Fanfic Year in Review 2010
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tarotgalThis is my third time doing this. Here's Year 2008 & Year 2009 if you want to compare.
There's a key in the expredsheet link below saying where each fic was posted, if there's a fic there you want to read and haven't yet.
Fanfic Year in Review: 2010
Total pieces I wrote this year: 80. Pathetic but steady! I was at 81 last year and 98 the year before.
Expredsheet list of all: http://tgsrealm.beastlet.com/yearinreview/FinishedFics10.htm
Fandoms (including crossovers):
Buffy the Vampire Slayer- 4
Firefly- 1
Harry Potter- 61
Horatio Hornblower- 2
Lord of the Rings- 2
NCIS- 5
Original- 1
Psych- 2
Queer as Folk- 1
Star Wars- 1
Torchwood- 1
Once again, Harry Potter with the overwhelming win. LMOM at Pervy_Werewolf got the numbers up bigtime. This is probably the least diverse that this list has ever been or will ever be. Definitely not enough orig fics here; not a single Strokes fic finished!
Challenges, fests, etc. I participated in:
January- Porn Battles on Insane Journal & Dreamwidth
January-March- Daisy Chain of Awesome (wrote 10 stories)
May- Pervy_werewolf's Lusty Month of May (my 6th time trying & 6th time winning. I went back to the 1 fic a day format and for 2011 I won't be writing fics at all!)
July-December- HC_Bingo (Diagonal Win)
October- Harry Potter Halloween gift fic exchange (wrote 1 drabble)
November- NaNoRebel (wrote more than 50,000 words of assorted things)
October-December- 12 Ficlets in 12 Days (wrote 8 of 12 fics during 2010)
Not as many fests and things as usual. Other things occupied my time this year.
Reasons for pieces:
62- Written for fests, challenges, prompts, etc.
11- Written for someone else (request or gift)
7- Written for self, just because
1- Written as penalty for missing a weekly hatching bunny
I still need to focus more on finishing fics just for me. I write a TON of stories like that, it's just that without deadlines, I have little motivation to actually finish them. I think that's my biggest problem that I should work more on.
Ratings:
A wide range, once again, even some het in there thanks to the Daisy Chain of Awesome and one Crossover in there thanks to a Porn Battle.
Monthly Breakdown
~January~ (16)
HP: At the Ministry
Psych: Bonus 3
BTVS: Addiction
HP: Draco/Harry, crying in the bathroom
HP: Percy/Oliver, polishing cloths
LotR: Haldir/Aragorn, you smilied when I took hold
HP: Not a Spare
NCIS: Gibbs/DiNozzo, "a head-slap really shouldn't turn him on"
HP: The Truth
HP: Forgetful
HP/QAF: The Customer is Always Right
HP: My Only Clean Tie
HP: Finding the Cure
HP: I Saw You Coming
HP: The Way to Men's Hearts
Firefly: Hitch
~February~ (11)
HP: Brigidmn's Request 2007
HP: Eyes
HP: The Stuff of Fairy Tales
HP: Not-so-strange Bedfellows
HP: Discovery
BTVS: Brotherly Love
HP: Too Many Cooks Part 17
HP: Lovely Lily
Orig: A Piece of Peace
HP: An Ideal Husband
HP: The Seer
~March~ (2)
HP: Call Me
SW: Half and Half
~April~ (0)
~May~ (31)
HP: Collared
~June~ (0)
~July~ (2)
NCIS: Sleepwalker
BTVS: Torture
~August~ (0)
~September~ (3)
HP: Herbology Marks
NCIS: Tony Tangos with the Vicious Weed
HH: Shop Talk
~October~ (1)
HP: Luck
~November~ (4)
HP: This'll Be Great
HP: Unavoidable
NCIS: Rule 18
HP: Lupin Loved Black
~December~ (9)
HP: Day 1
NCIS: Day 2
Psych: Day 3
LotR: Galu
HP: Day 4
HH: Day 5
TW: Day 6
BtVS: Day 7
HP: Things to Not Mention in the Toast
For the first time in a long time, I went multiple months without finishing fics. I'm not happy about that, but such is life. And it definitely tapered off in the middle of the year and then it was like one last little sprint to finish and post a bunch. LOL
My Favorite: Collared. It was a big undertaking and something I'd been wanting to attempt for a while. It was challenging (so much noncon and abuse and a whole new AU verse with its own set of rules/regulations) and fun (a character who can't speak/can't use magic, men searching for something and finding something) and it was the first time I ever got actual "hate mail" in response to the fates of some of the characters/pairings! I actually have a follow-up to it in the works (not a series, just a one-shot). But, yeah, I'm really proud of it the fic and happy with the result.
