scrubjayspeaks

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Challenge #2

In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'm setting various goals for myself this year, not all of which I plan to spell out here. Readers will probably see the end results of some of them, but no promises. "Doing a thing" and "posting about the thing" are, unfortunately, two separate tasks for me and sometimes conflicting ones.

But! Let's talk a couple of fandom goals, at least. For the past two years, I've done Whumptober. The results have been ficlets or semi-complete fragments of a theoretical larger story. All put together for the month, it's over 50k words, but I run it all together as chapters of a single story post. Which means I have continued my bare minimum, just-scraping-by habit of one new thing on my AO3 a year.

In addition to doing Whumptober again this year, I've got two fandom goals.

I want to write and post one other fic. Any fandom, any length, so long as it is a completed, stand-alone story.

And I want to record and post one podfic. Same deal--any fandom, any length. I haven't even gotten my mic out in ages, let alone edited audio. But I want to show off my new, lower voice.

Small goals, low stakes. I just want to ease myself back into making more regular contributions to my fandoms again.