2013 writing roundup and analysis
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JANUARY
Fanfiction:
Mad Science Family Reunion -- Homestuck, 3,300 words. Rose made sure Roxy's lab would be waiting for her at the end of the world, but she needed a bit of help to set up the equipment. Who better than Jade English, whose explorations of the Medium have given her a better understanding of Sburb's technological artifacts than any other human, to lend a hand? (And maybe steal a kiss in the process.) Written for![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
whilst in the Ladystuck 2012 New Year's exchange.
A Guide to Guerilla Knitting -- Star Trek: AOS, 950 words. Being Jim Kirk's friend doesn't magically make him less annoying. But Nyota can hold her own. Sequel to A History of Handcrafts (Because a Sweater Equals Love). Cotton Candy Bingo fill. [prompt!fic for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cherokee1]
Short Story Long -- Homestuck, 4,000 words. Davesprite and Jade talk about everything and nothing, one week into the journey along the yellow yard. Loose sequel to Instant Corpse Party (Party Not Included). Hints of Davesprite/Jade. Cotton Candy Bingo fill.
Fanfiction: 8,250
Original Fiction:
none
January Total: 8,250
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FEBRUARY
Fanfiction:
Friends and Neighbors -- Naruto, 8,300 words. An object lesson in ninja tactics as applied to civilian social relationships -- aka the fic in which Naruto and Shinnin adopt Sakura before she attracts Ino's attention, but Sakura's parents are not so keen on their daughter's new friends. Sidestory in the "Apartment Manager" AU. [prompt!fic foraishuu]
Fanfiction: 8,300
Original Fiction:
none
February Total: 8,300
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MARCH
Fanfiction:
Lemonade, part 19 -- BtVS/Gundam Wing/Naruto, 2,225 words. An unfortunate accident with a demonic portal dumps Faith, Duo Maxwell, and Uchiha Sasuke into a hell dimension. Knowing these three, things can only get worse from there...
Maid of Life and Death (Her Every Breath a Blade) -- Homestuck, 4,600 words. In the Furthest Ring, Skaia's light is a distant, faint blue dot, barely enough for Jane to see the contours of the rocks she threads her way between. Now and again metal structures gleam like the edge of a blade reflecting starlight, but there are no stars in this ebon sky. Before her lies nothing but nightmare. It is still better than what she leaves behind. Jane isn't made to be alone. Written for Ouroboros Mix 2013, based on Bend Around the Blades bylantadyme. Horror.
Three Sentence Ficathon Fills:
home from a terrible dream -- The Dark Is Rising, 135 words. Prompt: The Dark, banished.
paving stones -- Homestuck, 185 words. Prompt: Calliope, tricksters.
once upon a myth -- The Dark Is Rising, 220 words. Prompt: Owen Davies, 'i always knew who you really were'.
Scheherezade, After -- Chronicles of Narnia, 225 words. Prompt: Aravis(/Cor) and Ram, tales of Calormen.
why break a winning streak? -- Harry Potter, 100 words. Prompt: Harry Potter, Fleur Delacour & Viktor Krum & Harry Potter, the next Triwizard Tournament.
an idea so bad it's AWESOME -- Homestuck, 175 words. Prompt: any fandom, any/any/any/any, orgies. Alpha kids, no actual sex.
here comes the sun -- Fandom, 160 words. Prompt: Susan (+/ any), 'come someone, make my heavy heart light'.
always at a price -- Chronicles of Narnia, 145 words. Prompt: any, vampire!AU.
call that a bargain -- Chronicles of Narnia, 195 words. Prompt: any, vampire!AU. Continuation of the previous fill.
if it ain't broke -- Avengers, 110 words. Prompt: Steve/Darcy, timekeeping.
great nature's second course -- Chronicles of Narnia, 110 words. Prompt: any, any, 'falling flowering snow/ and gentle dancing rain'.
Fanfiction: 8,575
Original Fiction:
fossilization -- 55 words. Prompt: anthropomorphic, pot & kettle, relative blackness.
Original Fiction: 50
March Total: 8,625
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APRIL
Fanfiction:
Trollstuck: Make Her Pay, chapter 7 -- Homestuck, 5,600 words. Wherein the four beta!kids are and always were trolls on Alternia, Sgrub/Sburb does not exist, and Troll Jade Harley is on a quest to keep her friend Aradia from dying. Things will almost certainly get more complicated, but that's a good place to start.
Sing a Song of Sixpence -- Homestuck, 900 words. Terezi and Vriska on a typical Team Scourge Flarp campaign. Cotton Candy Bingo fill.
In Which the Librarian of the Unseen University Makes an Unexpected Acquaintance -- Discworld/Enchanted Forest Chronicles, 625 words. Exactly what it says on the tin. Prompt: Morwen, "NONE OF THIS NONSENSE, PLEASE".
Three Sentence Ficathon Fills:
but where do your ideas come from? -- The Dark Is Rising, 135 words. Prompt: any, on the edges of memory.
once is happenstance -- Rise of the Guardians, 200 words. Prompt: Jack + Bunnymund, Blizzard of '68.
nothing gold can stay -- Chronicles of Narnia, 165 words. Prompt: Digory +/ Polly, when the Pevensies come back and they share stories of Narnia.
last and least (and loved) -- The Dark Is Rising, 225 words. Prompt: the Stanton family, fear.
Fanfiction: 7,850
Original Fiction:
none
April Total: 7,850
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MAY
Fanfiction:
And the Big Bad Wolf -- Homestuck, 2,400 words. Jane has nothing to fear in the forest. The girl in the white fur dress is not so sure. Horror. Written for the Ladystuck Blind Darkfic Challenge.
Fanfiction: 2,400
Original Fiction:
none
May Total: 2,400
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JUNE
Fanfiction:
No Light Oath -- Chronicles of Narnia, 300 words. Jadis and Cynara, upon the occasion of their grandmother's death. [15-minute fic]
untitled: Shasta and animals -- Chronicles of Narnia, 250 words. Wherein Shasta wants a cat.
untitled: Shezan at the Ulvaan temple -- Chronicles of Narnia, 200 words. Temple orphans.
untitled: Ilgamuth meets Shezan, AU version -- Chronicles of Narnia, 175 words. One way the ending of To Every Thing There Is a Season did not go.
untitled: Jill & Eustace in Aslan's country -- Chronicles of Narnia, 250 words. Definitions of home. [15-minute fic]
untitled: Jade, isolated -- Homestuck, 100 words. Human contact and the lack thereof.
untitled: Davesprite's wing -- Homestuck, 225 words. Davesprite discusses wing repair with John and Jade.
