2018 fic year in review
Last year I posted 26 stories totaling 58091 words, which is exactly the same number of stories I posted in 2017 but about 3500 more words. Since 2017 represented an increase in story count and word count over the previous year, holding steady is fine by me. Depending on how you count fairy tales, a tiny crossover element, past works, and if the various Dragon Age and Witcher games count separately or together, I wrote in between 16 and 22 fandoms, of which between 8 and 15 were new to me this year.
As in 2017, The Witcher was my main fandom of the year, with six stories, two of which are grounded in the second game (new to me this year) and four of which are grounded in the third game. I wrote five stories for the Dragon Age games: two set in Origins, one in Awakening, and two in Dragon Age II. (DA is sort-of-new to me; last year I wrote a Witcher crossover in which different sections took place in different fandom worlds, and one section was set on Thedas and involved pre-DA:O Isabela.) I wrote two stories each for the Gentleman Bastard Sequence and The Last Kingdom, and the rest of my stories were in singular (for the year) fandoms.
Continuing the trend of the last many years, all stories but one were written for fanwork exchanges. I didn't sign up for as many exchanges in 2018 as I did in 2017, but I picked up pinch hits and/or wrote treats for several exchanges I didn't sign up for. The only new-to-me exchange I signed up for this year was the Worldbuilding Exchange, but I wrote a treat for Smut Swap and a pinch hit for Nonconathon, neither of which I had participated in before.
Statistics:
stories: 26
fandoms: 16-22
new-to-me-fandoms: 8-15
crossovers: 3
fusions: 0
AUs: 1 setting, 2 canon divergence
exchange stories: 25
remixes: 5
Last year I wrote just one remix; this year I picked up two pinch hits and also wrote Madness remix treats. This year I wrote a Noir AU, last year I wrote a Space AU, but AU stories are Altogether Unusual for me, not counting canon divergence.
gen: 13
het: 1
m/m: 6
f/f: 5 (including one f/f/f)
other: 1 (though with m/m elements)
This is the fifth year in a row that a plurality of my stories are gen, but I've broken my 2-year streak of more f/f than m/m. (On the other hand, all three years the numbers of f/f and m/m differed by only one, so statistically it's probably more accurate to say I write about the same amount of f/f and m/m.) Only one het story this year, which is a marked decrease from last year.
G rated: 11
T rated: 9
M rated: 3
E rated: 3
This is a significant increase in porn content for me over last year, which had one story each M and E rated.
drabbles (100 words exactly, I will die on that hill): 3, of which two were for MFDE and one for Remix Madness
ficlets (under 1000 words, excluding drabbles): 4
short stories (1001-10,000 words): 19
My longest story this year was 9369 words ("Under Unfamiliar Skies").
Most of my stories were in past tense and third person, as usual, but this year I wrote more in first person and in present tense than usual, as well as a lot of stylistically unusual stories. It's hard to separate them out, so I'll write more about this below in the meme-question section.
By AO3 stats for 2018: 58,091 words written, 628 kudos received, 103 comment threads, 56 bookmarks, and 6671 hits. Other than the wordcount, all of these are less than they were last year, so I must be doing something wrong! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I have more to say about popularity stats below, since I have been recording comments since last January and kudos since July.
