End of Year Fanfiction Meme 2014
Stats:
List of Completed Fics:
I also did some journaling, some fiction (3 quite short stories and a few more starts), some poems and a lot of reviewing and academic writing this year, which isn't making it into the word count--though maybe I should do a separate post about non-fic writing...
So for fic, not counting a few couple-thou starts that haven't gone anywhere or haven't been finished yet at least:
Gentle Antidote, Wimsey, P/H, 11,200
Ever-Fixed Mark, Who, D/M, 3,727
Tricky and Wicked, Of Course, Great Mouse Detective, B/R, 20,646
Oh, Rats!, Great Mouse Detective, B/R, 10,441
Her Walking Clothes, Great Mouse Detective, B/R, 9,668
Wire in the Blood, Great Mouse Detective, B/R, 1,988
Our Strength and All Our Sweetness (NEEDS EDITED, NOT POSTED), Great Mouse Detective, B/R, 15,834
15 old Who D/M kink meme ficlets that I substantially edited and posted this year
like 4 more old Who D/M kink meme ficlets that I substantially edited this year and still have more work to do on before I post them
Total number: 7 proper finished fics, like 19 substantial revisions for fics of various lengths
Total word count: 73,504, counting EXCLUSIVELY the 7 proper Finished Fics
Ship/character breakdown:
1 Wimsey P/H fic
1 Who D/M fic (and all the edits)
5 GMD B/R
3 slash
4 het <--a strange turn of events
Only 3 (counting the unfinished one) with explicit sex, which is strange for me.
Specifics:
Best/worst title? Tricky for best, Our Strength or Gentle Antidote for worst--both titles chosen at the last min for pieces that didn't feel like they had titles
Best/worst first line?
I don't think of myself as THAT much of a language-über-alles writer, and the journalistic and commercial SFF preoccupation with the hook annoys me a bit, so I'm afraid I don't think about this much. Make your own calls, I guess?
Tricky: "Several schools of history, theology and philosophy attempt to address the parallels between the proper, Rodentia world and the human world."
Rats: "The night-mist rose up from the Thames like the dead on judgment day: thick and implacable and pale, smelling of rot and filling its few living onlookers with a sense of still, certain despair." <--GET OFF BLEAK HOUSE ERIN, JESUS
Her Walking: "Breaking into Windsor while the Queen was at Balmoral (and the palace’s compliment of guards was thus at a low ebb) had been an ingenious plan."
Wire: Hybrid pregnancies are notoriously difficult, and Basil's first baby comes relatively late--courting Basil, convincing her, having taken years.
Strength: "“A note for you, sir.”
The waiter handed Ratigan a folded letter on a platter, and he felt the familiar stir of anticipation." [though when I look at it in the document, the first line I see is OCTOBER 1890 (EXCEPT WITH THE GMD CONTINUITY HAS TO BE LATER? SAYERS ALSO SAYS ACD’S DATE FOR RHL WRONG, INTERNALLY INCONSISTENT)]
Ever-Fixed: "The Doctor knows two things simultaneously. The Time Lord in front of him is the Master, whatever nonsense he’s calling himself among these so-called War Lords. The sliver of color the Doctor can see at the edge of the other man’s wrist looks as he expected it very probably would.
The Master smiles. The Doctor does not."
Gentle: “I’m willing to meet him, of course,” Harriet said cautiously. “It--is a him, isn’t it?”
Best/worst last line?
Tricky: "Ignoring him, Basil stalked into the kitchen. Would Ratigan never let him live that down? (He didn’t.)"
Rats: "Essentially, Basil knew his worth. Still, it was excellent that Ratigan had the discernment and good taste to appreciate his accomplishments."
Her Walking: "The waiter snorted. “If sir will permit me to say, though the lady is evidently of a tempestuous temperament, I should not worry about the outcome of these negotiations. A woman who storms out of a restaurant on a gentleman three times surely intends to marry him.” The waiter shrugged. “Why else should she come back?”"
Wire: "She has a long, impeccable, celebrated career. She never marries, because she's damned if she'll be either of them."
Strength: “Pray give me a moment, Mrs. Judson!” Basil managed. “I’m afraid I’m very much engaged at present.”
Ever-Fixed: "Things are what they are. River will live out her life, and the Doctor will work through his own bizarre penance, live through this moment until it’s passed.
Some things never pass away, but bear out even to the edge of doom."
