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[dolorosa_12]

The second prompt for snowflake_challenge is:

In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.



I've already talked about non-fannish goals in my end-of-2023 post, so I won't rehash those again. With fannish goals, I've kept it fairly simple:

Make at least two contributions to this year's fandomtrees — I've actually already done this!

Participate in Yuletide, Once Upon a Fic (if it's running again), and at least one more book- or small fandom-related fic exchange (if any are running)

Write at least one non-exchange fic

Continue running Friday open threads (as long as interest remains)

These feel both achievable and enjoyable.

Comments

[corvidology]

It does look like a very comfortable schedule.

There are small fandom prompt coms but not much in the way of exchanges other than Yuletide. You need a large group of participants to make such a thing function and only Yuletide really has that.

I used to see a lot more book related fic exchanges but again, it needs to be pared down in some way to make it feasible.

[dolorosa_12]

There used to be a great small-fandom exchange (Night On Fic Mountain) that ran so that reveals were on the northern summer solstice (or winter solstice in the southern hemisphere), and that suited me perfectly. It was essentially Yuletide, in the other half of the year. But I think they ran into problems matching people, since the volume of participants was never as high as in Yuletide, and it got too stressful trying to get people to write for pinch hits, and so it doesn't run any more. But it was perfect for me!

[kingstoken]

Thank you for contributing to fandomtrees!

[dolorosa_12]

Thank you for running it!

[vriddy]

I was really hoping to get something in for fandomtrees but I don't think the timing will work :( "Achievable and enjoyable" sounds like a great way to go about goal-setting... and life in general, probably!

[dolorosa_12]

The timing is difficult if you don't work on things during December — this first week in January tends to be a bit of a back-to-work blur.

"Achievable and enjoyable" sounds like a great way to go about goal-setting... and life in general, probably!

Very true! To-do lists, habit-tracking and goals are the only way I get anything done — but I never add anything to a to-do list, publicly stated set of goals etc unless I'm certain that I'm capable of achieving it...

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Go you for helping fandomtrees. I have a bunch of tabs open and I have to really get on that.

Good luck with all your goals! I like your Friday open threads. I usually don't have something to add, but I enjoy reading the responses. :)

[dolorosa_12]

Good luck with your own contributions to fandomtrees. Having seen your fanworks in various media, anyone who gets something from you is lucky indeed!

I'm glad you enjoy the Friday open threads — they're there to be read, as much as to be commented on, so I'm happy you're getting something out of them.