Fanfic Year In Review 2009
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tarotgalHere's my second attempt at writing a Fanfic Year in Review. You can find last year's review here.
As always, I welcome comments & feedback. There's a key in the expredsheet link below saying where each was posted if there's a fic there you want to read.
Fanfic Year in Review: 2009
Total pieces I wrote this year: 81 (down from last year at 98)
Expredsheet list of all: http://tgsrealm.beastlet.com/yearinreview/FinishedFics09.htm
Fandoms (including crossovers):
1- Angel: the series
1- Batman
1- Bones
4- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1- Castle
1- Dante's Cove
1- Eureka
1- FAKE
2- Firefly
37- Harry Potter
3- Highlander
1- Horatio Hornblower
4- Lord of the Rings
1- Merlin
5- NCIS
2- Original Characters (one Strokes)
1- Queer as Folk
4- Star Wars
1- Stargate SG-1
1- The princess Bride
5- Torchwood
1- Twilight
1- Weiss Kreuz
1- X-Men
Harry Potter wins overwhelmingly once again, which is no surprise. There's a smattering of fics in other fandoms after that. Torchwood and NCIS are tied at 5. Buffy, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars are tied at 4. I've neglected my original characters greatly. Though I'd worked on a lot and not finished a lot.
Challenges, fests, etc. I participated in:
March & April- Sneezefic Annual Challenge 2008-2009 (wrote 10 stories)
March- Hurt/Comfort Prompt Table (1/10 finished)
May- Merry Month of Masturbation (wrote 1 Star Wars story)
May- Pervy_werewolf's Lusty Month of May (my 5th time trying and 5th time winning; this year there was a second option, allowing me to write fewer, longer fics)
May, June, July, & November- Porn Battles on IJ ad DW
July- 30 Days of Neville (wrote 1 piece)
September-December- Daisy Chain of Awesome (wrote 16 stories)
October- Harry Potter SickFics (wrote 2 stories for challenges)
October- Harry Potter Halloween gift fic exchange (wrote 1 drabble)
November- NaNoWriMo (didn't finish novel but did pass 50,000 words)
December- 12 Ficlets in 12 Days (finished all 12 ficlets promise and wrote 2 bonus fics during 2009)
Reasons for pieces:
52- Written for fests, challenges, etc.
19- Written for someone else (request or gift)
5- Written for self
5- Written as penalties for missing a weekly hatching bunny
So, clearly, I did an even worse job at writing fics just because. I did a good job of finishing most every fic I started this year, though. There are a bunch more floating around in my head that I didn't have time to start, though. And there are still hundreds I've started and not finished that I'm not yet willing to give up on.
Ratings:
A whole range, once again. Some nice and G and others hardcore NC-17. Thanks to some really random Daisy Chain of Awesome pairings, there was even quite a bit of het in the mix.
Monthly Breakdown:
*deep breath* Okay, here goes...
~January~ (8)
HL: A Highlander-verse Alphabet (Serious)
HL: A Highlander-verse Alphabet (Funny)
Bones: Logic Jumps
X-Men: Healing Laughter
Buffy: Twelve Hours
NCIS: The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Angel: Standing Offer
OCs: Oliver Wood and the Puddlemere United on Tour
~February~ (2)
Strokes OCs: Sledding
QAF: Thin Skin
~March~ (4)
HP: Darkest Nights Turn Into Dawns
LOTR: Trade Off
Batman: Solitary Existence
HP: Itchy Back
~April~ (2)
LOTR: Regret
TW: Anything Can Happen
~May~ (7)
HP: Lupin's Tale (Where Are We Going?)