In a Purple Wood -- Homestuck, 250 words. Wherein Terezi first meets Nepeta. [15-minute fic]
Fanfiction: 1,750
Original Fiction:
No Story But Her Own -- 275 words. Lilith in the interstitial moments. (This can also work as Chronicles of Narnia fanfic, or as Lucifer fanfic, if you'd prefer, but Lilith is a public domain character and I'm not married to any specific interpretation.) [15-minute fic]
Original Fiction: 275
June Total: 2,025
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JULY
Fanfiction:
When First We Practice To Deceive -- Homestuck/Black Jewels, 4,200 words. The Darkness does not mix well with paradox space, nor does Craft mesh smoothly with the game mechanics of Sburb. Jade Harley makes plans to keep her friends safe despite the coming alteration of the natural laws they've relied on all their lives.
Narutostuck: Set with Stars -- Homestuck/Naruto, 1,100 words. While traveling east to the chuunin exam, Terezi reflects on history and maps and indulges in a bit of pointless stargazing. Her teammates help, in their own idiosyncratic ways. [15-minute fic]
Narutostuck: The Mother of Necessity -- Homestuck/Naruto, 975 words. Trolls can't breed for bloodline limits, but humans can. The old regime is not kind in its methods. Roxy does what she can to spare Dirk the consequences. [15-minute fic]
Zero-Sum Fallacy -- Naruto, 1,200 words. Sasuke doesn't want to harm Naruto's election prospects. Naruto and Sakura have other priorities. NaruSasu, implied NaruSasuSaku. Part of the Summer Camp & Politics AU. Cotton Candy Bingo fill.
Weregild, part 19 -- Inception/Anita Blake, 1,600 words. Ariadne survived Nikolaos by keeping her head down and playing as harmless as a young master vampire can; Jean-Claude's rule is better, but she still dreams of freedom. When bounty hunters Dominic Cobb and Arthur come to St. Louis seeking revenge for the death of Dom's wife, they set off a storm of events that may grant Ariadne's wish in a most unexpected way.
Secrets, chapter 15 -- Harry Potter, 9,000 words. CoS according to Ginny. Nobody noticed anything wrong for an entire year -- how did she slip so far from her family and friends? Angst and betrayal, but also mysteries, jokes, an enchanted suit of armor, and a guaranteed happy ending.
Secrets, epilogue -- Harry Potter, 3,625 words.
Fanfiction: 21,700
Original Fiction:
none
July Total: 21,700
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AUGUST
Fanfiction:
Against the Wind -- Harry Potter, 375 words. In the early post-war years, Ginny uses flying as a coping method. It is probably not the most healthy one available, but it works for her and Harry is understanding. [15-minute fic]
Recipe for Success -- Homestuck, 2,400 words. 2,400 words, Aug. 2013. When Jane Crocker is seven, she decides to bake a cake for her father's birthday. Tooth-rotting family fluff. [kinkmeme prompt!fic]
Aspects of Immortality -- Homestuck, 3,750 words. Dave and Aradia always knew there was something different about them, but being weird's not a problem if you're weird together. Dave<>Aradia, fantasy AU, fragment.
Weregild, part 20 -- Inception/Anita Blake, 1,500 words. (End of chapter three, finally!)
Trollstuck: Make Her Pay, chapter 8 -- Homestuck, 5,500 words.
Fanfiction: 13,525
Original Fiction:
none
August Total: 13,525
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SEPTEMBER
Fanfiction:
The Corners of the World -- Chronicles of Narnia, 6,250 words. For nigh on a thousand years after the Lion planted the poison tree in Narnia, Jadis bided her time, exploring her new world's outer reaches and sowing disaster for the green land at its heart -- aka, what Jadis did between MN and LWW, as told in four geographic sections.
Into Something Rich and Strange -- Chronicles of Narnia, 4,375 words. "The siren is a creature of reflections, born of lightning on the winter sea," the mer-woman said, her tail fins twitching in signs Susan had no skill to read. "Cold and light feed its power and no being born of the sea can gainsay its command, though we who are female can at the least resist its lure. You are a Daughter of Eve, born of dreams and flesh. Your power comes from the warmth of blood and the darkness of the beating heart; the siren has no strength against that magic. You must close your eyes and dream the enemy into the final dark." Written forsnacky in the Narnia Fic Exchange 2013.
Beneath Rain on a Strange Roof -- Inception/Anita Blake, 1,050 words. "Weregild" backstory: in happier times, Arthur babysits for Mal and Dom. Cotton Candy Bingo fill.
Fanfiction: 11,675
Original Fiction:
none
September Total: 11,675
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OCTOBER
Fanfiction:
Trollstuck: Make Her Pay, chapter 9 -- Homestuck, 6,900 words.
All That We Survey -- Homestuck, 4,750 words. Jane and Dave are on a mission to thoroughly map certain areas of bodily terrain. Jane/Dave, explicit sex, light bondage. [kinkmeme prompt!fic]
Cutthroat Hiring Process -- Homestuck, 2,025 words. Jane Crocker submits a job application to the district legislacerators. The resulting interview process is unique. Guest-starring Terezi Pyrope! Cotton Candy Bingo fill.
Fanfiction: 13,675
Original Fiction:
none
October Total: 13,675
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NOVEMBER
Fanfiction:
Dance With Another -- Homestuck, 2,775 words. Dave and Rose cooperatively seduce older people for no-strings threesomes. Mr. Egbert has no idea what's about to hit him. Dave/Rose/Dad, incest, intergenerational. [kinkmeme prompt!fic]
A Change of Season -- Chronicles of Narnia, 575 words. Opening scene of the sequel to "Out of Season" and "To Every Thing There Is a Season," following Shezan and Ilgamuth through the aftermath of HHB. Fragment.