Most Proud of: A Piece of Peace. It's the first novel I've finished since, well, maybe 7th or 8th grade (and it's not like I can compare the writing between then and now). I never even managed to finish any of the novels with Robert that I started. Okay, so I finished it in February instead of November, but it was still thrilling to finish!
My Best: Uuuuum, I can never answer this. Some are clever, some are crap, some are pr0n, some are fluff... it's really tough to judge what's "best."
Most Under-Appreciated: I'm actually rather pleased with Unavoidable. I'd never written anything like it before and it was a tough HC_Bingo prompt that I think I did a pretty good job with.
Most Fun: Sleepwalker was a heck of a lot of fun to write. That thing came at me strong and fast and it was so great to play in Xanthe's BDSM-verse for the first time. It actually needs some serious editing at the end, but while I was writing it, I had a blast. Day 1 was a heck of a lot of fun as well; possibly the fastest giftfic I've ever tackled.
Sexiest: Durrr... um... no clue. Sexy is pretty tough to define. I guess I really fancy 'My Only Clean Tie' if a naughty schoolboy romp counts as sexy.
Single Sexiest Moment: Forgetful has a nice moment I like, with Snape kissing Neville's ivy tattoo. And Day 6 has some steamy moments; I love the idea of Alonso kissing Jack after every single sneeze (and I think he could pull it off, too) *EG*
Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you: Things to Not Mention in the Toast, maybe. I hate that I adore every second of Marcus Flint torture in it. LOL
Fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Lots of the Daisy Chain fics would work here. Not a Spare, for example, explores Ced (though that's in an AU, so I don't know how much is shifting and how much is reimagining). Probably Collared. It was fascinating writing Snape from this angle and writing a Remus who's not able to communicate or, well, function as anything but a sex slave.
Hardest to do: Collared was the hardest to pull off, definitely, because I only had a month and had to post a new chapter every single day. But the hardest to physically write was probably Brotherly Love. I wrote a ton of different versions and had people betaread it years back and still I fought with it to get done in something that resembled "good." I am please with how it turned out, but it was a bitch of a piece when I was writing it. It literally took years and years.
Biggest disappointment: I'm totally going to cheat and say that all of the fics I started and didn't finish (and are therefore not on the list) get this label.
Biggest surprise: This'll Be Great was such a short little piece but I think it came out really well. I learned my lesson about trying to write 100 word pieces during NaNoWriMo (the two do NOT mix) but I thought it turned out nicely just the same. And it's funny what little bits of sex talks with friends/roommates in college come back to haunt me in fics years later. LOL
A story I want remembered: Pretty much any of them! Definitely Collared, though, if I had to name one.
Goals from last year: Finish my 2009 NaNoWiMo attempt. Check! Finish the fics I've promised people. Managed a couple, still failing on the others. Write more just for fun. My "for fun" number is up slightly, but not nearly where I'd hoped it would be when I set this goal. Stay on top of bunny generating so I don't have to write as many penalty fics! HUGE HUGE HUGE MASSIVE FAIL! I totally dropped the ball with that project. And just keep up with all the challenges, battles, and Daisy Chain weeks. I did manage to get everything done and posted on time in 2010. I'm happy with that. I never missed a single Daisy Chain! I really want to write more Strokes-fic. Faily fail fail. I DID write more Strokes fic. I worked on maybe 8 or 9 different fics throughout the year. But I didn't really finish any of them (at least, not to my satisfaction). And there's still so much I want to do. I feel like I made little progress. Though I did work out Auntie Al's backstory, and that's been bugging me for YEARS.
Goals for next year: Dedicate more time to Strokes. Finish all giftfics. Definitely spend more time on fics for my own enjoyment. I'd love to finally get Sin's book together, as I promised him I would. And I'd LOVE to have a good working draft of a YA novel. But that's less a goal and more of a far off dream.
There's a key in the expredsheet link below saying where each fic was posted, if there's a fic there you want to read and haven't yet.
