Fandom Snowflake Challenge (12)

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Day #12: In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.

One. I want to finish my 2022 to 2023 round of Podfic Bingo.

I got really ambitious with the planning and aiming for more than one bingo aspect, but I need to remember the seasonal part of the Seasonal Mental Illness. I'm two for two on not really creating podfic during parts of the autumn and winter, so I should probably stop assuming that I'll somehow force myself to finish a busy to-do list during that period of time in the future.

Two. I want to get one bingo on my Merlin Bingo card.

I've got cross-fill plans with my Podfic Bingo card, so I'm not hedging on just filling one square or anything that seems a bit nicer to my planning abilities. Each podfic submission has to be at least ten minutes long, and multi-chapter works with individual chapters more than ten minutes long can have each chapter count towards a square, so I think I can get a bingo with three works. (An 1,862 word oneshot, a 1,218 oneshot, and a 59,500 multi-chapter.)


Realistically, this isn't an arduous set of goals. It's very likely that I'll also do some other events and stuff, but I want the easy dopamine (or whatever chemical) of crossing off every item on a to-do list. I also don't want to underestimate completing that longfic in a little under a year.

Comments

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Other people’s lives and ability to write more than one fic a year continually amaze me. Good luck with the Seasonal Brain Weirds, and the writing!

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Yeah, I've been in the 'nothing gets written for several years' camp before, so it is amazing when writers can put out more than one fic in a year.

Thanks for the well wishes. I do want to clarify that my list doesn't involve me writing anything.

Not to downplay how much effort goes into creating a podfic, or anything, but in this case, I'm not podficcing my own writing. (It'd probably take a few years before I could finish a 59K.) For Merlin Bingo, I have my eye on "Youngling" and "Sweeting" by riventhorn for First Time and Arthur/Mithian fills (assuming that "Sweeting" isn't a bit too short in terms of final podfic time). The 59K that should get three fills is "It Was One Kingdom, Once" by queerofthedagger.

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Oh! I thought you were talking about writing in addition to the podficcing. But either way, those are solid goals.

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There is nothing wrong with reasonable doable goals and it is definitely nice crossing off an item on a list. Good luck with them! :D