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Charming Resolutions 2020
#1
Exactly what it says—both IC and OOC resoultions to uphold on-board in 2020! Mine are...

  • Maintain a better Online/Offline balance
  • Get at least one of my debs/bachelors engaged
  • Immortality for Bellona
  • Have a meaningful thread with each of my fellow Charmers <3
  • Remember that it’s 1890 now xD



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#2
  • Get some of my long-time hurlables at least courting, especially Richard Gladstone and Lily Huddleston
  • Take better care of my mental health - 2019 was horrible for it.
  • Make at least 3 ic posts per month per character.
  • Try and make it down to the states to visit my significant other.
  • Beat the video games I recently got.


#3
  • Get Maddie either married off, or to a DGAF stage and moved on with her career
  • Get Back to 10 characters (specifically make a male character, a WC character, a child)
  • Don't let any character go idle this year due to inactivity
  • Make Maddie and Benevolence Immortal here
  • Get all characters to over 50 posts
  • Find my old stamp count and start tracking stamps again.
  • Finish my House renovations and get a handle on my post partum



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^  Look what Lady did  ^
#4
  • Get my life together and be more active again. (Which should be achievable after we move and get settled!) And get more involved again, too.
  • Eventually get all my people back to being active.
  • Character Specific:
    • Post a lot more for Billie again. Have her maybe learn to fly. Make all the friends.
    • Make Archer's life hell, but also have him make one good friend. And go on more ghost/werewolf/vampire adventures.
    • Hurl Zachariah, even though he pines after Rosie.
  • Work on figuring out stamps I neglected.
  • All the threads!
  • Take better care of my health/mental health, and not just my wife's/everyone else's.



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MJ, yet again working her magic.  <3 <3 Thank you
#5
  • Find a comfortable school/work/charming balance
  • Reach 300 posts for Calla and make a total of 500 post between all characters
  • Have at least one major plot point with each character
  • Develope a more diverse character listing. I.e. older ages, different classes, have a muggleborn, and more.
  • Have a successful hurling
  • Earn at least 20 stamps. Particularly would like to earn the Novella.
  • Work on improving the quality of my writing: grammar,
    wordiness, over tone, consistency
  • Make new friends at the new campus. Don't just lurk a home. Be social.



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look at the pretties mj made me!!!
#6
  • Get my shit together and start posting more regularly
  • Be better at hurling. Acacia and Sweetie will be courtable next year, need to do right by them
  • 200 post immortality for Alina by February cackles with pure victory as of 1.31.2020
  • Posting 5+ for at least half of my characters each month, and at least 2 for the rest
  • Get more adoptables taken because I'm a determined cookie
  • Update my adoptables
  • On that note, update my poor networking
  • Get my characters higher on the post count for the members list because I'm competitive



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#7
/stole Kayte's fancy list buttons.

  • Survive spring semester of grad school
  • Keep up regular Charming breaks during spring semester
  • Plot with a player I haven't plotted with before
  • Have a #DramaticReveal in a plot
  • Not go into every activity check thinking 'well, I suppose we'll just have to hope for the best because idek who's been posted'


#8
  • A Plan of Posting: I have a reeeaalllyyy bad habit of letting threads go dead [if you've been subject to this I love you dearly for your patience, I swear it's not because I've gotten bored] - while I don't mind threads going dead and reviving them, I know that it can be a peeve of others that I need to keep in mind. I'm hoping to just make my posting more consistent - not necessarily more threads just for the sake of quantity, but seeing that more of my threads are archived and completed rather than dead and uncompleted xD
  • Update adoptable ads!
  • Have my characters develop more relationships with other characters - both romantic and friendships
  • Like everyone else, maintain a better online/offline balance!
  • Aaallllsooooo I'd like to read more and thus perhaps participate in more book club descriptions!



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#9
    — Spend more time on Charming and less worrying about things I can't control. I've lost so much time online this year because I've been mentally drained and unable to conjure an ounce of muse.
    — Meet someone from Charming. My best candidate is Nichole (#FLbuddies, ayy) at this point.
    — Equal development. I have a bad habit of giving attention to a handful of characters and neglecting the rest, but I want that to change! Even if it means a steady stream of open threads, it's still development.
    — No more dead threads. 2019 has been characterized by moments of extreme muse and activity followed by cricket noises, and it's leading to forgotten and dead threads. I don't mind reviving, but I know some people do and I hate to be That Person.
    — Keep a steady thread/post count tracker. I did this with ease in 2018, but I apparently suck now. :P
    — Be a better Lead Wench. I slap myself on the wrist whenever someone shouts "IT'S FRIDAY" in the group chat and I haven't written or even found a topic for my article. >.>




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#10
  • Balance my writing time better between Charming/fic/original projects. The first two were very much my procrastination last year and I promised myself I would cobble together a proper draft of something by 2020... Charmers, please hold me accountable!
  • Meanwhile, on Charming... it's Elias' turn to be my hurling priority. Maybe it will finally be his year?
  • Try to take as many open threads as I make!
  • I don't know... write some Prophet articles?




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#11
  • complete 2020 Checklist
  • Have Percy start courting someone
  • Get Galina out of jail
  • find somersby a non hurling plot
  • Make 2+ posts for everyone each month
  • Have a major plot for each of my current active characters
  • Up date Character apps as their birthdays happen
  • Get each character I currently have to 75+ posts




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Thank you Bee <3 Your magic has made Sisse bloom
#12
Raise your hand if you managed your Charming resolutions despite the unprecedented pandemic and general apocalypse vibes! (... I did not.)


#13
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The fact that I intended to and never did because I procrastinated to the point of forgetting is not the point, nor is it in any way ironic or indicative of my 2020 experience.

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#14
I would like to say I did not accomplish most of my goals. I had a hurl, that was it. But what I really want to point out was this...
(December 30, 2019 – 3:41 PM)Calla Potts Wrote:  
  • Make new friends at the new campus. Don't just lurk at home. Be social.
Wow I really jinked us all with this one didn't I?

On that note, most of my goals shall move over to the upcoming year. Maybe I'll still make some of them before month-end?? 100 posts in less than a month. hmm?


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#15
(December 31, 2019 – 10:59 PM)Elias Grimstone Wrote:  
  • Balance my writing time better between Charming/fic/original projects. The first two were very much my procrastination last year and I promised myself I would cobble together a proper draft of something by 2020... Charmers, please hold me accountable!
GUYS I AM ACTUALLY FRUSTRATINGLY CLOSE TO ACHIEVING THIS ONE BY THE END OF 2020, thanks terrible pandemic for this one thing?



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#16
(December 30, 2019 – 6:36 PM)Ophelia Devine Wrote:  
  • Plot with a player I haven't plotted with before
  • Have a #DramaticReveal in a plot

  • I... think I actually did ok? I accomplished these two for sure! A year ago I'd never plotted with Finn, and now Gideon & Billie are one of the best things I've done :D And #DramaticReveals abounded with Ben & Melody this spring.


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