2006: My Most Verbose Year Yet
Jan. 20th, 2007 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedibuttercupNow that I have time for it, I'm going to do the fic year in review post for 2006.
2006 was, for me, my best year yet as a fic-writer; with approximately 142,000 words produced of "finished" fic, another 15,000 in WIPs, four awards won in two different awards contests and another eighteen or so nominations, successful completion of seven ficathons, and the # 4 spot for most stories among the thousand-plus writers at Twisting the Hellmouth.
I didn't think I had it in me. And I never would have gotten so much done without all of your enthusiastic comments encouraging me. *hugs f-list*
For the fourth quarter of 2006:
During the last three months of the year (or more accurately October and the first half of November as I was away from the Internet for the last several weeks) I published 23,600 words of "finished" fic in twenty posts and another 7,100 words of WIPs in three posts.
Recapping the first three quarters of 2006:
Not counting the reposting I did for the Saga or the several "Five Things" lists I did (which weren't technically fic), I wrote 118,411 words of "finished" fic in 123 posts between January 1 and September 31, 2006, in addition to 8,765 words' worth in four posts applied to two WIPs.
How this stacks up against previous years:
From January 1 through December 31, 2006, I posted 142,011 words of "finished" fan fiction (complete or stand-alone fragments) in total, not counting the WIP contributions.
In all of 2005, by comparison, I only managed a total of 32,350 words. In 2004, I completed stories totalling 22,000 words; in 2003 I completed stories totalling approximately 48,000 words; in 2002, my initial year as a fic writer, I completed stories totalling about 75,000 words.
An additional note: while virtually all of my fic in 2005 was crossover in nature, only 78.4% of this year's was: I wrote 30,700 words of "finished" fic set in single universes. Progress or regress, you decide. *grin*
I only have 2,900 words posted so far in 2007; I'll have to get cracking if I'm going to match 2006's achievements.
Breakdown of 4th Quarter Fic Posted:
(click the wordcount tag for previous quarters)
The Meme Questions
1. my favorite story this year (of my own):
Oh, so many to choose from! The two Wes+SG-1 stories are up there, as is my Wes-as-Illyria story, but I think in the end I'll have to pick Handle ID: Slayer.
(Yes, my ridiculous series of twenty-one 400-word B:tVS/DOOM ficlets. I enjoyed writing that story far more than the source material warrants. *grin*)
2 my best story this year:
The one I'm most proud of, everything else aside, would have to be In Others' Eyes, a 1250-word River (Firefly) perspective piece. Even rereading it now, it flows better than virtually anything else I wrote all year.
3. the story most underappreciated by the universe:
Strangely Comfortable, my 2500-word Firefly/Boondock Saints fusion story. I'm ridiculously pleased by the way it turned out. Of course, not terribly many people belong to both of those niche fandoms, so that's not such a surprise.
4. most fun story:
Depends whether you mind slash. If you don't, then it'll be The Independent Groom, hands-down. It's a 10,000-word, Firefly-verse Mal/Jayne adaption of "The Princess Bride", with Mal cast as Buttercup. *giggles*
If slash puts you off, then it'll probably be By Any Other Name, my 600-word, Wash-centric Firefly/Jurassic Park crossover. (Thanks again to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lt_kitty for the idea!)
5. sexiest story:
That's hard to judge, since I'm a fan of the fade-to-black. I honestly have no idea.
6. hardest story to write:
Carrying Tales, one of two 1,000-word stories I wrote for the Friendship Ficathon. The fandom is Pirates of the Caribbean, and the POV character is Norrington. I had to chip at it for quite awhile until I was satisfied; I had a lot of trouble getting into his skin
7. most unintentionally telling story:
Hands Against the Dark, probably. I expressed all of my frustration over the Buffy/Giles dynamic, and the whole Buffy/Immortal thing (before the comics declared that Buffy to have been an imposter), in those 3,500 words. I didn't even know how angry I was until I was done writing it. It's Buffy/Van Helsing, by both fandom and pairing.
