2019 writing roundup and analysis
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A Year in Writing: 2019
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JANUARY
Fanfiction:
Roll for Seduction -- Homestuck, 1,175 words. Jade's attempt to make New Year's cookies derails into an impromptu singalong. Jade/Rose, part of the Leaf and Letter AU.![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
ladiesbingo fill.
Not Compassion (Those From the Sea) -- Riddle-Master trilogy, 450 words. Unfinished fragment about the Earth-Master who later impersonated Eriel Meremont.
miscellaneous other abandoned fragments -- various fandoms, 450 words. What it says on the tin.
Three Sentence Ficathon: (825 words)
Make New Friends -- Homestuck, 125 words. Rose would be the first to admit she was skeptical of Jade's efforts to introduce all her friends to each other.
Zoonosis -- Chronicles of Narnia, 125 words. Flu season in Narnia.
I want a shot at redemption -- Homestuck, 100 words. You hit rock bottom as soon as you stop digging.
Folk Etymology of Naval Jargon -- Chronicles of Narnia, 100 words. Ramming ships means something slightly different in Narnia.
Here There Is Life -- Darkangel Trilogy/Snow White, 200 words. "I've never seen so much water," Winterock said as she followed the seven duaroughs down into the tunnels.
Stewardship -- Chronicles of Narnia, 175 words. Lady Steward Evelyn Scrapemoss claims the Narnian crown.
Fanfiction: 2,900
Original Fiction:
untitled fairy-tale fragment -- 325 words. Once upon a time there was a witch who lived alone in a castle...
Original Fiction: 325
January Total: 3,225
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FEBRUARY
Fanfiction:
The Guardian in Spite of Herself, ch. 17 -- Naruto, 4,150 words. The Uchiha massacre and its aftermath, in the world of "The Way of the Apartment Manager." Chapter the Seventeenth, in which an unexpected development short-circuits yet another interminable Amane family argument, Sasuke and Yukiko have a very bad afternoon, and Eiji opens negotiations.
The Nature of the Beast -- Chronicles of Narnia, 625 words. Aravis and Hwin talk about comparative religion and horses.ladiesbingo fill.
Fanfiction: 4,775
Original Fiction: none
February Total: 4,775
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MARCH
Fanfiction:
Room for Coincidence -- MCU, 700 words. Natasha meets an unexpected roommate.ladiesbingo fill. [prompt!fic for pole_dancer]
Free Time and Other Unicorns -- Defenders, 1,675 words. The one where Colleen and Misty investigate rumors of a unicorn in Central Park.ladiesbingo fill. [prompt!fic for sholio]
What Wind Is to Fire -- Chronicles of Narnia, 1,375 words. Two long and silent years after Aravis's defection to the North, Lasaraleen receives a letter.ladiesbingo fill. [prompt!fic for user name="alexseanchai">]
Fanfiction: 3,750
Original Fiction: none
March Total: 3,750
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APRIL
Fanfiction:
For Everything Which Is Yes -- Black Jewels, 575 words. "I don't believe in strangers," Karla says as her fingers rapidly bring Wilhelmina's hair into order, weaving braids in and around each other in some pattern known only to herself. "There are just friends and enemies I haven't gotten to know yet."ladiesbingo fill. [prompt!fic for user name="pilfered_words">]
Fanfiction: 575
Original Fiction: none
April Total: 575
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MAY
Fanfiction:
The Letter of the Law -- Homestuck, 100 words. Spring cleaning at Rose and Jade's house. Jade/Rose, part of the Leaf and Letter AU.
Fanfiction: 100
Original Fiction: none
May Total: 100
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JUNE
Fanfiction: none
Original Fiction: none
June Total: 0
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JULY
Fanfiction:
A Matter of Record -- Chronicles of Narnia, 275 words. In which Aravis decides to hire a court historian.genprompt_bingo fill. [promt!fic for musesfool]
Which Constrains Them To Alter -- Naruto, 550 words. Neji doesn't want to pressure his cousin, but if Hinata ever reaches out, he'll be ready. Part of the Summer Camp & Politics AU.genprompt_bingo fill. [prompt!fic for ![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
runespoor7]
Many Happy Returns of the Day -- Defenders (MCU), 450 words. Birthday greetings from friends are awesome. Birthday greetings from undead former enemies require some explanation.genprompt_bingo fill. [prompt!fic for sholio]
Interrogating the Text from the Wrong Perspective -- Enchanted Forest Chronicles, 125 words. In which Cimorene and Mendanbar attend a play.genprompt_bingo fill. [prompt!fic for wistfulmemory]
Aim High -- Vorkosigan Saga, 250 words. In which Gregor considers the responsibilities of being an uncle.genprompt_bingo fill. [prompt!fic for joyeuce01]
Frog Hunt -- Homestuck, 2,325 words. SBURB is not turning out anything like you'd hoped, and your game session may be broken. Which is a problem, because you can't go back to Earth -- last you checked, it's busy being an apocalyptic wasteland -- and judging by your most recent dreams, the rest of the Medium beyond your little Incipisphere is an equally apocalyptic wasteland of ghosts and horrorterrors. The only way out is through. You have to win the game. Winning SBURB requires frogs. Hints of Jade/Dave.
