writing goals for 2018

My writing to-do list for 2018 looks roughly as follows:

1. Finish my last prompt meme ficlet from last summer. Possibly also finish "A Question of Familiarity" along with it -- or not, if I can get the prompt ficlet to work without that background.

2. My FTH fic from last year, yikes, I am so overdue...

3. The urban fantasy superhero novella I owe Susan from years ago.

4. The vaguely surrealist kids' fantasy novelette I owe Vicky from years ago. (Unless I wind up writing the first volume of the vaguely Lovecraftian urban fantasy f/f tetralogy I outlined at her and which she expressed enthusiasm for instead. We'll see how that shakes out when I get there.)

5. WIP Big Bang? I have so many languishing fics I want to get off my back, and by late spring/early summer I will probably want a fanfic break from original work.

6. Narnia Fic Exchange. (This is non-negotiable.)

7. Remix if it runs.

8. Yuletide.

9. "Trollstuck: Make Her Pay" -- I am so close to done with that one, and I can't use it for WIP Big Bang because it's already illustrated and I do the (terrible) pictures myself.

10. Two or three chapters of "Guardian" assuming I still have time.

11. Presumably the next round of the Three Sentence Ficathon in December, because that's always a nice palate-cleanser. :)

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It's a lot of work, but it's completely doable if I can keep my focus. And on that note, I am absolutely NOT ALLOWED to run mini-ficlet prompt memes in 2018. Shout at me and poke me with sticks if I try to weasel out of that commitment!

(Yes, this looks very similar to last year's goals. Hopefully this year I will not get derailed by depression and general distraction.)

work stuff

I just picked up two extra hours at Not the IRS tomorrow (going in at noon instead of at 2pm to cover for a coworker who had an unexpected scheduling conflict), which, on the one hand, yay extra money! But on the other hand, goshdarnit, I had plans for those two hours that did not involve sitting around in a boring and underheated office. *sigh*

Oh well, at least my college financial stuff seems to be mostly straightened out by now...

wherein Liz considers reading logs

I used to keep monthly reading logs, but I stopped in late 2009 for... I don't remember why, exactly. Just ran out of steam, I suppose. (Also I was probably reading too much fanfic.)

I sort of want to start that up again this year, but that might be one commitment too many.

(I am already regretting facilitating the church youth group this year, mostly because schedule changes mean we're only meeting two weeks each month and also all the kids are super-busy so I get at most two of them per session. That makes it hard to plan any events, which makes it hard to drum up enthusiasm to attend regular meetings. So I kind of sit there in futility. I loathe futility. *sigh* At this point I'd rather attend services downstairs in the sanctuary, or even just sleep in.)

Maybe if I don't bother too much with summaries/reviews? That could help...