2012 year-end fanfic summary type thing
Going to be gone all day tomorrow and probably a lot of Sunday, so getting this out now. It's the annual year-end fanfic summary type thing!
I wrote and posted 97,802 words of fanfic this year. That breaks down into 29 stories (including all drabbles and commentfic except for those not!fic prompts and the handwritten meme). All but five stories were written for prompts - but the unprompted stories made up over half of the wordcount, so that's practically all of the long ones. This was the year that I wrote ridiculously long stories that no one especially wanted except me, including the Clint/Natasha/Bruce epic with extended Dr. Doom interlude, the Moran/Moriarty based around a behaviorist experiment, and the fluffy consent-heavy Teen Wolf heat fic. It was awesome!
Out of the prompted stories, 5 were best_enemies drabbles, 11 were for yuletide, 3 were for other exchanges, 2 were for the best_enemies anonmeme, and 3 were for other anonmemes. I've now officially caught up on deanoning and kind of stalled out on anonmemes in general, which is kind of sad. (And I'm still not counting my radiosonic script, since that isn't out for consumption yet. Someday it will vastly inflate my wordcount for one of these posts and I will rejoice.)
All told, it's about 220 words more and 6 stories less than last year. The story count is down because of my dry spell with anonmemes - the word count stayed about constant because I was writing some seriously long fic this year. I've felt like the ideas I've been getting have generally been mid to longfic recently, though I did write some shorter fic for Yuletide. Hm. Finally, my Doctor Who word count continued to drop, as it has every year - this year I wrote 31,479 words for Who and 66,323 for other fandoms. Almost all of my Who fic happened because of fests like remix, Gallifreyathon, and the femslash exchange. It does feel like lot of my ideas are happening in other canons. Maybe I'll return to Who fic next year - I'm planning to participate in all the same exchanges, so.
Last year I answered some meme-type questions, so I'll do them again this year:
Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?
I wrote more than I thought! I've been super busy, and it's kind of bizarre that I've racked up this wordcount while simultaneously writing my undergraduate thesis and then doing grad school essays. I think the secret is that I write in order to wind down from writing, or to procrastinate instead of writing. Like I said, bizarre.
Where did you publish/archive your stories?
I started doing the crosspost from dreamwidth thing this year, I think? And I've been posting to AO3 a lot more, generally simultaneous with the LJ post. This is because I am both in strange fandoms (and LJ comms are getting harder to find and less active), and because I've been writing longer fics (which are more of a pain to post on LJ). I also announced a couple fics to tumblr, but I'm still not sure about that.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?
I was not expecting to write fucked-up explicit slash for the Alanna series of the Tortall books.
What’s your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.
Man, this question is hard. I think The Very Model makes me happiest, because it turned out almost exactly like I wanted it to. Pirates!
Okay, NOW your most popular story.
Definitely Travelogue (aforementioned Bruce/Clint/Natasha epic). Niche pairing, but Avengers was definitely the giant movie fandom of the summer, so I'm not especially surprised.
Story most under appreciated by the universe?
I still feel appreciated! I don't think there's a single story I wrote which got ignored, which makes me feel very lucky.
Story that could have been better?
Alllll of them. But I'm singling out Gearbox this year, because something about that didn't quite click and I still don't know what it was.
Sexiest story?
Last year I said Operator, Operator; because it is full of sex. This year my full of sex story is It'll Be All Right! This makes the question easy. I don't know which story has more sex scenes, hold on - I'm going to say five for Operator, Operator (being generous), and five for It'll Be All Right too. Apparently I have a pattern.
Incidentally, I got my favorite comment this year on It'll Be All Right. Someone posted a link to the fic on a group anon pinboard account (I guess that's a thing?) and this conversation happened:
Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Chris Argent/Derek Hale
Vernon Boyd/Derek Hale/Isaac Lahey/Erica Reyes
Allison Argent/Derek Hale/Scott McCall
Alan Deaton/Derek Hale
Derek Hale/Ms Morell
Bobby Finstock/Derek Hale
Derek Hale/Melissa McCall
Vernon Boyd/Erica Reyes/Stiles Stiliski
Derek Hale/Danny Mahealani/Lydia Martin/Jackson Whittemore
DDDDDDDDDDD:
-500 WORDS, Y/Y?