Fanfiction: 3,975
Original Fiction: none
July Total: 3,975
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AUGUST
Fanfiction:
At the Appropriate Time -- Chronicles of Narnia/Harry Potter, 250 words. Ginny and Edmund land in a swamp. (Part of Edmund and Ginny Go to Harfang)genprompt_bingo fill.
Fanfiction: 250
Original Fiction: none
August Total: 250
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SEPTEMBER
Fanfiction:
In Death's Garden -- The Nightingale, 1,700 words. Death's garden is not a place one can normally reach by looking for it, though all find their way there in the end. However, sometimes when one begins to travel with no clear destination, one finds oneself in strange places. So it was with the nightingale when she slipped from the Emperor's palace in the confusion of her mechanical copy's first performance. Written for![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
Quillori in RemixRevival 2019.
What Dreams May Come -- Chronicles of Narnia/Inception, 1,650 words. In which Susan Pevensie hires the Inception team to wake her brother from a coma. Written forbe_themoon in the Narnia Fic Exchange 2019.
The Stillness Before the Thaw -- Chronicles of Narnia/Merlin, 900 words. After the shocking reveal of Merlin's magic in the midst of a diplomatic mission to Narnia, Lucy and Peter take Merlin north on campaign against the giants. Going to war is a strange method of protection and healing, but necessity is the mother of improvisation. Sequel to Inconvenient Truths. [prompt!fic forArtificialStupidity]
Fanfiction: 4,250
Original Fiction: none
September Total: 4,250
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OCTOBER
Fanfiction:
Every Cowgirl Sings Her Sad, Sad Song -- Homestuck, 2,675 words. You buy the house when you find her. // You buy the house when you realize you'll never find her.ladiesbingo fill.
The Fruits of Her Labor -- Homestuck, 600 words. Non-continuity of the self and breakfast in bed: two great tastes that taste great together! ;) Jade/Rose, part of the Leaf and Letter AU.
Fanfiction: 3,275
Original Fiction: none
October Total: 3,275
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NOVEMBER
Fanfiction:
Kiss and Run Away -- Homestuck, 5,125 words. Nepeta and Terezi in the dreambubbles, after the end of their respective timelines. [kinkmeme prompt!fic]
Fanfiction: 5,125
Original Fiction: none
November Total: 5,125
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DECEMBER
Fanfiction:
and wish her joy in the knowledge that her child will live -- Children of the Star, 1,750 words. Talyra and the baby live. This changes nothing and everything. Written forprimeideal in Yuletide 2019.
Fanfiction: 1,750
Original Fiction: none
December Total: 1,750
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2019 Fanfiction: 30,725
2019 Original: 325
2019 Total: 31,050
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ANALYSIS
As always, I count words by posting date rather than writing date, which can give somewhat misleading results if you are trying to track my periods of greatest productivity.
Anyway, while I did manage to write and post 825 more words than I did in 2018, this is still an ABSURDLY output for a whole year. I don't have any external reasons why I didn't write much -- no college, and my tax work wasn't overwhelming in January through April. I just... wasn't really motivated to write, so I mostly didn't. *hands* Maybe establishing some kind of regular writing schedule might help on that front, which I guess is one of my new habits to attempt in the new year. (It was this past year, too, but what I actually wound up doing was finding ways to fit listening to audiobooks and podcasts into my life, and also reading more books again instead of like 90% fanfic as I'd been doing for a while. Those are both fine achievements, but I'm going to give the writing schedule another try.)
I signed up for three fic challenges/exchanges this year: Remix Revival, Narnia Fic Exchange, and Yuletide. I completed all three. I also ran two mini-ficlet prompt memes, using mygenprompt_bingo and ladiesbingo cards and resulting in nine ficlets. I still have one ficlet in WIP stage from the first mini-ficlet prompt meme, which I have hopes of finishing this January.
Did you write more than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
---Significantly less, alas.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year?