Film Noir, Alternian Style -- Homestuck, 1,375 words. Terezi makes Dave watch ashen porn. [prompt!fic for anonymous on Tumblr]
Career Advice -- Harry Potter, 875 words. Bill Weasley didn't pay much attention to goblins until his fifth year at Hogwarts. [prompt!fic forlady_songsmith]
An Alternate Solution to the Problem of Madara -- Naruto/Chronicles of Narnia, 1,450 words. The wilds of Sound Country are the next best thing to the middle of nowhere. Travelers are few and far between. Unexpected meetings are thus narratively inevitable. An AU to the "Tides" AU. [prompt!fic forsabriel]
Set a Thief -- Chronicles of Narnia/Naruto, 1,250 words. In the aftermath of Anvard, Edmund attempts to hire a trio of assassins to guard Susan from potential Calormene retaliation. Susan accepts their contract. Fragment, failed prompt response forbranchandroot.
Take Deeper Roots -- Chronicles of Narnia/Naruto, 2,250 words. Sakura spends a year in Narnia. Susan watches, and does her best to help. [prompt!fic forbranchandroot]
Fanfiction: 10,550
Original Fiction:
none
November Total: 10,550
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DECEMBER
Fanfiction:
Ancient Lands -- Chronicles of Narnia, 475 words. Aravis and Cor return to Tashbaan. Fragment. [prompt!fic forrthstewart]
Silence at the Proper Season -- Chronicles of Narnia, 1,800 words. While in Tashbaan, Cor and Aravis receive two invitations from Shezan and Ilgamuth: one to a ritual, one to a conversation. The latter is more dangerous. [prompt!fic forrthstewart]
Without Any External or Physical Form -- Chronicles of Narnia, 1,250 words. Lucy and Mr. Tumnus discuss history and hypotheticals over tea, in the second summer after the end of the Witch's reign. Daemon AU. [prompt!fic forbetonyb]
A Changing of the Tide -- Wolf Hall, 4,800 words. "It may also please you to advertise my lord his grace that since his repair to Richmond I have been at Lesnes, where I saw one of the most piteous and grievous sights that ever I saw, which to me before the sight of the same was incredible, concerning the breach out of the Thames into the marshes at Lesnes, which are all overflowed and drowned." --Thomas Cromwell to Stephen Gardiner, January 18, 1529. Written forAramley in Yuletide 2013.
Faint Heart Never Won -- Lucifer, 475 words. Lucifer does not need her to defend him, but that is irrelevant. Mazikeen/Lucifer. Written forrosaxx50 in Yuletide Madness 2013.
Three Sentence Ficathon Fills:
What Might Have Been, What May Yet Be -- Chronicles of Narnia, 425 words. Prompt: Edmund's encounter with the White Witch turns him into a mage.
Body Language (The Scent of Home) -- Star Trek: AOS, 180 words. Prompt: Uhura/Gaila, lost in translation.
Stranger in a Strange Land -- Star Trek: AOS, 200 words. Prompt: Gaila/Jim, she's more adventurous than him which he loves.
Reign in Hell -- Star Trek: AOS, 240 words. Prompt: Mirror!Gaila/Mirror!Uhura, plotting the revolution.
Don't Try This at Home -- Batman, 150 words. Prompt: Any Batman-related canon, Barbara Gordon, book cart drill team.
The Stories I Could Tell... -- Batman, 100 words. Prompt: Any Batman-related canon, Barbara Gordon, book cart drill team. Addendum to previous fill.
Not With a Bang -- Star Trek: AOS, 440 words. Prompt: George/Chris Pike/Winona, without George it just didn't work.
Sometimes You Fly -- Star Trek: AOS, 320 words. Prompt: Kirk/Gaila, no fear of falling.
But Oh, To Be Without It -- X-Men, 200 words. Prompt: Rogue, AU - she's not just a leech, she's an actual energy vampire.
Bring Me That Horizon -- Star Trek: AOS, 175 words. Prompt: Uhura/Gaila, 'here there be dragons'.
Fanfiction: 11,225
Original Fiction:
An Equal and Opposite Reaction -- 250 words. Life does not stop when the princess pricks her finger upon the spindle. Prompt: Fairy tales, any/any, stop.
Original Fiction: 250
December Total: 11,475
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2013 Fanfiction: 119,475
2013 Original: 575
2013 Total: 120,050
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ANALYSIS
As always, I count word by posting date rather than writing date, which can give somewhat misleading results if you are trying to track my periods of greatest productivity. I count "Trollstuck: Make Her Pay" only by completed chapters rather than section-by-section, which means there are a couple pieces of chapter 10 that are not officially in this analysis even though I did technically post them in 2013. I am also not counting the anonymous WIP kinkmeme fill I've been writing, though it currently totals a bit over 5,000 words. I will count it when I finish and de-anon, hopefully in early 2014. *crosses fingers*
In 2012 I wrote 159,850 publicly posted words; I fell nearly 40,000 words short of that in 2013. That is what the lack of a big bang challenge (or just going wildly overboard on some other challenge) will do, I suppose.
I signed up for five fic challenges/exchanges this year: Ouroboros Mix, Ladystuck Blind, Narnia Fic Exchange, Yuletide, and Ladystuck. I completed Ouroboros Mix, Ladystuck Blind, NFE, and Yuletide; Ladystuck was delayed due to technical issues with AO3 so that story and challenge now belong to 2014. I also participated in two iterations of the Three Sentence Ficathon, one hosted byrthstewart in March and April, and the other hosted by caramelsilver in December.
I don't think there was any particular theme to my year, nor did I discover any new and fascinating fandoms. I did write a bunch of crossovers and fusions, but a number of those were in response to prompts, so that may say more about other people than about me. (Well, I guess it says I write crossovers well enough that people think I will handle them in an interesting fashion, which is flattering.)
Once again I completely and utterly failed at my resolution to get back to writing original fiction. That trend is beginning to seriously annoy me. I think in 2014, I will attempt NaNoWriMo again with the specific goal of making progress on a bunch of my languishing original stories.
Did you write more than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
---For the last several years, my only real goal has been to write a minimum of 100,000 words per year. Anything beyond that is gravy. I picked that as a goal because it's a nice round number, because it is, by any standard, a fair amount of words, and because it's a target I can demonstrably reach even when I get hit by a prolonged depressive episode... but in that last case, I do have to work at it. Perhaps I will increase my goal to 120,000 words next year, which requires an average of 10,000 words per month. That would require me to get a bit more organized about writing times, which is all to the good.
Or perhaps I will finally finish my college reapplication and put my time to other uses. That would also be all to the good.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year?
---Wolf Hall, since I hadn't read the books! Also, I tend to write for canons with a more fantastical bent. I think this is the first straight-up historical fiction I've written, ever, though one can argue that I have been using elements of historical fiction in my fantasy (both original and fanfic) for years.
