i shouldn't have done that. in hindsight.
um, holy sweet goodness. would you believe that i wrote just over 33,000 words this year? no? because, honestly, i can't myself. i came up with six full-blown pieces and five meme fills. oh, and there is a good 10,000 words of wips/nonsense (arsenal vampire crack!au, anyone? usmnt college au? dear lord) still sitting on my hard-drive. it's crazy, i tell you! so, here's what i wrote:
the curator's house (criminal minds, morgan/reid)
talk, you (cm, morgan/reid)
never never ever never (cm, reid/lila)
bread and butter (cm, morgan/reid)
bird through the wire (cm, morgan/reid)
logically/ideally (cm rpf, lola/mgg)
axe & string (football rpf, schweinsteiger/poldolski/oezil)
the right kind (football, schweinsteiger/oezil/neuer)
slosh around loose (football, ramsey/bendtner)
suitcase (football, maldini/inzaghi)
i could be your man (star trek xi rpf + heroes, chris/zach)
best story bird through the wire (cm, morgan/reid), for sure. it's got nothing to do with the fact that it's the longest fic that i've actually posted, but i actually managed to accomplish exactly what i had set out to do from the start. i wanted to write a peter gunn-esque sort of story. i've tried to write a noir au a few times while in bandom, but nothing ever came together. this fandom gave me the opportunity. i got to take a component from the show itself and mix it up with the imagery of some of my favourite films. and as much as i understand that reid's mother is a big part of his character (and i love that she makes him human), i got to take a break from writing her into his life. but mostly, i just got to write about detectives and hitmen and other clichéd staples of film-making in the 1930s and onward. and it seems to have worked.
favorite story slosh around loose (football, ramsey/bendtner). oh, man. this came out of nowhere. i'm actually pretty surprised that i ended up writing about arsenal in my first non-anon story for the football fandom. i got to combine two of my favourite things in fic: first-times and awkward, teenage behaviour. and i got to pair him up (logically!) with a person that i perceive as a total sweetheart. i wish i wrote more stories like this one. or, maybe just more stories about arsenal. either way, i loved writing this.
story most underappreciated by the universe in my opinion ahahah. hm, if we're looking at comments, i get the same number of comments on most of my fics (which, hi, readers! thank you for leaving awesome feedback!). so, that's no help. maybe suitcase (football, maldini/inzaghi). but, it's sort of expected. ac milan and its older/retired players aren't at the forefront of the football fandom. i liked what i did here. paolo is difficult to write and, although i don't think my characterisation is perfect, i think i managed to take him in the right direction. *nods*
what pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in january? UM, HOW ABOUT ALL OF THE ONES I WROTE THIS YEAR? no, really. i can't express enough how much cm terrified the life out of me when i first started watching it. plus, i was never all that into tv fandoms, especially coming from a huge, sprawling rpf fandom beforehand. the entire team is endearing and it's easy to create your own cases and situations to throw them in. kidnapping!fic actually makes sense here! and, like, star trek? never in a million freakin' years did i think i would even watch the movie, let alone write TOTALLY RIDICULOUS fic about its two leads. same goes for football rpf. i watched the world cup (religiously, might i add) and bam! i was completely taken with the german nt and i started watching the club leagues and... it was inevitable. plus, it reminds me so much of bandom in the sense that there are a ton of people to write, crazy canon to draw on, and new updates all the time. i'm totally smitten with it, though. i have tons of fic ideas that i actually want to realise. it's awesome.
most fun story: logically/ideally (cm rpf, lola/mgg). oh. hell. yes. mgg is the biggest weirdo currently living, i'm sure. i wrote this at work, actually, in a tiny little notebook. lola bought mgg socks. in canada. really. give me something as typical (or atypical) as that and i will go crazy with it.
sexiest story hmm. hmm, i say. probably the curator's house (criminal minds, morgan/reid). it's just reid in suspenders, but i sort of have a tiny little clothing kink. so small. i don't exactly like all of the dialogue i came up with in this story, but i think the description overshadows it. hopefully. well, i like the imagery, anyways.