---I mean, my Yuletide fandoms are often completely unexpected, which was certainly true this year. My Remix fandom was likewise not something I'd previously thought of writing fic for, though I've played with at least one of Andersen's other fairy-tales.
Did you take any writing risks this year?
---Nope.
Do you have any fanfic or original fic goals for the coming year?
---As always, write more!
Favorite story -- not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest
---"What Wind Is to Fire" and "In Death's Garden."
Best story
---See above.
Most underappreciated by the universe
---My Yuletide fic, which is fine because it's an obscure canon with no extant fandom, and the story itself is a canon-divergence AU that makes no sense unless you've read all three books of said obscure canon.
Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story
---None this year, which I guess goes along with not taking any real risks.
Sexiest story
---I guess "The Fruits of Her Labor" or "The Letter of the Law" or "Kiss and Run Away"? Those are the ones that get sexy even obliquely. If you want to step sideways and ask which story is the most sensual, though, I'm pretty sure that's "What Wind Is to Fire."
Hardest story to write
---The prompt fic I am trying to finish in January!
Easiest story to write
---All the OTHER prompt ficlets. *headdesk*
Most fun to write
---Oh, the Narnia/Inception crossover. Obviously. I mean, what's not to love about that scenario? :D (The Snow White/Darkangel Trilogy crossover is equally amusing to me, though as a three-sentence ficlet it's so tiny it hardly counts.)
Most disappointing
---Any WIP I didn't finish! *headdesk*
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters
---None. Honestly, this doesn't usually happen to me unless I go into a writing project with the express purpose of figuring out how to make an unlikely thing seem plausible, in which case convincing myself of the proposition/interpretation is the whole point of the exercise, because if I can't talk myself into buying something there's no way I can talk someone else into buying it either.
Story with the single sweetest moment
---Um. Probably any of the Rose/Jade stories in the "Leaf and Letter" series, or else "Kiss and Run Away," or maybe "Aim High"? I dunno, I'm not great at assessing the sweetness level of stories that I didn't write with the specific goal of creating sugary fluff. *wry*
Biggest surprise
---Nothing I wrote this year particularly surprised me.
Most revealing story
---I don't feel that any of this year's work was especially personal for me? Except maybe my Yuletide and Remix fics, but the revelation-of-personal-preoccupations aspect of my Remix fic is undercut by working off someone else's initial idea, and the Yuletide fic is more a proof-of-concept than the 15,000+ word novella that would really give me room to set up my soapbox.
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And that is that for the year. :)
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A Year in Writing: 2019
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JANUARY
Fanfiction:
Roll for Seduction -- Homestuck, 1,175 words. Jade's attempt to make New Year's cookies derails into an impromptu singalong. Jade/Rose, part of the Leaf and Letter AU.
ladiesbingo fill.Not Compassion (Those From the Sea) -- Riddle-Master trilogy, 450 words. Unfinished fragment about the Earth-Master who later impersonated Eriel Meremont.
miscellaneous other abandoned fragments -- various fandoms, 450 words. What it says on the tin.
Three Sentence Ficathon: (825 words)
Make New Friends -- Homestuck, 125 words. Rose would be the first to admit she was skeptical of Jade's efforts to introduce all her friends to each other.
Zoonosis -- Chronicles of Narnia, 125 words. Flu season in Narnia.
I want a shot at redemption -- Homestuck, 100 words. You hit rock bottom as soon as you stop digging.
Folk Etymology of Naval Jargon -- Chronicles of Narnia, 100 words. Ramming ships means something slightly different in Narnia.
Here There Is Life -- Darkangel Trilogy/Snow White, 200 words. "I've never seen so much water," Winterock said as she followed the seven duaroughs down into the tunnels.
Stewardship -- Chronicles of Narnia, 175 words. Lady Steward Evelyn Scrapemoss claims the Narnian crown.
Fanfiction: 2,900
Original Fiction:
untitled fairy-tale fragment -- 325 words. Once upon a time there was a witch who lived alone in a castle...
Original Fiction: 325
January Total: 3,225
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FEBRUARY
Fanfiction:
The Guardian in Spite of Herself, ch. 17 -- Naruto, 4,150 words. The Uchiha massacre and its aftermath, in the world of "The Way of the Apartment Manager." Chapter the Seventeenth, in which an unexpected development short-circuits yet another interminable Amane family argument, Sasuke and Yukiko have a very bad afternoon, and Eiji opens negotiations.