Monthly list, with links:
February
Small Secrets | Aubrey-Maturin series, Clarissa/Diana, G, 776 words (Chocolate Box PH)
March
The Queen and the Empress | The Witcher, Ciri/Cerys, M, 5129 words (NYR gift for pinch-hitter)
The Destroyer's Legacy | Old Kingdom, G, 2498 words (Worldbuilding exchange)
April
Tentacle Show | Gentleman Bastards, Locke/Tentacle Monster, Locke/Jean, E (noncon and bestiality), 3868 words (Smut Swap treat)
May
Walk Together Where We May | The Mark of the Horse Lord, Conory/Midir, G, 1754 words (Sutcliff Swap)
July
The Path I Fear to Tread | Dragon Age II, E (noncon), Justice!Anders/F!Hawke, 3704 words (Nonconathon PH)
Going Viral | Octopuses (anthropomorphic), G, 100 words (Multifandom Drabble)
The Tale of Brave Ser Pounce-a-lot | Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, G, 100 words (Multifandom Drabble treat)
September
Corsets and Con Games (Devil in a Blue Dress Mix) | Gentleman Bastards, Locke/Jean, T, 3598 words (Remix)
Wolf at the Door (Friend of the Devil Remix) | Dire Wolf (song), T, 1165 words (Remix PH)
After the End of the Story (A Twice-Told Tale Remix) | Fairy Tales, Snow White/Beauty, M, 1884 words (Remix PH)
Don't Kiln the Messenger (he's already dead) | Magnus Chase, ensemble, G, 100 words (Remix Madness treat)
A Small and Fluffy Apprentice (Meow [re-]Mix) | Dragon Age: Origins, Shale, G, 966 words (Remix Madness treat)
October
Under Unfamiliar Skies | Witcher/Dragon Age:Origins, Geralt & Zevran, T, 9369 words (Crossovering PH)
When a Plan Works Out | Dragon Age II, F!Hawke/Isabela/Merrill, T, 2029 words (Femslash Exchange)
An Untangled Knot | Twelfth Night, Olivia/Viola, T, 1094 words (Femslash Exchange PH)
Don't say I never did anything for you | The Witcher, Geralt/Iorveth, E (dubious consent), 1475 words (Trick or Treat)
Reaching an Understanding | The Witcher, Iorveth & Roche & Ves, G, 910 words (Trick or Treat treat)
Assassins of Kings | The Witcher, Geralt & Sabrina Glevissig, T, 2058 words (Trick or Treat treat)
by the white levin-light of the moon | The Shining Company, Prosper & Cynan, G, 761 words (Trick or Treat treat)
December
In Night's Cupped Palm | The Last Kingdom, Finan/Osferth, T, 1330 words
Correspondence | To Whatever (tiny crossover with The Thing in the Walls Wants Your Small Change), G, 1512 words (Yuletide)
Second Hand Rose | Trashy Vampire Romance Novel, T, 2144 words (Yuletide PH)
Scoundrels and Dragons | Strange the Dreamer, Thyon/Ruza, M, 4918 words (Yuletide treat)
My England, My Love | The Last Kingdom, Alfred, 1439 words (Yuletide treat)
The White Lady | The Witcher, Roach & Geralt, 2410 words (Yuletide treat)
A selection of meme questions - as usual, I've dropped a few from last year, and added a few I've seen around (or that occurred to me).
My favorite story this year:
This is always hard to choose! I love The White Lady, but that's partly because I just wrote it a few weeks ago, and my newer fics tend to be the ones I'm most gleeful over. But I also really love Under Unfamiliar Skies, because the crossover worldbuilding was nifty, and An Untangled Knot because I'm so proud of how it came out, and The Queen and the Empress because it's a pairing I adore, and A Small and Fluffy Apprentice (Meow [re-]Mix) because Shale is the best. Um, I guess they are all my favorite.
Most popular story:
By hits, kudos, and bookmarks, it's The Queen and the Empress, though I'm dubious about how to measure popularity in one year since obviously stories posted early in the year have more time to accrue these things. By comment threads it's the much-later-posted An Untangled Knot.
This inspired me to check the stats of the stories I wrote last year. I wrote then: By both hits and kudos, and as a tie by bookmarks, it's A Fiend in Need, which possibly not coincidentally is my only E-rated story this year....By comment threads it's The Pirate and the Mermaid. And these statistics maintain, except that now "Fiend" is fully ahead by bookmarks, too. But also, I have been tracking kudos since July 2018, and in those six months to December, "Fiend" received 22 kudos while "Pirate" received 36. At the moment, for 2017 stories, they are separated by 39 kudos, so maybe in a few years "Pirate" will pull ahead. I checked for recent comments, and both stories got two new comments in 2018, so their relative positioning by that metric holds.
In terms of overall popularity, none of these stories come close to my top five, which have remained firmly at the top for many years. "Fiend" is my 25th most kudosed work, and "Pirate" is my 34th; my most popular story this year, "The Queen and the Empress" is already at #31, so maybe next year it will surpass both of those.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
The Path I Fear to Tread (Justice!Anders/F!Hawke noncon) has probably the worst kudos/hits ratio of anything I've ever written, let alone this year, with 16 kudos and 954 hits, and one comment each from the recipient and from a friend of mine who had initially thought it was a different fandom! This is rape written from the (possessed, unwilling-but-reluctantly-enjoying) rapist's POV, and while I found it hot, and the recipient apparently liked it, very few other people did.
Most misunderstood story: (Because last year I had a 'most controversial story' but there's nothing remotely controversial this year.)
