2021 in Retrospect/2022 Visions

Last year's goals post. I have no idea what I was hoping for, having forgotten about it by March, but let's see:

• Write at least 150k onto AO3. LOL, no. I discovered an MMO and only through the power of Morne's WDLF exchanges reached 100k.


• Do an art every week. Again, no, though I did do my traditional bit of art for ficinabox.


• Write at least one longfic (50k+). Sing Dead the Dark, my longest fic of the year, was only 25k.


• Write non-fannish original fiction. I don't think this happened.
  
• Read at least one book a month. This was going very badly, but then I started reading the New Jedi Order Star Wars tie-in novels and read 3½ books in December. I am pretty sure I've read at least one non-NJO book earlier in the year so 4½/12.


• Finish one WIP from the WIP folder. I fell out of all my prior fandoms and got into Star Wars instead. Did not happen.

0/6! Going very well. In my defense, I think what got in the way of #1 and #3 was Star Wars: the Old Republic, my MMO of choice. Some people discover Jesus; I discovered an MMO. Anyway, I'm not that sad about it. I can't do worse next year, after all!

2022 goals:

• Write at least 100k on to AO3. Yes, I'm going back to the easy thing that I have achieved 4 years in a row. The pledge doesn't seem to improve my wordcount at all, so let's go back to the thing that gave me 245k in 2020.


• Write a non-exchange WIP. I have a few ideas! They are Long canon divergences, Star Wars prequels/TCW era. I'm probably going to write the one which has Anakin fall asleep and not interrupt Mace's duel with Palpatine and then expands into a canon divergence on the early rebellion years and what happens to the Jedi after the evil is vanquished (probably going to be split into three), but the one where Anakin, Ahsoka, and Obi-Wan travel to an alternate universe and interact with canon divergence AU versions of themselves is also on the table, if only because I have the very cool pun of:
  AU Anakin: "I guess I'll have to call you Obi-Two."
  Obi-Wan: "..."
  Anakin: "Don't worry, Master, you'll always be Obi-One in my heart."


• Complete all SWTOR class stories & have fun. I'm currently 6/8 and strong at work on #7.


• Post more meta and meta-y thoughts to DW. Let's say once per month or more. Currently I'm on a Star Wars kick so probably SW prequels to start with.


• Continue with music spotlight posts. They're a relatively easy way to keep up the "hey, I still exist, here's stuff" dripfeed of stuff.

Since I discovered NYRs don't really encourage me to do anything, I decided to focus on stuff you might end up seeing/mission statements for 2022 and my fannish presence therein.

We Die Like Fen reveals post coming ... tomorrow, probably.