The Nature of the Beast -- Chronicles of Narnia, 625 words. Aravis and Hwin talk about comparative religion and horses.
ladiesbingo fill.Fanfiction: 4,775
Original Fiction: none
February Total: 4,775
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MARCH
Fanfiction:
Room for Coincidence -- MCU, 700 words. Natasha meets an unexpected roommate.
ladiesbingo fill. [prompt!fic for pole_dancer]Free Time and Other Unicorns -- Defenders, 1,675 words. The one where Colleen and Misty investigate rumors of a unicorn in Central Park.
ladiesbingo fill. [prompt!fic for sholio]What Wind Is to Fire -- Chronicles of Narnia, 1,375 words. Two long and silent years after Aravis's defection to the North, Lasaraleen receives a letter.
ladiesbingo fill. [prompt!fic for user name="alexseanchai">]Fanfiction: 3,750
Original Fiction: none
March Total: 3,750
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APRIL
Fanfiction:
For Everything Which Is Yes -- Black Jewels, 575 words. "I don't believe in strangers," Karla says as her fingers rapidly bring Wilhelmina's hair into order, weaving braids in and around each other in some pattern known only to herself. "There are just friends and enemies I haven't gotten to know yet."
ladiesbingo fill. [prompt!fic for user name="pilfered_words">]Fanfiction: 575
Original Fiction: none
April Total: 575
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MAY
Fanfiction:
The Letter of the Law -- Homestuck, 100 words. Spring cleaning at Rose and Jade's house. Jade/Rose, part of the Leaf and Letter AU.
Fanfiction: 100
Original Fiction: none
May Total: 100
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JUNE
Fanfiction: none
Original Fiction: none
June Total: 0
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JULY
Fanfiction:
A Matter of Record -- Chronicles of Narnia, 275 words. In which Aravis decides to hire a court historian.
genprompt_bingo fill. [promt!fic for musesfool]Which Constrains Them To Alter -- Naruto, 550 words. Neji doesn't want to pressure his cousin, but if Hinata ever reaches out, he'll be ready. Part of the Summer Camp & Politics AU.
genprompt_bingo fill. [prompt!fic for Many Happy Returns of the Day -- Defenders (MCU), 450 words. Birthday greetings from friends are awesome. Birthday greetings from undead former enemies require some explanation.
genprompt_bingo fill. [prompt!fic for sholio]Interrogating the Text from the Wrong Perspective -- Enchanted Forest Chronicles, 125 words. In which Cimorene and Mendanbar attend a play.
genprompt_bingo fill. [prompt!fic for wistfulmemory]Aim High -- Vorkosigan Saga, 250 words. In which Gregor considers the responsibilities of being an uncle.
genprompt_bingo fill. [prompt!fic for joyeuce01]Frog Hunt -- Homestuck, 2,325 words. SBURB is not turning out anything like you'd hoped, and your game session may be broken. Which is a problem, because you can't go back to Earth -- last you checked, it's busy being an apocalyptic wasteland -- and judging by your most recent dreams, the rest of the Medium beyond your little Incipisphere is an equally apocalyptic wasteland of ghosts and horrorterrors. The only way out is through. You have to win the game. Winning SBURB requires frogs. Hints of Jade/Dave.
Fanfiction: 3,975
Original Fiction: none
July Total: 3,975
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AUGUST
Fanfiction:
At the Appropriate Time -- Chronicles of Narnia/Harry Potter, 250 words. Ginny and Edmund land in a swamp. (Part of Edmund and Ginny Go to Harfang)
genprompt_bingo fill.Fanfiction: 250
Original Fiction: none
August Total: 250
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SEPTEMBER
Fanfiction:
In Death's Garden -- The Nightingale, 1,700 words. Death's garden is not a place one can normally reach by looking for it, though all find their way there in the end. However, sometimes when one begins to travel with no clear destination, one finds oneself in strange places. So it was with the nightingale when she slipped from the Emperor's palace in the confusion of her mechanical copy's first performance. Written for
What Dreams May Come -- Chronicles of Narnia/Inception, 1,650 words. In which Susan Pevensie hires the Inception team to wake her brother from a coma. Written for
The Stillness Before the Thaw -- Chronicles of Narnia/Merlin, 900 words. After the shocking reveal of Merlin's magic in the midst of a diplomatic mission to Narnia, Lucy and Peter take Merlin north on campaign against the giants. Going to war is a strange method of protection and healing, but necessity is the mother of improvisation. Sequel to Inconvenient Truths. [prompt!fic for
Fanfiction: 4,250
Original Fiction: none
September Total: 4,250
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OCTOBER
Fanfiction:
Every Cowgirl Sings Her Sad, Sad Song -- Homestuck, 2,675 words. You buy the house when you find her. // You buy the house when you realize you'll never find her.
ladiesbingo fill.The Fruits of Her Labor -- Homestuck, 600 words. Non-continuity of the self and breakfast in bed: two great tastes that taste great together! ;) Jade/Rose, part of the Leaf and Letter AU.
