Some things I’d like to do in 2025 (Snowflake Challenge #5, Fannish 50)

Since this is the start of a new year, this challenge will be e to set your own goals! Of course we can all make large or ambitious goals, remember that small and/or short goals are also good! (snowflake_challenge #4)

The new year is having a quiet and slow start for me: while I want to do many things, I feel that my enthusiasm for creating stuff is a muffled voice in the background while my mind is occupied with other things--obligations and business that I need to tend to or will hang indefinitely over my head for the next months, a bit of uncertainty on what I am to expect out of this year. Going back to work certainly didn't help.

More than that, I've had a few months of writer's block, or rather, lack of motivation that turns into deep dissatisfaction (or open, desperate struggle) when I end up writing anyway. Since I've had one such moment yesterday, I do feel a bit blue.

It is okay--I don't have to do anything, and it's also okay not to have writing goals for now. Last year went well writing-wise, and I reached my goals of joining fic exchanges and fan events and participating in them, and there I discovered that ( Read more... )

And that's even better thinking that there are more things that I want to do this year: play more ttrpgs and other games (both digital and analogic), read more non-fiction and literary fiction, trying to crochet more garments and learning how to make them fit well, continuing to learn sashiko while also going back to embroidery (I miss it! I haven't managed last year, in the end), and, possibly, crafting at least one paper-or-paint-adjacent work.

Free time is, after all, limited, and I'd better use it to have fun.

(A bit of a downer of a post? I hope not to much. To you who read, best of luck with your 2025 goals, and with being well most of all!)