biggest disappointment as much as i don't want to admit it, i'd say talk, you (cm, morgan/reid) or axe & string (football, schweinsteiger/poldolski/oezil) and the right kind (football, schweinsteiger/oezil/neuer). with talk, you, i didn't stick to any one real idea. i feel like i tried to write a response to nathan's attempted suicide, but ended up talking about reid's mother, instead. this takes away from the nathan situation and, ugh. i glossed over too much and didn't go into detail where i should have. with the two german nt fills, it's not that i don't like them, but i don't feel i had a handle on the characterisations the way i should have. that's the only real thing that bugs me. i hope to remedy this in the future with better construed fic, i assure you.
did you take any writing risks this year? what did you learn from them? i tried not to be so piece-y. i write most of my stories in fragments. suggest situations instead of exploring them. i wrote one continuous scene in slosh around loose. as a result, it turned out to be my favourite story. i'm trying to write longer passages and, slowly but surely, it's coming. trying to hash out style and form is always going to be tough.
biggest surprise(s) as i mentioned above, the fandoms i wrote for this year. complete departure from my last few years spent in fandom. i always believed that because i read so many stories in bandom (like, it's staggering to think about the sheer amount of fic i read. it feels like thousands of stories, i swear to god), i would be the most comfortable writing about those people. not the case. i love to write reid. at the moment, i'm a little overwhelmed by all the things i want to write in football, or else i'd be writing more stories about him. for sure. and football, right? i want to write all these crazy aus and character pieces and snippets based on pictures. i'm surprised that i'm enjoying a fandom this much.
most unintentionally telling story i could be your man (star trek xi rpf + heroes, chris/zach) and bird through the wire (cm, morgan/reid). first: my sense of humour is pretty fucked up. without a doubt, that shows in i could be your man. second: i love film. it makes me nostalgic, it makes me cry, and it makes me want to create. bird through the wire is all of those feelings rolled up into one story. that says a little more about me than i'm totally comfortable with, but. life, hey?
*wipes forehead*. now, onto 2011. um.
the curator's house (criminal minds, morgan/reid)
talk, you (cm, morgan/reid)
never never ever never (cm, reid/lila)
bread and butter (cm, morgan/reid)
bird through the wire (cm, morgan/reid)
logically/ideally (cm rpf, lola/mgg)
axe & string (football rpf, schweinsteiger/poldolski/oezil)
the right kind (football, schweinsteiger/oezil/neuer)
slosh around loose (football, ramsey/bendtner)
suitcase (football, maldini/inzaghi)
i could be your man (star trek xi rpf + heroes, chris/zach)
best story bird through the wire (cm, morgan/reid), for sure. it's got nothing to do with the fact that it's the longest fic that i've actually posted, but i actually managed to accomplish exactly what i had set out to do from the start. i wanted to write a peter gunn-esque sort of story. i've tried to write a noir au a few times while in bandom, but nothing ever came together. this fandom gave me the opportunity. i got to take a component from the show itself and mix it up with the imagery of some of my favourite films. and as much as i understand that reid's mother is a big part of his character (and i love that she makes him human), i got to take a break from writing her into his life. but mostly, i just got to write about detectives and hitmen and other clichéd staples of film-making in the 1930s and onward. and it seems to have worked.
favorite story slosh around loose (football, ramsey/bendtner). oh, man. this came out of nowhere. i'm actually pretty surprised that i ended up writing about arsenal in my first non-anon story for the football fandom. i got to combine two of my favourite things in fic: first-times and awkward, teenage behaviour. and i got to pair him up (logically!) with a person that i perceive as a total sweetheart. i wish i wrote more stories like this one. or, maybe just more stories about arsenal. either way, i loved writing this.
