Looking back on 2013 Writing Meme
I meant to do this before the year slipped over, but it's been a dead-brained week.
Hello, journal, haven't seen or used you in a while. Writing this year was posted almost entirely to AO3, so using numbers from there.
Total number of completed stories:
Fourteen. That's...a lot less than the number of 100+ back in 2012. To be fair, most of these are mammoth fics, and few are smaller than 500 words. ... Actually, none are. The writing fragments didn't get posted, see, and I didn't do any drabbles or comment-fics, really.
Total word count:
65,010 words posted on AO3, not counting any fragments I've put on my tumblr or left in the WIP pile. Considering that I like most of what I wrote this year? I'm pretty proud of it!
Overall Thoughts
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
I don't know what I was expecting. It's a lot - I was not expecting that many longfics, or was I expecting...so few smaller fics. I usually have a lot of ficlets and drabbles cluttering things up, but nope. Not this year. Huh.
What's your own favorite story of the year?
say nothing; share nothing
Hands down my favorite fic I've written this year - I adore bits of my other stuff, but this is the one I'm most proud of. It was written in the zone, it was magical, I loved it. I also did something I haven't done before with it - I wrote a first draft, then stripped it of all lines that were clunky and rewrote it from there. And it was miles better than it had any right to be.
It also helps that I loooooooooooooooooove soulbonds and soulbonding in general. :)
Did you take any writing risks this year?
I...completed a bang? Does that count? Hum. I don't think I really took risks this year? I mean, maybe in the plotting department.
Ah. I did start a five-story arc this December that I haven't posted any yet, but it's a risk in that the plotting demands that the first story in the arc - well, it's disconnected from the rest of the story until the plot-threads realign. So if I can pull that off, it'll be a successful risk.
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
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trope_bingo so I can have a second card.
- Finish dragonfic - all five parts of it.
- Write a sci-fi story so I can attempt to send it to a magazine.
- Write more than one original piece this year. I've got the characters and the stories - let's get them on paper.
- Finish things I set out to write.
Best & Worst Of
My best story of this year:
I've already answered this question - I consider say nothing; share nothing to be the best-written thing of the year - so let's go with most popular. Nothing can top last year's mega-hit How To Excel At Supervillainy (and lose your heart to America) as it's got over 32k hits now and 1,528 kudos. I don't know if I'll ever write anything more popular than that, frankly.
But 2013. The most popular fic of 2013 was percolating, aka coffeeshop Steve/Tony au, fandom catnip. What makes this fic interesting to me is the vigilante!Tony aspect - but either way. Ironfries actually recced this on her tumblr, which drew in more readers, and well! I'm glad. I like it when people enjoy my stuff. :)
My most popular story of this year:
....
....
Maybe I should read the questions in advance before I answer them.
Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
they name dragons, aka the convoluted fantasy AU that might have worked better as an original fic entirely disconnected from Tony and Bruce, but oh well. I really, really, REALLY like parts of it and feel that more people should have read it, but to be fair, it is 15k.
Most fun story to write:
Half-tempted to put down 'writing isn't fun come on' here, but it is sometimes! I had a lot of fun writing...well, a lot of these. More fun plotting them, but I do enjoy it when the words are flowing.
Story with the single sexiest moment:
I don't know. I wrote a few smutty pieces this year, but on the whole there wasn't much in the way of eroticism. Bad answer? Bad answer.
I'll go with to prevent flight for mental images, because hot damn, metal wings! I know there's no smut in it, but who cares? Not me!
Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
Ehhhhhh. Let's say opia. Why? Because it presents the idea that the gamma radiation experiment/accident turned Bruce's daemon into the Hulk, and that's. That's horrifying, frankly. Having your soul lashing out and attacking people like that? Brrrrrrrr.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
Displacement, hands-down. In-fact, it really brought me a new perspective on Bruce, and Steve - legete's meta on the two led almost directly to the fic's creation, as a matter of fact.
Truth be told, it's usually not the writing that changes my perspective on the characters - it's the meta and plotting and thinking I do before and after that does. And then I kick myself because I've fouled up IC-ness so badly because I hadn't realized something yet.
Hardest story to write:
Displacement. 3/4ths of the way through I had a burn-out and it took a lot of pain to get that thing done in time for the deadline. But I did finish it! Ha!
Biggest Disappointment:
My WIP pile.
No, I'm not kidding. Some of my fave stuff is in there, forever to be un-posted and unread.
Biggest Surprise:
...Hoo. The fact that I finished Displacement? The fact that I wrote fem!Steve/Peggy?
No, no. It's the fact that I wrote sad Steve in snow - I think it was almost a thousand words of it? - and I did it unprompted because of a mental image...and I can never post it because it's part of an AU I've got plotted but writing it would take for-ev-er.
sigh, self. sigh.
Most Unintentionally Telling Story:
Life Model Matchmaker. Why? Because the thing was written in a feverish 3-5 hours and posted and it's directly from my subconscious. No, I haven't reread it since it went up. Could be gibberish for all I know.
Short version:
I like what I wrote this year, I came up with a lot of ideas this year, and I hope to do more this year. Also, heeeey let's do original stuff this year. Certainly can't hurt!