SW: Getting Caught
HP: Maybe Tomorrow
HP: Run Free
HP: Potions Yesterday
HP: Howl at the Moon
HP: Hey Remus
~June~ (6)
Buffy: Battles
Buffy: Mine
Firefly: Too Close
HP: Ghosts
NCIS: Finding What's Missing
HL: Brothers in Blood
~July~ (8)
SG1: Sympathy vs. Empathy
LOTR: Epilogue
HP: Sirius/Remus, full moon
DC: Ambrosius/Kevin, contract fulfillment
FAKE: Dee/Ryo, handcuffs & gun play
WK: Yoji/Aya, feeling alive
Eureka: Jack/Fargo, father figure
HP: An Abundance of Nevilles
~August~ (3)
SW: Lost & Found
HP: Too Many Cooks Part 16
HP: Too Many Cooks Part 17
~September~ (6)
HP: Sabotage
HP: Surprises in the Middle of Nowhere
NCIS: With His Back to the Wall
NCIS: Someone Should Say Something
HP: Knowledge is Power
HPL Rescue
~October~ (11)
HP: Control
HP: Being Oblivious
HP: Suffering in Silence
Firefly: Short Attention Span
TW: Gift for Lady Korana (Holiday 2007)
HP: Things You Know
TW: Snapshots
HP: Ironic
HP: Keepers in the Moonlight
HP: Discovery
HP: 'Puffs and Pixie Fever
~November~ (7)
HP: Page 48
LOTR: Legolas/Gimli, spouse
HP: Remus/Sirius, confessions
SW: Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, using the braid as a leash
HP: Tall, Dark Stranger
HP: It's In the Stars
HP: Knowing What's Best
~December~ (17)
HP: No Kidding
SW: Day 1
HP: Day 2
Twilight: Day 3
NCIS: Day 4
HP: Day 5
TW: Day 6
HP: The Hangover
TW: Day 7
HH: Day 8
Buffy: Day 9
HP: First Member of the Real Slug Club
HP: Day 10
PB: Day 12
Castle: Day 11
HP: Bonus 1
Merlin: Bonus 2
My Favorite: It's not possible to choose! I fell in love with the characters in Oliver Wood and Puddlemere United on Tour (I have 2 more stories with those characters planned). I'm really happy to pick up Too Many Cooks as well, because I absolutely love that series. Oh! Wait, wait. Darkest Nights Turn Into Dawns. Definitely my favorite.
Most Proud of: Hmmm. These aren't so much stories as fic-related achievements I'm proud I finished all of my 12 Ficlets in 12 Days stories in record time. And I'm proud I managed to write pretty okay drabbles/ficlets/fics for every week of the Daisy Chain of Awesome and post them all on time, even though some of those pairings were crazy-awful and I had to write them during NaNoWriMo as well! I'm proud I finished Lady K's multi-part Legolas/Gimli gift. And I'm proud I completed the Pervy_Werewolf LMOM for the 5th time running.
My Best: Um, I dunno. Nothing jumps out at me as particularly well-written. I see faults in all of them.
Most Under-Appreciated: Plenty of them never got any feedback at all, so any of those, technically.
Most Fun: The two Highlander poems I did at the beginning of the year were lots of fun to write. Also, I had a lot of fun with the LMOM fics that were inspired by Wizard Rock lyrics. An Abundance of Nevilles was lots of fun, as well.
Sexiest: I'm having a tough time with this one! I don't think I wrote anything this year that screams "sexiest". Maybe one of the Torchwood fics? Day 7 or Snapshots? I like Mine as well.
Single Sexiest Moment: There's a fantasy/masturbation scene in Maybe Tomorrow that I think went well. Lost & Found had its moments as well. And then any of the more heated moments in the fics I listed under "sexiest".
Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you: Day 3, as it's a Twilight fic, maybe? Or, perhaps, one of the Daisy Chain fics. Discovery (Remus/Fudge) and Ironic (Sirius/Fudge) make my head hurt because of the wrongness of the pairings. Rescue (Voldemort/James) was another awful one because of the pairing. And who wants to even think about how, physically, Hagrid & Ginny managed to make love? LOL!
Fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Oh. Hmm. Maybe Being Oblivious, because it was a softer Lucius Malfoy who didn't care as much for blood purity... and I kind of like to think that aspects of his character there are true to him, it was just the situation he found himself in. Or Tall, Dark Stranger, because it dealt with Minerva's past and mistakes she made that made her lose her family. It was interesting to see how certain events like that might make her cold and stern on the outside and wounded beneath. And it was interesting to see how she would react to see how she adapts and tries to take control of an uncontrollable situation.
Hardest to do: Darkest Nights Turn Into Dawns was emotionally draining because of the subject matter, but it turned out nicely so that difficulty came with a reward. Lots of the pairings for the Daisy Chain (if not all of them) were terribly hard! The end of the Lady K gift fic Legolas/Gimli series was pretty tough, too, because there was so much emotion building towards Regret and I still don't think I got the wording anywhere close to where I wanted it.
Biggest disappointment: Page 48. Though it was wonderful to throw Robert in there again, it was a quick, sloppy job and I wish I had given myself more time to work on that fic for Remus' sake!
Biggest surprise: Itchy Back kind of came out of nowhere and turned out nicely even though it didn't take very long to write. And I had no clue when I started Oliver Wood and Puddlemere United On Tour that I would fall in love with the characters so much and want to write more with them. Battles was simple but came together so beautifully that it surprised me (I wish the sequel had turned out as well; I'm pretty much scrapping that one because it's rubbish).
A story I want remembered: I think I've got to say Darkest Nights Turn Into Dawns, once again. I'd say Too Many Cooks as well but that one's not finished yet.
Goals for next year: Finish my 2009 NaNoWiMo attempt. Finish the fics I've promised people. Write more just for fun. Stay on top of bunny generating so I don't have to write as many penalty fics! And just keep up with all the challenges, battles, and Daisy Chain weeks. I really want to write more Strokes-fic. There's just so much I want to do with those characters, including giving Sin his own book (and, I hope, some of the others as well).
EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention With His Back to the Wall in my comments. I'm pretty damn proud of that one!
As always, I welcome comments & feedback. There's a key in the expredsheet link below saying where each was posted if there's a fic there you want to read.
Fanfic Year in Review: 2009
Total pieces I wrote this year: 81 (down from last year at 98)
Expredsheet list of all: http://tgsrealm.beastlet.com/yearinreview/FinishedFics09.htm
Fandoms (including crossovers):
1- Angel: the series
1- Batman
1- Bones
4- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1- Castle
1- Dante's Cove
1- Eureka
1- FAKE
2- Firefly
37- Harry Potter
3- Highlander
1- Horatio Hornblower
4- Lord of the Rings
1- Merlin
5- NCIS
2- Original Characters (one Strokes)
1- Queer as Folk
4- Star Wars
1- Stargate SG-1
1- The princess Bride
5- Torchwood
1- Twilight
1- Weiss Kreuz
1- X-Men
Harry Potter wins overwhelmingly once again, which is no surprise. There's a smattering of fics in other fandoms after that. Torchwood and NCIS are tied at 5. Buffy, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars are tied at 4. I've neglected my original characters greatly. Though I'd worked on a lot and not finished a lot.
Challenges, fests, etc. I participated in:
March & April- Sneezefic Annual Challenge 2008-2009 (wrote 10 stories)
March- Hurt/Comfort Prompt Table (1/10 finished)
May- Merry Month of Masturbation (wrote 1 Star Wars story)
May- Pervy_werewolf's Lusty Month of May (my 5th time trying and 5th time winning; this year there was a second option, allowing me to write fewer, longer fics)
May, June, July, & November- Porn Battles on IJ ad DW
July- 30 Days of Neville (wrote 1 piece)
September-December- Daisy Chain of Awesome (wrote 16 stories)
October- Harry Potter SickFics (wrote 2 stories for challenges)
October- Harry Potter Halloween gift fic exchange (wrote 1 drabble)
November- NaNoWriMo (didn't finish novel but did pass 50,000 words)
December- 12 Ficlets in 12 Days (finished all 12 ficlets promise and wrote 2 bonus fics during 2009)
Reasons for pieces:
52- Written for fests, challenges, etc.