The other thing I didn't predict is that I finished "Secrets." That story had been hanging around my neck like an albatross for so many years, I had about resigned myself to the weight... and now it's gone. Done. I don't think that novel is my best work, but I learned a lot from it (both about writing and about myself), and by and large it does what I wanted it to do, so yeah, I am proud of it. Even if I still sometimes think I must be dreaming and I'm still only halfway through chapter 14.
Did you take any writing risks this year?
---I tried to imitate Hilary Mantel; does that count? *wry* Other than that, not really.
Do you have any fanfic or original fic goals for the New Year?
---Goal number one is to finish "Trollstuck: Make Her Pay." Goal number two is to knock off "Lemonade." Goal number three is to write at least five chapters of "The Guardian in Spite of Herself."
For original fiction, the goal is to write some at all. Well, and hopefully to finish "Harvest," because that's another WIP I've had hanging around my neck for ages, but mostly I just want to get back on the horse, so to speak. The details are not the point.
Favorite story -- not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest:
---Probably "Secrets," just because that story was so close to me for so many years, and I think I did Ginny justice in the end. Also "A Changing of the Tide," because it is outside my comfort zone and I think I pulled it off.
Best story:
---That is a very good question! I think it's a four-way tie between "Maid of Life and Death (Her Every Breath a Blade)," "The Corners of the World," "Into Something Rich and Strange," and "A Changing of the Tide." They are all very well-constructed pieces, where I thought about structure and voice and character progression and stuff, and I think they all say something, though I couldn't distill the messages into anything shorter than the stories themselves. They are also all fairly cold in their overall effect -- there's a sort of emotional remove, a distancing, a sense of rational observation from outside -- which is interesting to me. Perhaps that is the theme of my year.
Most underappreciated by the universe:
---"Maid of Life and Death (Her Every Breath a Blade)," which makes me sad because Jane Crocker is awesome, gen stories about female characters are awesome, remixes are awesome,lantadyme's original story is awesome, and I put a lot of careful work and thought into that fic, dammit, and people should appreciate Jane more!
Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
---Probably "And the Big Bad Wolf," but that was deliberately written for a dark!fic challenge so eh. You pays your money, you takes your chances. There are also some seriously nasty implications lurking behind "Narutostuck: The Mother of Necessity," but they're not as overt and the story focuses on friendship/nakama/moirallegiance, so the emotional weight is different.
Sexiest story:
---Oooh, tricky! *ponders*
I think, for the sheer unexpectedness of the sexy, I would have to choose "Film Noir, Alternian Style," which was written for the prompt Dave and Terezi - "That should /not/ be sexy." and which has elicited precisely that line of dialogue from a number of reviewers. *grin*
Let's see, what else did I write that is even eligible for this category? "All That We Survey" (Jane/Dave), "Dance With Another" (Rose/Dave/Dadbert), "Zero-Sum Fallacy" (Naruto/Sasuke) a little bit, and then the various Uhura/Gaila three-sentence fics: "Body Language (The Scent of Home)," "Bring Me That Horizon," and most particularly "Reign in Hell." Also the Kirk/Gaila one, I guess -- "Sometimes You Fly" -- though that's not really about sex at all, despite happening in the middle of a sex scene.
I may have started writing actualfax porn in 2012, but it's still not anything remotely like a default mode. In a way, it's reassuring to know my self-assessment only required the addition of another room instead of reconstruction from the foundations, so to speak. *wry*
Hardest story to write:
---"Secrets," of course! Anything that takes eleven years to finish is obviously not easy. "Friends and Neighbors" was also a pain in the neck, not because it was particularly complicated but because I kept losing the thread of what should happen next. And "A Changing of the Tide" required a hell of a lot of research, but that was more fun than labor so I'm not sure it fits the spirit of this question.
Easiest story to write:
---The various three-sentence ficathon fills.
Most fun to write:
---Probably "In Which the Librarian of the Unseen University Makes an Unexpected Acquaintance." That was just beautiful all the way through. *grin*
Most disappointing:
---Any WIP I didn't finish. *headdesk*
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
---"Mad Science Family Reunion," I guess? I didn't have a lot of headcanon about alpha!Jade and alpha!Rose, and I suppose establishing something out of nothing counts as a shift.
Story with the single sweetest moment:
---"Recipe for Success," both literally (cake!) and metaphorically (Crocker family feels!).
Biggest surprise:
---"A Changing of the Tide," because for some reason, even though I obviously claimed I was willing and able to write for Wolf Hall, I never actually expected to get matched on it. I was thinking I'd probably match on some kind of oldschool YA fantasy... or if I got a 'what the hell, why not' match, it would be something like WTF Evolution (a Tumblr blog), for which I also (possibly unwisely) claimed I could write. But nope, I got Thomas Cromwell!
Also "When First We Practice To Deceive," because Homestuck and Black Jewels are, if not the most non-intuitive crossover I've ever heard of, certainly in the upper levels of implausibility. But I couldn't get the idea out of my head until I wrote a fic by way of appeasement. Brains are weird, you know?
Most revealing story:
---"All That We Survey" is fairly revealing in terms of my own personal kinks. So is any porn I write, to greater or lesser degrees -- after all, if it's not sexy to me, why would I be bothering? If you want to talk about preoccupations much nearer and dearer to my heart, though, we need to focus on "Secrets," "Friends and Neighbors," "The Corners of the World," "Into Something Rich and Strange," "No Story But Her Own," "An Equal and Opposite Reaction," "Maid of Life and Death (Her Every Breath a Blade)," "Sing a Song of Sixpence," "Cutthroat Hiring Process," "Take Deeper Roots," "Silence at the Proper Season," and "Faint Heart Never Won." Okay, and also all the Uhura/Gaila three-sentence fics, plus "Stranger in a Strange Land."
