Writing meme 2012
Full-length stories written: 30 (1000 words+)
Chapters of Multi-part fic finished: 0
Shorts: 4 (under 1000 words)
The Pairing Stats: Avengers (MCU) - team x3, Clint/Tony(ish), Clint/Phil x5, Clint/Darcy, Tony/Team, Steve/Tony x2, Clint/Phil/Natasha, Tony/Bruce, Tony&Phil, Natasha&Thor; Sherlock - Sherlock/John, Mycroft&Sherlock, Sherlock/John/Mycroft; Ace of Cakes - Duff/Geof; The Artist - Peppy/George; The Unusuals - Casey/Walsh(ish), Casey&Walsh; Sherlock/Iron Man - Sherlock&Tony; Avengers/Spider-Man - Tony/Peter; West Wing - Sam/Toby; Snow White and the Huntsman - Snow White/Huntsman; Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - Ethan/Will(/team); Lost Girl - Bo/Dyson/Kenzi; Avengers/Dark Knight Rises - Tony Stark&Bruce Wayne; Doctor Faustus - Faustus/Mephistopheles; Studio 60 - Jordan/Danny; A Sudden Wild Magic - Philo/Tod/Josh (ish)
Total word count: c130,000
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Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
Less, mostly because I had a very bad end of year.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2012?
I wrote fic off a play (Doctor Faustus) which I don't think I've done before? I really want to write Merrily We Roll Along fic if only a) anyone would read it and b) I could afford to go and see the play again. I might do it anyway. I also wrote way more d/s-ish fic than I would have predicted, given that it honestly is not, despite all evidence, one of my particular fic-kinks. Except for when it is.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
I feel as though my writing got better this year, but not necessarily that what I did was risky. I wrote some Avengers fic which felt (to me) as though they were not entirely in tune with the fic I was reading, but which I felt strongly about. So maybe it's: I've been doing this for 10 years now, so while I still panic every time I hit post, I pretty much write what I want now.
My favorite story this year (of my own):
Graded on the Sanctity of Patience, no question. It's probably my favourite story of my own full stop (at least until the next one). I'm not completely sure why? It's one of the stories which feels closest to how I meant it to, and does most of what I hoped it would. It came about from a mess of questions about the paucity of women in comic book movies, how Phil Coulson's fan favourite traits ('babysitter' for example) might read differently for a woman, and, not secretly, how much it sucks to be female sometimes, especially when you're in power and especially when you're really bad at presenting the way you're supposed to. Female!Phil came into my head fully formed, and how resigned she was and how she didn't like dresses and where her insecurity would be and where it absolutely would not, how she would butt heads with Tony and how Clint would adore her. It's not the thing I wrote which got most comments but the ones I got reassured me that it worked for other people too.
My best story this year:
By hit-count Minds Like Ours Dream Up. I had an inkling that it might do okay, since it was long-ish post-Reichenbach fic and it was posted fairly quickly after the episode. But the level of response still blew me away - I've never written anything before, and probably never will again, that got so many comments so quickly. And my mum liked it, so that's cool I guess?
Story most tragically underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
This year, the stories that didn't get many comments were the stories I expected would have difficulty getting them. I don't feel hard done by.
Most fun story:
(Secret) Meeting Like This. Tony Stark snarking with Peter Parker is in my particular wheelhouse. Yes, I made myself grin writing it, what of it?
Most sexy story:
Alternative Costume Designs. Clint/Darcy crossdressing fic for Porn Battle.
Story with the single sexiest moment:
I liked the pegging scene in Graded on the Sanctity of Patience? Though obviously it depends on your feelings on fictional pegging.
Most unintentionally telling story:
Usually, I notice when I'm doing this. This year, I managed to write Clint/Tony with the line 'He thinks maybe all he had wanted some days when he was right on the edge of losing it was for someone to touch him and tell him that it was okay if he was a little crazy right now.' and did not notice until it was posted. This is to say nothing of the 'Some days you’ve just gotta let it rain' in The Time to Find a Place to Land . Poor Clint. Avatar of all my authorial depression.
"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for me" story:
I think More Than Thou Hast Wit to Ask is the most messed up thing I wrote this year. I wrote things I hadn't written before (incest and pretty messed up dubcon made them do it fic) but they were still less creepy-sad than demon-bargain sex.
Story that shifted my own perception of the characters:
Second Approaches, which involved way more thinking about Bruce Wayne vs Tony Stark than it warranted.
Hardest story to write:
like catalysts, we make things happen - I really wanted to write Tony/Bruce, I had bits of it very clear in my head, and it was still like pulling teeth to finish.
Worst story:
Probably also Second Approaches, which was clearer in the immediate aftermath of me seeing The Dark Knight Rises than at the point I tried to finish and post it.
Easiest story to write:
A Formula, A Phrase Remains or Truths, Lies and the Tipping Point. Basically any time I am writing Tony Stark making questionable choices over the people he loves, the writing comes a lot easier.
Story I'd like to revise (but probably won't):
Ways of Holding Still. There is probably a better story in me about Will and Ethan and his messed up sense of responsibility, but it's not this one. Maybe next year.
Story I wish I'd finished:
The Clint/Tony fic about Clint bodyguarding Tony and being weird because the last time he guarded something the apocalypse nearly happened, and Tony being weird because he's Tony. Or the Phil Coulson/Sam Seaborn fic where Sam meets Agent Casper again and accidentally ends up in charge of SHIELD's new public policy and communications department. Or the Steve/Tony everyone is displaced in time ghost story. Lots of Avengers fic, basically.
Story I didn't write but swear I will, someday:
This year I am writing original fic. I may also have to write the Tony/Coulson sequel to 'A Formula, A Phrase Remains' where it goes all Frankenstein/Monster. Fun! But mostly I am going to write original fic this year.
