Fanfic Year In Review 2008
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lizardspots always does a fanart year in review that's so much fun to read. I thought that it would be fun to do the same thing with fanfic. So this past year I kept track of all the pieces I wrote (though I forgot about a few of them until yesterday so I'm not confident I got them all). And I'm not sure how this is going to turn out, but it should be an adventure!
I would LOVE to hear your comments here as well! And if you can't find any (there's a key in the expredsheet link below saying where each was posted) then let me know.
Without further rambling... here it is... my...
Fanfic Year in Review: 2008
Total pieces I wrote this year: 98 (wish I could have broken 100- so close!)
Expredsheet list of all: http://tgsrealm.beastlet.com/yearinreview/FinishedFics08.htm
Fandoms (including crossovers):
1- 10th Kingdom
4- Angel: the series & Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2- Breakfast Club, The
1- Camelot
2- Charmed
2- Chronicles of Narnia
1- Dinotopia
31- Doctor Who
1- Eureka
1- FAKE
4- Firefly
49- Harry Potter
1- Heroes
1- Highlander
3- Horatio Hornblower
12- Lord of the Rings
2- LOST
1- Marvel Universe
2- NCIS
1- Numb3rs
5- Original Characters (Faeries)
1- Original Characters (Strokes)
1- Pirates of the Caribbean
1- Primeval
1- Princess Bride
3- Queer as Folk US
1- Queer as Folk UK
1- Star Trek: Deep Space 9
6- Star Wars
1- Stargate SG-1
6- Torchwood
1- Velvet Goldmine
1- Weis Kreuz
1- Wolf's Rain
2- X-Men
1- Young Indiana Jones
So it looks like Harry Potter definitely wins out for 2008 followed by Doctor Who, which is mostly because I count LMOM pieces individually since each is its own little story; I still have never written a standalone Doctor Who fic. If I count LMOM as 1, you still get HP in the lead with 19, LotR with 12, and then Original Characters, Star Wars, and Torchwood all coming in at 6. Quite a range of fandoms, though, thanks to 31 days of crossovers.
Challenges, fests, etc. I participated in:
April- Sneezefic Annual Challenge 2007-2008 (wrote 6 stories)
May- Pervy_werewolf's Lusty Month of May (my 4th time trying and 4th time making it the whole time writing crossovers, which was a huge challenge for me!)
June & September- my first and second attempts playing in the Porn Battle (wrote 19 pieces)
July- 30 Days of Neville (wrote 1 piece, accompanied by icons)
September through December- Flashslash (wrote 5 flash pieces for various prompts)
November- NaNoWriMo (didn't finish novel but did pass 50,000 words)
My only challenge regret is letting my Remus/Sirius FuhQFest fic slip. It's still unfinished but the fest is sort of on hold so if I had to let something slip, that was it. I intend to finish it, though.
Reasons for pieces:
63- Written for fests, challenges, etc.
19- Written for someone else (request or gift)
12- Written for self or as exercises
4- Written as penalties for missing a weekly hatching bunny
I really wish I had more time to write fics just because, because I have several hundred unfinished pieces that need attention! As soon as I finish the outstanding promised fics, I look forward to it. One day... I can hope! But apart from those, I do in fact play in a lot of challenges, which is the majority of pieces I write. I like them, though, because they get me thinking about something different and they get me to FINISH pieces, which is my biggest problem.
Ratings:
I didn't keep track of ratings to break it down by those, and don't think I will because I'm not very good at rating my pieces and I'm not consistent (sometimes PG-13 should be R, sometimes R should be NC-17, etc.)
Monthly Breakdown:
*deep breath* Okay, here goes...