Fanfiction: 3,275
Original Fiction: none
October Total: 3,275
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NOVEMBER
Fanfiction:
Kiss and Run Away -- Homestuck, 5,125 words. Nepeta and Terezi in the dreambubbles, after the end of their respective timelines. [kinkmeme prompt!fic]
Fanfiction: 5,125
Original Fiction: none
November Total: 5,125
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DECEMBER
Fanfiction:
and wish her joy in the knowledge that her child will live -- Children of the Star, 1,750 words. Talyra and the baby live. This changes nothing and everything. Written for
Fanfiction: 1,750
Original Fiction: none
December Total: 1,750
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2019 Fanfiction: 30,725
2019 Original: 325
2019 Total: 31,050
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ANALYSIS
As always, I count words by posting date rather than writing date, which can give somewhat misleading results if you are trying to track my periods of greatest productivity.
Anyway, while I did manage to write and post 825 more words than I did in 2018, this is still an ABSURDLY output for a whole year. I don't have any external reasons why I didn't write much -- no college, and my tax work wasn't overwhelming in January through April. I just... wasn't really motivated to write, so I mostly didn't. *hands* Maybe establishing some kind of regular writing schedule might help on that front, which I guess is one of my new habits to attempt in the new year. (It was this past year, too, but what I actually wound up doing was finding ways to fit listening to audiobooks and podcasts into my life, and also reading more books again instead of like 90% fanfic as I'd been doing for a while. Those are both fine achievements, but I'm going to give the writing schedule another try.)
I signed up for three fic challenges/exchanges this year: Remix Revival, Narnia Fic Exchange, and Yuletide. I completed all three. I also ran two mini-ficlet prompt memes, using my
genprompt_bingo and ladiesbingo cards and resulting in nine ficlets. I still have one ficlet in WIP stage from the first mini-ficlet prompt meme, which I have hopes of finishing this January.Did you write more than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
---Significantly less, alas.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year?
---I mean, my Yuletide fandoms are often completely unexpected, which was certainly true this year. My Remix fandom was likewise not something I'd previously thought of writing fic for, though I've played with at least one of Andersen's other fairy-tales.
Did you take any writing risks this year?
---Nope.
Do you have any fanfic or original fic goals for the coming year?
---As always, write more!
Favorite story -- not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest
---"What Wind Is to Fire" and "In Death's Garden."
Best story
---See above.
Most underappreciated by the universe
---My Yuletide fic, which is fine because it's an obscure canon with no extant fandom, and the story itself is a canon-divergence AU that makes no sense unless you've read all three books of said obscure canon.
Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story
---None this year, which I guess goes along with not taking any real risks.
Sexiest story
---I guess "The Fruits of Her Labor" or "The Letter of the Law" or "Kiss and Run Away"? Those are the ones that get sexy even obliquely. If you want to step sideways and ask which story is the most sensual, though, I'm pretty sure that's "What Wind Is to Fire."
Hardest story to write
---The prompt fic I am trying to finish in January!
Easiest story to write
---All the OTHER prompt ficlets. *headdesk*
Most fun to write
---Oh, the Narnia/Inception crossover. Obviously. I mean, what's not to love about that scenario? :D (The Snow White/Darkangel Trilogy crossover is equally amusing to me, though as a three-sentence ficlet it's so tiny it hardly counts.)
Most disappointing
---Any WIP I didn't finish! *headdesk*
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters
---None. Honestly, this doesn't usually happen to me unless I go into a writing project with the express purpose of figuring out how to make an unlikely thing seem plausible, in which case convincing myself of the proposition/interpretation is the whole point of the exercise, because if I can't talk myself into buying something there's no way I can talk someone else into buying it either.
Story with the single sweetest moment
---Um. Probably any of the Rose/Jade stories in the "Leaf and Letter" series, or else "Kiss and Run Away," or maybe "Aim High"? I dunno, I'm not great at assessing the sweetness level of stories that I didn't write with the specific goal of creating sugary fluff. *wry*
Biggest surprise
---Nothing I wrote this year particularly surprised me.
Most revealing story
---I don't feel that any of this year's work was especially personal for me? Except maybe my Yuletide and Remix fics, but the revelation-of-personal-preoccupations aspect of my Remix fic is undercut by working off someone else's initial idea, and the Yuletide fic is more a proof-of-concept than the 15,000+ word novella that would really give me room to set up my soapbox.
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And that is that for the year. :)
