2012 End of Year Fic Meme
Fear is the Brightest of Suns The Hunger Games - 12/22/12 - 4654 words
Wait. What? - The Hunger Games - 12/5/12 - 485 words
What Will Be Is What Was Is What Is - Battlestar Galactica - 11/13/12 - 713 words
Music of the Cosmos - Battlestar Galactica - 11/7/12 - 190 words
Patience - Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles - 10/31/12 - 266 words
Lions and Tigers and Bears! Oh, My! - The Hunger Games - 10/23/12 - 556 words
Never Get Used to It - The Hunger Games - 10/14/12 - 505 words
Victorious - The Hunger Games - 8/31/12 - 41,083 words
Be Careful What You Wish For - The Hunger Games - 5/30/12 - 1580 words
Winner Loser It’s All the Same - The Hunger Games - 5/25/12 - 369 words
Show Me What You’ve Got - Battlestar Galactica - 5/15/12 - 288 words
Making Progress - Battlestar Galactica - 5/3/12 - 803 words
Days Go By - The Hunger Games - 5/2/12 - 7370 words
The Salt Sea, Your Home - The Hunger Games - 4/20/12 - 938 words
I Want My Innocence Back - The Hunger Games - 4/11/12 - 762 words
Sea Tales - The Hunger Games - 4/10/12 - 506 words
This is For Me - Veronica Mars - 3/28/12 - 3290 words
License to Steal - The Hunger Games - 3/27/12 - 1878 words
This Might Sting - Farscape - 3/7/12 - 500 words
Treading Water - The Hunger Games - 1/8/12 - 185,913+ words (not quite finished, one more chapter to go)
Number of Fics Written: 20 fics in 5 fandoms
I’m fairly sure I’ve had years during which I’ve written a greater number of fics…
Total Number of Words Written: 252,346
…but equally, I’m dead certain I’ve never written this many words before, and the majority of them were in two fics. O_O
My Favorite Story of the Year: Treading Water
I set out to write something that I would like to read. Given that I actually started breaking the story late in 2011, when I go back through and read it now, I think I succeeded. Parts of it, the phrasing is burned into my brain, but other parts are like, I wrote that? Huh. I don’t remember. :P
My Best Story of the Year: Treading Water
See above. Also, I didn’t really set out to rewrite Catching Fire. It just worked out that way.
Funniest Story: This Might Sting or Wait. What?
Crichton being a baby while Zhaan stitches up a cut vs. Beetee and Enobaria the morning after. I don’t know. They’re both pretty funny. Wait. What? might just edge out the competition, though.
Sexiest Story: Treading Water
I think this fic works for “sexiest” in the sexual content sense of the word as well as in the less prurient, more thoughtful definition. There are several steamy scenes, but in a lot of ways, I think the little bits of backstory, the character moments are even sexier.
Story With the Single Sexiest Moment: Fear is the Brightest of Suns
I’m not sure my execution of that moment is as good as it could have been, but re-reading it makes me blush. O_O
Holy crap, that's wrong even for you! Story: I Want My Innocence Back
I think this may be the only story I’ve written (and AO3 tells me I’ve written 195) over the year in which the protagonist, the hero of the story, cold-bloodedly commits murder. But it fit and I’m not sorry in the least.
Story That Shifted My Own Perceptions of the Characters: Treading Water
Writing this cemented my views on Finnick, but Annie? She became a full-blown person to me in writing this story, something that becomes apparent when you compare the notes for the whole fic to the actual story. Annie is so much more in the story than she was in my head when I first jotted down my notes and story guidelines and she became a lot easier to write after chapter 6, which is the first time the fic took an unexpected turn on me. In fact, every time that’s happened, it’s been Annie doing what she wanted to do rather than what I wanted her to do. I love when that happens.
Hardest Story To Write: Fear is the Brightest of Suns
I’ve never written what could be considered a “kink” before, so that was new and kind of difficult. For one thing, I don’t know much about bondage, so there was research that had to be done, however superficial it may have been. I wanted it to be believable and I wanted to not inadvertently offend anyone who’s into bondage who might read it. But it also involves characters who are dealing with various types of PTSD and with prolonged sexual abuse, so that was difficult, too. Kind of a tightrope act (no pun intended). The reading I did for those aspects was a lot harder to deal with than it was for the so-called kink, I might add.
Biggest Disappointment: Victorious (but not the way you might think)
I love Victorious, but it’s not what it was meant to be because I had too many things going on at the same time and I left starting it too long, so there was no way I could finish the whole story before the Big Bang deadline. As it is, even though it does have an ending (as opposed to just coming to an abrupt stop), it’s not the whole story. One of my hopes/goals for 2013 is to write Rebellious and finish the story of the second rebellion of the districts of Panem. And that’s the one where Pirate Annie gets her frakking parrot, damn it.
Biggest Surprise: Treading Water and Fear is the Brightest of Suns
TW surprises me in so many ways: it’s length, the fact that I’m not bored writing it, the way it tells its own story within the framework of what Suzanne Collins set up in Catching Fire, how much Finnick and Annie both came to life for me. Fear surprises me in that I wrote it at all, since it’s way outside my comfort zone. Heck. The next thing you know, I’ll be writing slash. O_O
Most Unintentionally Telling Story: Fear is the Brightest of Suns
I have some issues of my own that I kind of called on in writing this fic. But I have no intention of going into them here. Sorry.
