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Challenge #2

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've just reviewed the fandom goals that I posted for 2023 for day 12 of last week's Snowflake Challenge, and I did better on them than I expected to! I had a full success with 5/11, a qualified success with 8/11 (I gave myself a few cheats on three of them to make up lost ground), and made some progress on all of my goals, even the ones I consider failures overall.

Looking at what was easy, what I was just about able to pull out of the bag, and what I thought was going to be easy but then didn't manage, I'm going to make the following adjustments for my goals this year:

  • Participate in three fandom exchanges.
  • Create one treat for an exchange.
  • Create three pinch hits.
  • Beta read three fics.
  • Bind three books (none of which have to be a new typeset, or my own typeset).
  • Typeset three fics (they do not have to be the same ones I bind).
  • Record, edit, and post at least one podfic a month (one Mulligan is allowed if I miss a month and then make it up by posting two in another month).
  • Finish my podfic of Wedding is Destiny; and Hanging Likewise by [archiveofourown.org profile] sqbr.
  • Complete and post two fanvids.
  • Health and other circumstances permitting, attend two in-person conventions.
  • Comment on at least one fanwork a week.
  • Update Dreamwidth at least once a month.
  • Write whatever self indulgent niche fic I want to without worrying about whether anyone else will care about it.

The last one is more qualitative, because I don't want to set a hard target of "Write one fic no one cares about a month" or something, but I do want to get more comfortable with just pursuing ideas that I am interested by and want to write without being worried about Alienating People Who Subscribed To My AO3 Profile For [X Fandom] or that no one will read it, or whatever.

In general, I've tried to (slightly) scale up the goals that I succeeded on last year, and scale down the ones that I didn't, or make them less specific so there's a wider scope for success. Most of my goals are less specific than they were last year, actually, but I think that this is good because it means I might try more things. I've also dropped a couple of goals that I think are sort of done, or that I'm doing okay on without tracking them/setting a goal for them.

Snowflake Challenge promotional banner with image of igloo and northern lights. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.

obstinatecondolement: One cat licking another, which is leaning into the touch (Cats)

In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.
So... I have a very extensive Google Doc with my resolutions for the new year, broken down my category, which lists over 115 individual goals for 2023. Some of them are very personal and I wouldn't be comfortable sharing and including all of the ones I was comfortable sharing would be... um, a long post, lol. But here are my fandom resolutions for 2023:
  • Write one and post 1K word story a month ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ (✔) ✅ ✅ ✅ (EDIT: 01/09/23 I've managed this every month except May so far, so I'll give myself that as a mulligan and allow myself to count a fic from another month where I posted more than just one 1K words fic for May instead as a one-time thing)✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
  • Participate in Yuletide and write at least one treat in addition to assignment ✅ (✔) (✔) (Edit 03/01/24 I wrote two pinch hits, although I didn't write any treats, so I will call this one a qualified success.)
  • Participate in one non-Yuletide fic exchange ✅
  • Edit and post three fanvids (one [community profile] festivids, one [community profile] vidukon_cardiff, one other) ✅ ❌(Edit: 01/09/23 I didn't get it together for VidUKon this year, but I'll all myself to count this as a success if I post two more vids) ❌ (Edit: 03/01/24 I'm currently still working on my assignment for Festivids, but I didn't complete post any other vids in 2023.)
  • Typeset and bind a fic ✅
  • Record, edit and upload ten podfics (individual chapters count as one) ✅ (⅔) (I recorded some lines for the pod that the podficcer I worked together with for [community profile] pod_together made for the event and I'll let myself count it for two thirds of one pod towards this goal, since I did have to edit the raw audio a little before I sent it off for her to edit into her Audacity project file)✅ ✅ ✅ (⅓) (⅓) (Edit 03/01/24 I recorded lines in two multivoices that I didn't edit when I went to [community profile] europodfriends in October) ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
  • Beta at least one fic ✅
  • Leave more comments and kudos (kudos every fic that was enjoyable, comment on at least one out of three fics that were enjoyable). Always leave a short comment on a re-read, don’t forget to kudos if also commenting ❌ (Edit: 03/01/24 Definitely dropped the ball on this one)
  • Update Dreamwidth once a week ❌ (Edit: 01/09/23 Categorically have failed this, lol, but I'll try and get back on the horse and not be too all or nothing about it) (Edit: 03/01/24) Didn't really get back on the horse, I am sorry to say.
  • Look into bringing back [tumblr.com profile] trek-rarepair-swap could be an annual thing for now?) ✅ (Edit 01/09/23 I looked into it with my co-mod and decided it's probably a next year at the earliest thing)
  • Write more image descriptions and at least look through the notes of posts to find if others have written descriptions before reblogging undescribed posts ✅ (Edit: 01/09/23 I've actually been doing really well at this! Obviously it's an ongoing goal rather than a fait accompli that I'm going to give up on now that I've technically cleared the bar of doing more than I was, but it's nice to realise that I've committed to this very consistently)
Some of these are minimums rather than "do exactly this and no more" goals, obviously.

Looking back at these now, some of these seem extremely doable (and, in fact, I have betaed a fic so far this year and signed up to a handful of non-Yuletide exchanges, so well done me! I am also on track with at least four other goals and possibly more?) and others seem very hard. Ten podfics! I certainly was ambitious when I wrote this list in December in some respects. But, you know, sometimes it's good for me when my reach exceeds my grasp. Gives me room to improve the next year.

It feels fitting to be revisiting my resolutions a day after Lunar New Year. Happy year of the rabbit, everyone! It's my sign's year and I'm not going to waste it like I did 2011, lol. Also, I found out the other day, Vietnam celebrates the year of the cat rather than the year of the rabbit! I'm very charmed by this.

Edit: 03/01/24 So, I did better at this than I thought I would, honestly. Particularly with the podfic! Although to be fair, most of that was a third act twist where I recorded and edited five pods for ITPE in late December. It's good to see a baseline for what was easy and what I struggled with.

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