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2020 fic writing meme
I almost never get this done before the middle of January, but hey, not going anywhere/doing anything for the holidays, but this is what I posted in 2020:
loving you whether whether === MCU, Darcy/Sam (~3700 words / 1 chapter)
all your perfect imperfections === Star Trek: Discovery, Chris Pike/Sylvia Tilly (~60,800 words written/posted in 2020)
never spend all your love === The Old Guard, gen, Joe/Nicky (~5475 words)
kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight === The Old Guard, gen, Joe/Nicky (~12,000 words)
taste salt on the humid wind === The Old Guard, Joe/Nicky (~7000 words)
baby, won't you swing it with me === MCU, Darcy/Steve (~14,200 words / 5 chapters posted in 2020)
So, that's almost 103,000 words, not counting all the stuff I wrote on random other, still unfinished files across all kinds of fandoms (plus original).
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you never would've guessed? Joe and Nicky from The Old Guard were a lovely surprise.
What's your own favorite story of the year? Finishing imperfections was a huge deal to my stressed-out, pandemic brain so that puts it at the top of the list, but I really loved all of the things I posted this year.
Did you take any writing risks this year? Not really; I save my risk-taking for telling VPs that their ideas about information architecture are laughable.
My best story of this year: imperfections got a lot more into things than I really expected.
My most popular story of this year: never spend all your love -- found family + caretaking, ftw
Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Pike/Tilly is just a ridiculously niche pairing, so not many people were even looking for imperfections
Most fun story to write: I'm having a really good time with Steve and Darcy in baby, won't you swing it with me.
Story with the single sexiest moment: Nicky and Joe *finally* getting some sexytimes after the events of the movie.
Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: I was even more boringly vanilla this year than usual. I mean, there's a big age difference in imperfections, but I don't think it's a toxic one.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: I don't think it shifted anything, but I was bouncing back and forth between Nicky and Joe POVs in kick at the darkness and it made me think really hard about how they approach the same event with different personalities.
Hardest story to write: Trying to figure out how to get Pike into the last chapter of imperfections while he was basically in a coma for it.
Biggest Disappointment: All of the things that did not get done. Againagain.
Biggest Surprise: kick at the darkness -- I *thought* I was writing a PWP but my brain insisted on all that backstory before it continued on to the sex in taste salt.
Most Unintentionally Telling Story: hahahahaha, I think I wrote imperfections in part because I spent so much time the summer before I started it in a world-class rehab hospital and it just bothered me that we were stuck with a 60s-era medical outcome for Pike after watching what's possible now.
Fic-writing goals for 2021: Keep this momentum!
Previous years: 2019 |2018 |2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004
loving you whether whether === MCU, Darcy/Sam (~3700 words / 1 chapter)
all your perfect imperfections === Star Trek: Discovery, Chris Pike/Sylvia Tilly (~60,800 words written/posted in 2020)
never spend all your love === The Old Guard, gen, Joe/Nicky (~5475 words)
kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight === The Old Guard, gen, Joe/Nicky (~12,000 words)
taste salt on the humid wind === The Old Guard, Joe/Nicky (~7000 words)
baby, won't you swing it with me === MCU, Darcy/Steve (~14,200 words / 5 chapters posted in 2020)
So, that's almost 103,000 words, not counting all the stuff I wrote on random other, still unfinished files across all kinds of fandoms (plus original).
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you never would've guessed? Joe and Nicky from The Old Guard were a lovely surprise.
What's your own favorite story of the year? Finishing imperfections was a huge deal to my stressed-out, pandemic brain so that puts it at the top of the list, but I really loved all of the things I posted this year.
Did you take any writing risks this year? Not really; I save my risk-taking for telling VPs that their ideas about information architecture are laughable.
My best story of this year: imperfections got a lot more into things than I really expected.
My most popular story of this year: never spend all your love -- found family + caretaking, ftw
Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Pike/Tilly is just a ridiculously niche pairing, so not many people were even looking for imperfections
Most fun story to write: I'm having a really good time with Steve and Darcy in baby, won't you swing it with me.
Story with the single sexiest moment: Nicky and Joe *finally* getting some sexytimes after the events of the movie.
Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: I was even more boringly vanilla this year than usual. I mean, there's a big age difference in imperfections, but I don't think it's a toxic one.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: I don't think it shifted anything, but I was bouncing back and forth between Nicky and Joe POVs in kick at the darkness and it made me think really hard about how they approach the same event with different personalities.
Hardest story to write: Trying to figure out how to get Pike into the last chapter of imperfections while he was basically in a coma for it.
Biggest Disappointment: All of the things that did not get done. Againagain.
Biggest Surprise: kick at the darkness -- I *thought* I was writing a PWP but my brain insisted on all that backstory before it continued on to the sex in taste salt.
Most Unintentionally Telling Story: hahahahaha, I think I wrote imperfections in part because I spent so much time the summer before I started it in a world-class rehab hospital and it just bothered me that we were stuck with a 60s-era medical outcome for Pike after watching what's possible now.
Fic-writing goals for 2021: Keep this momentum!
Previous years: 2019 |2018 |2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004