Wait. What? - The Hunger Games - 12/5/12 - 485 words
What Will Be Is What Was Is What Is - Battlestar Galactica - 11/13/12 - 713 words
Music of the Cosmos - Battlestar Galactica - 11/7/12 - 190 words
Patience - Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles - 10/31/12 - 266 words
Lions and Tigers and Bears! Oh, My! - The Hunger Games - 10/23/12 - 556 words
Never Get Used to It - The Hunger Games - 10/14/12 - 505 words
Victorious - The Hunger Games - 8/31/12 - 41,083 words
Be Careful What You Wish For - The Hunger Games - 5/30/12 - 1580 words
Winner Loser It’s All the Same - The Hunger Games - 5/25/12 - 369 words
Show Me What You’ve Got - Battlestar Galactica - 5/15/12 - 288 words
Making Progress - Battlestar Galactica - 5/3/12 - 803 words
Days Go By - The Hunger Games - 5/2/12 - 7370 words
The Salt Sea, Your Home - The Hunger Games - 4/20/12 - 938 words
I Want My Innocence Back - The Hunger Games - 4/11/12 - 762 words
Sea Tales - The Hunger Games - 4/10/12 - 506 words
This is For Me - Veronica Mars - 3/28/12 - 3290 words
License to Steal - The Hunger Games - 3/27/12 - 1878 words
This Might Sting - Farscape - 3/7/12 - 500 words
Treading Water - The Hunger Games - 1/8/12 - 185,913+ words (not quite finished, one more chapter to go)
Number of Fics Written: 20 fics in 5 fandoms
I’m fairly sure I’ve had years during which I’ve written a greater number of fics…
Total Number of Words Written: 252,346
…but equally, I’m dead certain I’ve never written this many words before, and the majority of them were in two fics. O_O
My Favorite Story of the Year: Treading Water
I set out to write something that I would like to read. Given that I actually started breaking the story late in 2011, when I go back through and read it now, I think I succeeded. Parts of it, the phrasing is burned into my brain, but other parts are like, I wrote that? Huh. I don’t remember. :P
My Best Story of the Year: Treading Water
See above. Also, I didn’t really set out to rewrite Catching Fire. It just worked out that way.
Funniest Story: This Might Sting or Wait. What?
Crichton being a baby while Zhaan stitches up a cut vs. Beetee and Enobaria the morning after. I don’t know. They’re both pretty funny. Wait. What? might just edge out the competition, though.
Sexiest Story: Treading Water
I think this fic works for “sexiest” in the sexual content sense of the word as well as in the less prurient, more thoughtful definition. There are several steamy scenes, but in a lot of ways, I think the little bits of backstory, the character moments are even sexier.
Story With the Single Sexiest Moment: Fear is the Brightest of Suns
I’m not sure my execution of that moment is as good as it could have been, but re-reading it makes me blush. O_O
Holy crap, that's wrong even for you! Story: I Want My Innocence Back
I think this may be the only story I’ve written (and AO3 tells me I’ve written 195) over the year in which the protagonist, the hero of the story, cold-bloodedly commits murder. But it fit and I’m not sorry in the least.
Story That Shifted My Own Perceptions of the Characters: Treading Water
Writing this cemented my views on Finnick, but Annie? She became a full-blown person to me in writing this story, something that becomes apparent when you compare the notes for the whole fic to the actual story. Annie is so much more in the story than she was in my head when I first jotted down my notes and story guidelines and she became a lot easier to write after chapter 6, which is the first time the fic took an unexpected turn on me. In fact, every time that’s happened, it’s been Annie doing what she wanted to do rather than what I wanted her to do. I love when that happens.
Hardest Story To Write: Fear is the Brightest of Suns
I’ve never written what could be considered a “kink” before, so that was new and kind of difficult. For one thing, I don’t know much about bondage, so there was research that had to be done, however superficial it may have been. I wanted it to be believable and I wanted to not inadvertently offend anyone who’s into bondage who might read it. But it also involves characters who are dealing with various types of PTSD and with prolonged sexual abuse, so that was difficult, too. Kind of a tightrope act (no pun intended). The reading I did for those aspects was a lot harder to deal with than it was for the so-called kink, I might add.
Biggest Disappointment: Victorious (but not the way you might think)
I love Victorious, but it’s not what it was meant to be because I had too many things going on at the same time and I left starting it too long, so there was no way I could finish the whole story before the Big Bang deadline. As it is, even though it does have an ending (as opposed to just coming to an abrupt stop), it’s not the whole story. One of my hopes/goals for 2013 is to write Rebellious and finish the story of the second rebellion of the districts of Panem. And that’s the one where Pirate Annie gets her frakking parrot, damn it.
Biggest Surprise: Treading Water and Fear is the Brightest of Suns
TW surprises me in so many ways: it’s length, the fact that I’m not bored writing it, the way it tells its own story within the framework of what Suzanne Collins set up in Catching Fire, how much Finnick and Annie both came to life for me. Fear surprises me in that I wrote it at all, since it’s way outside my comfort zone. Heck. The next thing you know, I’ll be writing slash. O_O
Most Unintentionally Telling Story: Fear is the Brightest of Suns
I have some issues of my own that I kind of called on in writing this fic. But I have no intention of going into them here. Sorry.