World-building is and always will be my first and greatest love; religion, ethics and consequences are a very close three-way tie for second place; and over the years I have grown more and more invested in writing about women and girls, because fuck knows the world at large (and fandom in particular) does not seem to be interested in doing enough of that for me, at least not in the ways and genres I personally want to read. Apparently past a certain point, I get tired of waiting and write the stories myself. *shrug*
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And that is that for the year! Now I'm going to take a nap, after which I will get back to work on my Ladystuck fic. One should start the year as one means to continue, after all. :-)
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JANUARY
Fanfiction:
Mad Science Family Reunion -- Homestuck, 3,300 words. Rose made sure Roxy's lab would be waiting for her at the end of the world, but she needed a bit of help to set up the equipment. Who better than Jade English, whose explorations of the Medium have given her a better understanding of Sburb's technological artifacts than any other human, to lend a hand? (And maybe steal a kiss in the process.) Written for
A Guide to Guerilla Knitting -- Star Trek: AOS, 950 words. Being Jim Kirk's friend doesn't magically make him less annoying. But Nyota can hold her own. Sequel to A History of Handcrafts (Because a Sweater Equals Love). Cotton Candy Bingo fill. [prompt!fic for
cherokee1]Short Story Long -- Homestuck, 4,000 words. Davesprite and Jade talk about everything and nothing, one week into the journey along the yellow yard. Loose sequel to Instant Corpse Party (Party Not Included). Hints of Davesprite/Jade. Cotton Candy Bingo fill.
Fanfiction: 8,250
Original Fiction:
none
January Total: 8,250
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FEBRUARY
Fanfiction:
Friends and Neighbors -- Naruto, 8,300 words. An object lesson in ninja tactics as applied to civilian social relationships -- aka the fic in which Naruto and Shinnin adopt Sakura before she attracts Ino's attention, but Sakura's parents are not so keen on their daughter's new friends. Sidestory in the "Apartment Manager" AU. [prompt!fic for
aishuu]Fanfiction: 8,300
Original Fiction:
none
February Total: 8,300
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MARCH
Fanfiction:
Lemonade, part 19 -- BtVS/Gundam Wing/Naruto, 2,225 words. An unfortunate accident with a demonic portal dumps Faith, Duo Maxwell, and Uchiha Sasuke into a hell dimension. Knowing these three, things can only get worse from there...
Maid of Life and Death (Her Every Breath a Blade) -- Homestuck, 4,600 words. In the Furthest Ring, Skaia's light is a distant, faint blue dot, barely enough for Jane to see the contours of the rocks she threads her way between. Now and again metal structures gleam like the edge of a blade reflecting starlight, but there are no stars in this ebon sky. Before her lies nothing but nightmare. It is still better than what she leaves behind. Jane isn't made to be alone. Written for Ouroboros Mix 2013, based on Bend Around the Blades by
Three Sentence Ficathon Fills:
home from a terrible dream -- The Dark Is Rising, 135 words. Prompt: The Dark, banished.
paving stones -- Homestuck, 185 words. Prompt: Calliope, tricksters.
once upon a myth -- The Dark Is Rising, 220 words. Prompt: Owen Davies, 'i always knew who you really were'.
Scheherezade, After -- Chronicles of Narnia, 225 words. Prompt: Aravis(/Cor) and Ram, tales of Calormen.
why break a winning streak? -- Harry Potter, 100 words. Prompt: Harry Potter, Fleur Delacour & Viktor Krum & Harry Potter, the next Triwizard Tournament.
an idea so bad it's AWESOME -- Homestuck, 175 words. Prompt: any fandom, any/any/any/any, orgies. Alpha kids, no actual sex.
here comes the sun -- Fandom, 160 words. Prompt: Susan (+/ any), 'come someone, make my heavy heart light'.
always at a price -- Chronicles of Narnia, 145 words. Prompt: any, vampire!AU.
call that a bargain -- Chronicles of Narnia, 195 words. Prompt: any, vampire!AU. Continuation of the previous fill.
if it ain't broke -- Avengers, 110 words. Prompt: Steve/Darcy, timekeeping.
great nature's second course -- Chronicles of Narnia, 110 words. Prompt: any, any, 'falling flowering snow/ and gentle dancing rain'.
Fanfiction: 8,575
Original Fiction:
fossilization -- 55 words. Prompt: anthropomorphic, pot & kettle, relative blackness.
Original Fiction: 50
March Total: 8,625
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APRIL
Fanfiction:
Trollstuck: Make Her Pay, chapter 7 -- Homestuck, 5,600 words. Wherein the four beta!kids are and always were trolls on Alternia, Sgrub/Sburb does not exist, and Troll Jade Harley is on a quest to keep her friend Aradia from dying. Things will almost certainly get more complicated, but that's a good place to start.
Sing a Song of Sixpence -- Homestuck, 900 words. Terezi and Vriska on a typical Team Scourge Flarp campaign. Cotton Candy Bingo fill.
In Which the Librarian of the Unseen University Makes an Unexpected Acquaintance -- Discworld/Enchanted Forest Chronicles, 625 words. Exactly what it says on the tin. Prompt: Morwen, "NONE OF THIS NONSENSE, PLEASE".
Three Sentence Ficathon Fills:
but where do your ideas come from? -- The Dark Is Rising, 135 words. Prompt: any, on the edges of memory.
once is happenstance -- Rise of the Guardians, 200 words. Prompt: Jack + Bunnymund, Blizzard of '68.
nothing gold can stay -- Chronicles of Narnia, 165 words. Prompt: Digory +/ Polly, when the Pevensies come back and they share stories of Narnia.
last and least (and loved) -- The Dark Is Rising, 225 words. Prompt: the Stanton family, fear.
Fanfiction: 7,850
Original Fiction:
none
April Total: 7,850
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MAY
Fanfiction:
And the Big Bad Wolf -- Homestuck, 2,400 words. Jane has nothing to fear in the forest. The girl in the white fur dress is not so sure. Horror. Written for the Ladystuck Blind Darkfic Challenge.
Fanfiction: 2,400
Original Fiction:
none
May Total: 2,400
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JUNE
Fanfiction:
No Light Oath -- Chronicles of Narnia, 300 words. Jadis and Cynara, upon the occasion of their grandmother's death. [15-minute fic]
untitled: Shasta and animals -- Chronicles of Narnia, 250 words. Wherein Shasta wants a cat.
untitled: Shezan at the Ulvaan temple -- Chronicles of Narnia, 200 words. Temple orphans.
untitled: Ilgamuth meets Shezan, AU version -- Chronicles of Narnia, 175 words. One way the ending of To Every Thing There Is a Season did not go.
untitled: Jill & Eustace in Aslan's country -- Chronicles of Narnia, 250 words. Definitions of home. [15-minute fic]
untitled: Jade, isolated -- Homestuck, 100 words. Human contact and the lack thereof.
untitled: Davesprite's wing -- Homestuck, 225 words. Davesprite discusses wing repair with John and Jade.
