Snowflake Challenge #2: Goals

[randomling]

Snowflake Challenge #2: Goals

In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I knew goals was coming at some point.

I already made a generalised goals post for 2024 (access-locked), so I won't regurgitate here. Fannish goals, one that I made note of in the list post, and another couple that have been floating around trying to get more solid:

1. Write some fanfic! I want to actually write some fanfic here. Visibility/hits/kudos aren't really necessary, I just want to get some output on my AO3. I wrote and posted 5 fics in 2023, I think I can do better in 2024!

2. Get active in a new fandom of some kind. This sure will help the writing, but it's also about having more social connections and especially more opportunities for social creativity.

3. Be more social/active in my exisiting fandoms. This can look like posting/reblogging more content on my fannish tumblrs, chatting more regularly to people I already know about fannish topics, making new friends in fandoms I already like, or whatever else I can think of.

That's a good number of things, I think!

Comments

[vriddy]

I hope you find a new fandom that inspires you and brings you new friends :D Good luck with your goals!

[randomling]

Aww, thanks! :D

[svgurl]

I hope you find a fandom that gives you what you're looking for. Good luck with the goals! :)

[randomling]

Thanks!

[turps]

That is a good number of things.

Finding a new fandom is so hard, so I hope you find that.

[randomling]

Thanks! I'm expecting it's going to be a lot of trial and error - not just finding the right fandom, but also the right fandom spaces where I can thrive. But I'm going to go for it all the same. :D

[cmk418]

Those sound very achievable. Good luck!

[randomling]

Thanks!

[silveradept]

Those sound like good goals.

For getting more works out, if you do well with deadlines, exchanges exist on so many fandoms and topics that you can probably find one or two of them to participate in.

[randomling]

Thanks!

Participating in a few exchanges was one of my "well, that didn't work" goals from last year - it's not the deadlines, so much as the stress-to-joy ratio is really off for me these days. Thanks anyway though!

[silveradept]

If there's too much stress to not enough joy, then I don't blame you at all for not doing more exchanges.