I wrote Don't say I never did anything for you with the idea that Iorveth was affected by the canonical succubus-paralysis, and then Geralt was affected by her secretions on Iorveth, but from the comments it was apparent that I didn't make it clear.
Most fun to write:
The White Lady, because NOIR ROACH.
Hardest to write:
An Untangled Knot because IAMBIC PENTAMETER. Each line, each word took long, careful thought.
tazlet was an amazing beta over multiple drafts and helped immeasurably.
Easiest to write:
Second Hand Rose flowed pretty quickly, possibly because I had just binged the source and had an immediate idea in mind. (Good thing when it's a short-deadline late pinch hit!)
Biggest disappointment:
That I didn't finish the gift fic I've been casually working on since this summer in time to post it before Yuletide.
Biggest surprise:
Being inspired to write my only non-exchange fic of the year for a pairing I had never even thought about until the episode which inspired it. (I miss that kind of thing, where inspiration grabs me hard and that's the only thing I can think about until I write the damn story!)
Favorite title:
Don't Kiln the Messenger (he's already dead), because bad puns are the best. (Last year it was "A Fiend in Need", year before it was "Blood Imari." I really like bad puns, okay.)
Favorite opening line:
It was on the third night of Cynan’s fever, as he tossed in the bed made for him in the women’s house at Dyn Eidin and muttered words that I could not make out, that his eyes flew open and he looked at me; but his eyes were wild and searching, and I did not think it was me that he saw. (by the white levin-light of the moon)
Favorite closing line:
You can choose the end of your story, and I will help you write it. What happens after that is up to you. (After the End of the Story (A Twice-Told Tale Remix) )
Favorite line from anywhere:
VIOLA: Since my name is yours, but lacking an ‘I’
That letter shall leave you, and bid you good-bye.
(An Untangled Knot)
Did I write more, less, or about what I'd expected?
More, because I felt a little burnt out on exchanges last year and deliberately signed up for fewer - but then I ended up writing pinch hits and treats, so.
Pairing/genre/fandom that I wrote that I would never have predicted in January?
I had never even encountered the "tgchan quest" type of fandom before I googled it for a pinch hit, so I certainly would not have predicted I'd write Trashy Vampire Romance Novel.
Story that could have been better?
I think Scoundrels and Dragons would have benefited from a longer, slower process than writing for a Yuletide treat with a last-minute beta-read (due to difficulty finding someone who knew the canon), after I'd returned the second book to the library. (It would have been a much, much longer story, and more of an ensemble even with the pairing.)
Writing risks this year, and lessons learned:
Not so much risks as venturing into different formats. I wrote a drabble in verse (The Tale of Brave Ser Pounce-a-lot) and a Shakespeare pastiche in script format (An Untangled Knot), a story in present tense with past-tense flashbacks (The Queen and the Empress), an epistolary story presented as a translation with footnotes (Correspondence), and two stories told by a narrator-character (Wolf at the Door (Friend of the Devil Remix) and After the End of the Story (A Twice-Told Tale Remix)). I think my writing (format, genre, style, tense, POV) was more varied this year than it has been in the past. Maybe that's a good thing? Certainly it's a good exercise.
Leitmotif of the year and the story that demonstrates it the best:
I spent four weeks at the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018 completely out of my comfort zone, dealing with my parents' health issues. I don't know if that's the reason, or if it's just that it made me notice these things, but this year, it seems, most of my stories are about people outside their comfort zones. Ciri trying to learn to be an empress, Jean dealing with Locke in a dress, Lirael and Sam figuring out how to build a Charter-enclosing Wall, Thyon fighting off a dragon. And the story that demonstrates it the best is Under Unfamiliar Skies, as Geralt lands in an entirely unfamiliar world where he doesn't even speak the language.
My writing plans from last year's post, and how they panned out:
Last year I mentioned that I wanted to finish the Ciri/Cerys story I was writing for a pinch hitter and post it as a NYR, and I did (The Queen and the Empress). I also mentioned bits of other Witcher stories, and...I don't think I've done anything with them. I also said I wanted to find a new, more active fandom - I don't think I really have - and that I would try to write more than one non-exchange story, at which I failed miserably!
What's next for 2019?
I've got 7k words of a Ciri/Cerys story for
leyna based on the beautiful artwork she made for me in Yuletide Madness 2017, and I'd sure like to finish it. I plan on trying to sign up for fewer exchanges, but writing treats and pinch hits, as that worked out well for me this year. I don't really have any ambitious ideas or new exciting fandoms, but I'm not ruling anything out!
