ermingarden | Snowflake Challenge #4: Goals

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1) On the academic side of things, my goal is to do all of the assigned reading in advance of each lecture this semester - I let myself get pretty far behind on my civ pro reading last semester, and I have no desire to repeat that experience.

2) My fannish goal is simple: Write fic! Even if it's bad! I'm not setting any specific word count goal.

I actually wrote more in 2020 than I had in a few years. I posted six fics, totaling just over 7k words, which is...not really a lot, but it's infinitely better than nothing! What changed for me in 2020 was that I began participating in fests and exchanges - every one of those six fics was written for a fest or exchange, in fact. The built-in time limit meant I had to post things even when I didn't feel satisfied with them, and I was very pleasantly surprised to discover that people liked them anyway! Hopefully remembering that will make me feel more confident about posting (inevitably) imperfect fics in 2021.

I'm also working on some fic ideas for which there will probably be very little general interest - including at least one fic for Templar Knight Mysteries, and I've never found anyone else who's even read those books, let alone a fandom community - but hey! Life is short, write niche fic!