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I updated my intro post a bit for the first snowflake challenge, and you can find it here.

The second challenge is about setting goals for the coming year. This is already something I tend to do (although either weekly or monthly goals, usually), so that's nice.

My goals are pretty fandom-oriented, but a few are also applicable in a more general manner.

First of all, I've joined getyourwordsout, so the simplest, most complete goal is to write at least 75k words total this year. Towards this goal, I'm counting not only fics but also more long-form blog posts (such as this one), some quasi-essays I write sometimes to get myself in the mood to write something else, background information or worldbuilding for fics, etc. I'm not counting any diary writing (for the simple reason that I do it by hand and I'd get tired of counting how much I've written) or some of the smaller posts I might post here (such as recs or link piles or similar stuff). I'm not sure yet whether I'll count book reviews and such... In any case, I also have a secondary goal of posting 75k words worth of fic on AO3 this year. I'm much more confident in my ability to reach the former goal than the latter, but we'll see how I fare!

My second goal is, basically, to save everything I read or want to read. I've recently discovered that there are 12 fics I've bookmarked that have been excluded on AO3 and I don't even have a clue at the moment what most of those were about... I really should be more consistent with downloading stuff.

Relatedly, my third goal is to be more organized - in general, although it applies to fandom stuff as well. I already feel like I have a good folder scheme for the stuff I have, I just tend to put too much stuff in the "organize this later" folder. I really want to waste less time searching for that photo or music or pdf that I know I have somewhere on my pc. Same goes for bookmarks, both on AO3 and on firefox.

Also related: this year I'll try to put every book, manga, series and album I haven't yet go to read/watch/listen in a big spreadsheet and then methodically go through it. The biggest factor in how much of a chaotic mess my folders and bookmarks are is the fact that I save something for later and then just forget about it. There's a lot I haven't yet gotten into or even watched the first episode or read the first chapter but didn't continue because I started something else and felt lost afterwards, for example. I've already started the spreadsheet and I'll start going through it soon. (Making no promises here on whether I actually finish the whole spreadsheet because I have the feeling that there's not enough time in the year even just to read all the books, let alone all the other stuff...)

Finally, I want to try and be more sociable this year. In fandom spaces, this means participating in getyourwordsout and the snowflake_challenge and other communities and fests and exchanges, commenting more on fics I like, being more present on discord, etc. However, this is one of the goals that also applies in general - I feel like the last two years I've become a lot more timid than I was, simply due to the fact that opportunities for seeing my friends have become extremely limited (fingers crossed for things getting better this year), and I should keep better contact with people.