~January~ (5)
HP: Gift for brigidmn 2007
HP: The Thoughts of Remus Lupin, During a Snowstorm while Sick with a Cold
SW: The Thoughts of Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi, During a Snowstorm while Sick with a Cold
A/B: Gift for Katleaf 2007
PB: Gift for Faesone 2007
~February~ (2)
QAF: Gift for oneplusoneequals876 2007
TW: Gift for BVB 2007
~March~ (3)
LotR: Prologue
LotR: Mislead
HP: Favors
~April~ (7)
Firefly: Big Damn Head Cold
HP: Lots Can Happen in Five Minutes
HP: The Last Train Ride
HP: The Night Before Christmas
Marvel: A Taste for Blood
SW: Count on It
LotR: Torment
~May~ (32)
HP/DW/various other: Where, When, Why, Who, & Howl
HP: Mistakes
~June~ (18)
LotR: Deceipt
HP: Inside-out, Outside-in
Firefly: Jayne/Simon, untouched
BC: Brian/John, daytime
TW: Ianto/Jack, ties
XMen: Wolverine/Gambit, card tricks
CON: Caspian/Edmund, keeping quiet on the boat
HP: Severus Snape/Remus Lupin, “I love the sound of you walking away”
HP: Remus/Sirius, motorbike
QAF: Brian/Justin, "it's too cold for this"
SW: Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, nobody likes a sore loser
Buffy: Xander/Spike, guilty
HP: Percy Weasley/Oliver Wood, opposites attract
NCIS: Gibbs/DiNozzo, peppermint
Numb3rs: Don/Colby, adrenalin
HP: Escape
HH: Hornblower/Bush, "It has been an honour to serve with you."
LOST: Sawyer/Sayid, voices
~July~ (3)
LotR: Messages
HP: Five Ways Neville's Life Changed Before He Turned 20 (And One Way It Didn't)
HP: Surprise Party
~August~ (4)
LotR: Assistance
HH: Gift for snowshie 2007
HP: Identical
TW: Rain, Rain Go Away
~September~ (7)
LotR: Mistakes
TW: The Teaboy Dances
Buffy: Spike/Xander, danger
Firefly: Jayne/Simon, vampires
HP: Remus/Sirius, school ties
TW: Ianto/Jack, hypothermia
LotR: Flashslash 76 Prompt 2
~October~ (8)
LotR: Certainty
OCs: Fountain Faerie
OCs: Apartment Faerie
OCs: Around Town
OCs: Homeward Bound
OCs: Subway Faerie
HP: Ron Penalty Drabble
Strokes: Many Happy Returns
~November~ (1)
BC: Tie-less
~December~ (8)
LotR: Bliss
NCIS: Request for silentdreamer789
SW: Gift for ~A 2007
LotR: Gift for Deb 2007
Primeval: A Different World
Charmed: Witch Solution
HP: Temperature-taking
SW: Obedience
My Favorite: How do I pick a favorite?! They're all my babies! heehee. Maybe Rain, Rain Go Away because it felt fresh and new to me- written in a short period of time, posted in pieces so I got feedback along the way, and a fandom I'm not that experienced in.
Most Proud of: I'm especially proud of Many Happy Returns because I have been working on that for so many years and finishing it gets me one step closer to posting some other finished Strokes stories.
My Best: Oh I don't know! I'm no good at evaluating these things! Maybe Snowshie's giftfic because it totally took hold of me and I wrote it in one day from start to finish and think it turned out beautifully. I loved the language and the way the characters fed off each other. And I thought I did an all right job with the subtle, unsaid stuff.
Most Under-Appreciated: That's easy. Definitely A Different World. It hasn't been posted anywhere yet so I definitely haven't had any feedback about it! heehee The ones I have posted that haven't had any/much feedback are many... so let's just say I'd love to have them all appreciated.
Most Fun: Definitely Identical. Such amazingly rich fetishy goodness to play with. I totally loved using Fred & George to fulfil my devious desires. But Fountain Faerie was also a blast to write and it got laughs when I read it aloud at my writers' rountable group; I even shared it with my mother who said she thought it was great. So that story makes me smile to think about :-) Although Assistance was pretty darn fun to write, too, and it came out of nowhere which makes it an especially fun experience for me.