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As in 2017, The Witcher was my main fandom of the year, with six stories, two of which are grounded in the second game (new to me this year) and four of which are grounded in the third game. I wrote five stories for the Dragon Age games: two set in Origins, one in Awakening, and two in Dragon Age II. (DA is sort-of-new to me; last year I wrote a Witcher crossover in which different sections took place in different fandom worlds, and one section was set on Thedas and involved pre-DA:O Isabela.) I wrote two stories each for the Gentleman Bastard Sequence and The Last Kingdom, and the rest of my stories were in singular (for the year) fandoms.
Continuing the trend of the last many years, all stories but one were written for fanwork exchanges. I didn't sign up for as many exchanges in 2018 as I did in 2017, but I picked up pinch hits and/or wrote treats for several exchanges I didn't sign up for. The only new-to-me exchange I signed up for this year was the Worldbuilding Exchange, but I wrote a treat for Smut Swap and a pinch hit for Nonconathon, neither of which I had participated in before.
Statistics:
stories: 26
fandoms: 16-22
new-to-me-fandoms: 8-15
crossovers: 3
fusions: 0
AUs: 1 setting, 2 canon divergence
exchange stories: 25
remixes: 5
Last year I wrote just one remix; this year I picked up two pinch hits and also wrote Madness remix treats. This year I wrote a Noir AU, last year I wrote a Space AU, but AU stories are Altogether Unusual for me, not counting canon divergence.
gen: 13
het: 1
m/m: 6
f/f: 5 (including one f/f/f)
other: 1 (though with m/m elements)
This is the fifth year in a row that a plurality of my stories are gen, but I've broken my 2-year streak of more f/f than m/m. (On the other hand, all three years the numbers of f/f and m/m differed by only one, so statistically it's probably more accurate to say I write about the same amount of f/f and m/m.) Only one het story this year, which is a marked decrease from last year.
G rated: 11
T rated: 9
M rated: 3
E rated: 3
This is a significant increase in porn content for me over last year, which had one story each M and E rated.
drabbles (100 words exactly, I will die on that hill): 3, of which two were for MFDE and one for Remix Madness
ficlets (under 1000 words, excluding drabbles): 4
short stories (1001-10,000 words): 19
My longest story this year was 9369 words ("Under Unfamiliar Skies").
Most of my stories were in past tense and third person, as usual, but this year I wrote more in first person and in present tense than usual, as well as a lot of stylistically unusual stories. It's hard to separate them out, so I'll write more about this below in the meme-question section.
By AO3 stats for 2018: 58,091 words written, 628 kudos received, 103 comment threads, 56 bookmarks, and 6671 hits. Other than the wordcount, all of these are less than they were last year, so I must be doing something wrong! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I have more to say about popularity stats below, since I have been recording comments since last January and kudos since July.
Monthly list, with links:
February
Small Secrets | Aubrey-Maturin series, Clarissa/Diana, G, 776 words (Chocolate Box PH)
March
The Queen and the Empress | The Witcher, Ciri/Cerys, M, 5129 words (NYR gift for pinch-hitter)
The Destroyer's Legacy | Old Kingdom, G, 2498 words (Worldbuilding exchange)
April
Tentacle Show | Gentleman Bastards, Locke/Tentacle Monster, Locke/Jean, E (noncon and bestiality), 3868 words (Smut Swap treat)
May
Walk Together Where We May | The Mark of the Horse Lord, Conory/Midir, G, 1754 words (Sutcliff Swap)
July
The Path I Fear to Tread | Dragon Age II, E (noncon), Justice!Anders/F!Hawke, 3704 words (Nonconathon PH)
Going Viral | Octopuses (anthropomorphic), G, 100 words (Multifandom Drabble)
The Tale of Brave Ser Pounce-a-lot | Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, G, 100 words (Multifandom Drabble treat)
September
Corsets and Con Games (Devil in a Blue Dress Mix) | Gentleman Bastards, Locke/Jean, T, 3598 words (Remix)
Wolf at the Door (Friend of the Devil Remix) | Dire Wolf (song), T, 1165 words (Remix PH)
After the End of the Story (A Twice-Told Tale Remix) | Fairy Tales, Snow White/Beauty, M, 1884 words (Remix PH)
Don't Kiln the Messenger (he's already dead) | Magnus Chase, ensemble, G, 100 words (Remix Madness treat)
