2020 Vision

Here are my fannish/fic-y New Year's Resolutions!

• Write at least 100k onto AO3. I know I've exceeded this my many tens of k for two years running, but I want achievable goals and 100k is a nice round number.


• Write a Guardian casefic. I have a plotbunny which involves trouble in Dixing while Shen Wei is incapacitated. I know exactly what I'm doing with regards to the shippy B-plot, and have two case-related twists planned out. I just need to figure out the case plot with its red herrings... (Estimated wordcount: ... at least 10k? I don't have a detailed enough outline yet to figure it out, but the B-plot milestones require case plot to space them.)


• Write at least one of the following longish fics:
  
  • Ye Zun POV redemption, featuring him disapproving of self-help books and almost suffocating in his hair while he does yoga. Has a title: Kintsugi.
  
  
  • Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei get-together – except Shen Wei is in a lavender marriage with Dr Cheng (who has her own live-in girlfriend to go with their two kids). Mostly humor, from Zhao Yunlan going WTF and Shen Wei's 10 000-year-old conceptions on stuff like food and how many people should live under a single roof (answer: everyone he cares about) contrasted with his "I read the latest literature" approach to parenting.
  
  
  • A worldbuildy fic involving Shen Wei's relatives and the true purpose of Dixingians/the Hallows, involving the conlang outlined here (to which I added a name, should you be interested).


• Go through my WIPs folder and complete at least something.
  
  • Prince Yu redemption WIP from ... 2018? (Probably terrible in hindsight.)
  
  
  • Soulmate fic sequel (unrelated to worldbuildy idea above). Decent, though I don't yet have an idea on the emotional arc's end – first time, moving to a larger apartment, or getting the Awl, or what?


• Sign up for exchanges. At minimum: Space Swap, Writing Rainbow's future rounds, any other interesting flash exchanges, hopefully Jukebox, maybe Fandom5k, certainly Yuletide.


• Go pro. Okay, that sounds really conceited, but: write original fiction for open calls. I'm not looking to become a novelist, but shorts, novelettes, and maybe novellas should be doable. (I'm aiming more for the whole my-name-in-the-credits/writing I can show my parents thing than profits.) There's one open call I had a very strong idea for, but that idea – well, image – wouldn't be long enough to make wordcount, so I'm pondering how to set it up. And then I'll continue from there, regardless of rejection or success. I can write for exchanges, so anthology submissions should be an easier transition?

There are some RL ones I have as well, though those are 1. keep doing what I've already been doing wrt exercise (reasonable), and 2. be less of a slob (probably not going to happen, lbr). I'm not really one for New Year's Resolutions, actually – my track record for getting any of my prior ones done is terrible, but hey, maybe I'll manage three this time? *g*