Fanfic Year in Review: 2010
Total pieces I wrote this year: 80. Pathetic but steady! I was at 81 last year and 98 the year before.
Expredsheet list of all: http://tgsrealm.beastlet.com/yearinreview/FinishedFics10.htm
Fandoms (including crossovers):
Buffy the Vampire Slayer- 4
Firefly- 1
Harry Potter- 61
Horatio Hornblower- 2
Lord of the Rings- 2
NCIS- 5
Original- 1
Psych- 2
Queer as Folk- 1
Star Wars- 1
Torchwood- 1
Once again, Harry Potter with the overwhelming win. LMOM at Pervy_Werewolf got the numbers up bigtime. This is probably the least diverse that this list has ever been or will ever be. Definitely not enough orig fics here; not a single Strokes fic finished!
Challenges, fests, etc. I participated in:
January- Porn Battles on Insane Journal & Dreamwidth
January-March- Daisy Chain of Awesome (wrote 10 stories)
May- Pervy_werewolf's Lusty Month of May (my 6th time trying & 6th time winning. I went back to the 1 fic a day format and for 2011 I won't be writing fics at all!)
July-December- HC_Bingo (Diagonal Win)
October- Harry Potter Halloween gift fic exchange (wrote 1 drabble)
November- NaNoRebel (wrote more than 50,000 words of assorted things)
October-December- 12 Ficlets in 12 Days (wrote 8 of 12 fics during 2010)
Not as many fests and things as usual. Other things occupied my time this year.
Reasons for pieces:
62- Written for fests, challenges, prompts, etc.
11- Written for someone else (request or gift)
7- Written for self, just because
1- Written as penalty for missing a weekly hatching bunny
I still need to focus more on finishing fics just for me. I write a TON of stories like that, it's just that without deadlines, I have little motivation to actually finish them. I think that's my biggest problem that I should work more on.
Ratings:
A wide range, once again, even some het in there thanks to the Daisy Chain of Awesome and one Crossover in there thanks to a Porn Battle.
Monthly Breakdown
~January~ (16)
HP: At the Ministry
Psych: Bonus 3
BTVS: Addiction
HP: Draco/Harry, crying in the bathroom
HP: Percy/Oliver, polishing cloths
LotR: Haldir/Aragorn, you smilied when I took hold
HP: Not a Spare
NCIS: Gibbs/DiNozzo, "a head-slap really shouldn't turn him on"
HP: The Truth
HP: Forgetful
HP/QAF: The Customer is Always Right
HP: My Only Clean Tie
HP: Finding the Cure
HP: I Saw You Coming
HP: The Way to Men's Hearts
Firefly: Hitch
~February~ (11)
HP: Brigidmn's Request 2007
HP: Eyes
HP: The Stuff of Fairy Tales
HP: Not-so-strange Bedfellows
HP: Discovery
BTVS: Brotherly Love
HP: Too Many Cooks Part 17
HP: Lovely Lily
Orig: A Piece of Peace
HP: An Ideal Husband
HP: The Seer
~March~ (2)
HP: Call Me
SW: Half and Half
~April~ (0)
~May~ (31)
HP: Collared
~June~ (0)
~July~ (2)
NCIS: Sleepwalker
BTVS: Torture
~August~ (0)
~September~ (3)
HP: Herbology Marks
NCIS: Tony Tangos with the Vicious Weed
HH: Shop Talk
~October~ (1)
HP: Luck
~November~ (4)
HP: This'll Be Great
HP: Unavoidable
NCIS: Rule 18
HP: Lupin Loved Black
~December~ (9)
HP: Day 1
NCIS: Day 2
Psych: Day 3
LotR: Galu
HP: Day 4
HH: Day 5
TW: Day 6
BtVS: Day 7
HP: Things to Not Mention in the Toast
For the first time in a long time, I went multiple months without finishing fics. I'm not happy about that, but such is life. And it definitely tapered off in the middle of the year and then it was like one last little sprint to finish and post a bunch. LOL
My Favorite: Collared. It was a big undertaking and something I'd been wanting to attempt for a while. It was challenging (so much noncon and abuse and a whole new AU verse with its own set of rules/regulations) and fun (a character who can't speak/can't use magic, men searching for something and finding something) and it was the first time I ever got actual "hate mail" in response to the fates of some of the characters/pairings! I actually have a follow-up to it in the works (not a series, just a one-shot). But, yeah, I'm really proud of it the fic and happy with the result.
