OCD in Fandom
Jan. 11th, 2019 03:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedibuttercupOne of the side effects of being a touch OCD in my fic writing is that -- in addition to getting frequently stuck on details I feel like I haven't yet sufficiently researched -- I can also put my fingers on a lot of obsessively organized facts at the click of an Access query.
For example: I keep a list of all fic titles I've ever used. It also contains a column for what I call the 'clipped title' (using a formula to remove all initial punctuation or articles) by which I sort. This is the only reason I have never accidentally duplicated a fic title. [This list is currently 962 titles long.]
This list also has columns for completed fic posting date, wordcount, whether it's a crossover, fandom(s), POV (1st/3rd), POV (gender), tense (past/present), rating, and what type of ship it is. [This is how I can tell you that about half the words I wrote last year were from a female character's perspective; that gen is still my most popular category by far; and that I have written 20 stories that are exactly 3,000 words in length.]
In two months, I'll have been active in fandom for seventeen years: 2,170,457 words posted since March 13, 2002.
*cracks knuckles* Here's hoping I'm still going in another seventeen years. Though I think the list is going to be even more unwieldy by then. :)
For example: I keep a list of all fic titles I've ever used. It also contains a column for what I call the 'clipped title' (using a formula to remove all initial punctuation or articles) by which I sort. This is the only reason I have never accidentally duplicated a fic title. [This list is currently 962 titles long.]
This list also has columns for completed fic posting date, wordcount, whether it's a crossover, fandom(s), POV (1st/3rd), POV (gender), tense (past/present), rating, and what type of ship it is. [This is how I can tell you that about half the words I wrote last year were from a female character's perspective; that gen is still my most popular category by far; and that I have written 20 stories that are exactly 3,000 words in length.]
In two months, I'll have been active in fandom for seventeen years: 2,170,457 words posted since March 13, 2002.
*cracks knuckles* Here's hoping I'm still going in another seventeen years. Though I think the list is going to be even more unwieldy by then. :)
