2020 in Retrospect/2021 Visions

[extrapenguin]

Last year's goals post. I was hoping for at least three, so let's take a look:

• Write 100k onto AO3. Check.


• Write a Guardian casefic. Check. Every Door a Death stands finished and posted on AO3.


• Write at least one of three select WIP ideas. Nope – I haven't even outlined. (And the Ye Zun redemption idea especially is IIRC very heavily based on where I was mentally last new year's/December 2019, so it's ... not happening.)


• Complete an old WIP. Check, surprisingly enough! Fate's True North now has a sequel, Lodestone of the Heart.


• Sign up for exchanges. Check – of the mentioned, I skipped Jukebox and Fandom5k due to travel overlapping with them. Of course, then the travel got canceled due to covid. I did get to participate in a We Die Like Fen round out of it, though.


• Go pro. Half a checkmark? I did write one thing for one anthology, but it wasn't accepted (which I anticipated, tbh), and then the rest of 2020 happened.

4.5/5 – not bad, especially given my track record with New Year's Resolutions. Though two of those were things I'd have done anyway, so it's not that impressive? Eh. I get the pleasure of checking checkmarks! \o/

2021 goals:

• Write at least 150k onto AO3. I am upgrading my traditional pledge a little bit. Let's see whether I get it!


• Do an art every week. I got more art supplies. I never use my art supplies. Art is meditative. Ergo, do more art. Almost certainly not for exchange gifts – I don't consider myself that good – but it's fun. I'll aim for daily when I'm home and off work, but weekly otherwise.


• Write at least one longfic. I'm defining this as 50k+.


• Write non-fannish original fiction. As last year, my goal is more to go pro in the sense of getting my name in the credits of something rather than Be Super Famous or Get Mega Rich or whatever. To do that, I think I need practice, and also to:
  
• Read at least one book a month. Ideas in! Prose in! Things to think about! Maybe even a Yuletide fandom?


• Finish one WIP from the WIP folder. Maybe the "Shen Wei transmigrates into KOTOR2" one, maybe another. Let's see.

2020 also had the pleasure of actually getting me into Star Wars fandom via the Clone Wars show. (I'd previously been in KOTOR fandom, but that wasn't terribly active of me and also had enough of a remove ) I will participate through exchanges and reading fic. My Femslash February participation will be more measured and sane than last year – maybe a fic every weekend, instead of a ficlet every day – and I'll see about KOTOR femslash ships. Maybe SWTOR as well, if I can get that running on my machine.

Comments

[china_shop]

4.5/5

That's great! Go you! :-)

[extrapenguin]

Tickmarks are the best! I enjoyed checking those boxes.

[tinny]

I get the pleasure of checking checkmarks! \o/

Never underestimate the pleasure of checking checkmarks! :D

Also, yay for doing art for yourself. I find it meditative, too.

[extrapenguin]

Checkmarks are the very best! And yes, art is nice and meditative. I think I need to set aside actual schedule time to make it work...