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Chapters of Multi-part fic finished: 0
Shorts: 4 (under 1000 words)
The Pairing Stats: Avengers (MCU) - team x3, Clint/Tony(ish), Clint/Phil x5, Clint/Darcy, Tony/Team, Steve/Tony x2, Clint/Phil/Natasha, Tony/Bruce, Tony&Phil, Natasha&Thor; Sherlock - Sherlock/John, Mycroft&Sherlock, Sherlock/John/Mycroft; Ace of Cakes - Duff/Geof; The Artist - Peppy/George; The Unusuals - Casey/Walsh(ish), Casey&Walsh; Sherlock/Iron Man - Sherlock&Tony; Avengers/Spider-Man - Tony/Peter; West Wing - Sam/Toby; Snow White and the Huntsman - Snow White/Huntsman; Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - Ethan/Will(/team); Lost Girl - Bo/Dyson/Kenzi; Avengers/Dark Knight Rises - Tony Stark&Bruce Wayne; Doctor Faustus - Faustus/Mephistopheles; Studio 60 - Jordan/Danny; A Sudden Wild Magic - Philo/Tod/Josh (ish)
Total word count: c130,000
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Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
Less, mostly because I had a very bad end of year.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2012?
I wrote fic off a play (Doctor Faustus) which I don't think I've done before? I really want to write Merrily We Roll Along fic if only a) anyone would read it and b) I could afford to go and see the play again. I might do it anyway. I also wrote way more d/s-ish fic than I would have predicted, given that it honestly is not, despite all evidence, one of my particular fic-kinks. Except for when it is.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
I feel as though my writing got better this year, but not necessarily that what I did was risky. I wrote some Avengers fic which felt (to me) as though they were not entirely in tune with the fic I was reading, but which I felt strongly about. So maybe it's: I've been doing this for 10 years now, so while I still panic every time I hit post, I pretty much write what I want now.
My favorite story this year (of my own):
Graded on the Sanctity of Patience, no question. It's probably my favourite story of my own full stop (at least until the next one). I'm not completely sure why? It's one of the stories which feels closest to how I meant it to, and does most of what I hoped it would. It came about from a mess of questions about the paucity of women in comic book movies, how Phil Coulson's fan favourite traits ('babysitter' for example) might read differently for a woman, and, not secretly, how much it sucks to be female sometimes, especially when you're in power and especially when you're really bad at presenting the way you're supposed to. Female!Phil came into my head fully formed, and how resigned she was and how she didn't like dresses and where her insecurity would be and where it absolutely would not, how she would butt heads with Tony and how Clint would adore her. It's not the thing I wrote which got most comments but the ones I got reassured me that it worked for other people too.
My best story this year:
By hit-count Minds Like Ours Dream Up. I had an inkling that it might do okay, since it was long-ish post-Reichenbach fic and it was posted fairly quickly after the episode. But the level of response still blew me away - I've never written anything before, and probably never will again, that got so many comments so quickly. And my mum liked it, so that's cool I guess?
Story most tragically underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
This year, the stories that didn't get many comments were the stories I expected would have difficulty getting them. I don't feel hard done by.
Most fun story:
(Secret) Meeting Like This. Tony Stark snarking with Peter Parker is in my particular wheelhouse. Yes, I made myself grin writing it, what of it?
Most sexy story:
Alternative Costume Designs. Clint/Darcy crossdressing fic for Porn Battle.
Story with the single sexiest moment:
I liked the pegging scene in Graded on the Sanctity of Patience? Though obviously it depends on your feelings on fictional pegging.
Most unintentionally telling story:
Usually, I notice when I'm doing this. This year, I managed to write Clint/Tony with the line 'He thinks maybe all he had wanted some days when he was right on the edge of losing it was for someone to touch him and tell him that it was okay if he was a little crazy right now.' and did not notice until it was posted. This is to say nothing of the 'Some days you’ve just gotta let it rain' in The Time to Find a Place to Land . Poor Clint. Avatar of all my authorial depression.
"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for me" story:
I think More Than Thou Hast Wit to Ask is the most messed up thing I wrote this year. I wrote things I hadn't written before (incest and pretty messed up dubcon made them do it fic) but they were still less creepy-sad than demon-bargain sex.
Story that shifted my own perception of the characters:
Second Approaches, which involved way more thinking about Bruce Wayne vs Tony Stark than it warranted.
Hardest story to write:
like catalysts, we make things happen - I really wanted to write Tony/Bruce, I had bits of it very clear in my head, and it was still like pulling teeth to finish.
Worst story:
Probably also Second Approaches, which was clearer in the immediate aftermath of me seeing The Dark Knight Rises than at the point I tried to finish and post it.
Easiest story to write:
A Formula, A Phrase Remains or Truths, Lies and the Tipping Point. Basically any time I am writing Tony Stark making questionable choices over the people he loves, the writing comes a lot easier.
Story I'd like to revise (but probably won't):
Ways of Holding Still. There is probably a better story in me about Will and Ethan and his messed up sense of responsibility, but it's not this one. Maybe next year.
Story I wish I'd finished:
The Clint/Tony fic about Clint bodyguarding Tony and being weird because the last time he guarded something the apocalypse nearly happened, and Tony being weird because he's Tony. Or the Phil Coulson/Sam Seaborn fic where Sam meets Agent Casper again and accidentally ends up in charge of SHIELD's new public policy and communications department. Or the Steve/Tony everyone is displaced in time ghost story. Lots of Avengers fic, basically.
Story I didn't write but swear I will, someday:
This year I am writing original fic. I may also have to write the Tony/Coulson sequel to 'A Formula, A Phrase Remains' where it goes all Frankenstein/Monster. Fun! But mostly I am going to write original fic this year.
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