8. most "OHMIGOD HEY *I* WROTE THAT" fanon-turned-canon moment:
Since I usually write crossovers, or stories set in the past, or stories in "closed" canons, I don't think I really qualify for this question. =)
9. looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would did this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
OMGWTF, definitely more. I think I already answered this question at the top of the post. *grin*
10. what pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in january 2005?
The most unexpected of the list? *snorts* Buffy/Reaper, of the B:tVS/DOOM Handle ID: Slayer, hands-down.
11. did you take any writing risks this year?
Well, yes. See the aforementioned seven ficathons for one example, and several of my stories were written in rather challenging-for-me styles or in fandoms outside of my usual comfort zone. It's the duty of a writer to continually grow their talent, and I think I made some definite progress there. (Feel free to tell me otherwise, of course, if I'm wrong!)
12. do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the new year?
Try to keep up with last year's totals-- and definitely, finally finish the B:tVS/A:tS Lesser Men series and my B:tVS/Firefly Book's Legacy novel-in-progress.
Not to mention the Wes+SG-1 claim I put down at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
tth5000. Whee, 95,000 words left to go in that series! *laughs*
~
2006 was, for me, my best year yet as a fic-writer; with approximately 142,000 words produced of "finished" fic, another 15,000 in WIPs, four awards won in two different awards contests and another eighteen or so nominations, successful completion of seven ficathons, and the # 4 spot for most stories among the thousand-plus writers at Twisting the Hellmouth.
I didn't think I had it in me. And I never would have gotten so much done without all of your enthusiastic comments encouraging me. *hugs f-list*
For the fourth quarter of 2006:
During the last three months of the year (or more accurately October and the first half of November as I was away from the Internet for the last several weeks) I published 23,600 words of "finished" fic in twenty posts and another 7,100 words of WIPs in three posts.
Recapping the first three quarters of 2006:
Not counting the reposting I did for the Saga or the several "Five Things" lists I did (which weren't technically fic), I wrote 118,411 words of "finished" fic in 123 posts between January 1 and September 31, 2006, in addition to 8,765 words' worth in four posts applied to two WIPs.
How this stacks up against previous years:
From January 1 through December 31, 2006, I posted 142,011 words of "finished" fan fiction (complete or stand-alone fragments) in total, not counting the WIP contributions.
In all of 2005, by comparison, I only managed a total of 32,350 words. In 2004, I completed stories totalling 22,000 words; in 2003 I completed stories totalling approximately 48,000 words; in 2002, my initial year as a fic writer, I completed stories totalling about 75,000 words.
An additional note: while virtually all of my fic in 2005 was crossover in nature, only 78.4% of this year's was: I wrote 30,700 words of "finished" fic set in single universes. Progress or regress, you decide. *grin*
I only have 2,900 words posted so far in 2007; I'll have to get cracking if I'm going to match 2006's achievements.
Breakdown of 4th Quarter Fic Posted:
(click the wordcount tag for previous quarters)
| Date | Words | Fandom | Title | ? |
| 2006-10-02 | 1000 | PotC | Carrying Tales | N |
| 2006-10-02 | 1000 | SG-1/SG-A | Interregna | N |
| 2006-10-04 | 300 | BtVS/Pitch Black | Habitual | Y |
| 2006-10-10 | 200 | BtVS/SG-1 | Gently Down the Stream | N |
| 2006-10-13 | 200 | Firefly | All That Matters | N |
| 2006-10-14 | 1700 | SG-1/Highlander | Storm in a Bottle | Y |
| 2006-10-21 | 3500 | Angel/SG-1 | Starting Over | Y |
| 2006-10-23 | 400 | BtVS/Heroes | Crackpot Theories | N |
| 2006-10-25 | 2200 | BtVS/Firefly | Book's Legacy Chapter 7 | W |
| 2006-10-26 | 2500 | BtVS/Firefly | Book's Legacy Chapter 8 | W |
| 2006-10-28 | 2400 | BtVS/Firefly | Book's Legacy Chapter 9 | W |
| 2006-11-01 | 200 | BtVS/SG-1 | Undercover Jaffa | N |
| 2006-11-03 | 850 | BtVS/Where the ♥ is | The Death of a Slayer | N |
| 2006-11-05 | 1250 | Firefly | In Others' Eyes | N |
| 2006-11-06 | 200 | B:tVS/SG-A | Mistaken Identity | N |
| 2006-11-09 | 1000 | Firefly | Picture of Health | N |
| 2006-11-10 | 600 | Angel/LotR | Another Path to Tread | Y |
| 2006-11-10 | 1600 | SG-1/The Mummy | Stranger From the West | ? |
| 2006-11-11 | 1300 | B:tVS/SG-A | Uncle John: Fishing Expeditions | Y |
| 2006-11-11 | 1200 | BtVS/SG-1 | An Unexpected Guest | Y |
| 2006-11-13 | 1400 | SG-A | Trial or Error | N |
| 2006-11-13 | 5000 | Angel/SG-1 | Song and Dance | Y |
| 2006-11-14 | 700 | Angel | The Color of Mourning | N |
The Meme Questions
1. my favorite story this year (of my own):
Oh, so many to choose from! The two Wes+SG-1 stories are up there, as is my Wes-as-Illyria story, but I think in the end I'll have to pick Handle ID: Slayer.