A Small and Fluffy Apprentice (Meow [re-]Mix) | Dragon Age: Origins, Shale, G, 966 words (Remix Madness treat)
October
Under Unfamiliar Skies | Witcher/Dragon Age:Origins, Geralt & Zevran, T, 9369 words (Crossovering PH)
When a Plan Works Out | Dragon Age II, F!Hawke/Isabela/Merrill, T, 2029 words (Femslash Exchange)
An Untangled Knot | Twelfth Night, Olivia/Viola, T, 1094 words (Femslash Exchange PH)
Don't say I never did anything for you | The Witcher, Geralt/Iorveth, E (dubious consent), 1475 words (Trick or Treat)
Reaching an Understanding | The Witcher, Iorveth & Roche & Ves, G, 910 words (Trick or Treat treat)
Assassins of Kings | The Witcher, Geralt & Sabrina Glevissig, T, 2058 words (Trick or Treat treat)
by the white levin-light of the moon | The Shining Company, Prosper & Cynan, G, 761 words (Trick or Treat treat)
December
In Night's Cupped Palm | The Last Kingdom, Finan/Osferth, T, 1330 words
Correspondence | To Whatever (tiny crossover with The Thing in the Walls Wants Your Small Change), G, 1512 words (Yuletide)
Second Hand Rose | Trashy Vampire Romance Novel, T, 2144 words (Yuletide PH)
Scoundrels and Dragons | Strange the Dreamer, Thyon/Ruza, M, 4918 words (Yuletide treat)
My England, My Love | The Last Kingdom, Alfred, 1439 words (Yuletide treat)
The White Lady | The Witcher, Roach & Geralt, 2410 words (Yuletide treat)
A selection of meme questions - as usual, I've dropped a few from last year, and added a few I've seen around (or that occurred to me).
My favorite story this year:
This is always hard to choose! I love The White Lady, but that's partly because I just wrote it a few weeks ago, and my newer fics tend to be the ones I'm most gleeful over. But I also really love Under Unfamiliar Skies, because the crossover worldbuilding was nifty, and An Untangled Knot because I'm so proud of how it came out, and The Queen and the Empress because it's a pairing I adore, and A Small and Fluffy Apprentice (Meow [re-]Mix) because Shale is the best. Um, I guess they are all my favorite.
Most popular story:
By hits, kudos, and bookmarks, it's The Queen and the Empress, though I'm dubious about how to measure popularity in one year since obviously stories posted early in the year have more time to accrue these things. By comment threads it's the much-later-posted An Untangled Knot.
This inspired me to check the stats of the stories I wrote last year. I wrote then: By both hits and kudos, and as a tie by bookmarks, it's A Fiend in Need, which possibly not coincidentally is my only E-rated story this year....By comment threads it's The Pirate and the Mermaid. And these statistics maintain, except that now "Fiend" is fully ahead by bookmarks, too. But also, I have been tracking kudos since July 2018, and in those six months to December, "Fiend" received 22 kudos while "Pirate" received 36. At the moment, for 2017 stories, they are separated by 39 kudos, so maybe in a few years "Pirate" will pull ahead. I checked for recent comments, and both stories got two new comments in 2018, so their relative positioning by that metric holds.
In terms of overall popularity, none of these stories come close to my top five, which have remained firmly at the top for many years. "Fiend" is my 25th most kudosed work, and "Pirate" is my 34th; my most popular story this year, "The Queen and the Empress" is already at #31, so maybe next year it will surpass both of those.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
The Path I Fear to Tread (Justice!Anders/F!Hawke noncon) has probably the worst kudos/hits ratio of anything I've ever written, let alone this year, with 16 kudos and 954 hits, and one comment each from the recipient and from a friend of mine who had initially thought it was a different fandom! This is rape written from the (possessed, unwilling-but-reluctantly-enjoying) rapist's POV, and while I found it hot, and the recipient apparently liked it, very few other people did.
Most misunderstood story: (Because last year I had a 'most controversial story' but there's nothing remotely controversial this year.)
I wrote Don't say I never did anything for you with the idea that Iorveth was affected by the canonical succubus-paralysis, and then Geralt was affected by her secretions on Iorveth, but from the comments it was apparent that I didn't make it clear.
