Snowflake Challenge #9

[kate]

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, time you spent in the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well.

This challenge is fairy open, and is based on people looking back on the last year and thinking about their personal wins.

What I want people to remember for this challenge is -- wins can be giant, small and everything in-between. Did you finally finish or publish that novel you've been working on for years? Did you get those bookshelves reorganised? Did you learn a new skill? Did you do something you were scared of? Did you post a certain number of fanworks at A03? Did you master the perfect gooey brownies? Those are all examples of wins and they all count. Just something you can look back on and think, I did that, and I'm proud of that.

But, we know life can be hard for us all at times, so please don't think you have to only share big, memorable wins. If you look back at last year and all you can think to say is, 'I survived' well that counts too.

Man, 100% last year was a survival year. This year will also be a survival year. Work is absolutely fucking bonkers. Despite that, I did achieve a few things. I worked my ass off for a really difficult but truly amazing concert in the fall. I recorded a 65 chapter, 100+k word fic over the period of a couple months. I did, somewhere in there, get a boatload of work done. My office (which I am only nominally supervising at the moment) has done well in my absence and is still flourishing.

I'm a little disappointed with my fanworks output last year (especially my writing), but I tell you what, I still did a hell of a lot, including and outside work, and that's pretty awesome.

Comments

[turps]

I still did a hell of a lot, including and outside work, and that's pretty awesome.

And that is something you should be very proud of, because yes, it is awesome.

Thank you for thinking back over the year and doing the challenge ♥

[kate]

Thank you! And this is a good challenge, even if it's sad this year.

[mific]

It sure is!

[kate]

♥

[rodo]

I recorded a 65 chapter, 100+k word fic over the period of a couple months.

That sounds like a fuckton of work, and it's definitely something to be proud of!

[kate]

It's mostly fun for me - I don't edit, so it's only the fun part of podficcing. But it is still a lot of time, so yeah. I'm pretty proud of it. :D

[rodo]

Hey, even *reading* is a serious time commitment for a story that long. That's a whole ass novel. Fast readers might not thing it takes that long, but I'm one of those people who 'hear' everything they read in their mind, which means my speed of reading is pretty tied to the time it would take to read it out loud, so even if you go through 100k with no mistakes, that's a lot of time.

[the_wanlorn]

Any fannish output during survival years is amazing yo

[kate]

AMEN

[goodbyebird]

❤️ that is indeed awesome!

[kate]

♥ thank you!

[svgurl]

Congrats on not only making it through a survival year but also for putting together the concert and recording a fic, especially one that is over 100k! That is very impressive. :D

[kate]

Thanks! It is perhaps easier for me than for someone who does fully edited and produced podfic, but it is still definitely something worth celebrating.

[adafrog]

Yay for surviving. :)

[kate]

Man, I cannot WAIT until I don't have to think about just surviving ever again.

[adafrog]

Amen.

[silveradept]

You have absolutely done a lot, even if much of it didn't immediately and really translate to wordcount.