Snowflake Challenge #4
Jan. 7th, 2021 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve11Snowflake Challenge #4 is to set some goals.
Well, I have some personal/private goals (that I have little control over, but they are goals), and some boring health goals, and some family goals, but I'll stick to fannish/crafty ones here.
For 2021:
1) Finish the WIP-o-Doom aka Principal Components. That is a lofty goal, I know. More immediate goal is to post the next section before the end of the month (hopefully long before). After so many years and a lot of fits, starts and stagnation, it's truly on the home stretch now. And that's even given that I know exactly what happens in the story and have for like 9.5 years. It still takes forever to tear words out of my head. At least for that story.
2) Rec more at![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
tardis_library. I've not been on much of a Who-reading spree in the last year plus, but lately I've been doing a little bit more reading and been finding some good stories. And reading more also makes me feel more connected to fandom and might spur me to more creativity. I'm not really enjoying Thirteen on screen but there are some brilliant writers out there that are doing her better justice. And I miss the older eras too.
3) Read some Actual Books. Even licensed fandom stuff can count, though I should probably read some more substantial stuff too. Last year I read a few books, mostly on my Kindle. Station Eleven, Radium Girls, 3 Twelve and Bill adventures, the first Dresden Files book (erm... someone says they get better), and I started a few others. It's tough when I have writing I want to get done though. Even when I'm not doing the writing, It's like, if I'm reading I'm explicitly NOT doing writing. Whereas if I'm goofing off on the computer, at least I've got the computer open and my file open and Ostensibly Could Be Writing.
4) Make a Princess Dress. For my niece. This has been on my to-do list for like, a year and a half. I have pattern, fabrics, hoopskirt, etc. I need to design the skirt--the hard part--and then construct the top from the existing pattern--the tedius but easy part. Except I will probably have to change a little bit of what niece designed for the top because she wants two fabrics diagonal (on the bias?? Does silk/taffeta have a bias?) and that's going to be a PITA.
5) Watch some more Blake's 7. I've seen the first 3 episodes and folks assure me it gets better ;)
6) Write a story that isn't the WIP-o-Doom. This one's a maybe. Maybe if I get the right motivation. I've got a few ideas. A few things started, even, that I could flesh out. But I'm not going to force it if it isn't in the cards. There's a LOT of non-fannish goals I have for the upcoming year anyhow.
7) Does it make any sense to try and learn tumblr or Discord? Ehhh, probably not. Get off my lawn. It's just I've been seeing some younger fen around lately who are writing amazing things and it reminds me of years ago when LJ and DW used to be hopping places and I interacted a lot more with people and we wrote things for each other and spurred each other on. Now all the fandom is on platforms I don't know how to use. Aaaand a lot of it is for shows/books/manga/movies etc. that I have no idea about. And I'm not in college/grad-school anymore so there are more immediate repercussions for doing things like spending the day reading an amazing fic story instead of working (Admittedly, that has not necessarily stopped me).
8) Get back into some Big Finish. The audio adventures were definitely something that helped me connect with fandom and kept my creativity going. And it's something to do for either a Fake Commute or during exercise or laundry folding, etc. (I used to listen to them on my hour-long commute to/from work)
Well, I have some personal/private goals (that I have little control over, but they are goals), and some boring health goals, and some family goals, but I'll stick to fannish/crafty ones here.
For 2021:
1) Finish the WIP-o-Doom aka Principal Components. That is a lofty goal, I know. More immediate goal is to post the next section before the end of the month (hopefully long before). After so many years and a lot of fits, starts and stagnation, it's truly on the home stretch now. And that's even given that I know exactly what happens in the story and have for like 9.5 years. It still takes forever to tear words out of my head. At least for that story.
2) Rec more at
tardis_library. I've not been on much of a Who-reading spree in the last year plus, but lately I've been doing a little bit more reading and been finding some good stories. And reading more also makes me feel more connected to fandom and might spur me to more creativity. I'm not really enjoying Thirteen on screen but there are some brilliant writers out there that are doing her better justice. And I miss the older eras too. 3) Read some Actual Books. Even licensed fandom stuff can count, though I should probably read some more substantial stuff too. Last year I read a few books, mostly on my Kindle. Station Eleven, Radium Girls, 3 Twelve and Bill adventures, the first Dresden Files book (erm... someone says they get better), and I started a few others. It's tough when I have writing I want to get done though. Even when I'm not doing the writing, It's like, if I'm reading I'm explicitly NOT doing writing. Whereas if I'm goofing off on the computer, at least I've got the computer open and my file open and Ostensibly Could Be Writing.
4) Make a Princess Dress. For my niece. This has been on my to-do list for like, a year and a half. I have pattern, fabrics, hoopskirt, etc. I need to design the skirt--the hard part--and then construct the top from the existing pattern--the tedius but easy part. Except I will probably have to change a little bit of what niece designed for the top because she wants two fabrics diagonal (on the bias?? Does silk/taffeta have a bias?) and that's going to be a PITA.
5) Watch some more Blake's 7. I've seen the first 3 episodes and folks assure me it gets better ;)
6) Write a story that isn't the WIP-o-Doom. This one's a maybe. Maybe if I get the right motivation. I've got a few ideas. A few things started, even, that I could flesh out. But I'm not going to force it if it isn't in the cards. There's a LOT of non-fannish goals I have for the upcoming year anyhow.
7) Does it make any sense to try and learn tumblr or Discord? Ehhh, probably not. Get off my lawn. It's just I've been seeing some younger fen around lately who are writing amazing things and it reminds me of years ago when LJ and DW used to be hopping places and I interacted a lot more with people and we wrote things for each other and spurred each other on. Now all the fandom is on platforms I don't know how to use. Aaaand a lot of it is for shows/books/manga/movies etc. that I have no idea about. And I'm not in college/grad-school anymore so there are more immediate repercussions for doing things like spending the day reading an amazing fic story instead of working (Admittedly, that has not necessarily stopped me).
8) Get back into some Big Finish. The audio adventures were definitely something that helped me connect with fandom and kept my creativity going. And it's something to do for either a Fake Commute or during exercise or laundry folding, etc. (I used to listen to them on my hour-long commute to/from work)
