Snowflake Challenge Day 09

Day 9: In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.

I've been doing this since the start of the year :)
My entry Looking Back, Looking Forward mentions some of my goals. I also wrote for Snowflake Challenge Day 06 that I wanted to challenge my boundaries.
I made a f-locked list of fic I want to write, fandom specific, and I probably ought to make a more general list when I have ideas so I don't forget them!
I'm signed up Get Your Words Out again this year, and I usually like to complete one line minimum for any trope_bingo and hc_bingo rounds.
If unconventionalcourtship runs again this year I have a summary in mind :D
Also talking about NaNoWriMo with my sister and how productive it was for me and how it made November exist for me, she pointed out how I hate February too and usually lose out on the month. Maybe I ought to set myself a writing challenge for February. So I may well do :)

Discussion: To Canon or Not to Canon by princessofgeeks

princessofgeeks is hosting an excellent discussion on the topic of canon,
To Canon or Not to Canon.
It talks about how many fan writers feel constrained by canon, worry about their fics being "jossed" if they don't post them before the next episode/movie. It considers what is canon, how far can we contradict it before our fic is AU?
In other words, must we write only what we are shown in canon, or can we go beyond canon if we do not contradict canon?
As a slash fan in 20th century, heteronormative Hollywood, I'm sure you know what side of that line I came down on.

I've been dealing with thoughts about this myself recently, and I'll repeat the comment I left under the cut. But I do urge everyone to go and read the full discussion post and the comments and, if you have any thoughts you feel you can express, add a comment at that post yourself.

It's a fascinating discussion. Overall I think many fan writers tend towards writing fic in the first place to explore the things (missing scenes, alternate choices, slash ships) that canon denies them. How comfortable you feel changing things and how far that goes, how much you ignore canon choices, or if you write outright AUs, is a question for you and possibly the answer varies between fandoms.

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