Sexiest: Um... gosh. I don't know about this one. Can I say Idental again? *blush* My tastes are so... well, you know what my tastes are like. And compared to my usual, I didn't write a whole lot of my usual kind of heavy smut this year. Maybe Deb's giftfic for that visual of staring down at a sneezy elf during sex? Or maybe one of the LMOM chapters (possibly Remus/Justin/Brian or orgy with Remus/Curt/Brian or... oohhhhh Remus/Giles- that one was good). Seriously, I don't know. Nothing's really jumping out at me as the absolute sexiest.
Single Sexiest Moment: Probably ~A's giftfic with Qui-Gon totally losing it from Obi-Wan's sneezes? That makes me go weak. Or Remus watching himself having sex with Sirius in the past in LMOM part 18.
Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you: Oh *blush* possibly a tie between LMOM part 11 Remus/Cyrus (David Thewlis character/David Thewlis character with Remus humping Cyrus' stump & wooden leg) and the golden showers/watersports fics like Favors and Surprise Party
Fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Pretty much every time I write anything Torchwood, I discover something new. The month-long crossover with Remus and the Doctor was rather illuminating as well.
Hardest to do: Many Happy Returns. I kept getting blocked at every turn while writing it. I wanted it to be fantastic and it didn't turn out as perfectly as it was in my head. Plus I had to do a ton of research on church services so I feel like that could have been messed up and I wouldn't know. And all those military-related costumes? I totally ran out of ideas and kept second-guessing myself. I wrote the easy parts first and then tried to fill in the rest so even though I started the story years ago, most of the parts I wrote this year were one hard scene after another.
Biggest disappointment: Hmm. The Ianto/Jack, hypothermia drabble. With a prompt like that I really should have been able to come up with something much better. But I was pressed for time and blah blah excuses excuses.
Biggest surprise: Snowshie's giftfic came out of absolutely nowhere and surprised the heck out of me; Big Damn Head Cold came out of nowhere and took hold as well and was surprising considering I'd never written in the fandom before. I was also pretty surprised that the LMOM crossovers went as well as they did considering I'd never written one of the main characters before and I don't usually write crossovers at all. The twins in Lots Can Happen in Five Minutes surprised me, too, and I fell in love with them. The wonderful feedback I got from Tie-less rather surprised me as well.
A story I want remembered: There are a few that really touched my heart while writing them- like The Night Before Christmas and the Star Wars LMOM chapter and the Hornblower/Bush porn battle piece and even The Teaboy Dances. There are moments in all of those that I'd love for others to remember. But on a whole... man... I guess I want readers to remember any and all stories that speak to them for whatever reasons- sexy, fun, humorous, touching, etc. I feel like I can't pick.
Goals for next year: I want to do a much better job of finishing giftfics and requests; I feel guilty about not finishing so many in a timely fashion. And I want to have more time to play with "just because" stories. I also desperately want to finish Under House Arrest, which I completed a chapter of in December and then mapped out in my mind. And I want to come up with something great for my 5th LMOM project, which I think I'll be calling: Remus Lupin and the Prisoner of Ass Cabin *snort*
lizardspots always does a fanart year in review that's so much fun to read. I thought that it would be fun to do the same thing with fanfic. So this past year I kept track of all the pieces I wrote (though I forgot about a few of them until yesterday so I'm not confident I got them all). And I'm not sure how this is going to turn out, but it should be an adventure! I would LOVE to hear your comments here as well! And if you can't find any (there's a key in the expredsheet link below saying where each was posted) then let me know.
Without further rambling... here it is... my...
Fanfic Year in Review: 2008
Total pieces I wrote this year: 98 (wish I could have broken 100- so close!)