Gentle: "Harriet hung up immediately, grinning stupidly to herself in the empty hall. She got a pear from the kitchen, went up to her bedroom, and valiantly struggled to concentrate on her books. A fat drop of juice from the late, ripe pear rolled down her arm, and, with a slight flush, she licked it off the second e."
General questions:
Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?
So for a few years now, I've felt totally incapable of writing fiction. A total, vicious block, with crippling anxiety and some lj death angst. So given that I didn't think I'd be writing anything, I'm pleasantly surprised.
I think the baby-steps revising approach in Spring did prepare me. And it REALLY helped that I was able to bang out Tricky in like 2 days, and that it was as good as anything I'd done, really. I hadn't gone to seed in only writing nonfic. So while I'd like maybe to get back to my super-productive height (I can't even count what I wrote some years in D/M, for example), I know I have other writing responsibilities now, and that while I need fiction and probably fic specifically to be sane and feel like myself, this (all written fairly quickly, a bit stolen-moments style) may be about what I get. And I'm happy with that.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year?
I didn't think I'd get over my fear of writing Wimsey-voice enough to do it, and I DEF didn't expect the randomness that was GMD fic. I blame that on colonelbastard's series making it feel like that sustained, serious (even if comedy, still--not PURE CRACK 500 words) work was possible there. I also really didn't expect all my GMD fic, even the slash, to be About Gender/Women. Soooo much so, damn. Why was I like 'self it's time to write a lot about Gender. In some off-brand Sherlock Holmes porn. With rodents. And Vincent Price.'?
What's your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.
I don't really like my own writing, but I think Tricky and Wicked is the best
Okay, NOW your most popular story.
Gentle Antidote did v well in Yuletide. elviaprose asked me if I was loving that:
Me
I do a bit!
it's whiny to not be DELIGHTED
but the thing feels a bit bs too, like, I've written better things than that this year, and it's YULETIDE FRENZY!!/this fandom's lack of a ton of fic and not me per se, and after yuletide it'll be back to 'fuck all', and people aren't going off to read anything else I've done, and there's not a community to benefit
it's nice! but it's weirdly blippy?
the nature of Yuletide!
v insulated from fandom more widely
elviaprose
yeah
I see what you mean, for sure
and if it isn’t affirming the thing you want affirmed, it makes sense to feel mixed about it, I think
like, for me, I don’t like it when people’s favorite thing of mine is something I wrote a while ago, because I’m generally pretty dissatisfied with my writing, and my way of engaging positively with my writing is to feel like I’m learning as I write
Me
mm, and there's the weirdness of 'popular for being popular'
mm
I see what you mean
elviaprose
so it makes sense that if for you a lot of what’s positive is feeling like it’s building/part of a community, it makes sense that you wouldn’t like this feeling as much as you would if it was on a comm and stuff
also the popular because popular. I do legitimately think your fic is excellent, but I also think it probably reads better to people now that more people have praised it. In part because the praise helps them see what’s good, in part because the other comments help them know how to read it what to read it _for_, in part because they come in expecting to like it, etc
I think in a way that’s how something becomes good, though
the “cold read” isn’t necessarily more true
this is back in a way to Butler, isn’t it :P [we were talking about Butler and disrupting the idea of the 'natural' before]
Story most underappreciated by the universe?
Well, the GMD stuff's the obvious one. It's some of my best stuff, but a weird canon, and so people don't care. Wire is a snippet-sequel to a fic no one read for these reasons--but idk, I think that it's good, though largely because it's so easy to successfully execute a certain kind of darkfic. The illusory gravitas of mopey modernism.
Some of the Who kink meme fics are better than people seem to think they are, and some are way worse. Revenant, for example, is fine shit, but no1cur. DEATHLESS is some good Russian fairy-tale stuff. In their long years of Being Around, only 2 people have ever said anything to me about Observer Effect and If the World Should Perish Twice, which I think are perfectly adequate. That's just bemusing.
Meanwhile Forgot the Time (a bloody drabble) ain't shit, and Cheetahs Never Win (omg that title) is only okay, and both of them are doing better than they ought.
Kudos are lame tho. Comments 4eva.
Also I don't look at the hit counts in mega-fandoms, it just makes me feel overwhelmed and sad. Such a difference of logarithmic scale!
Story that could have been better?
