Fic Year in Review 2009
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icepixieAnd because after that last post I was in an introspective mood, have a fanfic year in review meme swiped and modestly modified from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
amaresu.
Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?
It hasn't just been a bumper crop of fic for me this year compared to the last few; it's more like I planted four extra fields and had a bumper crop in all of them.
In other words, this year I wrote eleven fics, one of which went on for some 9,000 words. I expected maybe four. I have a feeling it was because I was back in school for the full year, and as we all know, paper/chapter deadlines are the best motivation for fic. ;)
Where did you publish/archive your stories?
Here. My website. Fanfiction.net. And I started using the Archive of Our Own (AO3) around mid-November.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2009?
Babylon 5 and that one little fic I did for Shall We Dance.
What’s your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.
Hmmm. I'm not totally sure what this says about me, but I'll go for a three-way tie between "Closet Idealism," "The Little Dreams We Dream," and "We Were Very Tired, We Were Very Married." Uh. Bittersweetness makes me happy?
Okay, NOW your most popular story.
I think it was probably "Closet Idealism," but "Amo, Amas, I Love a Lass" has gotten a lot of comments even up till this month, and "Five Things that Never Happened to Susan Ivanova" proved fairly popular as well.
Story most underappreciated by the universe?
I was fairly pleased with the response most things got. I wasn't expecting a lot for "We Were Very Tired," 'cause really, who but me is going to read fic for a musical from 1937, but I wouldn't have complained about getting more, I guess. I also thought "They Didn't Teach This in Grad School" might've gotten more chuckles, but then again I didn't really publicize it much. (Can you tell I don't really write for the comments?)
Story that could have been better?
Something about the pacing of "Morning in Three Movements" still bothers me. And the more I think about it, the more overly florid "Amo, Amas" seems. (Then again, it is from Marcus's POV, and that excuses a lot.)
Sexiest story?
Uh. Have I ever written anything "sexy"? I'm pretty sure I haven't.
Most fun story?
Thinking of "They Didn't Teach This in Grad School" still makes me giggle.
Story with single sweetest moment?
Probably Susan and Michael's reunion in part two of "The Little Dreams," and also their getting back together at the end.
The story that made you cry?
I don't think I've ever cried at a fic I wrote, but the angstiest was probably "The Little Dreams."
Hardest story to write?
Aaaaand it's "The Little Dreams" again. Damn, that was hard. Angst doesn't come naturally to me at all, and B5 is so densely structured that slotting my AU around all the events I wanted to keep was incredibly difficult.
Easiest story to write?
"Language Lessons" was seriously the work of about half an hour, andbessemerprocess gave me most of the idea anyway. Of course, the fact that it's only about 200 words helped a lot...
Most overdue story?
"Every Dance Like a Graph of the Heart" and "Dancing Without Music" had both been sitting on my hard drive for more than two years before I finally finished them up last month. Yeah. I hang on to things.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
I wrote more angst than I have since I was a teenager. It's B5; it infects you. Anyway, I have a deathly fear of sounding melodramatic when I write angst, so I tend to shy away from it. (I like to think of my writing as subtle, lyrical, and witty. Please don't disabuse me of this notion. *g*) For "The Little Dreams," I just embraced it and ran with it, and I think it turned out pretty well. I think it might also be the first shipfic I've written where the characters were seriously in conflict with each other for an appreciable length of time, and once I got over the, "But I want to write fluff!" cravings, it was really interesting to write.
Do you have any fanfic goals for the New Year?
I have a fic for Flying Down to Rio (another Astaire/Rogers film) that I'd like to finish sometime soon, and an idea for some kind of followup to Follow the Fleet (the one I mentioned a while ago, where Sherry and Bake go off and become an AU Ginger and Fred, because that would warm the cockles of my postmodern heart). I have another Michael/Susan fic that's finished and has been beta'd, but has a serious problem in the middle that I have yet to get around to fixing. Maybe that can be my goal for this week.
Beyond that, no particular goals. I've pretty much admitted my serial monogamy when it comes to fandom, so who knows when the next new shiny thing will come along, or what it will be. Plus, I'll be graduating in May and hopefully starting a(nother) job, and who knows what my schedule will be like. And of course there's my latest obsession with vidding...
Wait, okay, one more goal. I have like a dozen more B5 fics sitting on my hard drive, about half of which take place in the "Closet Idealism" universe. I'd like to finish at least one of them.
amaresu.Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?
