and original story idea, but: Write, or try to write, more original fiction.
Eh? Not really. Then again, I didn't have many ideas for original stories, especially ones I especially wanted to write, so I'm not too bummed over this one. I did try to write a couple, which I'll count as a win, since there've been years when I didn't even do that.
5.) Make sure you really have the time/energy/inspiration to follow through with a fic exchange before signing up.
Mostly stuck with this, though I did end up having to default from Yuletide. And the Hurt Comfort Exchange--otherwise, though, I had some good exchange experiences last year, both in ones I actually signed up for and ones I wrote treats for.
My 2020 goals are along the same lines, for the most part:
1.) Keep writing
2.) Read regularly--at least fifty books.
3.) Get through this last semester.
4.) Finish Anna Karenina.
5.) Get obsessed with more musicals!
6.) Keep improving, keep moving forward.
1.) especially is pretty broad--I don't want to give up on writing fic (certainly not now and probably not ever), but I also badly want to get back some of the ambition and drive I had to write original fiction--plus the work ethic to actually follow through on that ambition. At the same time, it's pretty ridiculous to freak out about not having reached your full potential at the ripe old age of twenty-three--I want to allow for the possibility of finally writing some original stories I'm happy with in 2020 without dooming myself to disappointment if it doesn't happen. We'll see.
