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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?
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I’m trying out the [community profile] inkingitout community in 2024. So far for 2023 I’ve almost made it to 200K words, and my primary goal is to match that in 2024, with a +25% stretch goal.

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Challenge yourself to write 75000 words or more in 2024!

[community profile] inkingitout offers low key and supportive weekly check ins to help you as you try to write 75,000 or more words in 2024.

Sign ups now open! Sign ups close 1st January 2024.

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