This has to go to the unposted, possibly unpostable Our Strength and All Our Sweetness (a bs title slapped on at the end).
Here's the thing: for all I always though multifanishness was a sign of being mature, in a way I found it difficult to be, when you're not in a community, having those discussions, you're producing fic with an essentially different relationship to the canon. You're not working with the text via evolving meta/critical conversation, for one. But another big problem I've found is that my beta, p much the person I absolutely trust as an editor, isn't IN these fandoms and pairings (and same story with my first reader). She likes them and enjoys the fic, but when she says 'the pairing doesn't work for me here' or 'too much sex?' we have to think about how someone who wanted this pairing/thought it was obviously correct would read it.
Not every story 'sells' a pairing, and frankly not every story should. There are many and various things a story can do, and having a conversation with non-believers /isn't/ always one of them. There are very popular stories aimed outside a pairing/fandom, like New Dawn Fades for D/M, that actually aren't very satisfying for people who are in the fandom/ship it. After a story or two for a pairing, I'm starting to either slide into laxness about justification, or to want to move on to other subjects/speak to people who agree and advance the conversation. Tbh, that's the sort of story I'm more interested in. Like, imagine if EVERY STORY about vampires had to do the set-up work of Dracula. :/
When your beta is still an interested outsider, you can begin to come into conflict. It's working the other way around, as well. Katy writes B7 B/A, and while this was a biggish pairing for me in high school, I've slipped into the Interested Outsider position in the 10 years since. I thus can challenge her in potentially unproductive ways, asking her to waste her time justifying things that would pull the story into a less useful shape for Believer/In-Group Readers.
Strength is a sequel to Her Walking and a prequel to the (NOT INEVITABLE!) grim AU coda, Wire. It's the get-together Walking suggests, but is years off executing. It's difficult because it has to do answer real questions (if this villain/hero relationship is M/F (oh I know m/m abuse is a thing, but shit LOOKS DIFFERENT if good, weaker protagonist is a woman to boot) and about to get domestic, it could be abusive--is it safe to be with this person?) that get in the way of its romance, and make it seem like they should be together, as the beta puts it, 'because he won't hit her'. Uninspiring.
And yet how much SHOULD I be selling this? Is the problem that it's not super-fun, like its predecessor? It's a different kind of fic than Walking Clothes. No edit will make it the same kind.
The beta wonders if she shape of the story is distorted by sex, and if the couple is convincing enough. I really wonder how this works if you BUY it, though? Like, would she complain about the sex in a B/A, or find it the just/expected payoff, after having ben asked to, collectively, put up with 25,000 words build up? Katy, perhaps because she doesn't care THAT much about the period, also feels it's intrusive that I spend a fair amount of time covering--what the female character knows about and expects from sex before she has some. For me, that's v familiar from Austenfic, and I couldn't engage with an 1890s sex scene where an upper middle class woman was having premarital sex without knowing what she thought about that.
I don't think K's wrong about these questions, necessarily--I do think the fic, which I was SO determined to write and thought was super-important, crushingly, doesn't quite work. She says it's not bad and deserves put out in some form, as does first reader, but I REALLY don't know how to fix it.
Another big problem:
This is:
- a GMD fic
- a re-write of ACD's Red Headed League
- a sequel to my own story, which is fairly tonally different than GMD.
I had a lot of difficulty pressing those tones together, reconciling them--the scene where the actual text from RHL has to weave in and out is a fucking puzzlement.
Sexiest story?
Hm, Tricky?
Saddest story?
Ever-Fixed or Wire
Most fun?
Tricky
Story with single sweetest moment?
Gentle
Hardest story to write?
Our Strength
Easiest/most fun story to write?
Easiest was Wire, idk about Most Fun
Did any stories shift your perceptions of the characters?
Probably everything but the Who one, which is quite throw-away and a fandom I've been writing for ages and thus know what I think about.
Most overdue story?
Our Strength
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
Just writing again felt like one. New fandoms, I'd never done Yuletide before, I'd not written that much het before. I def did new things in sex writing. The 'weave in the source canon' thing is quite new, and happened twice.
What are your fic writing goals for next year?
Not a return to the bleak hellish block--but wirting feels so easy rn and I can barely *remember* that anxiety-crush? Which, scary.
Ideally, more fic in all three fandoms, run that challenge, maybe write in a few more fandoms, maybe do some com organizing for Wimsey, bc I DO think it could benefit from that.