(Yes, my ridiculous series of twenty-one 400-word B:tVS/DOOM ficlets. I enjoyed writing that story far more than the source material warrants. *grin*)
2 my best story this year:
The one I'm most proud of, everything else aside, would have to be In Others' Eyes, a 1250-word River (Firefly) perspective piece. Even rereading it now, it flows better than virtually anything else I wrote all year.
3. the story most underappreciated by the universe:
Strangely Comfortable, my 2500-word Firefly/Boondock Saints fusion story. I'm ridiculously pleased by the way it turned out. Of course, not terribly many people belong to both of those niche fandoms, so that's not such a surprise.
4. most fun story:
Depends whether you mind slash. If you don't, then it'll be The Independent Groom, hands-down. It's a 10,000-word, Firefly-verse Mal/Jayne adaption of "The Princess Bride", with Mal cast as Buttercup. *giggles*
If slash puts you off, then it'll probably be By Any Other Name, my 600-word, Wash-centric Firefly/Jurassic Park crossover. (Thanks again to
lt_kitty for the idea!)5. sexiest story:
That's hard to judge, since I'm a fan of the fade-to-black. I honestly have no idea.
6. hardest story to write:
Carrying Tales, one of two 1,000-word stories I wrote for the Friendship Ficathon. The fandom is Pirates of the Caribbean, and the POV character is Norrington. I had to chip at it for quite awhile until I was satisfied; I had a lot of trouble getting into his skin
7. most unintentionally telling story:
Hands Against the Dark, probably. I expressed all of my frustration over the Buffy/Giles dynamic, and the whole Buffy/Immortal thing (before the comics declared that Buffy to have been an imposter), in those 3,500 words. I didn't even know how angry I was until I was done writing it. It's Buffy/Van Helsing, by both fandom and pairing.
8. most "OHMIGOD HEY *I* WROTE THAT" fanon-turned-canon moment:
Since I usually write crossovers, or stories set in the past, or stories in "closed" canons, I don't think I really qualify for this question. =)
9. looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would did this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
OMGWTF, definitely more. I think I already answered this question at the top of the post. *grin*
10. what pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in january 2005?
The most unexpected of the list? *snorts* Buffy/Reaper, of the B:tVS/DOOM Handle ID: Slayer, hands-down.
11. did you take any writing risks this year?
Well, yes. See the aforementioned seven ficathons for one example, and several of my stories were written in rather challenging-for-me styles or in fandoms outside of my usual comfort zone. It's the duty of a writer to continually grow their talent, and I think I made some definite progress there. (Feel free to tell me otherwise, of course, if I'm wrong!)
12. do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the new year?
Try to keep up with last year's totals-- and definitely, finally finish the B:tVS/A:tS Lesser Men series and my B:tVS/Firefly Book's Legacy novel-in-progress.
Not to mention the Wes+SG-1 claim I put down at
tth5000. Whee, 95,000 words left to go in that series! *laughs*~