Most Proud of: A Piece of Peace. It's the first novel I've finished since, well, maybe 7th or 8th grade (and it's not like I can compare the writing between then and now). I never even managed to finish any of the novels with Robert that I started. Okay, so I finished it in February instead of November, but it was still thrilling to finish!
My Best: Uuuuum, I can never answer this. Some are clever, some are crap, some are pr0n, some are fluff... it's really tough to judge what's "best."
Most Under-Appreciated: I'm actually rather pleased with Unavoidable. I'd never written anything like it before and it was a tough HC_Bingo prompt that I think I did a pretty good job with.
Most Fun: Sleepwalker was a heck of a lot of fun to write. That thing came at me strong and fast and it was so great to play in Xanthe's BDSM-verse for the first time. It actually needs some serious editing at the end, but while I was writing it, I had a blast. Day 1 was a heck of a lot of fun as well; possibly the fastest giftfic I've ever tackled.
Sexiest: Durrr... um... no clue. Sexy is pretty tough to define. I guess I really fancy 'My Only Clean Tie' if a naughty schoolboy romp counts as sexy.
Single Sexiest Moment: Forgetful has a nice moment I like, with Snape kissing Neville's ivy tattoo. And Day 6 has some steamy moments; I love the idea of Alonso kissing Jack after every single sneeze (and I think he could pull it off, too) *EG*
Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you: Things to Not Mention in the Toast, maybe. I hate that I adore every second of Marcus Flint torture in it. LOL
Fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Lots of the Daisy Chain fics would work here. Not a Spare, for example, explores Ced (though that's in an AU, so I don't know how much is shifting and how much is reimagining). Probably Collared. It was fascinating writing Snape from this angle and writing a Remus who's not able to communicate or, well, function as anything but a sex slave.
Hardest to do: Collared was the hardest to pull off, definitely, because I only had a month and had to post a new chapter every single day. But the hardest to physically write was probably Brotherly Love. I wrote a ton of different versions and had people betaread it years back and still I fought with it to get done in something that resembled "good." I am please with how it turned out, but it was a bitch of a piece when I was writing it. It literally took years and years.
Biggest disappointment: I'm totally going to cheat and say that all of the fics I started and didn't finish (and are therefore not on the list) get this label.
Biggest surprise: This'll Be Great was such a short little piece but I think it came out really well. I learned my lesson about trying to write 100 word pieces during NaNoWriMo (the two do NOT mix) but I thought it turned out nicely just the same. And it's funny what little bits of sex talks with friends/roommates in college come back to haunt me in fics years later. LOL
A story I want remembered: Pretty much any of them! Definitely Collared, though, if I had to name one.
Goals from last year: Finish my 2009 NaNoWiMo attempt. Check! Finish the fics I've promised people. Managed a couple, still failing on the others. Write more just for fun. My "for fun" number is up slightly, but not nearly where I'd hoped it would be when I set this goal. Stay on top of bunny generating so I don't have to write as many penalty fics! HUGE HUGE HUGE MASSIVE FAIL! I totally dropped the ball with that project. And just keep up with all the challenges, battles, and Daisy Chain weeks. I did manage to get everything done and posted on time in 2010. I'm happy with that. I never missed a single Daisy Chain! I really want to write more Strokes-fic. Faily fail fail. I DID write more Strokes fic. I worked on maybe 8 or 9 different fics throughout the year. But I didn't really finish any of them (at least, not to my satisfaction). And there's still so much I want to do. I feel like I made little progress. Though I did work out Auntie Al's backstory, and that's been bugging me for YEARS.
Goals for next year: Dedicate more time to Strokes. Finish all giftfics. Definitely spend more time on fics for my own enjoyment. I'd love to finally get Sin's book together, as I promised him I would. And I'd LOVE to have a good working draft of a YA novel. But that's less a goal and more of a far off dream.
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Date: 2011-01-01 11:19 am (UTC)80's a Very impressive number; more than I've ever managed in a year, I think. Good for you!
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Date: 2011-01-01 05:37 pm (UTC)It's here: http://community.livejournal.com/flashslash/280868.html
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Date: 2011-01-01 05:46 pm (UTC)