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Last day of 2014
Happy New Year, all. :) For us it's still 2014 and will be for some hours yet, but 2015 is marching towards us, one time zone at a time.
And yeah, it's just a conceptual abstraction (Jan. 1, 2015 is not different in any qualitative way from Dec. 31, 2014) but we are, as a species, beings who like ritual and ceremony. I've always enjoyed the New Year as a concept. It's so hopeful, the idea of wiping the slate clean and starting over with a fresh year like a blank page of paper.
As I've been doing since 2006, I wrote two posts over at my realname journal, setting goals for 2015 and looking back on how I did with my 2014 goals. This was one of my less successful creative years, at least in terms of doing any of the things I said I was going to do. Possibly in compensation, I'm going for WILD OPTIMISM with my 2015 goals. We shall see how that works out.
I used to do fannish creative roundups for awhile, but stopped doing that once I started posting everything to AO3. So, my 2014 fic is over on AO3. (I also just posted a scrap of fluff from the psychic Neal AU that I wrote last summer but never posted anywhere public, for completeness's sake.)
Nearly everything I wrote this year was for White Collar or Captain America. Generally I'm a sort of serial fannish monogamist, and I'm not sure if I've had this sort of thing happen before, where I started the year in one fandom, then fell into a hardcore obsession with something else (my sudden Captain America fixation is definitely the hardest I've fallen for something new since I first got into White Collar back in whenever that was) and then fell back into the other one at the end of the year. Right now, White Collar has wrapped up (in a way I wasn't totally happy with) and I seem to be sliding back Avengers-wards again, at least based on my fic-reading habits. Honestly, the only thing that's stopped me from writing more Avengers-based fic is a) I want to write about movieverse Steve and Bucky, but b) I'm pretty thoroughly burned out on the entire genre of post-movie, Bucky-comes-in-from-the-cold fics (except when a rare special one comes along, or when there's a new installment in a series I'm already following) and I feel like I've written about as many variations on that as I feel like writing. I'm struggling to come up with other ideas that I really want to write. (Though I DO need to finish the "Sam and Bucky in the wilderness" one. The fourth and last chapter is mostly written! I'm not sure why I've been faffing around instead.)
Also, my h/c bingo card is down to just a few prompts. I've decided not to claim the bingos I've already made, but instead to try for a blackout during the amnesty period. Because I'm SO CLOSE! And I've never made a blackout before. It would be nice to have that as an achievement.
Personally, this year had a lot of ups and downs. I attended a dear friend's wedding and saw quite a lot of my family, as well as getting to hang out with fannish friends I haven't seen in years, which was absolutely wonderful. On the down side, one of the reasons why I saw a lot of my family was because my grandmother nearly died (she's doing fine now), and the health issue that came uncomfortably close to killing me in 2013 made a temporary comeback, though I think we've got it under control now. I also think I've been drinking too much -- not enough that I feel it's enough to be a matter of concern, but since alcoholism does run in my family, I think my life would be better and healthier if I start treating alcohol as a special sometimes treat in 2015, instead of something I have regularly three or four nights a week. I can also tell I'm skirting around the edges of depression, by my lack of willpower and inability to accomplish anything over the last couple of months; it took me years to figure out depression is what causes that, but it definitely is what causes that (for me), so I have some coping strategies to put into effect for that as well.
Hmmm, and that's about it for 2014! I look forward to spending 2015 with all of you, the old friends I've known for ages and the new friends I've just made this year. Here's hoping 2015 will be a great year for all of you.
And yeah, it's just a conceptual abstraction (Jan. 1, 2015 is not different in any qualitative way from Dec. 31, 2014) but we are, as a species, beings who like ritual and ceremony. I've always enjoyed the New Year as a concept. It's so hopeful, the idea of wiping the slate clean and starting over with a fresh year like a blank page of paper.
As I've been doing since 2006, I wrote two posts over at my realname journal, setting goals for 2015 and looking back on how I did with my 2014 goals. This was one of my less successful creative years, at least in terms of doing any of the things I said I was going to do. Possibly in compensation, I'm going for WILD OPTIMISM with my 2015 goals. We shall see how that works out.
I used to do fannish creative roundups for awhile, but stopped doing that once I started posting everything to AO3. So, my 2014 fic is over on AO3. (I also just posted a scrap of fluff from the psychic Neal AU that I wrote last summer but never posted anywhere public, for completeness's sake.)
Nearly everything I wrote this year was for White Collar or Captain America. Generally I'm a sort of serial fannish monogamist, and I'm not sure if I've had this sort of thing happen before, where I started the year in one fandom, then fell into a hardcore obsession with something else (my sudden Captain America fixation is definitely the hardest I've fallen for something new since I first got into White Collar back in whenever that was) and then fell back into the other one at the end of the year. Right now, White Collar has wrapped up (in a way I wasn't totally happy with) and I seem to be sliding back Avengers-wards again, at least based on my fic-reading habits. Honestly, the only thing that's stopped me from writing more Avengers-based fic is a) I want to write about movieverse Steve and Bucky, but b) I'm pretty thoroughly burned out on the entire genre of post-movie, Bucky-comes-in-from-the-cold fics (except when a rare special one comes along, or when there's a new installment in a series I'm already following) and I feel like I've written about as many variations on that as I feel like writing. I'm struggling to come up with other ideas that I really want to write. (Though I DO need to finish the "Sam and Bucky in the wilderness" one. The fourth and last chapter is mostly written! I'm not sure why I've been faffing around instead.)
Also, my h/c bingo card is down to just a few prompts. I've decided not to claim the bingos I've already made, but instead to try for a blackout during the amnesty period. Because I'm SO CLOSE! And I've never made a blackout before. It would be nice to have that as an achievement.
Personally, this year had a lot of ups and downs. I attended a dear friend's wedding and saw quite a lot of my family, as well as getting to hang out with fannish friends I haven't seen in years, which was absolutely wonderful. On the down side, one of the reasons why I saw a lot of my family was because my grandmother nearly died (she's doing fine now), and the health issue that came uncomfortably close to killing me in 2013 made a temporary comeback, though I think we've got it under control now. I also think I've been drinking too much -- not enough that I feel it's enough to be a matter of concern, but since alcoholism does run in my family, I think my life would be better and healthier if I start treating alcohol as a special sometimes treat in 2015, instead of something I have regularly three or four nights a week. I can also tell I'm skirting around the edges of depression, by my lack of willpower and inability to accomplish anything over the last couple of months; it took me years to figure out depression is what causes that, but it definitely is what causes that (for me), so I have some coping strategies to put into effect for that as well.
Hmmm, and that's about it for 2014! I look forward to spending 2015 with all of you, the old friends I've known for ages and the new friends I've just made this year. Here's hoping 2015 will be a great year for all of you.