Fic Meme
I broke my own heart last night, so I need a distraction. Stolen off of sometimesalways, who is a great writer btw, you should all check her out.
Total number of fics: 19
Total wordcount (including yuletide and one not-yet-posted story): Roughly 130,000
My favorite story of mine this year: For BTR, it's a tie between Every Last Little Light In New York City, We Trudged Along Through The Mud (And We Tried To Call It Home), and In Fair Verona. Overall, I'd say my favorites are My Wrecking Ball and We're Made Out Of Blood And Rust. This is going less off end product and more off of what I had the most fun writing.
My best story: "According to kudos on Ao3, my best story is" Welcome To The New Age, my first/only Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters fic, with Is That A Rabbit In Your Pocket Or Are You Happy To See Me? (my first and only Now You See Me fic) being a close second.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Probably Every Last Little Light In New York City. I have a warning for character death, even though there actually is no character death, because what was supposed to be a huge, long story got cut short by our Big Bang deadline, and consequently, ELLLiNYC stands alone. But I wanted to put the warning in because it will eventually apply to the sequel, when I get around to it. I'm pretty proud of that fic though - it's got way more banter than I'm used to writing, and it was a chance to work with a slightly OOC James Diamond, all the while knowing that he would eventually slip into character. Broadsiding the readers like that is fun.
Most fun story: We Trudged Along Through The Mud (And We Tried To Call It Home) is a somewhat angsty fic, but it was a good time all around for me to write because I got to experiment with a writing style I wasn't used to.
Most sexy story: Lips Honey Swollen was sexyish, I guess? I actually wrote not a lot of porn this year, which is weird for me at this point. I have a lot of in progress porn on my harddrive, but none of it is posted, sooo. Erm. Yes.
"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: It's probably a tie between Welcome To The New Age, which features incest, and It Don't Mean A Thing If I Give You My Heart (If You Tear It Apart), which features Mercedes Griffin going down on Lucy Stone in a public club. Neither of those are particularly bad, imho.
Story with single sexiest moment: I'm going to go with It's So Hard To Breathe, only because I really enjoyed writing the scene where James first sees the leaked pictures of Kendall and Dak and I find jealousy hotter than I should.
Story with single sweetest moment: The end of This Boy's Life Among The Electrical Lights, probably, or maybe, idk, all of You Know You Lift Me Up Dancing, where James and Logan learn to ballroom dance.
Most unintentionally *telling* story: Until The Devil Turns To Dust, although it's purposely telling. I have a feeling we're going to be seeing a lot more of that in 2014.
Fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: How To Tame Your Hockey Player. I don't even particularly like that fic, but it gave me a lot of insight to how I feel about Dak and Logan, and how I would change them if I got the chance for a rewrite.
Biggest disappointment: I don't actually think I'm disappointed in anything I wrote this year. I have a couple of stories that I wish were already posted (My Heart Will Be Blacker Than Your Eyes When I'm Through With You, which is a kames fic in the Finnick/Annie!verse that is literally a paragraph away from being done, Your Heart Is A Bad, Bad Thing, which is a Miles/Bass fic with probably the hottest sex scene I've written all year, but refuses to be over with, a few more chapters of In Fair Verona, two Avengers stories, and a couple of surprises. And of course, I wish I'd finished all of Every Last Little Light, because I wanted it to be a finished product).
Biggest surprise: You Know You Lift Me Up Dancing was not a fic I expected to write, and I was shocked I managed. There's also a sequel to A Song You'll Regret in the works, as well as a domestic Jagan/Lames/J-Lo fic I'm writing for Chris called Gimme Symphonies that has made considerable progress.
Hardest story to write: I'm having a lot of trouble with Jacaranda, because I know everyone wants to get to the sex/the plot twist, but I really want the so called "filler" chapters to have substance. Which is difficult, because I want the sex too.
Easiest story to write: Everything in the first question was an utter joy.
This year's theme and the story that demonstrates it most: Probably that I love my friends, because the vast majority of the things I wrote this year were prompts. Of the nineteen stories I posted, ten were prompt fills, and the remaning few were chapter updates that were goaded on by friends being like POST THE NEXT ONE.