In a Purple Wood -- Homestuck, 250 words. Wherein Terezi first meets Nepeta. [15-minute fic]
Fanfiction: 1,750
Original Fiction:
No Story But Her Own -- 275 words. Lilith in the interstitial moments. (This can also work as Chronicles of Narnia fanfic, or as Lucifer fanfic, if you'd prefer, but Lilith is a public domain character and I'm not married to any specific interpretation.) [15-minute fic]
Original Fiction: 275
June Total: 2,025
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JULY
Fanfiction:
When First We Practice To Deceive -- Homestuck/Black Jewels, 4,200 words. The Darkness does not mix well with paradox space, nor does Craft mesh smoothly with the game mechanics of Sburb. Jade Harley makes plans to keep her friends safe despite the coming alteration of the natural laws they've relied on all their lives.
Narutostuck: Set with Stars -- Homestuck/Naruto, 1,100 words. While traveling east to the chuunin exam, Terezi reflects on history and maps and indulges in a bit of pointless stargazing. Her teammates help, in their own idiosyncratic ways. [15-minute fic]
Narutostuck: The Mother of Necessity -- Homestuck/Naruto, 975 words. Trolls can't breed for bloodline limits, but humans can. The old regime is not kind in its methods. Roxy does what she can to spare Dirk the consequences. [15-minute fic]
Zero-Sum Fallacy -- Naruto, 1,200 words. Sasuke doesn't want to harm Naruto's election prospects. Naruto and Sakura have other priorities. NaruSasu, implied NaruSasuSaku. Part of the Summer Camp & Politics AU. Cotton Candy Bingo fill.
Weregild, part 19 -- Inception/Anita Blake, 1,600 words. Ariadne survived Nikolaos by keeping her head down and playing as harmless as a young master vampire can; Jean-Claude's rule is better, but she still dreams of freedom. When bounty hunters Dominic Cobb and Arthur come to St. Louis seeking revenge for the death of Dom's wife, they set off a storm of events that may grant Ariadne's wish in a most unexpected way.
Secrets, chapter 15 -- Harry Potter, 9,000 words. CoS according to Ginny. Nobody noticed anything wrong for an entire year -- how did she slip so far from her family and friends? Angst and betrayal, but also mysteries, jokes, an enchanted suit of armor, and a guaranteed happy ending.
Secrets, epilogue -- Harry Potter, 3,625 words.
Fanfiction: 21,700
Original Fiction:
none
July Total: 21,700
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AUGUST
Fanfiction:
Against the Wind -- Harry Potter, 375 words. In the early post-war years, Ginny uses flying as a coping method. It is probably not the most healthy one available, but it works for her and Harry is understanding. [15-minute fic]
Recipe for Success -- Homestuck, 2,400 words. 2,400 words, Aug. 2013. When Jane Crocker is seven, she decides to bake a cake for her father's birthday. Tooth-rotting family fluff. [kinkmeme prompt!fic]
Aspects of Immortality -- Homestuck, 3,750 words. Dave and Aradia always knew there was something different about them, but being weird's not a problem if you're weird together. Dave<>Aradia, fantasy AU, fragment.
Weregild, part 20 -- Inception/Anita Blake, 1,500 words. (End of chapter three, finally!)
Trollstuck: Make Her Pay, chapter 8 -- Homestuck, 5,500 words.
Fanfiction: 13,525
Original Fiction:
none
August Total: 13,525
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SEPTEMBER
Fanfiction:
The Corners of the World -- Chronicles of Narnia, 6,250 words. For nigh on a thousand years after the Lion planted the poison tree in Narnia, Jadis bided her time, exploring her new world's outer reaches and sowing disaster for the green land at its heart -- aka, what Jadis did between MN and LWW, as told in four geographic sections.
Into Something Rich and Strange -- Chronicles of Narnia, 4,375 words. "The siren is a creature of reflections, born of lightning on the winter sea," the mer-woman said, her tail fins twitching in signs Susan had no skill to read. "Cold and light feed its power and no being born of the sea can gainsay its command, though we who are female can at the least resist its lure. You are a Daughter of Eve, born of dreams and flesh. Your power comes from the warmth of blood and the darkness of the beating heart; the siren has no strength against that magic. You must close your eyes and dream the enemy into the final dark." Written for
snacky in the Narnia Fic Exchange 2013.Beneath Rain on a Strange Roof -- Inception/Anita Blake, 1,050 words. "Weregild" backstory: in happier times, Arthur babysits for Mal and Dom. Cotton Candy Bingo fill.
Fanfiction: 11,675
Original Fiction:
none
September Total: 11,675
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OCTOBER
Fanfiction:
Trollstuck: Make Her Pay, chapter 9 -- Homestuck, 6,900 words.
All That We Survey -- Homestuck, 4,750 words. Jane and Dave are on a mission to thoroughly map certain areas of bodily terrain. Jane/Dave, explicit sex, light bondage. [kinkmeme prompt!fic]
Cutthroat Hiring Process -- Homestuck, 2,025 words. Jane Crocker submits a job application to the district legislacerators. The resulting interview process is unique. Guest-starring Terezi Pyrope! Cotton Candy Bingo fill.
Fanfiction: 13,675
Original Fiction:
none
October Total: 13,675
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NOVEMBER
Fanfiction:
Dance With Another -- Homestuck, 2,775 words. Dave and Rose cooperatively seduce older people for no-strings threesomes. Mr. Egbert has no idea what's about to hit him. Dave/Rose/Dad, incest, intergenerational. [kinkmeme prompt!fic]
A Change of Season -- Chronicles of Narnia, 575 words. Opening scene of the sequel to "Out of Season" and "To Every Thing There Is a Season," following Shezan and Ilgamuth through the aftermath of HHB. Fragment.
