Snowflake Challenge - Day13

Day 13:
In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This is really simple. I want to do better this year than I did last year. I want to write and post more. The second is particularly important, because I actually wrote quite a bit last year and allowed the little voices to convince me that everything I had written was crap. So, I plan to write and post more than I did last year. Since i managed two things last year and kind of posted one thing already this year I'm a third of the way there already!

In all seriousness though, my main goal this year is to do what I can to ignore the damned voices that keep telling me that I'm not good enough. I'm also going to pass that on to others by commenting on fics more instead of only leaving kudoes. Sometimes all we need is that one person telling us that they enjoyed our work to keep those damned doubt voices at bay.

And lastly, I am planning on reading more, be it fanfiction or audio books or the actual reading of a paper or electronic work. And I am going to broaden my horizons. I noticed that I had one or two key pairings or characters that I gravitated toward last year and I would avoid everything else, and I think I did myself a disservice. After all, I got into Avatar: The Last Airbender because someone suggested a fanfic to me and I loved it so much I needed to see the source material. And this also applies to non-fanfic. I've decided to break away from fantasy and science fiction and horror only and start ready various other genres - especially mysteries and romance. If I ever plan to write the book that I have in my head (a book that is a variety of everything) I need to know the genres that I will be incorporating.

So, that's it. Four goals. Write more. Comment more. Read more. Broaden my horizons.