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kerravonsenDay 8
In your own space, talk about setting yourself a fannish goal. Big or small, it doesn't matter. Some examples: complete a bingo, sign up for a Big Bang, write that fic you've been thinking about for years, podfic that story that you love, make a fanmix for your fandom, post that bit of meta or reclist you keep putting off. Maybe resolve to be better at leaving feedback or answering comments. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.
Hmmmmm.
I think I will have a few fannish goals for this coming year. Not too many, not too unrealistic, or I will just be discouraged.
1. Uploads: to go through last year's![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
tthdrabbles drabbles and actually upload them to all my archives.
2. Revision: to revise "Memoria Veritas" and upload it to all my archives.
3. Rewrite: to actually sit down and do the rewrite of "By Any Other Name" that I've been putting off for years.
4. Semi-fannish goal: make more jewellery that is symbolic rather than just pretty. This is semi-fannish because some pieces will be more fannish than others.
All of those (apart from #4) are a sort of clearing-the-decks exercise, but it will be a weight off my mind when they're done.
In regard to #4... I'm not sure what to do with the pieces when they are actually done. I know some people would say "open an Etsy store" but I feel very uncomfortable about selling my jewellery, for several reasons:
(a) the money isn't worth the extra work & stress needed to run a side-business
(b) people wouldn't be willing to pay the amount of money my pieces are really worth, taking into consideration the long hours I spend on them
(c) making it a business turns it from play into work; it takes all the fun out of it
(d) there's just something about selling my work that drains the love out of it
Now, normally, I just give my jewellery as gifts to my family and near friends, and I tend to make enough pieces a year to cover that, but with my new goal... if I make fannish pieces of jewellery, there's no point in giving them to my family, because they aren't fannish. Well, mostly not fannish. If I were to give any of them something LotR or Narnia themed, I'm sure they would appreciate it, but if I were to give one of them something SS/HG themed, they wouldn't know what I was talking about (or worse, they would make a face. Not everyone shares the Snape-love).
And, to be frank, while I like y'all, you're not on my Christmas list, and I don't want to post my work overseas at my own cost just because someone might like it and I don't want to sell it. I'm not that generous.
I'm wondering... while I don't want to sell my work... I think it would be cool to exchange creative works. Because that feels like love for love, worth for worth, and not crass commercialism. Whether that be craftwork, artwork, fanfic... it's all creative, and worthy.
What do you creative peeps think? Would that work?
In your own space, talk about setting yourself a fannish goal. Big or small, it doesn't matter. Some examples: complete a bingo, sign up for a Big Bang, write that fic you've been thinking about for years, podfic that story that you love, make a fanmix for your fandom, post that bit of meta or reclist you keep putting off. Maybe resolve to be better at leaving feedback or answering comments. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.
Hmmmmm.
I think I will have a few fannish goals for this coming year. Not too many, not too unrealistic, or I will just be discouraged.
1. Uploads: to go through last year's
tthdrabbles drabbles and actually upload them to all my archives.2. Revision: to revise "Memoria Veritas" and upload it to all my archives.
3. Rewrite: to actually sit down and do the rewrite of "By Any Other Name" that I've been putting off for years.
4. Semi-fannish goal: make more jewellery that is symbolic rather than just pretty. This is semi-fannish because some pieces will be more fannish than others.
All of those (apart from #4) are a sort of clearing-the-decks exercise, but it will be a weight off my mind when they're done.
In regard to #4... I'm not sure what to do with the pieces when they are actually done. I know some people would say "open an Etsy store" but I feel very uncomfortable about selling my jewellery, for several reasons:
(a) the money isn't worth the extra work & stress needed to run a side-business
(b) people wouldn't be willing to pay the amount of money my pieces are really worth, taking into consideration the long hours I spend on them
(c) making it a business turns it from play into work; it takes all the fun out of it
(d) there's just something about selling my work that drains the love out of it
Now, normally, I just give my jewellery as gifts to my family and near friends, and I tend to make enough pieces a year to cover that, but with my new goal... if I make fannish pieces of jewellery, there's no point in giving them to my family, because they aren't fannish. Well, mostly not fannish. If I were to give any of them something LotR or Narnia themed, I'm sure they would appreciate it, but if I were to give one of them something SS/HG themed, they wouldn't know what I was talking about (or worse, they would make a face. Not everyone shares the Snape-love).
And, to be frank, while I like y'all, you're not on my Christmas list, and I don't want to post my work overseas at my own cost just because someone might like it and I don't want to sell it. I'm not that generous.
I'm wondering... while I don't want to sell my work... I think it would be cool to exchange creative works. Because that feels like love for love, worth for worth, and not crass commercialism. Whether that be craftwork, artwork, fanfic... it's all creative, and worthy.
What do you creative peeps think? Would that work?
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Date: 2013-01-13 01:21 pm (UTC)