It hasn't just been a bumper crop of fic for me this year compared to the last few; it's more like I planted four extra fields and had a bumper crop in all of them.
In other words, this year I wrote eleven fics, one of which went on for some 9,000 words. I expected maybe four. I have a feeling it was because I was back in school for the full year, and as we all know, paper/chapter deadlines are the best motivation for fic. ;)
Where did you publish/archive your stories?
Here. My website. Fanfiction.net. And I started using the Archive of Our Own (AO3) around mid-November.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2009?
Babylon 5 and that one little fic I did for Shall We Dance.
What’s your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.
Hmmm. I'm not totally sure what this says about me, but I'll go for a three-way tie between "Closet Idealism," "The Little Dreams We Dream," and "We Were Very Tired, We Were Very Married." Uh. Bittersweetness makes me happy?
Okay, NOW your most popular story.
I think it was probably "Closet Idealism," but "Amo, Amas, I Love a Lass" has gotten a lot of comments even up till this month, and "Five Things that Never Happened to Susan Ivanova" proved fairly popular as well.
Story most underappreciated by the universe?
I was fairly pleased with the response most things got. I wasn't expecting a lot for "We Were Very Tired," 'cause really, who but me is going to read fic for a musical from 1937, but I wouldn't have complained about getting more, I guess. I also thought "They Didn't Teach This in Grad School" might've gotten more chuckles, but then again I didn't really publicize it much. (Can you tell I don't really write for the comments?)
Story that could have been better?
Something about the pacing of "Morning in Three Movements" still bothers me. And the more I think about it, the more overly florid "Amo, Amas" seems. (Then again, it is from Marcus's POV, and that excuses a lot.)
Sexiest story?
Uh. Have I ever written anything "sexy"? I'm pretty sure I haven't.
Most fun story?
Thinking of "They Didn't Teach This in Grad School" still makes me giggle.
Story with single sweetest moment?
Probably Susan and Michael's reunion in part two of "The Little Dreams," and also their getting back together at the end.
The story that made you cry?
I don't think I've ever cried at a fic I wrote, but the angstiest was probably "The Little Dreams."
Hardest story to write?
Aaaaand it's "The Little Dreams" again. Damn, that was hard. Angst doesn't come naturally to me at all, and B5 is so densely structured that slotting my AU around all the events I wanted to keep was incredibly difficult.
Easiest story to write?
"Language Lessons" was seriously the work of about half an hour, and
bessemerprocess gave me most of the idea anyway. Of course, the fact that it's only about 200 words helped a lot...Most overdue story?
"Every Dance Like a Graph of the Heart" and "Dancing Without Music" had both been sitting on my hard drive for more than two years before I finally finished them up last month. Yeah. I hang on to things.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
I wrote more angst than I have since I was a teenager. It's B5; it infects you. Anyway, I have a deathly fear of sounding melodramatic when I write angst, so I tend to shy away from it. (I like to think of my writing as subtle, lyrical, and witty. Please don't disabuse me of this notion. *g*) For "The Little Dreams," I just embraced it and ran with it, and I think it turned out pretty well. I think it might also be the first shipfic I've written where the characters were seriously in conflict with each other for an appreciable length of time, and once I got over the, "But I want to write fluff!" cravings, it was really interesting to write.
Do you have any fanfic goals for the New Year?
I have a fic for Flying Down to Rio (another Astaire/Rogers film) that I'd like to finish sometime soon, and an idea for some kind of followup to Follow the Fleet (the one I mentioned a while ago, where Sherry and Bake go off and become an AU Ginger and Fred, because that would warm the cockles of my postmodern heart). I have another Michael/Susan fic that's finished and has been beta'd, but has a serious problem in the middle that I have yet to get around to fixing. Maybe that can be my goal for this week.
Beyond that, no particular goals. I've pretty much admitted my serial monogamy when it comes to fandom, so who knows when the next new shiny thing will come along, or what it will be. Plus, I'll be graduating in May and hopefully starting a(nother) job, and who knows what my schedule will be like. And of course there's my latest obsession with vidding...
Wait, okay, one more goal. I have like a dozen more B5 fics sitting on my hard drive, about half of which take place in the "Closet Idealism" universe. I'd like to finish at least one of them.