Some final thoughts: I know I normally post twice as much, and I've been a little disappointed with my inability to write while I'm at school. It's not that I don't want to write, or post the things I already have written, it's just been pretty easy not to with the anipathy towards BTR, which is obviously my main fandom, and then with other fandoms (Avengers, The OC, Revolution, etc) I've been too busy to actually read fic and really get into them. I am trying though, guys. I promise you that.
Bonus (I also stole this part from sometimesalways):
songs I wrote to this year (not including yuletide)
for specific stories:
Maybe Memories by The Used
Honey and the Moon by Joseph Arthur
It's So Hard To Breathe by B.o.B.
Mass Romantic by The New Pornographers
Wildest Moments by Jessie Ware
Soldiers by Otherwise
Idea of Happiness by VanShe
Miley Cyrus Virus Rap by Thirty100 ft. Phaya
A Little Party Never Killed Nobody by Fergie
Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
The Queen of Lower Chelsea by The Gaslight Anthem
Black Eyes by Radical Face
Symphonies by Dan Black
Voodooized by Empires
Blue Light by Bloc Party
Wartime! (It's Time To Go Now) by theSTART
Wicked Games by The Weeknd
Temptation Greets You Like A Naughty Friend by the Arctic Monkeys
for multi-chaptered fic:
Kids by Lady Danville
Coney Island by Jay-Z ft. Death Cab for Cutie
Ghost by the Folly and the Hunter
Ends in the Ocean by Avalanche City
Holy by Frightened Rabbit
All the Places by Made in Heights
Featherstone by the Paper Kites
All Alone by David O'Dowda
Depth Over Distance by Ben Howard
Whispers by Dave Baxter
Goodbye by Apparat ft. Soap & Skin
Cups by Lulu and the Lampshades
No Church in the Wild by Jay-Z ft. Frank Ocean
Twice by Little Dragon
Hollow Drum by Laura Welsh
Heat Lightning by Icky Blossoms
Lion's Mane by Iron & Wine
Distant Shouts by Little Children
I've Seen Hell by Martin Phipps
It's All Okay (Active Child Remix) by Julia Stone
In This Shirt (Royskopp Remix) by The Irrepressibles
Total number of fics: 19
Total wordcount (including yuletide and one not-yet-posted story): Roughly 130,000
My favorite story of mine this year: For BTR, it's a tie between Every Last Little Light In New York City, We Trudged Along Through The Mud (And We Tried To Call It Home), and In Fair Verona. Overall, I'd say my favorites are My Wrecking Ball and We're Made Out Of Blood And Rust. This is going less off end product and more off of what I had the most fun writing.
My best story: "According to kudos on Ao3, my best story is" Welcome To The New Age, my first/only Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters fic, with Is That A Rabbit In Your Pocket Or Are You Happy To See Me? (my first and only Now You See Me fic) being a close second.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Probably Every Last Little Light In New York City. I have a warning for character death, even though there actually is no character death, because what was supposed to be a huge, long story got cut short by our Big Bang deadline, and consequently, ELLLiNYC stands alone. But I wanted to put the warning in because it will eventually apply to the sequel, when I get around to it. I'm pretty proud of that fic though - it's got way more banter than I'm used to writing, and it was a chance to work with a slightly OOC James Diamond, all the while knowing that he would eventually slip into character. Broadsiding the readers like that is fun.
Most fun story: We Trudged Along Through The Mud (And We Tried To Call It Home) is a somewhat angsty fic, but it was a good time all around for me to write because I got to experiment with a writing style I wasn't used to.
Most sexy story: Lips Honey Swollen was sexyish, I guess? I actually wrote not a lot of porn this year, which is weird for me at this point. I have a lot of in progress porn on my harddrive, but none of it is posted, sooo. Erm. Yes.
"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: It's probably a tie between Welcome To The New Age, which features incest, and It Don't Mean A Thing If I Give You My Heart (If You Tear It Apart), which features Mercedes Griffin going down on Lucy Stone in a public club. Neither of those are particularly bad, imho.
Story with single sexiest moment: I'm going to go with It's So Hard To Breathe, only because I really enjoyed writing the scene where James first sees the leaked pictures of Kendall and Dak and I find jealousy hotter than I should.
