A short poll

[mekare]

Poll #30306 How busy are you in the last month of the fannish year?

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How busy are you in the last month of the fannish year?

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I am not busier than usual.
20 (17.5%)

I am taking part in one or two seasonal fannish activities like exchanges or secret santas.
38 (33.3%)

I don’t have time for anything fannish at all due to RL commitments.
30 (26.3%)

I simply don’t have any energy for anything fannish left at the end of the year.
25 (21.9%)

I am neck deep in fannish events, like Yuletide, Secret Santas, other exchanges etc.
11 (9.6%)

I promise myself to not overcommit fannishly every year, but I regularly fail.
14 (12.3%)

I promise myself to not overcommit fannishly every year, and I think I did well this time.
11 (9.6%)

Other (write in the comments!)
3 (2.6%)

Comments

[impala_chick]

I love fandom specific holiday exchanges but I over-extended myself a bit this year and I'm sorta stressed about it. I think I can get everything done but the fics won't be as long as I would otherwise have liked.

[mekare]

I did the same in the past and had to lower my own expectations of what I could produce. In one year for example, I was signed up for three almost simultaneous exchanges (bad idea, but I let my enthusiasm get the better of me). That year I only did black and white lineart instead of coloured ones.

[impala_chick]

I can understand that right now. I've got 3 exchanges with very close due dates! Plus I want to do some writing for fandom trees, but luckily I've got more time for that. Next year I'll be pickier.

[22degreehalo]

It's not that I sign up to any exchanges around this time of the year, it's that I have a tradition going on a good ten years now of writing a Carol-themed Christmas fic every single year!

And this year... I completely misjudged how long this fic would be by truly comical proportions, haha. :') Meaning that after a year of mostly not writing much, and a few months of drabbles only, I might just end up with my longest Christmas fic yet, and with two weeks to go I'm barely halfway...

*internal screaming*

[mekare]

Oh wow congratulations on keeping this tradition going for so long!
Best of luck with finishing this thing!

[doranwen]

I wasn't going to do anything fannish in particular, besides the usual Yuletide tagmodding (and sorting Yahoo Groups metadata which is fandom-adjacent at the least)… but there was a Yuletide pinch hit that just called to me, lol. So I've written a fic. XD

[mekare]

Hooray for inspirational prompts! (Happened to me this week as well)

[writerkit]

I've just learned about the existence of exchanges this year, so I'm doing Yuletide and in a fit of enthusiasm I took a pinch hit for Soulmates even though I'm not actually signed up to the exchange.

[mekare]

Good luck and I hope you have a great first exchange experience!

[svgurl]

I definitely tell myself I am not going to overcommit every year but end up getting tempted and signing up for things. Thankfully I don't have issues meeting the deadlines (which is part of the reason I keep signing up so I have a reason to write), but hopefully 2024 will be the year that I slow down a little so I can work on outside projects. :)

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

My end of year is always swamped. It includes preparing for snowflake_challenge and my year-end sale of poetry (most of which is fantasy or other speculative stuff). Because of that, I don't have time for the holiday fan activities.

[fred_mouse]

I ticked 'not busier than usual', but 'usual' is pretty much 'nothing but reading fic'. I have not had the oomph to even consume the TV shows on my wishlist, and while I have the desire to write have not actually written a single word all year; this may not be a change from last year, or even the year before. I am choosing not to look in my drafts folder to see when my last change was!