-N, IT'S 12K.
Ahahaha. 2012 summary - following through on absurd gigantic pairing lists.
Anyway.
Most fun story?
Keep Your Head down, which was ridic fun to have written and to edit. I like velociraptors and media personalities, I guess.
Hardest story to write?
Gearbox was a grind. I suspect that's why it didn't feel quite right when it was done.
Easiest story to write?
Parry Riposte, because writing innuendo about fencing is the easiest thing in the world. And I stole a line from By the Sword. I can't believe I can't get the actual long fencing fic off the ground.
Most overdue story?
I started writing Paean in winter of 2010, I think? And then I had it betaed while I was still in Germany, so the summer of 2011, and then I finally posted it in January 2012. It's not even 4,000 words long. What the heck.
I gave my brother a fic for beta last summer and still haven't gotten it back. I should harass him about that now that his college apps are in.
Meanwhile, I still haven't responded to a Sherlock request someone made on one of my memes in 2011, and since I have fallen out with Sherlock (except for Moran, who isn't even on the show), I think I'm going to release myself from that one. Oh well.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
I continued to experiment with structure, though I suspect that I'm the only one who's noticed. and I wrote a lot of unfamiliar fandoms! Otherwise it's been a generally unrisky year, and I've learned very little, haha.
Do you have any fanfic goals for the New Year?
Keep feeling appreciated! Keep signing up for fests. Write more Who? Maybe just get some of my perennial WIPs done, I hauled some of them out of my documents and onto my desktop in the hopes that I will actually write them.
Last year I said I would try to do more drabbles and anonmeme prompts, and that totally didn't happen at all. But I also resolved not to be surprised when I ended up writing an absurdly long fic for a new fandom, and I have been successfully unsurprised :)
And, as aforementioned - ringing in the new year with 11k of a historical AU. I feel like I'm returning to my roots... This entry was originally posted at http://neveralarch.dreamwidth.org/55460.html. Comment wherever you want.
I wrote and posted 97,802 words of fanfic this year. That breaks down into 29 stories (including all drabbles and commentfic except for those not!fic prompts and the handwritten meme). All but five stories were written for prompts - but the unprompted stories made up over half of the wordcount, so that's practically all of the long ones. This was the year that I wrote ridiculously long stories that no one especially wanted except me, including the Clint/Natasha/Bruce epic with extended Dr. Doom interlude, the Moran/Moriarty based around a behaviorist experiment, and the fluffy consent-heavy Teen Wolf heat fic. It was awesome!
Out of the prompted stories, 5 were best_enemies drabbles, 11 were for yuletide, 3 were for other exchanges, 2 were for the best_enemies anonmeme, and 3 were for other anonmemes. I've now officially caught up on deanoning and kind of stalled out on anonmemes in general, which is kind of sad. (And I'm still not counting my radiosonic script, since that isn't out for consumption yet. Someday it will vastly inflate my wordcount for one of these posts and I will rejoice.)
All told, it's about 220 words more and 6 stories less than last year. The story count is down because of my dry spell with anonmemes - the word count stayed about constant because I was writing some seriously long fic this year. I've felt like the ideas I've been getting have generally been mid to longfic recently, though I did write some shorter fic for Yuletide. Hm. Finally, my Doctor Who word count continued to drop, as it has every year - this year I wrote 31,479 words for Who and 66,323 for other fandoms. Almost all of my Who fic happened because of fests like remix, Gallifreyathon, and the femslash exchange. It does feel like lot of my ideas are happening in other canons. Maybe I'll return to Who fic next year - I'm planning to participate in all the same exchanges, so.
Last year I answered some meme-type questions, so I'll do them again this year:
Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?
I wrote more than I thought! I've been super busy, and it's kind of bizarre that I've racked up this wordcount while simultaneously writing my undergraduate thesis and then doing grad school essays. I think the secret is that I write in order to wind down from writing, or to procrastinate instead of writing. Like I said, bizarre.
