2010 in Fic
Number of Completed Stories: 9 (including 2 co-writes) (plus 15 drabbles)
Fandoms: Bandom (8), Disney Animation (1), Hikaru no Go (1 drabble), Harry Potter (1 drabble)
Longest story this year: The Elliot Code of Honour (the regency AU with softlyforgotten where Z and Ryan cross-dress for plot and kicks) is not quite 30,000 words, which is the longest thing I've written for bandom even only counting my half.
Shortest story this year: Feline Factor is 202 words about Brendon's robot cat. I am surprisingly fond of it, so it counts as a story *g*
Favorite story this year: The Elliot Code of Honour, I'm pretty sure. It was the most fun to write, and to receive in my email, and I love everything about the characters and the ridiculous things they do, and this Z in particular owns my heart. I also feel as though the anachronistic regency/modern elements work really surprisingly well, in a way I sometimes struggle with in historical AUs.
Rarest pairing: Mulan/Jane-of-Tarzan in Almost There, the Disney office romance. This one's also a runner-up for favourite story this year, because Disney office AU.
Favourite title: I think my favourite this year is actually Crossed With Silver, which is the cyborg-werewolf!Jon/Brendon ficlet with softlyforgotten, but sadly I didn't come up with that one. My favourite of my own is probably Fae Attraction, because ... well, because it's a dumb joke but I like those.
Most frustrating story: First We Take Manhatten, the high school AU in which Z and Charlotte compete for Tennessee's friendship. I still can't work out what's wrong with this one, except that it just doesn't work somehow. I feel as though all the elements are fit together wrong, and I love bits of it but I don't love the story the way I want to, and I don't believe in the Z/Tennessee the way I want to.
Most frequently written pairing: Ryan/Brendon (although only just).
Story whose reception surprised me: The Staircase Scene, which is a Charlotte/Tennessee prom night drabble. I scribbled it in a comment box for redbrickrose's birthday, and I hoped she would like it but I didn't think it was really a story. Every now and then somebody brings it up out of the blue, though, and despite the tinyness it has more hits on AO3 than any of my other bandom femmeslash stories. I'm really not sure why, but yay?
Most fun story to write: The Elliot Code of Honour. There was something joyful and just easy about this story, even when I let myself get stuck. Most fun solo-write was Five Steps for Acquiring a Sidekick, the superhero!Z/reporter!Ryan story. I enjoyed that 'verse ridiculously.
Most challenging story to write: This was either Prove the Child Ephemeral, the Pete/Mikey historical grave robbers ficlet, which was something of a blind, careful piecing together in tiny footstep-lengths because of my unfamiliarity with writing both the characters and the pairing, or Fae Attraction, the Ryan/Brendon urban fantasy faeries-made-them-kiss story, which was challenging because I was trying to write emotional conflict in the pairing, when all my instincts are to go in for meet-cutes and brilliant smiles.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: This was actually First We Take Manhatten. For all that I don't think the character dynamics work properly in that story, I felt as though this was the fic where I learned how to write Tennessee. Or at least, where I learned how to write the Tennessee who felt truest, to me: ridiculous and conflict-avoidant and pretending to be a zombie with daisies. I wish I could work out how to fit that Tenn into a pairing dynamic that spoke to me.
Overall: The most noticeable thing about my 2010 fic list is that all but one of them were written as some kind of gift, and the one that wasn't was the long co-write which softlyforgotten and I mostly felt as though we were writing for each other anyway. Which makes sense given how much less engaged with fandom I've been the last year, but it's still a little sad to realise I didn't really write any story only because I was too in love with the idea not to. (On the other hand, excitement for original stuff was pretty ace this year, so swings and roundabouts, I guess.)
Fandoms: Bandom (8), Disney Animation (1), Hikaru no Go (1 drabble), Harry Potter (1 drabble)
Longest story this year: The Elliot Code of Honour (the regency AU with softlyforgotten where Z and Ryan cross-dress for plot and kicks) is not quite 30,000 words, which is the longest thing I've written for bandom even only counting my half.
Shortest story this year: Feline Factor is 202 words about Brendon's robot cat. I am surprisingly fond of it, so it counts as a story *g*
Favorite story this year: The Elliot Code of Honour, I'm pretty sure. It was the most fun to write, and to receive in my email, and I love everything about the characters and the ridiculous things they do, and this Z in particular owns my heart. I also feel as though the anachronistic regency/modern elements work really surprisingly well, in a way I sometimes struggle with in historical AUs.
Rarest pairing: Mulan/Jane-of-Tarzan in Almost There, the Disney office romance. This one's also a runner-up for favourite story this year, because Disney office AU.
Favourite title: I think my favourite this year is actually Crossed With Silver, which is the cyborg-werewolf!Jon/Brendon ficlet with softlyforgotten, but sadly I didn't come up with that one. My favourite of my own is probably Fae Attraction, because ... well, because it's a dumb joke but I like those.
Most frustrating story: First We Take Manhatten, the high school AU in which Z and Charlotte compete for Tennessee's friendship. I still can't work out what's wrong with this one, except that it just doesn't work somehow. I feel as though all the elements are fit together wrong, and I love bits of it but I don't love the story the way I want to, and I don't believe in the Z/Tennessee the way I want to.
Most frequently written pairing: Ryan/Brendon (although only just).
Story whose reception surprised me: The Staircase Scene, which is a Charlotte/Tennessee prom night drabble. I scribbled it in a comment box for redbrickrose's birthday, and I hoped she would like it but I didn't think it was really a story. Every now and then somebody brings it up out of the blue, though, and despite the tinyness it has more hits on AO3 than any of my other bandom femmeslash stories. I'm really not sure why, but yay?
Most fun story to write: The Elliot Code of Honour. There was something joyful and just easy about this story, even when I let myself get stuck. Most fun solo-write was Five Steps for Acquiring a Sidekick, the superhero!Z/reporter!Ryan story. I enjoyed that 'verse ridiculously.
Most challenging story to write: This was either Prove the Child Ephemeral, the Pete/Mikey historical grave robbers ficlet, which was something of a blind, careful piecing together in tiny footstep-lengths because of my unfamiliarity with writing both the characters and the pairing, or Fae Attraction, the Ryan/Brendon urban fantasy faeries-made-them-kiss story, which was challenging because I was trying to write emotional conflict in the pairing, when all my instincts are to go in for meet-cutes and brilliant smiles.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: This was actually First We Take Manhatten. For all that I don't think the character dynamics work properly in that story, I felt as though this was the fic where I learned how to write Tennessee. Or at least, where I learned how to write the Tennessee who felt truest, to me: ridiculous and conflict-avoidant and pretending to be a zombie with daisies. I wish I could work out how to fit that Tenn into a pairing dynamic that spoke to me.
Overall: The most noticeable thing about my 2010 fic list is that all but one of them were written as some kind of gift, and the one that wasn't was the long co-write which softlyforgotten and I mostly felt as though we were writing for each other anyway. Which makes sense given how much less engaged with fandom I've been the last year, but it's still a little sad to realise I didn't really write any story only because I was too in love with the idea not to. (On the other hand, excitement for original stuff was pretty ace this year, so swings and roundabouts, I guess.)