Jan. 14th, 2018

chanter1944: a house and road blanketed in snow (Wisconsin winter: buried in snay)
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.

*Write all the things! That is, write significantly more than I have during the past few years, currently-posted fics excepted. This one's going to take vacation days that don't involve catching up on sleep debt, but *do* involve all the warm fuzzy things that recharge this particular ambient (as opposed to academic) crafter. We'll see how that goes.

*Get rosemary to survive, come spring. Work in progress! Last year's plant died on me, darnit, but previous ones have lived, so there's hope. I wonder if I can keep this basil going for a second year...

*Seek a wider audience for my writing! The recent kerfluffle over patronage sites has me distinctly wary of that option, but I wonder what else is out there for shorter fiction? I really do need to investigate magazine submissions...

*In fact, I'm making that a goal all its own. Investigate the possibility of magazine submissions, even though my stories are not hard science fiction or high fantasy.

*Find a two bedroom apartment within this general area that a) is affordable, b) has just enough of a balcony for plants and radio gear, and c) allows cats. Yeah right, I know, but it's worth a look.

*Get more active in local community building. I seriously need to up my resistance activity here, and where better to start than at home?

*Get my 5-gallon donation pin with the Red Cross. My current tally for units donated, blood and platelets, stands at 34. 40 by year's end is doable, but only if I donate platelets again.
In your own space, create your own challenge. Whatever your challenge is, and have fun with it! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This one was admittedly trickier than tricky to come up with! Then I realized, oh hey, tiny fandoms! There are some truly teeny tiny fandoms out there that absolutely deserve more love. The series you're sure only you and your friends were watching, the obscure cartoon from childhood, the books that captivated you but barely seem to have an online presence in fannish spaces... My challenge is to go forth and make the teeny fandom(s) of your choice just that little bit less itty, by whatever means you choose.

I need to take up my own challenge...
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