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General Update & 2023 Fandom Plans
Jan. 5th, 2023 08:43 pmWow the last month-and-change since I last posted here have been insane. I should have known they'd be a bit like that--because what finals season isn't at least a little off the walls-- but the storm that came right on its heels, and then the holidays, and then traveling...suffice to say I have been wildly busy and preoccupied for a while.
Which has had the unfortunate side effect of having less time for fandom stuff. I always find that I miss participating in fandom when I get too busy for it, writing is such an important creative outlet for me, and my stress relief routine suffers when I stop being creative. Considering I have some time before the next semester starts up, there's plenty of time to get caught up on all the fic I'd meant to write while I was busy.
Looking forward into the new year, I definitely want to broaden the number of fandoms I've dabbled in-- there's a lot of fandoms out there that I enjoy that I haven't tried writing fic for, and I've found that writing fic can be a great way to better engage with the source material. It helps me get my head around some of the narrative techniques a little better than just flat analysis. I also want to get better at writing slightly longer fic than my customary ~1k. Not that I don't like writing short fic, or reading it, but I just wish that I had more story stamina, and I think it'd be a good goal for the year to try and write more long fics than I have before. I need to figure out a good way to measure what that means, and how I can be kind to myself while still striving to hit that goal, but that's what I'm aiming for this year. Maybe joining some exchanges would be a good motivator to get those longer works out.
I'll probably update the "2023 plans" tag with more concrete fannish plans for the year as I get settled into the new year-- I'm still away from home, so even if I wanted to get a lot of planning done, I probably couldn't.
Which has had the unfortunate side effect of having less time for fandom stuff. I always find that I miss participating in fandom when I get too busy for it, writing is such an important creative outlet for me, and my stress relief routine suffers when I stop being creative. Considering I have some time before the next semester starts up, there's plenty of time to get caught up on all the fic I'd meant to write while I was busy.
Looking forward into the new year, I definitely want to broaden the number of fandoms I've dabbled in-- there's a lot of fandoms out there that I enjoy that I haven't tried writing fic for, and I've found that writing fic can be a great way to better engage with the source material. It helps me get my head around some of the narrative techniques a little better than just flat analysis. I also want to get better at writing slightly longer fic than my customary ~1k. Not that I don't like writing short fic, or reading it, but I just wish that I had more story stamina, and I think it'd be a good goal for the year to try and write more long fics than I have before. I need to figure out a good way to measure what that means, and how I can be kind to myself while still striving to hit that goal, but that's what I'm aiming for this year. Maybe joining some exchanges would be a good motivator to get those longer works out.
I'll probably update the "2023 plans" tag with more concrete fannish plans for the year as I get settled into the new year-- I'm still away from home, so even if I wanted to get a lot of planning done, I probably couldn't.