Film Noir, Alternian Style -- Homestuck, 1,375 words. Terezi makes Dave watch ashen porn. [prompt!fic for anonymous on Tumblr]
Career Advice -- Harry Potter, 875 words. Bill Weasley didn't pay much attention to goblins until his fifth year at Hogwarts. [prompt!fic for
lady_songsmith]An Alternate Solution to the Problem of Madara -- Naruto/Chronicles of Narnia, 1,450 words. The wilds of Sound Country are the next best thing to the middle of nowhere. Travelers are few and far between. Unexpected meetings are thus narratively inevitable. An AU to the "Tides" AU. [prompt!fic for
sabriel]Set a Thief -- Chronicles of Narnia/Naruto, 1,250 words. In the aftermath of Anvard, Edmund attempts to hire a trio of assassins to guard Susan from potential Calormene retaliation. Susan accepts their contract. Fragment, failed prompt response for
branchandroot.Take Deeper Roots -- Chronicles of Narnia/Naruto, 2,250 words. Sakura spends a year in Narnia. Susan watches, and does her best to help. [prompt!fic for
branchandroot]Fanfiction: 10,550
Original Fiction:
none
November Total: 10,550
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DECEMBER
Fanfiction:
Ancient Lands -- Chronicles of Narnia, 475 words. Aravis and Cor return to Tashbaan. Fragment. [prompt!fic for
rthstewart]Silence at the Proper Season -- Chronicles of Narnia, 1,800 words. While in Tashbaan, Cor and Aravis receive two invitations from Shezan and Ilgamuth: one to a ritual, one to a conversation. The latter is more dangerous. [prompt!fic for
rthstewart]Without Any External or Physical Form -- Chronicles of Narnia, 1,250 words. Lucy and Mr. Tumnus discuss history and hypotheticals over tea, in the second summer after the end of the Witch's reign. Daemon AU. [prompt!fic for
betonyb]A Changing of the Tide -- Wolf Hall, 4,800 words. "It may also please you to advertise my lord his grace that since his repair to Richmond I have been at Lesnes, where I saw one of the most piteous and grievous sights that ever I saw, which to me before the sight of the same was incredible, concerning the breach out of the Thames into the marshes at Lesnes, which are all overflowed and drowned." --Thomas Cromwell to Stephen Gardiner, January 18, 1529. Written for
Faint Heart Never Won -- Lucifer, 475 words. Lucifer does not need her to defend him, but that is irrelevant. Mazikeen/Lucifer. Written for
Three Sentence Ficathon Fills:
What Might Have Been, What May Yet Be -- Chronicles of Narnia, 425 words. Prompt: Edmund's encounter with the White Witch turns him into a mage.
Body Language (The Scent of Home) -- Star Trek: AOS, 180 words. Prompt: Uhura/Gaila, lost in translation.
Stranger in a Strange Land -- Star Trek: AOS, 200 words. Prompt: Gaila/Jim, she's more adventurous than him which he loves.
Reign in Hell -- Star Trek: AOS, 240 words. Prompt: Mirror!Gaila/Mirror!Uhura, plotting the revolution.
Don't Try This at Home -- Batman, 150 words. Prompt: Any Batman-related canon, Barbara Gordon, book cart drill team.
The Stories I Could Tell... -- Batman, 100 words. Prompt: Any Batman-related canon, Barbara Gordon, book cart drill team. Addendum to previous fill.
Not With a Bang -- Star Trek: AOS, 440 words. Prompt: George/Chris Pike/Winona, without George it just didn't work.
Sometimes You Fly -- Star Trek: AOS, 320 words. Prompt: Kirk/Gaila, no fear of falling.
But Oh, To Be Without It -- X-Men, 200 words. Prompt: Rogue, AU - she's not just a leech, she's an actual energy vampire.
Bring Me That Horizon -- Star Trek: AOS, 175 words. Prompt: Uhura/Gaila, 'here there be dragons'.
Fanfiction: 11,225
Original Fiction:
An Equal and Opposite Reaction -- 250 words. Life does not stop when the princess pricks her finger upon the spindle. Prompt: Fairy tales, any/any, stop.
Original Fiction: 250
December Total: 11,475
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2013 Fanfiction: 119,475
2013 Original: 575
2013 Total: 120,050
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ANALYSIS
As always, I count word by posting date rather than writing date, which can give somewhat misleading results if you are trying to track my periods of greatest productivity. I count "Trollstuck: Make Her Pay" only by completed chapters rather than section-by-section, which means there are a couple pieces of chapter 10 that are not officially in this analysis even though I did technically post them in 2013. I am also not counting the anonymous WIP kinkmeme fill I've been writing, though it currently totals a bit over 5,000 words. I will count it when I finish and de-anon, hopefully in early 2014. *crosses fingers*
In 2012 I wrote 159,850 publicly posted words; I fell nearly 40,000 words short of that in 2013. That is what the lack of a big bang challenge (or just going wildly overboard on some other challenge) will do, I suppose.
I signed up for five fic challenges/exchanges this year: Ouroboros Mix, Ladystuck Blind, Narnia Fic Exchange, Yuletide, and Ladystuck. I completed Ouroboros Mix, Ladystuck Blind, NFE, and Yuletide; Ladystuck was delayed due to technical issues with AO3 so that story and challenge now belong to 2014. I also participated in two iterations of the Three Sentence Ficathon, one hosted by
rthstewart in March and April, and the other hosted by caramelsilver in December.I don't think there was any particular theme to my year, nor did I discover any new and fascinating fandoms. I did write a bunch of crossovers and fusions, but a number of those were in response to prompts, so that may say more about other people than about me. (Well, I guess it says I write crossovers well enough that people think I will handle them in an interesting fashion, which is flattering.)
Once again I completely and utterly failed at my resolution to get back to writing original fiction. That trend is beginning to seriously annoy me. I think in 2014, I will attempt NaNoWriMo again with the specific goal of making progress on a bunch of my languishing original stories.
Did you write more than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
---For the last several years, my only real goal has been to write a minimum of 100,000 words per year. Anything beyond that is gravy. I picked that as a goal because it's a nice round number, because it is, by any standard, a fair amount of words, and because it's a target I can demonstrably reach even when I get hit by a prolonged depressive episode... but in that last case, I do have to work at it. Perhaps I will increase my goal to 120,000 words next year, which requires an average of 10,000 words per month. That would require me to get a bit more organized about writing times, which is all to the good.
Or perhaps I will finally finish my college reapplication and put my time to other uses. That would also be all to the good.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year?
---Wolf Hall, since I hadn't read the books! Also, I tend to write for canons with a more fantastical bent. I think this is the first straight-up historical fiction I've written, ever, though one can argue that I have been using elements of historical fiction in my fantasy (both original and fanfic) for years.
The other thing I didn't predict is that I finished "Secrets." That story had been hanging around my neck like an albatross for so many years, I had about resigned myself to the weight... and now it's gone. Done. I don't think that novel is my best work, but I learned a lot from it (both about writing and about myself), and by and large it does what I wanted it to do, so yeah, I am proud of it. Even if I still sometimes think I must be dreaming and I'm still only halfway through chapter 14.
