Year of Fic in Review

[jebbypal]

Whew boy, I was resisting this one and it was easy to do at home. But now I'm procrastinating on cleaning my tub so it suddenly seems.....well, you know. So here goes.



Farscape
Twin Regrets -- the original vignette
Twin Regrets -- Farscape/Firefly xover WIP
Unnamed Twin Regrets Sequel -- Farscape/Firefly xover WIP that my muse refuses to quite badgering me with.

Firefly
Camouflage -- the unending WIP that the muse refuses to cooperate on.
Mouths of Oracles - applebits challenge-
Heart of the Dilemma - 2004 Serenity Santa gift to inlovewithnight-
Unexpected - 2005 WIP serenity santa gift to llembas (try not to be discouraged by my number of WIP, dear. I've yet to abandon one that I've started posting on lj.)
Horror House of Gingerbread -- light it challenge. (and one I totally forgot about!)-
-Karma -- fffriday challenge
-Not Quite Right -- fffriday challenge
-Nerves
-Bad Luck
-If I Only Had a Brain

20weeks challenge answers:
-Rebirth
-Though Shalt Not Covet
-Fools and Old Ships
-Reflections of the Soul
-Revisions of a Life
joss100
-The Interview
-Blood Vengeneance
-Marble Ghosts
-Past Consequences
-Crosses of Life
serenitysummer challenges
Train Job week
-To Honor and Obey
secondary characters and Trash
Not Quite Right
-Entitlement
-Intolerable
-The First Interview
-The Law



Stories completed this year: Thank god this doesn't have a length definition. Let's see, 23 if I counted right.

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
Umm, I guess I"m not a writer yet, cause I didn't predict anything. But I guess less because I swore I'd have finished Camo by now.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted January 2005?
Farscape, I hadn't started watching it then. And Inara/Jayne. Although I'd tossed it around, I'd never dreamed i would DO it.

What's your favorite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest.
That's hard. Really hard. I'd have to say a tie between Fools and Old Ships and Crosses of Life. Fools and Old Ships was the first time that I felt that I "got" Kaylee's character even though I wasn't writing from her POV. And Crosses of Life, well, it's just stuck with me and one of the few times that the end product ended up exactly like I'd envisioned.

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
*cue hysterical laughter* Yes.
What did I learn? a) Switching POVs during a story makes writing and remembering it complicated.
b) Doing the same with verb tenses, well, what's a word for beyond complicated?
c) I've gotta stop with the WIP. It's cruel to the audience and driving me batty.
d) My muse has ADD. If I actually manage to plot a story in my head before I get it all written down, the muse loses interest.
e) My muse is a cruel bastard of a frog. *keens over fact that I can't get it back onto camo*
f) Bunnies mutate. Mutated bunnies are scary. Hold me.
g) Yay! I learned how to do introspective in the head story telling. No more talking heads. No more changing POV during the same scene without a scene break.

Umm, that's it, I think.

Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
1) Finish Unexpected ASAP so my giftee doesn't have to wait forever and the bunny doesn't mutate further. *really, it's growing in the corner as we speak. It's scary*
2) Finish Twin Regrets.
3) Pick up lost threads of Camo.
4) Finish joss100 assignment.
5) Badger PT into finishing metacrack just for our own amusement.
6) Resist and flee from any possible BSG, Deadwood, Carnivale bunnies.
7) Hide from anymore crossover bunnies.
8) Does finishing my thesis count as profic? Err, guess I shouldn't append the word "fic" to something that's scientifically based huh?

Umm, now I'm going to go hide in a dark corner and figure out how to convince my muse that I own my brain and not it. Really.