19- Written for someone else (request or gift)
5- Written for self
5- Written as penalties for missing a weekly hatching bunny
So, clearly, I did an even worse job at writing fics just because. I did a good job of finishing most every fic I started this year, though. There are a bunch more floating around in my head that I didn't have time to start, though. And there are still hundreds I've started and not finished that I'm not yet willing to give up on.
Ratings:
A whole range, once again. Some nice and G and others hardcore NC-17. Thanks to some really random Daisy Chain of Awesome pairings, there was even quite a bit of het in the mix.
Monthly Breakdown:
*deep breath* Okay, here goes...
~January~ (8)
HL: A Highlander-verse Alphabet (Serious)
HL: A Highlander-verse Alphabet (Funny)
Bones: Logic Jumps
X-Men: Healing Laughter
Buffy: Twelve Hours
NCIS: The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Angel: Standing Offer
OCs: Oliver Wood and the Puddlemere United on Tour
~February~ (2)
Strokes OCs: Sledding
QAF: Thin Skin
~March~ (4)
HP: Darkest Nights Turn Into Dawns
LOTR: Trade Off
Batman: Solitary Existence
HP: Itchy Back
~April~ (2)
LOTR: Regret
TW: Anything Can Happen
~May~ (7)
HP: Lupin's Tale (Where Are We Going?)
SW: Getting Caught
HP: Maybe Tomorrow
HP: Run Free
HP: Potions Yesterday
HP: Howl at the Moon
HP: Hey Remus
~June~ (6)
Buffy: Battles
Buffy: Mine
Firefly: Too Close
HP: Ghosts
NCIS: Finding What's Missing
HL: Brothers in Blood
~July~ (8)
SG1: Sympathy vs. Empathy
LOTR: Epilogue
HP: Sirius/Remus, full moon
DC: Ambrosius/Kevin, contract fulfillment
FAKE: Dee/Ryo, handcuffs & gun play
WK: Yoji/Aya, feeling alive
Eureka: Jack/Fargo, father figure
HP: An Abundance of Nevilles
~August~ (3)
SW: Lost & Found
HP: Too Many Cooks Part 16
HP: Too Many Cooks Part 17
~September~ (6)
HP: Sabotage
HP: Surprises in the Middle of Nowhere
NCIS: With His Back to the Wall
NCIS: Someone Should Say Something
HP: Knowledge is Power
HPL Rescue
~October~ (11)
HP: Control
HP: Being Oblivious
HP: Suffering in Silence
Firefly: Short Attention Span
TW: Gift for Lady Korana (Holiday 2007)
HP: Things You Know
TW: Snapshots
HP: Ironic
HP: Keepers in the Moonlight
HP: Discovery
HP: 'Puffs and Pixie Fever
~November~ (7)
HP: Page 48
LOTR: Legolas/Gimli, spouse
HP: Remus/Sirius, confessions
SW: Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, using the braid as a leash
HP: Tall, Dark Stranger
HP: It's In the Stars
HP: Knowing What's Best
~December~ (17)
HP: No Kidding
SW: Day 1
HP: Day 2
Twilight: Day 3
NCIS: Day 4
HP: Day 5
TW: Day 6
HP: The Hangover
TW: Day 7
HH: Day 8
Buffy: Day 9
HP: First Member of the Real Slug Club
HP: Day 10
PB: Day 12
Castle: Day 11
HP: Bonus 1
Merlin: Bonus 2
My Favorite: It's not possible to choose! I fell in love with the characters in Oliver Wood and Puddlemere United on Tour (I have 2 more stories with those characters planned). I'm really happy to pick up Too Many Cooks as well, because I absolutely love that series. Oh! Wait, wait. Darkest Nights Turn Into Dawns. Definitely my favorite.