Expredsheet list of all: http://tgsrealm.beastlet.com/yearinreview/FinishedFics08.htm
Fandoms (including crossovers):
1- 10th Kingdom
4- Angel: the series & Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2- Breakfast Club, The
1- Camelot
2- Charmed
2- Chronicles of Narnia
1- Dinotopia
31- Doctor Who
1- Eureka
1- FAKE
4- Firefly
49- Harry Potter
1- Heroes
1- Highlander
3- Horatio Hornblower
12- Lord of the Rings
2- LOST
1- Marvel Universe
2- NCIS
1- Numb3rs
5- Original Characters (Faeries)
1- Original Characters (Strokes)
1- Pirates of the Caribbean
1- Primeval
1- Princess Bride
3- Queer as Folk US
1- Queer as Folk UK
1- Star Trek: Deep Space 9
6- Star Wars
1- Stargate SG-1
6- Torchwood
1- Velvet Goldmine
1- Weis Kreuz
1- Wolf's Rain
2- X-Men
1- Young Indiana Jones
So it looks like Harry Potter definitely wins out for 2008 followed by Doctor Who, which is mostly because I count LMOM pieces individually since each is its own little story; I still have never written a standalone Doctor Who fic. If I count LMOM as 1, you still get HP in the lead with 19, LotR with 12, and then Original Characters, Star Wars, and Torchwood all coming in at 6. Quite a range of fandoms, though, thanks to 31 days of crossovers.
Challenges, fests, etc. I participated in:
April- Sneezefic Annual Challenge 2007-2008 (wrote 6 stories)
May- Pervy_werewolf's Lusty Month of May (my 4th time trying and 4th time making it the whole time writing crossovers, which was a huge challenge for me!)
June & September- my first and second attempts playing in the Porn Battle (wrote 19 pieces)
July- 30 Days of Neville (wrote 1 piece, accompanied by icons)
September through December- Flashslash (wrote 5 flash pieces for various prompts)
November- NaNoWriMo (didn't finish novel but did pass 50,000 words)
My only challenge regret is letting my Remus/Sirius FuhQFest fic slip. It's still unfinished but the fest is sort of on hold so if I had to let something slip, that was it. I intend to finish it, though.
Reasons for pieces:
63- Written for fests, challenges, etc.
19- Written for someone else (request or gift)
12- Written for self or as exercises
4- Written as penalties for missing a weekly hatching bunny
I really wish I had more time to write fics just because, because I have several hundred unfinished pieces that need attention! As soon as I finish the outstanding promised fics, I look forward to it. One day... I can hope! But apart from those, I do in fact play in a lot of challenges, which is the majority of pieces I write. I like them, though, because they get me thinking about something different and they get me to FINISH pieces, which is my biggest problem.
Ratings:
I didn't keep track of ratings to break it down by those, and don't think I will because I'm not very good at rating my pieces and I'm not consistent (sometimes PG-13 should be R, sometimes R should be NC-17, etc.)
Monthly Breakdown:
*deep breath* Okay, here goes...
~January~ (5)
HP: Gift for brigidmn 2007
HP: The Thoughts of Remus Lupin, During a Snowstorm while Sick with a Cold
SW: The Thoughts of Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi, During a Snowstorm while Sick with a Cold
A/B: Gift for Katleaf 2007
PB: Gift for Faesone 2007
~February~ (2)
QAF: Gift for oneplusoneequals876 2007
TW: Gift for BVB 2007
~March~ (3)
LotR: Prologue
LotR: Mislead
HP: Favors
~April~ (7)
Firefly: Big Damn Head Cold
HP: Lots Can Happen in Five Minutes
HP: The Last Train Ride
HP: The Night Before Christmas
Marvel: A Taste for Blood
SW: Count on It
LotR: Torment
~May~ (32)
HP/DW/various other: Where, When, Why, Who, & Howl
HP: Mistakes
~June~ (18)
LotR: Deceipt
HP: Inside-out, Outside-in
Firefly: Jayne/Simon, untouched
BC: Brian/John, daytime
TW: Ianto/Jack, ties
XMen: Wolverine/Gambit, card tricks
CON: Caspian/Edmund, keeping quiet on the boat
HP: Severus Snape/Remus Lupin, “I love the sound of you walking away”
HP: Remus/Sirius, motorbike
QAF: Brian/Justin, "it's too cold for this"
SW: Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, nobody likes a sore loser
Buffy: Xander/Spike, guilty
HP: Percy Weasley/Oliver Wood, opposites attract
NCIS: Gibbs/DiNozzo, peppermint
Numb3rs: Don/Colby, adrenalin
HP: Escape
HH: Hornblower/Bush, "It has been an honour to serve with you."