Hello, journal, haven't seen or used you in a while. Writing this year was posted almost entirely to AO3, so using numbers from there.
Total number of completed stories:
Fourteen. That's...a lot less than the number of 100+ back in 2012. To be fair, most of these are mammoth fics, and few are smaller than 500 words. ... Actually, none are. The writing fragments didn't get posted, see, and I didn't do any drabbles or comment-fics, really.
Total word count:
65,010 words posted on AO3, not counting any fragments I've put on my tumblr or left in the WIP pile. Considering that I like most of what I wrote this year? I'm pretty proud of it!
Overall Thoughts
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
I don't know what I was expecting. It's a lot - I was not expecting that many longfics, or was I expecting...so few smaller fics. I usually have a lot of ficlets and drabbles cluttering things up, but nope. Not this year. Huh.
What's your own favorite story of the year?
say nothing; share nothing
Hands down my favorite fic I've written this year - I adore bits of my other stuff, but this is the one I'm most proud of. It was written in the zone, it was magical, I loved it. I also did something I haven't done before with it - I wrote a first draft, then stripped it of all lines that were clunky and rewrote it from there. And it was miles better than it had any right to be.
It also helps that I loooooooooooooooooove soulbonds and soulbonding in general. :)
Did you take any writing risks this year?
I...completed a bang? Does that count? Hum. I don't think I really took risks this year? I mean, maybe in the plotting department.
Ah. I did start a five-story arc this December that I haven't posted any yet, but it's a risk in that the plotting demands that the first story in the arc - well, it's disconnected from the rest of the story until the plot-threads realign. So if I can pull that off, it'll be a successful risk.
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
- Pull off
- Finish dragonfic - all five parts of it.
- Write a sci-fi story so I can attempt to send it to a magazine.
- Write more than one original piece this year. I've got the characters and the stories - let's get them on paper.
- Finish things I set out to write.
Best & Worst Of
My best story of this year:
I've already answered this question - I consider say nothing; share nothing to be the best-written thing of the year - so let's go with most popular. Nothing can top last year's mega-hit How To Excel At Supervillainy (and lose your heart to America) as it's got over 32k hits now and 1,528 kudos. I don't know if I'll ever write anything more popular than that, frankly.
But 2013. The most popular fic of 2013 was percolating, aka coffeeshop Steve/Tony au, fandom catnip. What makes this fic interesting to me is the vigilante!Tony aspect - but either way. Ironfries actually recced this on her tumblr, which drew in more readers, and well! I'm glad. I like it when people enjoy my stuff. :)
My most popular story of this year:
....
....
Maybe I should read the questions in advance before I answer them.
Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
they name dragons, aka the convoluted fantasy AU that might have worked better as an original fic entirely disconnected from Tony and Bruce, but oh well. I really, really, REALLY like parts of it and feel that more people should have read it, but to be fair, it is 15k.
Most fun story to write:
Half-tempted to put down 'writing isn't fun come on' here, but it is sometimes! I had a lot of fun writing...well, a lot of these. More fun plotting them, but I do enjoy it when the words are flowing.
Story with the single sexiest moment:
I don't know. I wrote a few smutty pieces this year, but on the whole there wasn't much in the way of eroticism. Bad answer? Bad answer.
I'll go with to prevent flight for mental images, because hot damn, metal wings! I know there's no smut in it, but who cares? Not me!
Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
Ehhhhhh. Let's say opia. Why? Because it presents the idea that the gamma radiation experiment/accident turned Bruce's daemon into the Hulk, and that's. That's horrifying, frankly. Having your soul lashing out and attacking people like that? Brrrrrrrr.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
Displacement, hands-down. In-fact, it really brought me a new perspective on Bruce, and Steve - legete's meta on the two led almost directly to the fic's creation, as a matter of fact.
Truth be told, it's usually not the writing that changes my perspective on the characters - it's the meta and plotting and thinking I do before and after that does. And then I kick myself because I've fouled up IC-ness so badly because I hadn't realized something yet.
Hardest story to write:
Displacement. 3/4ths of the way through I had a burn-out and it took a lot of pain to get that thing done in time for the deadline. But I did finish it! Ha!
Biggest Disappointment:
My WIP pile.
No, I'm not kidding. Some of my fave stuff is in there, forever to be un-posted and unread.
Biggest Surprise:
...Hoo. The fact that I finished Displacement? The fact that I wrote fem!Steve/Peggy?
No, no. It's the fact that I wrote sad Steve in snow - I think it was almost a thousand words of it? - and I did it unprompted because of a mental image...and I can never post it because it's part of an AU I've got plotted but writing it would take for-ev-er.
sigh, self. sigh.
Most Unintentionally Telling Story:
Life Model Matchmaker. Why? Because the thing was written in a feverish 3-5 hours and posted and it's directly from my subconscious. No, I haven't reread it since it went up. Could be gibberish for all I know.
Short version:
I like what I wrote this year, I came up with a lot of ideas this year, and I hope to do more this year. Also, heeeey let's do original stuff this year. Certainly can't hurt!