February and 2020 Goals

I meant to write a goals post this January, and then I got busy and it... didn't happen. Well, better late than never?

February Goal: Tar-Miriel Novel Edits

It's Femslash February soon! And I have a femslash novel that I need to stop procrastinating on. It's a match made in heaven-- except for posting any femslash in February. Ah well.

I also have some longer term goals for this year.

Goal 0: Be Reasonable

I'm going into an Honours year. It will be stressful and intense and I may not have a lot of time to do other things.

If I leave this year with an Honours Thesis and no creative works, I will count that as a roaring success.

Goal 1: The Great Femslash Catch Up Round 2: Electric Boogaloo

A few years ago, back when I had first gotten into femslash, I had the goal to catch up the number of my femslash (and gen) works to my m/m works, and have them be equal. It was a success! I now actually have more f/f works than m/m works.

But a lot of these f/f works were made for exchanges and Femslash Februaries and art, and I have a couple of relatively long m/m works-- in short, even if you count art as an amount of words equivalent to the amount of effort it took to make them, I have a lot more words of m/m than f/f. Between 40k and 45k, depending on whether you count art or not.

I want to, at least briefly, have an equal number of f/f and m/m words. (This actually ties into the February specific goal quite nicely: The Tar-Miriel femslash novella is pretty dang close to 45k words. Assuming I don't post a huge amount of m/m words between now and publishing that, it's gonna eat up a lot (if not all!) of that gap.

Goal 2: Row Those Canoes!

aka, give some love to my small fandoms and ships! Just do it!

This is actually going fairly well so far this year. My cholate box assignment was for one of the teeny fandoms of my heart, and I also wrote a lot of small fics of Ferdinand von Aegir rarepairs! (Which totally did not happen because I was trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness of that one pairing that I find inexplicably popular. Definitely not. Spite is not a good motivator for me, nuh-uh.)