What I Will Do for the Internets in 2009
My fandom New Year’s resolutions:
*Read and review more fic. Smellyia was actually talking about this over on Twilighted a week or so ago and even recently opened a great fandom blog I need to pimp out soon. Seriously, I tend to get really down because I don’t receive hundreds and hundreds of reviews, but everyone else feels exactly the same way - and even if an author already gets tons of reviews, it’s kind of a fandom service to review stuff because you think it’s good and not because you want to up someone’s review count. That can (and should) be done through reccs and much pimpage. I’ve been making a much more conscious effort to review lately. I don’t know if it’ll last or not, but I’m hoping that in the New Year, every time my inbox gives me a story update notification, someone else’s will be getting a review notification within the space of a week.
*Write at least two updates of Trick of the Light. My neglect of this story is just getting ridiculous. And if the fact that it doesn’t get reviewed much, or when it does it usually only gets comments on the UC aspect, really bothers me, I just need to not read the reviews at all. Oh, who am I kidding? Reviews, even leery or angry ones, are my lifeblood.
*Finish 10,000 Miles, Things We Left Behind, and Collide. If I can get my butt in gear on updates, the first one might not be so hard. The second will require a bit of editing, copious re-watches of the movie for inspiration, and some grim determination. As for the last… hell, that fic is from my semi-colon happy days - B.R. as I like to refer to it, or Before Raychel. If I can just slap on one or two final chapters, even shoddily written ones, I will be happy. That story was my WIP baby, Degrassi fanfic or not, and deserves to be properly laid to rest.
*Be a kickass beta to CandyDreamQueen and anyone else I may be lucky enough/crazy enough to beta for. This means getting parts back within two days TOPS, being better about hounding for updates, and just generally making myself indispensible (or at least irritating).
*Eventually reopen and edit/flesh out The Spirit’s Wife Gift. It wasn’t pretty, but it was my NaNoWriMo winner and, as such, deserves the not-completely-awful stories I know I can tease from it with enough hacking, chopping, dicing, and scene padding.
*Update Reconstructing Madonna at least once a month. I need to be nice to the lovely reviewers of this story and not leave them hanging for forever and a day. I need to be nice to myself and prove that yes, actually, I can finish something.
*Outline all the volumes of my Polaris series plot-monster.
*And, finally, produce a Twilight/Roswell XO fluff masterpiece for etherealxmuse .
This should only cause me fairly regular panic attacks and episodic of hair pulling. Let's just hope I accomplish a third of it, yes?
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