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Snowflake challenge #2: Set some goals for the upcoming year.

First, the rant: Ugh, I hate the way New Year’s resolutions are done in US culture. It always strikes me as steeped in the attitude “I am flawed; it’s my moral duty to strive toward the mainstream ideal of a human being; and I must, in public, declare my flaws and commit to eradicating them. PS: conforming to the physical ideal is the most important aspect of this.”

That said, of course there are many other ways to approach goals and one needn’t throw out the baby with the bathwater; if nothing else it will clog the drain.

My goal for this year is to bring my “words of fanfic / original work posted to AO3” over 1 million. I posted more than that number of words (132,740) in each of the past 4 years because I loved writing fiction and how it makes me feel. I want more of that.

What is your relationship to New Year’s resolutions and goal-setting in general?