Did you take any writing risks this year?
---I tried to imitate Hilary Mantel; does that count? *wry* Other than that, not really.
Do you have any fanfic or original fic goals for the New Year?
---Goal number one is to finish "Trollstuck: Make Her Pay." Goal number two is to knock off "Lemonade." Goal number three is to write at least five chapters of "The Guardian in Spite of Herself."
For original fiction, the goal is to write some at all. Well, and hopefully to finish "Harvest," because that's another WIP I've had hanging around my neck for ages, but mostly I just want to get back on the horse, so to speak. The details are not the point.
Favorite story -- not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest:
---Probably "Secrets," just because that story was so close to me for so many years, and I think I did Ginny justice in the end. Also "A Changing of the Tide," because it is outside my comfort zone and I think I pulled it off.
Best story:
---That is a very good question! I think it's a four-way tie between "Maid of Life and Death (Her Every Breath a Blade)," "The Corners of the World," "Into Something Rich and Strange," and "A Changing of the Tide." They are all very well-constructed pieces, where I thought about structure and voice and character progression and stuff, and I think they all say something, though I couldn't distill the messages into anything shorter than the stories themselves. They are also all fairly cold in their overall effect -- there's a sort of emotional remove, a distancing, a sense of rational observation from outside -- which is interesting to me. Perhaps that is the theme of my year.
Most underappreciated by the universe:
---"Maid of Life and Death (Her Every Breath a Blade)," which makes me sad because Jane Crocker is awesome, gen stories about female characters are awesome, remixes are awesome,
Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
---Probably "And the Big Bad Wolf," but that was deliberately written for a dark!fic challenge so eh. You pays your money, you takes your chances. There are also some seriously nasty implications lurking behind "Narutostuck: The Mother of Necessity," but they're not as overt and the story focuses on friendship/nakama/moirallegiance, so the emotional weight is different.
Sexiest story:
---Oooh, tricky! *ponders*
I think, for the sheer unexpectedness of the sexy, I would have to choose "Film Noir, Alternian Style," which was written for the prompt Dave and Terezi - "That should /not/ be sexy." and which has elicited precisely that line of dialogue from a number of reviewers. *grin*
Let's see, what else did I write that is even eligible for this category? "All That We Survey" (Jane/Dave), "Dance With Another" (Rose/Dave/Dadbert), "Zero-Sum Fallacy" (Naruto/Sasuke) a little bit, and then the various Uhura/Gaila three-sentence fics: "Body Language (The Scent of Home)," "Bring Me That Horizon," and most particularly "Reign in Hell." Also the Kirk/Gaila one, I guess -- "Sometimes You Fly" -- though that's not really about sex at all, despite happening in the middle of a sex scene.
I may have started writing actualfax porn in 2012, but it's still not anything remotely like a default mode. In a way, it's reassuring to know my self-assessment only required the addition of another room instead of reconstruction from the foundations, so to speak. *wry*
Hardest story to write:
---"Secrets," of course! Anything that takes eleven years to finish is obviously not easy. "Friends and Neighbors" was also a pain in the neck, not because it was particularly complicated but because I kept losing the thread of what should happen next. And "A Changing of the Tide" required a hell of a lot of research, but that was more fun than labor so I'm not sure it fits the spirit of this question.
Easiest story to write:
---The various three-sentence ficathon fills.
Most fun to write:
---Probably "In Which the Librarian of the Unseen University Makes an Unexpected Acquaintance." That was just beautiful all the way through. *grin*
Most disappointing:
---Any WIP I didn't finish. *headdesk*
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
---"Mad Science Family Reunion," I guess? I didn't have a lot of headcanon about alpha!Jade and alpha!Rose, and I suppose establishing something out of nothing counts as a shift.
Story with the single sweetest moment:
---"Recipe for Success," both literally (cake!) and metaphorically (Crocker family feels!).
Biggest surprise:
---"A Changing of the Tide," because for some reason, even though I obviously claimed I was willing and able to write for Wolf Hall, I never actually expected to get matched on it. I was thinking I'd probably match on some kind of oldschool YA fantasy... or if I got a 'what the hell, why not' match, it would be something like WTF Evolution (a Tumblr blog), for which I also (possibly unwisely) claimed I could write. But nope, I got Thomas Cromwell!
Also "When First We Practice To Deceive," because Homestuck and Black Jewels are, if not the most non-intuitive crossover I've ever heard of, certainly in the upper levels of implausibility. But I couldn't get the idea out of my head until I wrote a fic by way of appeasement. Brains are weird, you know?
Most revealing story:
---"All That We Survey" is fairly revealing in terms of my own personal kinks. So is any porn I write, to greater or lesser degrees -- after all, if it's not sexy to me, why would I be bothering? If you want to talk about preoccupations much nearer and dearer to my heart, though, we need to focus on "Secrets," "Friends and Neighbors," "The Corners of the World," "Into Something Rich and Strange," "No Story But Her Own," "An Equal and Opposite Reaction," "Maid of Life and Death (Her Every Breath a Blade)," "Sing a Song of Sixpence," "Cutthroat Hiring Process," "Take Deeper Roots," "Silence at the Proper Season," and "Faint Heart Never Won." Okay, and also all the Uhura/Gaila three-sentence fics, plus "Stranger in a Strange Land."
World-building is and always will be my first and greatest love; religion, ethics and consequences are a very close three-way tie for second place; and over the years I have grown more and more invested in writing about women and girls, because fuck knows the world at large (and fandom in particular) does not seem to be interested in doing enough of that for me, at least not in the ways and genres I personally want to read. Apparently past a certain point, I get tired of waiting and write the stories myself. *shrug*
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And that is that for the year! Now I'm going to take a nap, after which I will get back to work on my Ladystuck fic. One should start the year as one means to continue, after all. :-)
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Date: 2014-01-02 11:46 pm (UTC)If you're interested in trying to do more original fic writing in 2014, you should check out the musemuggers comm on here. It's a writing community that posts prompts every week.
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Date: 2014-01-03 05:38 am (UTC)I will keep that community in mind, should I ever need prompts for new ideas. But that's not really my problem. I already have lots of ideas and stories; I just need to sit down and work on them. Which is a matter of focus and willpower... or more accurately, a matter of scheduling. *sigh*