Goals For 2026
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Every year, on the last day, I write goals for the coming one. Nothing like such a significant beginning to usher in positive change! So, here they are.
Over ambitious? Overlong? Perhaps. But what is life without something to strive for? If I have to pick an intention for the year ahead, let it be this: the great finishing.
Note: updating this throughout. If it's checked off, it's complete, if it's got '⇞' I've let it go.
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Goals
Creative
Apply for the Emerging Writers Festival artist call-out.- ⇞ Continue to build out my private digital garden in Obsidian. Know thyself!
- ⇞ Submit a post for each month’s IndieWeb Carnival and IndieWeb Book Club (doing latter.)
- Submit work to the Bold Magazine.
- ⇞ Write a piece of fanfiction.
- ⇞ Write a poem.
Write more regularly on this site.
Entertainment
Attend a few interesting online events.Discover more musical artists and hopefully expand my comfort zone.- ⇞ Watch an enjoyable film (I haven’t done so in a long time!)
Professional
Clean up my CV and make it more coherent.Do a few freelance projects to bolster my skills.
Publishing
Finish offering all my wares on Metalabel.- ⇞ Finish republishing The Mara Files.
- Publish the following zines:
- Ten issues of Overwrought Observations
- Back To How To Belong In Myself
- The Way I Always Feel At Home
- No Need To Be Original
- Three issues of Esoteric Uses
- Why I Don’t Talk About The Weather
- The Great Finishing
- Set up my Ko-Fi store with all my zines.
Relationships
Ask a few people if they’d be interested in a virtual UnOfficeHours call.Maintain consistency! Reply within a reasonable timeframe, and don’t procrastinate.Their schedule permitting, call my loved ones on a regular basis.
Self-Care
Ask for accommodations! Keep my needs and limitations in mind! Be gentle with myself.Continue improving my flexibility and strength.Journal daily-ish, even if only for five minutes.
Sites
Add dark mode for Lunaseeker and Road Less Read.- ⇞ Compile a list of blogging challenges and prompts.
Compile and post all my books read lists on Road Less Read.- ⇞ Create a directory of folks who offer wares on their sites: an IndieWeb Mercantile.
- ⇞ Finish compiling and publish my photo portfolio.
- ⇞ Finish updating the old posts on Road Less Read.
- ⇞ Launch my planned literary e-zine.
- ⇞ Link everything mentioned/relevant on this site.
- Organize a better system for automating my random/search/sitemap page updates.
Turning my jots page into a functioning microblog.
Volunteering
Continue learning how to contribute to Wikipedia.Continue reviewing books for Netgalley.Contribute to Hardcover and Open Library.Do some IndieWeb Wiki gardening.- Hopefully host an online event for HTML Day.
- ⇞ Host at least one more iteration of Pixel & Prose.
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