axael | Fandom Snowflake Challenge #4

Fandom Snowflake Challenge — January 7th

Goals!

I decided to skip around in which challenge I do when. So today is challenge four, ahha, which is ~goals~. I have many goals, but let's see if I can list out all of them, first. I'm working on only a couple of them at the moment, but I have some pie-in-the-sky ones I want to poke at during 2025.

My primary novel. A grieving idiot summons something he Should Not and builds a found family while trying to fix his mistake. I'm in the final pre-query edits and procrastinating hard.
New novel! A high fantasy wrapped around light magic, a jailbreak, and taking down a trafficking ring, featuring my favorite dynamic of powerful magic user + her loyal non-traditional family members.
My portfolio project. A wiki containing all of the lore and background of an epic RPG, to illustrate that I can write an epic rpg, lol.
A text-based escape room game. You, the player, wakes up from suspended animation to a too-helpful companion, a half-dismantled ship, and a mystery that, once solved, will hopefully allow you to escape with all your organs intact. For my portfolio, but also because I have a cool idea and I want to learn how to program in Twine. :)
A screenplay. I wrote a fic that was ~tangentially related to the canon it was set in, using all OCs, and have been percolating porting the basic plot to a totally different genre. I just need a new solution to the central conflict, which is tricky.
Sketch out new projects and graduate at least one to active project status: my untitled space opera, two time-travel novels, my narrative podcast concept, and a couple more in the veeerrry beginning stages.

Fic:
Batcryptid fic(s). I am slowly building up the Batfam with Gotham being a 'helpful' eldritch entity and ripping out each Bat's humanity, one by one, as I build the timeline from the ground up. I'm JUST about to introduce Clark, and after Clark is a longfic getting us to a resting point with Bruce, Alfred, and Gotham before I introduce baby Dickie.
Batstargate fic. Jason PoV, with him as solo protag in the Stargate universe. Batfam post-reconciliation, but like...more about Jason undercover with the NID than batfam relationships.
Several Other Bat Ideas (lol). I have an idea file with a handful of fusions and some two-cakes kind of exploration of tropes I like. (Hallucinations, Presumed Dead, Shapeshifters, etc.) If I manage to get through either of the previous two this year, I'll be tackling one or more of these.
Finish Fire Safety. Did I post an 'Avengers take care of a dragon egg' fic in 2013 and never update the climactic chapter? I did!!! I've rewritten the damn thing twice and it's still not good enough. This is my WIP of the year if I decide to do a challenge later.
Finish my 'Battle of Five Worldbuilding' boy's fic. This is a gen-rated 'boys go to college,' except the boys are from four different canons and injected into a fifth. The linking feature is that all the boys are the 'smart, sarcastic one,' from each canon. And now they're roommates, so I can compare and contrast the characters within the archetypes. I have to rewrite chapter two, because it's backwards.
Finish my 'Battle of Five Worldbuilding' girl's fic. This is an...M-rated(? uncertain), crossover lesbian shipfic. Similar to the boy's fic, I yanked four ladies from their canons, but their linking feature is RedBlack women. As in...not-necessarily-evil, but they definitely have a dark and dangerous color scheme and are all highly competent, sharp, and goal-oriented.
Work on Ghost Queen Wen Qing fic. What it says on the tin. I *really* wish I had an ending for this one, because the beginning is one of my favorite things I've written. Can't get any further, though, until I've figured out where I'm going with it, alas.

Journal:
750 words a day, baby. (At, of course, the 750words site.) I've discovered that journalling keeps my mental health from tanking, so I'm dedicating myself to making sure I do it every day.

Community:
Continue to attend my Wednesday's Writer's Group. They're a good group of people and even if I'm not sharing anything, I do love to participate. :)
Participate in GYWO discussions, say 'hi' to people, and generally just...be way more social this year in a writing respect.
Snowflake Challenge (lol). Have I done precisely one (now two) challenges? Yes. That's in the spirit of the challenge, though, so I figure I'm okay.

All that said! I have my original novel edits, my Batcryptid project, my journalling, and my writer's group. The top one of each section are my priorities, and the rest are just gonna have to sort themselves out from there if/when I either finish the one above it or I'm choosing to let it rest for the day. Which...now that I've laid everything out...maybe I'll be able to get to some of the projects that are lower on the lists as the year goes by.