Story with single sweetest moment: The end of This Boy's Life Among The Electrical Lights, probably, or maybe, idk, all of You Know You Lift Me Up Dancing, where James and Logan learn to ballroom dance.
Most unintentionally *telling* story: Until The Devil Turns To Dust, although it's purposely telling. I have a feeling we're going to be seeing a lot more of that in 2014.
Fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: How To Tame Your Hockey Player. I don't even particularly like that fic, but it gave me a lot of insight to how I feel about Dak and Logan, and how I would change them if I got the chance for a rewrite.
Biggest disappointment: I don't actually think I'm disappointed in anything I wrote this year. I have a couple of stories that I wish were already posted (My Heart Will Be Blacker Than Your Eyes When I'm Through With You, which is a kames fic in the Finnick/Annie!verse that is literally a paragraph away from being done, Your Heart Is A Bad, Bad Thing, which is a Miles/Bass fic with probably the hottest sex scene I've written all year, but refuses to be over with, a few more chapters of In Fair Verona, two Avengers stories, and a couple of surprises. And of course, I wish I'd finished all of Every Last Little Light, because I wanted it to be a finished product).
Biggest surprise: You Know You Lift Me Up Dancing was not a fic I expected to write, and I was shocked I managed. There's also a sequel to A Song You'll Regret in the works, as well as a domestic Jagan/Lames/J-Lo fic I'm writing for Chris called Gimme Symphonies that has made considerable progress.
Hardest story to write: I'm having a lot of trouble with Jacaranda, because I know everyone wants to get to the sex/the plot twist, but I really want the so called "filler" chapters to have substance. Which is difficult, because I want the sex too.
Easiest story to write: Everything in the first question was an utter joy.
This year's theme and the story that demonstrates it most: Probably that I love my friends, because the vast majority of the things I wrote this year were prompts. Of the nineteen stories I posted, ten were prompt fills, and the remaning few were chapter updates that were goaded on by friends being like POST THE NEXT ONE.
Some final thoughts: I know I normally post twice as much, and I've been a little disappointed with my inability to write while I'm at school. It's not that I don't want to write, or post the things I already have written, it's just been pretty easy not to with the anipathy towards BTR, which is obviously my main fandom, and then with other fandoms (Avengers, The OC, Revolution, etc) I've been too busy to actually read fic and really get into them. I am trying though, guys. I promise you that.
Bonus (I also stole this part from sometimesalways):
songs I wrote to this year (not including yuletide)
for specific stories:
Maybe Memories by The Used
Honey and the Moon by Joseph Arthur
It's So Hard To Breathe by B.o.B.
Mass Romantic by The New Pornographers
Wildest Moments by Jessie Ware
Soldiers by Otherwise
Idea of Happiness by VanShe
Miley Cyrus Virus Rap by Thirty100 ft. Phaya
A Little Party Never Killed Nobody by Fergie
Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
The Queen of Lower Chelsea by The Gaslight Anthem
Black Eyes by Radical Face
Symphonies by Dan Black
Voodooized by Empires
Blue Light by Bloc Party
Wartime! (It's Time To Go Now) by theSTART
Wicked Games by The Weeknd
Temptation Greets You Like A Naughty Friend by the Arctic Monkeys
for multi-chaptered fic:
Kids by Lady Danville
Coney Island by Jay-Z ft. Death Cab for Cutie
Ghost by the Folly and the Hunter
Ends in the Ocean by Avalanche City
Holy by Frightened Rabbit
All the Places by Made in Heights
Featherstone by the Paper Kites
All Alone by David O'Dowda
Depth Over Distance by Ben Howard
Whispers by Dave Baxter
Goodbye by Apparat ft. Soap & Skin
Cups by Lulu and the Lampshades
No Church in the Wild by Jay-Z ft. Frank Ocean
Twice by Little Dragon
Hollow Drum by Laura Welsh
Heat Lightning by Icky Blossoms
Lion's Mane by Iron & Wine
Distant Shouts by Little Children
I've Seen Hell by Martin Phipps
It's All Okay (Active Child Remix) by Julia Stone
In This Shirt (Royskopp Remix) by The Irrepressibles