Most Proud of: Hmmm. These aren't so much stories as fic-related achievements I'm proud I finished all of my 12 Ficlets in 12 Days stories in record time. And I'm proud I managed to write pretty okay drabbles/ficlets/fics for every week of the Daisy Chain of Awesome and post them all on time, even though some of those pairings were crazy-awful and I had to write them during NaNoWriMo as well! I'm proud I finished Lady K's multi-part Legolas/Gimli gift. And I'm proud I completed the Pervy_Werewolf LMOM for the 5th time running.
My Best: Um, I dunno. Nothing jumps out at me as particularly well-written. I see faults in all of them.
Most Under-Appreciated: Plenty of them never got any feedback at all, so any of those, technically.
Most Fun: The two Highlander poems I did at the beginning of the year were lots of fun to write. Also, I had a lot of fun with the LMOM fics that were inspired by Wizard Rock lyrics. An Abundance of Nevilles was lots of fun, as well.
Sexiest: I'm having a tough time with this one! I don't think I wrote anything this year that screams "sexiest". Maybe one of the Torchwood fics? Day 7 or Snapshots? I like Mine as well.
Single Sexiest Moment: There's a fantasy/masturbation scene in Maybe Tomorrow that I think went well. Lost & Found had its moments as well. And then any of the more heated moments in the fics I listed under "sexiest".
Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you: Day 3, as it's a Twilight fic, maybe? Or, perhaps, one of the Daisy Chain fics. Discovery (Remus/Fudge) and Ironic (Sirius/Fudge) make my head hurt because of the wrongness of the pairings. Rescue (Voldemort/James) was another awful one because of the pairing. And who wants to even think about how, physically, Hagrid & Ginny managed to make love? LOL!
Fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Oh. Hmm. Maybe Being Oblivious, because it was a softer Lucius Malfoy who didn't care as much for blood purity... and I kind of like to think that aspects of his character there are true to him, it was just the situation he found himself in. Or Tall, Dark Stranger, because it dealt with Minerva's past and mistakes she made that made her lose her family. It was interesting to see how certain events like that might make her cold and stern on the outside and wounded beneath. And it was interesting to see how she would react to see how she adapts and tries to take control of an uncontrollable situation.
Hardest to do: Darkest Nights Turn Into Dawns was emotionally draining because of the subject matter, but it turned out nicely so that difficulty came with a reward. Lots of the pairings for the Daisy Chain (if not all of them) were terribly hard! The end of the Lady K gift fic Legolas/Gimli series was pretty tough, too, because there was so much emotion building towards Regret and I still don't think I got the wording anywhere close to where I wanted it.
Biggest disappointment: Page 48. Though it was wonderful to throw Robert in there again, it was a quick, sloppy job and I wish I had given myself more time to work on that fic for Remus' sake!
Biggest surprise: Itchy Back kind of came out of nowhere and turned out nicely even though it didn't take very long to write. And I had no clue when I started Oliver Wood and Puddlemere United On Tour that I would fall in love with the characters so much and want to write more with them. Battles was simple but came together so beautifully that it surprised me (I wish the sequel had turned out as well; I'm pretty much scrapping that one because it's rubbish).
A story I want remembered: I think I've got to say Darkest Nights Turn Into Dawns, once again. I'd say Too Many Cooks as well but that one's not finished yet.
Goals for next year: Finish my 2009 NaNoWiMo attempt. Finish the fics I've promised people. Write more just for fun. Stay on top of bunny generating so I don't have to write as many penalty fics! And just keep up with all the challenges, battles, and Daisy Chain weeks. I really want to write more Strokes-fic. There's just so much I want to do with those characters, including giving Sin his own book (and, I hope, some of the others as well).
EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention With His Back to the Wall in my comments. I'm pretty damn proud of that one!