story most underappreciated by the universe in my opinion ahahah. hm, if we're looking at comments, i get the same number of comments on most of my fics (which, hi, readers! thank you for leaving awesome feedback!). so, that's no help. maybe suitcase (football, maldini/inzaghi). but, it's sort of expected. ac milan and its older/retired players aren't at the forefront of the football fandom. i liked what i did here. paolo is difficult to write and, although i don't think my characterisation is perfect, i think i managed to take him in the right direction. *nods*
what pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in january? UM, HOW ABOUT ALL OF THE ONES I WROTE THIS YEAR? no, really. i can't express enough how much cm terrified the life out of me when i first started watching it. plus, i was never all that into tv fandoms, especially coming from a huge, sprawling rpf fandom beforehand. the entire team is endearing and it's easy to create your own cases and situations to throw them in. kidnapping!fic actually makes sense here! and, like, star trek? never in a million freakin' years did i think i would even watch the movie, let alone write TOTALLY RIDICULOUS fic about its two leads. same goes for football rpf. i watched the world cup (religiously, might i add) and bam! i was completely taken with the german nt and i started watching the club leagues and... it was inevitable. plus, it reminds me so much of bandom in the sense that there are a ton of people to write, crazy canon to draw on, and new updates all the time. i'm totally smitten with it, though. i have tons of fic ideas that i actually want to realise. it's awesome.
most fun story: logically/ideally (cm rpf, lola/mgg). oh. hell. yes. mgg is the biggest weirdo currently living, i'm sure. i wrote this at work, actually, in a tiny little notebook. lola bought mgg socks. in canada. really. give me something as typical (or atypical) as that and i will go crazy with it.
sexiest story hmm. hmm, i say. probably the curator's house (criminal minds, morgan/reid). it's just reid in suspenders, but i sort of have a tiny little clothing kink. so small. i don't exactly like all of the dialogue i came up with in this story, but i think the description overshadows it. hopefully. well, i like the imagery, anyways.
biggest disappointment as much as i don't want to admit it, i'd say talk, you (cm, morgan/reid) or axe & string (football, schweinsteiger/poldolski/oezil) and the right kind (football, schweinsteiger/oezil/neuer). with talk, you, i didn't stick to any one real idea. i feel like i tried to write a response to nathan's attempted suicide, but ended up talking about reid's mother, instead. this takes away from the nathan situation and, ugh. i glossed over too much and didn't go into detail where i should have. with the two german nt fills, it's not that i don't like them, but i don't feel i had a handle on the characterisations the way i should have. that's the only real thing that bugs me. i hope to remedy this in the future with better construed fic, i assure you.
did you take any writing risks this year? what did you learn from them? i tried not to be so piece-y. i write most of my stories in fragments. suggest situations instead of exploring them. i wrote one continuous scene in slosh around loose. as a result, it turned out to be my favourite story. i'm trying to write longer passages and, slowly but surely, it's coming. trying to hash out style and form is always going to be tough.
biggest surprise(s) as i mentioned above, the fandoms i wrote for this year. complete departure from my last few years spent in fandom. i always believed that because i read so many stories in bandom (like, it's staggering to think about the sheer amount of fic i read. it feels like thousands of stories, i swear to god), i would be the most comfortable writing about those people. not the case. i love to write reid. at the moment, i'm a little overwhelmed by all the things i want to write in football, or else i'd be writing more stories about him. for sure. and football, right? i want to write all these crazy aus and character pieces and snippets based on pictures. i'm surprised that i'm enjoying a fandom this much.
most unintentionally telling story i could be your man (star trek xi rpf + heroes, chris/zach) and bird through the wire (cm, morgan/reid). first: my sense of humour is pretty fucked up. without a doubt, that shows in i could be your man. second: i love film. it makes me nostalgic, it makes me cry, and it makes me want to create. bird through the wire is all of those feelings rolled up into one story. that says a little more about me than i'm totally comfortable with, but. life, hey?
*wipes forehead*. now, onto 2011. um.