List of Completed Fics:
I also did some journaling, some fiction (3 quite short stories and a few more starts), some poems and a lot of reviewing and academic writing this year, which isn't making it into the word count--though maybe I should do a separate post about non-fic writing...
So for fic, not counting a few couple-thou starts that haven't gone anywhere or haven't been finished yet at least:
Gentle Antidote, Wimsey, P/H, 11,200
Ever-Fixed Mark, Who, D/M, 3,727
Tricky and Wicked, Of Course, Great Mouse Detective, B/R, 20,646
Oh, Rats!, Great Mouse Detective, B/R, 10,441
Her Walking Clothes, Great Mouse Detective, B/R, 9,668
Wire in the Blood, Great Mouse Detective, B/R, 1,988
Our Strength and All Our Sweetness (NEEDS EDITED, NOT POSTED), Great Mouse Detective, B/R, 15,834
15 old Who D/M kink meme ficlets that I substantially edited and posted this year
like 4 more old Who D/M kink meme ficlets that I substantially edited this year and still have more work to do on before I post them
Total number: 7 proper finished fics, like 19 substantial revisions for fics of various lengths
Total word count: 73,504, counting EXCLUSIVELY the 7 proper Finished Fics
Ship/character breakdown:
1 Wimsey P/H fic
1 Who D/M fic (and all the edits)
5 GMD B/R
3 slash
4 het <--a strange turn of events
Only 3 (counting the unfinished one) with explicit sex, which is strange for me.
Specifics:
Best/worst title? Tricky for best, Our Strength or Gentle Antidote for worst--both titles chosen at the last min for pieces that didn't feel like they had titles
Best/worst first line?
I don't think of myself as THAT much of a language-über-alles writer, and the journalistic and commercial SFF preoccupation with the hook annoys me a bit, so I'm afraid I don't think about this much. Make your own calls, I guess?
Tricky: "Several schools of history, theology and philosophy attempt to address the parallels between the proper, Rodentia world and the human world."
Rats: "The night-mist rose up from the Thames like the dead on judgment day: thick and implacable and pale, smelling of rot and filling its few living onlookers with a sense of still, certain despair." <--GET OFF BLEAK HOUSE ERIN, JESUS
Her Walking: "Breaking into Windsor while the Queen was at Balmoral (and the palace’s compliment of guards was thus at a low ebb) had been an ingenious plan."
Wire: Hybrid pregnancies are notoriously difficult, and Basil's first baby comes relatively late--courting Basil, convincing her, having taken years.
Strength: "“A note for you, sir.”
The waiter handed Ratigan a folded letter on a platter, and he felt the familiar stir of anticipation." [though when I look at it in the document, the first line I see is OCTOBER 1890 (EXCEPT WITH THE GMD CONTINUITY HAS TO BE LATER? SAYERS ALSO SAYS ACD’S DATE FOR RHL WRONG, INTERNALLY INCONSISTENT)]
Ever-Fixed: "The Doctor knows two things simultaneously. The Time Lord in front of him is the Master, whatever nonsense he’s calling himself among these so-called War Lords. The sliver of color the Doctor can see at the edge of the other man’s wrist looks as he expected it very probably would.
The Master smiles. The Doctor does not."
Gentle: “I’m willing to meet him, of course,” Harriet said cautiously. “It--is a him, isn’t it?”
Best/worst last line?
Tricky: "Ignoring him, Basil stalked into the kitchen. Would Ratigan never let him live that down? (He didn’t.)"
Rats: "Essentially, Basil knew his worth. Still, it was excellent that Ratigan had the discernment and good taste to appreciate his accomplishments."
Her Walking: "The waiter snorted. “If sir will permit me to say, though the lady is evidently of a tempestuous temperament, I should not worry about the outcome of these negotiations. A woman who storms out of a restaurant on a gentleman three times surely intends to marry him.” The waiter shrugged. “Why else should she come back?”"
Wire: "She has a long, impeccable, celebrated career. She never marries, because she's damned if she'll be either of them."
Strength: “Pray give me a moment, Mrs. Judson!” Basil managed. “I’m afraid I’m very much engaged at present.”
Ever-Fixed: "Things are what they are. River will live out her life, and the Doctor will work through his own bizarre penance, live through this moment until it’s passed.
Some things never pass away, but bear out even to the edge of doom."
