2020 Resolutions, Part One
Jan. 1st, 2020 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingMake another zine with short creepy fiction.
And figure out something clever to call it that isn’t “Ghost Stories 2.”
Make another Legend of Comics zine.
And maybe put up pre-orders on Tumblr so that I can take sketch requests?
Write (at least) three pieces of unapologetically horrible smut.
I’m aware that this makes me sound like a dinosaur, but I miss the days when attractive people could just bang each other and it didn’t always have to be political. I just created an alias on AO3 to post my terrible bad wrong smutfic.
Respond to the comments people left on my Zelda meta.
Maybe to the tune of one a week? This seems about my speed these days.
Leave at least two comments on other people’s fic every month.
I know this seems like a low bar, but listen. This will be like twenty more comments than I left last year.
Read one cheap and trashy grocery store romance novel a month.
And do artistic studies of the covers!!
Spend at least twenty minutes playing a (new to me) video game every day.
I hear trying new things and not infinitely replaying Zelda keeps your mind sharp.
Post at least five 2k-word essays to Medium.
Last year I put a lot of work into improving my research, structure, and editing. I still enjoy writing essays, but I’m done with academia. I think good scholarly work should be free, accessible, searchable, and illustrated... and that I should get paid (even if it’s just a token amount) for writing it. I don’t know much about Medium as a venue, but I’ll try to give it my best shot this year.
And figure out something clever to call it that isn’t “Ghost Stories 2.”
Make another Legend of Comics zine.
And maybe put up pre-orders on Tumblr so that I can take sketch requests?
Write (at least) three pieces of unapologetically horrible smut.
I’m aware that this makes me sound like a dinosaur, but I miss the days when attractive people could just bang each other and it didn’t always have to be political. I just created an alias on AO3 to post my terrible bad wrong smutfic.
Respond to the comments people left on my Zelda meta.
Maybe to the tune of one a week? This seems about my speed these days.
Leave at least two comments on other people’s fic every month.
I know this seems like a low bar, but listen. This will be like twenty more comments than I left last year.
Read one cheap and trashy grocery store romance novel a month.
And do artistic studies of the covers!!
Spend at least twenty minutes playing a (new to me) video game every day.
I hear trying new things and not infinitely replaying Zelda keeps your mind sharp.
Post at least five 2k-word essays to Medium.
Last year I put a lot of work into improving my research, structure, and editing. I still enjoy writing essays, but I’m done with academia. I think good scholarly work should be free, accessible, searchable, and illustrated... and that I should get paid (even if it’s just a token amount) for writing it. I don’t know much about Medium as a venue, but I’ll try to give it my best shot this year.