LOST: Sawyer/Sayid, voices
~July~ (3)
LotR: Messages
HP: Five Ways Neville's Life Changed Before He Turned 20 (And One Way It Didn't)
HP: Surprise Party
~August~ (4)
LotR: Assistance
HH: Gift for snowshie 2007
HP: Identical
TW: Rain, Rain Go Away
~September~ (7)
LotR: Mistakes
TW: The Teaboy Dances
Buffy: Spike/Xander, danger
Firefly: Jayne/Simon, vampires
HP: Remus/Sirius, school ties
TW: Ianto/Jack, hypothermia
LotR: Flashslash 76 Prompt 2
~October~ (8)
LotR: Certainty
OCs: Fountain Faerie
OCs: Apartment Faerie
OCs: Around Town
OCs: Homeward Bound
OCs: Subway Faerie
HP: Ron Penalty Drabble
Strokes: Many Happy Returns
~November~ (1)
BC: Tie-less
~December~ (8)
LotR: Bliss
NCIS: Request for silentdreamer789
SW: Gift for ~A 2007
LotR: Gift for Deb 2007
Primeval: A Different World
Charmed: Witch Solution
HP: Temperature-taking
SW: Obedience
My Favorite: How do I pick a favorite?! They're all my babies! heehee. Maybe Rain, Rain Go Away because it felt fresh and new to me- written in a short period of time, posted in pieces so I got feedback along the way, and a fandom I'm not that experienced in.
Most Proud of: I'm especially proud of Many Happy Returns because I have been working on that for so many years and finishing it gets me one step closer to posting some other finished Strokes stories.
My Best: Oh I don't know! I'm no good at evaluating these things! Maybe Snowshie's giftfic because it totally took hold of me and I wrote it in one day from start to finish and think it turned out beautifully. I loved the language and the way the characters fed off each other. And I thought I did an all right job with the subtle, unsaid stuff.
Most Under-Appreciated: That's easy. Definitely A Different World. It hasn't been posted anywhere yet so I definitely haven't had any feedback about it! heehee The ones I have posted that haven't had any/much feedback are many... so let's just say I'd love to have them all appreciated.
Most Fun: Definitely Identical. Such amazingly rich fetishy goodness to play with. I totally loved using Fred & George to fulfil my devious desires. But Fountain Faerie was also a blast to write and it got laughs when I read it aloud at my writers' rountable group; I even shared it with my mother who said she thought it was great. So that story makes me smile to think about :-) Although Assistance was pretty darn fun to write, too, and it came out of nowhere which makes it an especially fun experience for me.
Sexiest: Um... gosh. I don't know about this one. Can I say Idental again? *blush* My tastes are so... well, you know what my tastes are like. And compared to my usual, I didn't write a whole lot of my usual kind of heavy smut this year. Maybe Deb's giftfic for that visual of staring down at a sneezy elf during sex? Or maybe one of the LMOM chapters (possibly Remus/Justin/Brian or orgy with Remus/Curt/Brian or... oohhhhh Remus/Giles- that one was good). Seriously, I don't know. Nothing's really jumping out at me as the absolute sexiest.
Single Sexiest Moment: Probably ~A's giftfic with Qui-Gon totally losing it from Obi-Wan's sneezes? That makes me go weak. Or Remus watching himself having sex with Sirius in the past in LMOM part 18.
Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you: Oh *blush* possibly a tie between LMOM part 11 Remus/Cyrus (David Thewlis character/David Thewlis character with Remus humping Cyrus' stump & wooden leg) and the golden showers/watersports fics like Favors and Surprise Party
Fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Pretty much every time I write anything Torchwood, I discover something new. The month-long crossover with Remus and the Doctor was rather illuminating as well.