Where did you publish/archive your stories?
I started doing the crosspost from dreamwidth thing this year, I think? And I've been posting to AO3 a lot more, generally simultaneous with the LJ post. This is because I am both in strange fandoms (and LJ comms are getting harder to find and less active), and because I've been writing longer fics (which are more of a pain to post on LJ). I also announced a couple fics to tumblr, but I'm still not sure about that.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?
I was not expecting to write fucked-up explicit slash for the Alanna series of the Tortall books.
What’s your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.
Man, this question is hard. I think The Very Model makes me happiest, because it turned out almost exactly like I wanted it to. Pirates!
Okay, NOW your most popular story.
Definitely Travelogue (aforementioned Bruce/Clint/Natasha epic). Niche pairing, but Avengers was definitely the giant movie fandom of the summer, so I'm not especially surprised.
Story most under appreciated by the universe?
I still feel appreciated! I don't think there's a single story I wrote which got ignored, which makes me feel very lucky.
Story that could have been better?
Alllll of them. But I'm singling out Gearbox this year, because something about that didn't quite click and I still don't know what it was.
Sexiest story?
Last year I said Operator, Operator; because it is full of sex. This year my full of sex story is It'll Be All Right! This makes the question easy. I don't know which story has more sex scenes, hold on - I'm going to say five for Operator, Operator (being generous), and five for It'll Be All Right too. Apparently I have a pattern.
Incidentally, I got my favorite comment this year on It'll Be All Right. Someone posted a link to the fic on a group anon pinboard account (I guess that's a thing?) and this conversation happened:
Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Chris Argent/Derek Hale
Vernon Boyd/Derek Hale/Isaac Lahey/Erica Reyes
Allison Argent/Derek Hale/Scott McCall
Alan Deaton/Derek Hale
Derek Hale/Ms Morell
Bobby Finstock/Derek Hale
Derek Hale/Melissa McCall
Vernon Boyd/Erica Reyes/Stiles Stiliski
Derek Hale/Danny Mahealani/Lydia Martin/Jackson Whittemore
DDDDDDDDDDD:
-500 WORDS, Y/Y?
-N, IT'S 12K.
Ahahaha. 2012 summary - following through on absurd gigantic pairing lists.
Anyway.
Most fun story?
Keep Your Head down, which was ridic fun to have written and to edit. I like velociraptors and media personalities, I guess.
Hardest story to write?
Gearbox was a grind. I suspect that's why it didn't feel quite right when it was done.
Easiest story to write?
Parry Riposte, because writing innuendo about fencing is the easiest thing in the world. And I stole a line from By the Sword. I can't believe I can't get the actual long fencing fic off the ground.
Most overdue story?
I started writing Paean in winter of 2010, I think? And then I had it betaed while I was still in Germany, so the summer of 2011, and then I finally posted it in January 2012. It's not even 4,000 words long. What the heck.
I gave my brother a fic for beta last summer and still haven't gotten it back. I should harass him about that now that his college apps are in.
Meanwhile, I still haven't responded to a Sherlock request someone made on one of my memes in 2011, and since I have fallen out with Sherlock (except for Moran, who isn't even on the show), I think I'm going to release myself from that one. Oh well.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
I continued to experiment with structure, though I suspect that I'm the only one who's noticed. and I wrote a lot of unfamiliar fandoms! Otherwise it's been a generally unrisky year, and I've learned very little, haha.
Do you have any fanfic goals for the New Year?
Keep feeling appreciated! Keep signing up for fests. Write more Who? Maybe just get some of my perennial WIPs done, I hauled some of them out of my documents and onto my desktop in the hopes that I will actually write them.
Last year I said I would try to do more drabbles and anonmeme prompts, and that totally didn't happen at all. But I also resolved not to be surprised when I ended up writing an absurdly long fic for a new fandom, and I have been successfully unsurprised :)
And, as aforementioned - ringing in the new year with 11k of a historical AU. I feel like I'm returning to my roots... This entry was originally posted at http://neveralarch.dreamwidth.org/55460.html. Comment wherever you want.