Gentle: "Harriet hung up immediately, grinning stupidly to herself in the empty hall. She got a pear from the kitchen, went up to her bedroom, and valiantly struggled to concentrate on her books. A fat drop of juice from the late, ripe pear rolled down her arm, and, with a slight flush, she licked it off the second e."
General questions:
Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?
So for a few years now, I've felt totally incapable of writing fiction. A total, vicious block, with crippling anxiety and some lj death angst. So given that I didn't think I'd be writing anything, I'm pleasantly surprised.
I think the baby-steps revising approach in Spring did prepare me. And it REALLY helped that I was able to bang out Tricky in like 2 days, and that it was as good as anything I'd done, really. I hadn't gone to seed in only writing nonfic. So while I'd like maybe to get back to my super-productive height (I can't even count what I wrote some years in D/M, for example), I know I have other writing responsibilities now, and that while I need fiction and probably fic specifically to be sane and feel like myself, this (all written fairly quickly, a bit stolen-moments style) may be about what I get. And I'm happy with that.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year?
I didn't think I'd get over my fear of writing Wimsey-voice enough to do it, and I DEF didn't expect the randomness that was GMD fic. I blame that on colonelbastard's series making it feel like that sustained, serious (even if comedy, still--not PURE CRACK 500 words) work was possible there. I also really didn't expect all my GMD fic, even the slash, to be About Gender/Women. Soooo much so, damn. Why was I like 'self it's time to write a lot about Gender. In some off-brand Sherlock Holmes porn. With rodents. And Vincent Price.'?
What's your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.
I don't really like my own writing, but I think Tricky and Wicked is the best
Okay, NOW your most popular story.
Gentle Antidote did v well in Yuletide. elviaprose asked me if I was loving that:
Me
I do a bit!
it's whiny to not be DELIGHTED
but the thing feels a bit bs too, like, I've written better things than that this year, and it's YULETIDE FRENZY!!/this fandom's lack of a ton of fic and not me per se, and after yuletide it'll be back to 'fuck all', and people aren't going off to read anything else I've done, and there's not a community to benefit
it's nice! but it's weirdly blippy?
the nature of Yuletide!
v insulated from fandom more widely
elviaprose
yeah
I see what you mean, for sure
and if it isn’t affirming the thing you want affirmed, it makes sense to feel mixed about it, I think
like, for me, I don’t like it when people’s favorite thing of mine is something I wrote a while ago, because I’m generally pretty dissatisfied with my writing, and my way of engaging positively with my writing is to feel like I’m learning as I write
Me
mm, and there's the weirdness of 'popular for being popular'
mm
I see what you mean
elviaprose
so it makes sense that if for you a lot of what’s positive is feeling like it’s building/part of a community, it makes sense that you wouldn’t like this feeling as much as you would if it was on a comm and stuff
also the popular because popular. I do legitimately think your fic is excellent, but I also think it probably reads better to people now that more people have praised it. In part because the praise helps them see what’s good, in part because the other comments help them know how to read it what to read it _for_, in part because they come in expecting to like it, etc
I think in a way that’s how something becomes good, though
the “cold read” isn’t necessarily more true
this is back in a way to Butler, isn’t it :P [we were talking about Butler and disrupting the idea of the 'natural' before]
Story most underappreciated by the universe?
Well, the GMD stuff's the obvious one. It's some of my best stuff, but a weird canon, and so people don't care. Wire is a snippet-sequel to a fic no one read for these reasons--but idk, I think that it's good, though largely because it's so easy to successfully execute a certain kind of darkfic. The illusory gravitas of mopey modernism.
Some of the Who kink meme fics are better than people seem to think they are, and some are way worse. Revenant, for example, is fine shit, but no1cur. DEATHLESS is some good Russian fairy-tale stuff. In their long years of Being Around, only 2 people have ever said anything to me about Observer Effect and If the World Should Perish Twice, which I think are perfectly adequate. That's just bemusing.
Meanwhile Forgot the Time (a bloody drabble) ain't shit, and Cheetahs Never Win (omg that title) is only okay, and both of them are doing better than they ought.
Kudos are lame tho. Comments 4eva.
Also I don't look at the hit counts in mega-fandoms, it just makes me feel overwhelmed and sad. Such a difference of logarithmic scale!
Story that could have been better?
This has to go to the unposted, possibly unpostable Our Strength and All Our Sweetness (a bs title slapped on at the end).
