Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Day 9

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Continuing the meme/challenge begun and tracked here.


Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Day 9

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

For now, I think I’ll stick with fanfic-related.

Several years in a row, I set myself - by private intention, or open statement on LJ - to write an average of one fic per month. Every year, I failed at this. On my best of such, I made it to eight.

This year, I’m tackling it again. I’ve seen what I can do on short notice; I know I can manage a dozen stories in a year’s time, so only hopeless indiscipline will prevent me from doing so. I’m part-way into the first one already, so I have a start. And, to give myself a little extra incentive (in the “putting my money where my mouth is” venue), I’ll semi-commit to what I intend those stories to be. The titles are abbreviated, and they probably won’t come out in quite that order, but in 2016 expect to see:

1. CP - Xander and yet another Slayer, figuring out where they stand and where they’ll go from there.
   (published April 2016 as “ Curious Poses”)
    
2. tONIDoK - two Slayers in the desert, facing choices as well as danger.
   (published May 2016 as “ the Other Night I Dreamt of Knives”)
    
3. [whatever I do for RemixRedux]
   (no RemixRedux in 2016, darn it!)
    
4. BtBS - she wanders into a haven where she can’t remain, but there she sees where the future lies.
   (published March 2020 as “ Beneath the Bitter Snows”)
    
5. JBN - a not particularly nice person gets a deeply unflattering view of himself.
   (published July 2019 as “ Jack Be Nimble”)
    
6. [whatever I do for summer_of_giles]
   (published August 2016 as “ the Final Cut”)
    
7. ZT - this one time, in soldier camp …
   (published March 2023 as “ Zulu Time”)
    
8. tPoL - two people Buffy saved (and then forgot) set themselves to chart their own path through the realm of monsters.
   (published April 2023 as “ the Price of Lace”)
    
9. SaM - two teams; one place; a showdown, a clash of dedicated warriors, and a judgment.
    
10. [whatever I do for cof_remix]
    (published December 2016 as “ There Ought to Be Clowns”)
     
11. AtSR - a Slayer, a journey, and a guy who doesn’t realize quite what is riding along with him.
     
12. TPA - a Slayer-with-something-extra, a vampire (also with something extra), and a face from the past.

Except for the three that will be determined by the event in which they appear, I already know what these stories will be. It’s just a matter of transferring them from my brain to actual words … you know, that sound good and tell a story. Piece of cake.

No, hubris has never been a problem for me. Why do you ask?