Snowflake Challenge 4: 2020 Goals

[arias_hollow]

Many of my goals for this year consist of pursuing my interests more proactively. For example, I've signed up for the Goodreads yearly reading challenge to get me reading more with the goal of 24 books this year (it counts comics as well, and while I do plan to read some of those I also want to read more novels than I have in a while). I already have several stories I'm planning to read, and once I get through those I'll be poking around my To Read list and seeing what grabs my attention most. I'm also planning on putting more time into my original written works, and hopefully either getting something published or much closer to being ready for publishing. I do have one full first draft complete, as well as several partial first drafts and many concepts, I'll probably try to focus on either my novel or making some short stories for a magazine or compilation. Since I have an interest in learning music as well (primarily vocals and cello), I hope to take some first steps towards that as well, and one idea I've had is to try and write lyrics and possibly even melodies for Motive Songs for my lead characters as a sort of practice, though I'm not sure yet how to go about the composing parts. 

I also intend to continue with my drawings, hopefully messing around with more poses and angles to vary up my work. One thing I've considered is finally starting to fan art regularly rather than once in a blue moon, partially because it's just odd I haven't done more with it given how much I fixate on fandoms, and partially because it's perfect for practice since there are actual references to use (unlike with ocs where you just draw from your head and hope for the best). Probably would be good to start working on backgrounds as well, since that's something I've wildly postponed for ages now. 

At some point this year I would also like to pick up another language and really stick to it. I've taken beginner lessons in a few languages before, but never studied long enough to get anywhere near fluent, so it'd be really nice to make some real progress in one of them. 

I think I would also like to try and do more fandom community type activities to be a bit more social, since typically I'm more passive when it comes to actually engaging in things. Maybe write more meta or leave more comments, and try to be more consistent with my reviews. I definitely want to work through more of my television and film lists as well, so between that and getting through the book list hopefully I'll have a lot to review! 

I'm sure there other, more general goals I have, but those are some of the main ones. The real trick will be keeping it up/pacing out over the whole year, so I guess we'll see how that goes! 

Comments

[james]

Cello is one of my favorite instruments - I wanted to pick that one in 5th grade orchestra, but my mother (possibly wisely) thought it was too big to wrangle. So I picked viola and it made my shoulder hurt to hold. ;-)

Somehow I always forget you can learn an instrument as an adult, without being in school.

So - good luck in your ventures!

[fadedwings]

Great goals!!!! Good luck with everything ♥

[spikedluv]

I found ljbookbingo in 2018 and that helped me read more published books (as fanfic had pretty much ruined me for books for a while - though that didn't stop me filling up my shelves o_O). (They have a sister site on DW at dwbookbingo.)

I also would like to learn (or re-learn) a new language this year!

Best wishes for all of your most amazing goals this year!