Hardest to do: Many Happy Returns. I kept getting blocked at every turn while writing it. I wanted it to be fantastic and it didn't turn out as perfectly as it was in my head. Plus I had to do a ton of research on church services so I feel like that could have been messed up and I wouldn't know. And all those military-related costumes? I totally ran out of ideas and kept second-guessing myself. I wrote the easy parts first and then tried to fill in the rest so even though I started the story years ago, most of the parts I wrote this year were one hard scene after another.
Biggest disappointment: Hmm. The Ianto/Jack, hypothermia drabble. With a prompt like that I really should have been able to come up with something much better. But I was pressed for time and blah blah excuses excuses.
Biggest surprise: Snowshie's giftfic came out of absolutely nowhere and surprised the heck out of me; Big Damn Head Cold came out of nowhere and took hold as well and was surprising considering I'd never written in the fandom before. I was also pretty surprised that the LMOM crossovers went as well as they did considering I'd never written one of the main characters before and I don't usually write crossovers at all. The twins in Lots Can Happen in Five Minutes surprised me, too, and I fell in love with them. The wonderful feedback I got from Tie-less rather surprised me as well.
A story I want remembered: There are a few that really touched my heart while writing them- like The Night Before Christmas and the Star Wars LMOM chapter and the Hornblower/Bush porn battle piece and even The Teaboy Dances. There are moments in all of those that I'd love for others to remember. But on a whole... man... I guess I want readers to remember any and all stories that speak to them for whatever reasons- sexy, fun, humorous, touching, etc. I feel like I can't pick.
Goals for next year: I want to do a much better job of finishing giftfics and requests; I feel guilty about not finishing so many in a timely fashion. And I want to have more time to play with "just because" stories. I also desperately want to finish Under House Arrest, which I completed a chapter of in December and then mapped out in my mind. And I want to come up with something great for my 5th LMOM project, which I think I'll be calling: Remus Lupin and the Prisoner of Ass Cabin *snort*
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Date: 2009-01-02 12:36 am (UTC)*Checks your handy sheet* And there's going to be Primeval fic on the Challenge? \0/
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Date: 2009-01-02 01:08 am (UTC)And there's going to be Primeval fic on the Challenge?
Yep! I submitted it to the challenge a few days ago. I started writing it on Sunday and finished on Monday. It's sort of Nick/Connor and is an AU version of the first episode of Season 2. I can't resist a cute man with self-proclaimed sinus issues *EG*
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Date: 2009-01-02 01:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-02 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-02 04:10 am (UTC)I have so much reading to catch up and comment on (like all of the challenge pieces before the next one comes out) but I'll have to go back now and look at some of yours to let you know which were my faves.
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Date: 2009-01-02 07:08 pm (UTC)And some of the 98 are just short drabbles or ficlets, so it's not I wrote 98 like huge, massive novellas or anything!
I look forward to your comments/favorites when you have the time *G*
Wow
Date: 2009-01-02 03:55 pm (UTC)I'm having trouble finding your Torchwood 'Gift for BVB 2007' fic, which I am dying to read. I've found the link, but when I click on it, I just get 'page not found'. I get the same with most of your other giftfics, which is a shame, because there are several I really want to read. Are they posted anywhere else?
silentdreamer789
Re: Wow
Date: 2009-01-02 07:06 pm (UTC)If you see a link like: http://tgsrealm.beastlet.com/Gift07BVB.html
all you have to do is insert the stories folder in the middle of the link to get:
http://tgsrealm.beastlet.com/stories/Gift07BVB.html
That should work. If it still doesn' work let me know and I'll figure out what the problem is/upload a new copy and give you the link.
Sorry about that!
Re: Wow
Date: 2009-01-04 02:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-02 10:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-02 11:55 pm (UTC)The Teaboy Dances is here:
http://community.livejournal.com/flashslash/106552.html
And, since I passed it on the way, here's the flashslash Legolas/Gimli piece:
http://community.livejournal.com/flashslash/109547.html
Keep in mind, I was really only given 8 minutes to do each from idea to finish, so they're not brilliant, just fun exercises :-)
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Date: 2009-01-02 11:55 pm (UTC)