2015 Resolutions, Part the Third
Jan. 5th, 2015 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI don't have the resources to try for the big things I want from life, so I count small accomplishments instead. Whatever, I'm still young.
Read 100 books.
In order to count towards the total, a book must be read from cover to cover.
Acknowledgments, bibliographies, and end notes don't apply to the "cover to cover" rule.
Novellas and plays more than 60 pages long count.
Children's books less than 200 pages don't count.
Magazines and Japanese "mooks" don't count.
Art books and exhibition catalogs don't count.
Manga and graphic novels don't count.
Nature and travel guides don't count.
Academic articles don't count.
Fic doesn't count.
Post one book review a month.
To my blog on WordPress, of course. I'd like to aim for two, but that's not always reasonable, given my workload.
Two comments on AO3 a month.
Commenting on fic is hard. How do I leave a comment as touching and brilliant and witty as the fic I just read? How do I incorporate risqué fandom jokes without being offensive? How do I demonstrate unironic appreciation without coming off as creepy? That being said, the distribution of comments on AO3 is highly uneven, with some fic getting hundreds of comments while most fic gets none. Also, even though I've gotten some weird fucking comments on my own work (mostly on ff.net), I have always treasured every single one of them. I think leaving good comments is a skill that can be learned with practice. I will most definitely suck at it at first, but hopefully I'll get better. If I don't get better, then at least I can become a fun object of ridicule, like, Hey, have you gotten a comment from that crazypants girl yet; I got one last month, and she is so bizarre. Yes, this is exactly what will happen. Never let it be said that my goals are not lofty.
Read 100 books.
In order to count towards the total, a book must be read from cover to cover.
Acknowledgments, bibliographies, and end notes don't apply to the "cover to cover" rule.
Novellas and plays more than 60 pages long count.
Children's books less than 200 pages don't count.
Magazines and Japanese "mooks" don't count.
Art books and exhibition catalogs don't count.
Manga and graphic novels don't count.
Nature and travel guides don't count.
Academic articles don't count.
Fic doesn't count.
Post one book review a month.
To my blog on WordPress, of course. I'd like to aim for two, but that's not always reasonable, given my workload.
Two comments on AO3 a month.
Commenting on fic is hard. How do I leave a comment as touching and brilliant and witty as the fic I just read? How do I incorporate risqué fandom jokes without being offensive? How do I demonstrate unironic appreciation without coming off as creepy? That being said, the distribution of comments on AO3 is highly uneven, with some fic getting hundreds of comments while most fic gets none. Also, even though I've gotten some weird fucking comments on my own work (mostly on ff.net), I have always treasured every single one of them. I think leaving good comments is a skill that can be learned with practice. I will most definitely suck at it at first, but hopefully I'll get better. If I don't get better, then at least I can become a fun object of ridicule, like, Hey, have you gotten a comment from that crazypants girl yet; I got one last month, and she is so bizarre. Yes, this is exactly what will happen. Never let it be said that my goals are not lofty.