Here's the thing: for all I always though multifanishness was a sign of being mature, in a way I found it difficult to be, when you're not in a community, having those discussions, you're producing fic with an essentially different relationship to the canon. You're not working with the text via evolving meta/critical conversation, for one. But another big problem I've found is that my beta, p much the person I absolutely trust as an editor, isn't IN these fandoms and pairings (and same story with my first reader). She likes them and enjoys the fic, but when she says 'the pairing doesn't work for me here' or 'too much sex?' we have to think about how someone who wanted this pairing/thought it was obviously correct would read it.
Not every story 'sells' a pairing, and frankly not every story should. There are many and various things a story can do, and having a conversation with non-believers /isn't/ always one of them. There are very popular stories aimed outside a pairing/fandom, like New Dawn Fades for D/M, that actually aren't very satisfying for people who are in the fandom/ship it. After a story or two for a pairing, I'm starting to either slide into laxness about justification, or to want to move on to other subjects/speak to people who agree and advance the conversation. Tbh, that's the sort of story I'm more interested in. Like, imagine if EVERY STORY about vampires had to do the set-up work of Dracula. :/
When your beta is still an interested outsider, you can begin to come into conflict. It's working the other way around, as well. Katy writes B7 B/A, and while this was a biggish pairing for me in high school, I've slipped into the Interested Outsider position in the 10 years since. I thus can challenge her in potentially unproductive ways, asking her to waste her time justifying things that would pull the story into a less useful shape for Believer/In-Group Readers.
Strength is a sequel to Her Walking and a prequel to the (NOT INEVITABLE!) grim AU coda, Wire. It's the get-together Walking suggests, but is years off executing. It's difficult because it has to do answer real questions (if this villain/hero relationship is M/F (oh I know m/m abuse is a thing, but shit LOOKS DIFFERENT if good, weaker protagonist is a woman to boot) and about to get domestic, it could be abusive--is it safe to be with this person?) that get in the way of its romance, and make it seem like they should be together, as the beta puts it, 'because he won't hit her'. Uninspiring.
And yet how much SHOULD I be selling this? Is the problem that it's not super-fun, like its predecessor? It's a different kind of fic than Walking Clothes. No edit will make it the same kind.
The beta wonders if she shape of the story is distorted by sex, and if the couple is convincing enough. I really wonder how this works if you BUY it, though? Like, would she complain about the sex in a B/A, or find it the just/expected payoff, after having ben asked to, collectively, put up with 25,000 words build up? Katy, perhaps because she doesn't care THAT much about the period, also feels it's intrusive that I spend a fair amount of time covering--what the female character knows about and expects from sex before she has some. For me, that's v familiar from Austenfic, and I couldn't engage with an 1890s sex scene where an upper middle class woman was having premarital sex without knowing what she thought about that.
I don't think K's wrong about these questions, necessarily--I do think the fic, which I was SO determined to write and thought was super-important, crushingly, doesn't quite work. She says it's not bad and deserves put out in some form, as does first reader, but I REALLY don't know how to fix it.
Another big problem:
This is:
- a GMD fic
- a re-write of ACD's Red Headed League
- a sequel to my own story, which is fairly tonally different than GMD.
I had a lot of difficulty pressing those tones together, reconciling them--the scene where the actual text from RHL has to weave in and out is a fucking puzzlement.
Sexiest story?
Hm, Tricky?
Saddest story?
Ever-Fixed or Wire
Most fun?
Tricky
Story with single sweetest moment?
Gentle
Hardest story to write?
Our Strength
Easiest/most fun story to write?
Easiest was Wire, idk about Most Fun
Did any stories shift your perceptions of the characters?
Probably everything but the Who one, which is quite throw-away and a fandom I've been writing for ages and thus know what I think about.
Most overdue story?
Our Strength
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
Just writing again felt like one. New fandoms, I'd never done Yuletide before, I'd not written that much het before. I def did new things in sex writing. The 'weave in the source canon' thing is quite new, and happened twice.
What are your fic writing goals for next year?
Not a return to the bleak hellish block--but wirting feels so easy rn and I can barely *remember* that anxiety-crush? Which, scary.
Ideally, more fic in all three fandoms, run that challenge, maybe write in a few more fandoms, maybe do some com organizing for Wimsey, bc I DO think it could benefit from that.