Most fun to write:
The White Lady, because NOIR ROACH.
Hardest to write:
An Untangled Knot because IAMBIC PENTAMETER. Each line, each word took long, careful thought.
tazlet was an amazing beta over multiple drafts and helped immeasurably.
Easiest to write:
Second Hand Rose flowed pretty quickly, possibly because I had just binged the source and had an immediate idea in mind. (Good thing when it's a short-deadline late pinch hit!)
Biggest disappointment:
That I didn't finish the gift fic I've been casually working on since this summer in time to post it before Yuletide.
Biggest surprise:
Being inspired to write my only non-exchange fic of the year for a pairing I had never even thought about until the episode which inspired it. (I miss that kind of thing, where inspiration grabs me hard and that's the only thing I can think about until I write the damn story!)
Favorite title:
Don't Kiln the Messenger (he's already dead), because bad puns are the best. (Last year it was "A Fiend in Need", year before it was "Blood Imari." I really like bad puns, okay.)
Favorite opening line:
It was on the third night of Cynan’s fever, as he tossed in the bed made for him in the women’s house at Dyn Eidin and muttered words that I could not make out, that his eyes flew open and he looked at me; but his eyes were wild and searching, and I did not think it was me that he saw. (by the white levin-light of the moon)
Favorite closing line:
You can choose the end of your story, and I will help you write it. What happens after that is up to you. (After the End of the Story (A Twice-Told Tale Remix) )
Favorite line from anywhere:
VIOLA: Since my name is yours, but lacking an ‘I’
That letter shall leave you, and bid you good-bye.
(An Untangled Knot)
Did I write more, less, or about what I'd expected?
More, because I felt a little burnt out on exchanges last year and deliberately signed up for fewer - but then I ended up writing pinch hits and treats, so.
Pairing/genre/fandom that I wrote that I would never have predicted in January?
I had never even encountered the "tgchan quest" type of fandom before I googled it for a pinch hit, so I certainly would not have predicted I'd write Trashy Vampire Romance Novel.
Story that could have been better?
I think Scoundrels and Dragons would have benefited from a longer, slower process than writing for a Yuletide treat with a last-minute beta-read (due to difficulty finding someone who knew the canon), after I'd returned the second book to the library. (It would have been a much, much longer story, and more of an ensemble even with the pairing.)
Writing risks this year, and lessons learned:
Not so much risks as venturing into different formats. I wrote a drabble in verse (The Tale of Brave Ser Pounce-a-lot) and a Shakespeare pastiche in script format (An Untangled Knot), a story in present tense with past-tense flashbacks (The Queen and the Empress), an epistolary story presented as a translation with footnotes (Correspondence), and two stories told by a narrator-character (Wolf at the Door (Friend of the Devil Remix) and After the End of the Story (A Twice-Told Tale Remix)). I think my writing (format, genre, style, tense, POV) was more varied this year than it has been in the past. Maybe that's a good thing? Certainly it's a good exercise.
Leitmotif of the year and the story that demonstrates it the best:
I spent four weeks at the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018 completely out of my comfort zone, dealing with my parents' health issues. I don't know if that's the reason, or if it's just that it made me notice these things, but this year, it seems, most of my stories are about people outside their comfort zones. Ciri trying to learn to be an empress, Jean dealing with Locke in a dress, Lirael and Sam figuring out how to build a Charter-enclosing Wall, Thyon fighting off a dragon. And the story that demonstrates it the best is Under Unfamiliar Skies, as Geralt lands in an entirely unfamiliar world where he doesn't even speak the language.
My writing plans from last year's post, and how they panned out:
Last year I mentioned that I wanted to finish the Ciri/Cerys story I was writing for a pinch hitter and post it as a NYR, and I did (The Queen and the Empress). I also mentioned bits of other Witcher stories, and...I don't think I've done anything with them. I also said I wanted to find a new, more active fandom - I don't think I really have - and that I would try to write more than one non-exchange story, at which I failed miserably!
What's next for 2019?
I've got 7k words of a Ciri/Cerys story for
leyna based on the beautiful artwork she made for me in Yuletide Madness 2017, and I'd sure like to finish it. I plan on trying to sign up for fewer exchanges, but writing treats and pinch hits, as that worked out well for me this year. I don't really have any ambitious ideas or new exciting fandoms, but I'm not ruling anything out!
Crossposted from isis at Dreamwidth where there are
comments. | Comment at Dreamwidth