Snowflake Challenge #8

[bittermoons]

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In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

2021 was a crazy year for me, with so many things both good and bad happening and life jumping from the snail's pace of 2020 to rocket speed and back to snail speed sometimes in the span of the same month. Some wins I'm celebrating:

• First thing's first, I'm clapping myself on the back for making it through 2021 mostly intact!
• I wrote for 5 fandoms and had 9 different ships as the main ships (for the fics I wrote where there were romantic ships), which is a big increase in variety from 2020.
• I succeeded in staying away from doing too many events: like I said, my 2021 was insanely unpredictable and doing these would have just added more stress.
• AO3 says I wrote 116k of fanfic in 2021, and given I took over two months off and that number doesn't include several unposted zine fics + a ~45k unposted rough draft, I'd say that's pretty impressive. 

Fingers crossed 2022 is slightly less whiplash-inducing than 2021 (not betting on it given the first two weeks alone LOL)! 

Comments

[muccamukk]

I'm clapping myself on the back for making it through 2021 mostly intact!

That is such a mood. Congrats on all the fic! That's a lot of writing.

[bittermoons]

Haha yeah 2021 was a hell of a year, to say the least. I'm amazed I got so much writing done tbh. Thanks for reading!

[svgurl]

Making it through 2021 is definitely worth celebrating. Congrats on all the fic! That is a lot of words. :D

[bittermoons]

Aw, thanks! LOL I'm still surprised I was able to write that much. Fingers crossed 2022 won't be as crazy :D

[vriddy]

So many cool wins, congratulations :) The variety in fandoms and ships sounds like a particularly fun thing to get the creative juices flowing and explore different themes and dynamics!

[bittermoons]

Thanks! Yeah, I definitely had fun with different dynamics and characters last year, hoping to do some more ship-hopping this year :D

[vriddy]

Sounds fun, hope you manage a repeat then :D