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I know we're not quite at the end of the year, but the chances of me having working internet when we get there are slim, so...
Full-length stories written: 50
Shorts: 11, mostly time-stamp meme fics, plus a whole bunch of tiny comment fics, half of which I don’t think I could find if I had to.
Total word count (including my big bang story): 282,510 words.
Pairing Stats: Slash: 18 John/Cam, 5 John/Rodney, 4 Lorne/Mitchell, 2 John/Lorne, 2 Ronon/Lorne, 1 Colby/Lorne, 1 John/Cam/Lorne, 1 Matt/Mohinder; Femslash: 1 Carter/Cadman, 1 Cadman/Katie Brown, 1 Sora/Teyla, 1 Teyla/Elizabeth, 1 Teyla/Carter, 1 Cadman/Teyla (what does this tell us? That I’m a femslash butterfly).
My favorite story this year (of my own): Less Like Freedom Than You Might Assume because it’s full of people being family and friends, and looking after each other and caring for each other, and because, after five false starts, I ended up really liking it.
My best story this year: I actually don’t know. Maybe Two Weeks, or Never As Bad As Anticipated, which isn’t the best thing I’ve written, but is probably my biggest writing achievement for the year, especially considering how much re-writing went into it. Or, hmm, possibly, Still Running, for actually working out how I wanted to, and for just working and not tipping over into excessive angst too badly.
Story most tragically underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Old-Fashioned Methods, which was pretty much ignored by most people, which is sad, because I like it. It has Teyla and Cadman being kick-ass and rescuing themselves, but then it is female character centric gen, so who knows?
Most fun story: Getting to Know You, which sets up Lorne and Cadman’s friendship. There’s no tragedy, no secret relationships, no prior angst, no giving up something you love, just the two of them being slightly dorky friends and rescuing each other, and I loved writing it.
Most sexy story: I don’t have one. I have stories with sex, but none that I’d say are really sexy. The only possible contender is Red Wine And Hope, since it’s pretty much pwp, but I think Cadman’s too unhappy in it for it to be really sexy.
Story with the single sexiest moment: Last Cigarette, when John and Lorne are smoking and kissing in the dark after a tragedy. It’s not exactly happy sexy, but it’s a lovely visual in my head, all backlit and close.
Most unintentionally telling story: Red Wine and Hope. I pretty much transcribed one time with a girl I used to be involved with, who was exactly like Katie in that story, except that it didn’t all end happily in our case. It’s the only time I’ve ever borrowed my life for a story. Either that or What Happens Next and Snow Day, because I’m channeling what I wish my own father was like, and the kind of relationship and family that I want.
"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for me" story: Ask me again after all the fic exchange reveals have happened. It’s the one I complained about, because I found one scene really hard to write – it’s just not my thing, at all. I’m kind of proud of the end result though.
Story that shifted my own perception of the characters: Settling the Balance, which is a remix of Necessary Things by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
minnow1212, because as much as I’ve always been swayed by a story I read early on in which John actually likes Kavanaugh, I think I’d been swayed back to hating him quite hard by fandom, and this was my ‘actually, he’s not all bad’ story.
Hardest story to write: World Without End. It was all *there* in my head, and it wouldn’t come out on the screen right. It’s still not as right as I want it to be, even after getting kicked by my beta reader, but since I can’t actually put my finger on what’s wrong with it, I’m stuck. Plus, it’s tragic and awful and hopeless, and wasn’t any fun at all to write, because there’s just no hope for a happy ending.
Worst story: Hot Seat. Ugh. I wish I could strike it from my journal (and, I mean, I could, it’s my journal, but it doesn’t seem right. My old King Arthur fic is still up there, after all. Please don’t take that as a reason to go looking for it – I prefer to preserve your opinion of me as a half-decent writer).
Easiest story to write: What Happens Next, which was a lot of fun to write, and so easy once I started, especially considering how much time I spent pondering the prompt with mild dismay. Plus, I completely love little Alex, and I got to write Snow Day, which was even more fun to write, and just flowed in about two hours (bear in mind when I say this that it’s nearly 3000 words long).
Story I'd like to revise (but probably won't): None, I don’t think. There’s a couple I’d like to trash completely, and a couple where I’d like to go back to that universe and write some more, but overall I’m pretty happy with what I’ve written.
Story I wish I'd finished: I started this one with Cadman and Simpson during The Return, which was going to be like Getting to Know You, and set up their relationship and the two of them leaving Atlantis, since I use that a lot – kind of a story about my own fanon – but I was writing it for a challenge and got another idea that worked better and stopped. I’d like to go back and get it done though.
Story I didn't write but swear I will, someday: The one where Cam quits the Air Force instead of joining SG1, and starts up a flying school, but he needs someone to go in with him, and John wasn’t allowed back to Atlantis, so Sam suggests maybe him as he’s hating being at the SGC. And then there’s a slow build courtship, and drinking in the back of their hanger while they talk about Rodney and Atlantis, and then later on, when things are getting better, the two of them having sex in the middle of the afternoon with the windows open and the sun shining, because they’re happy. I’ve got pages of bits of it, but no actual story yet.
Or if not that, then the one with Ford, Lorne, Cadman, and a player to be named later running around Pegasus in season 2, after Ford gets captured and fixed before he manages to leave the city.
Nudge me in 2009, because I’ve been saying I’ll write them all year and haven’t done it, so clearly I need prompting.
Full-length stories written: 50
Shorts: 11, mostly time-stamp meme fics, plus a whole bunch of tiny comment fics, half of which I don’t think I could find if I had to.
Total word count (including my big bang story): 282,510 words.
Pairing Stats: Slash: 18 John/Cam, 5 John/Rodney, 4 Lorne/Mitchell, 2 John/Lorne, 2 Ronon/Lorne, 1 Colby/Lorne, 1 John/Cam/Lorne, 1 Matt/Mohinder; Femslash: 1 Carter/Cadman, 1 Cadman/Katie Brown, 1 Sora/Teyla, 1 Teyla/Elizabeth, 1 Teyla/Carter, 1 Cadman/Teyla (what does this tell us? That I’m a femslash butterfly).
My favorite story this year (of my own): Less Like Freedom Than You Might Assume because it’s full of people being family and friends, and looking after each other and caring for each other, and because, after five false starts, I ended up really liking it.
My best story this year: I actually don’t know. Maybe Two Weeks, or Never As Bad As Anticipated, which isn’t the best thing I’ve written, but is probably my biggest writing achievement for the year, especially considering how much re-writing went into it. Or, hmm, possibly, Still Running, for actually working out how I wanted to, and for just working and not tipping over into excessive angst too badly.
Story most tragically underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Old-Fashioned Methods, which was pretty much ignored by most people, which is sad, because I like it. It has Teyla and Cadman being kick-ass and rescuing themselves, but then it is female character centric gen, so who knows?
Most fun story: Getting to Know You, which sets up Lorne and Cadman’s friendship. There’s no tragedy, no secret relationships, no prior angst, no giving up something you love, just the two of them being slightly dorky friends and rescuing each other, and I loved writing it.
Most sexy story: I don’t have one. I have stories with sex, but none that I’d say are really sexy. The only possible contender is Red Wine And Hope, since it’s pretty much pwp, but I think Cadman’s too unhappy in it for it to be really sexy.
Story with the single sexiest moment: Last Cigarette, when John and Lorne are smoking and kissing in the dark after a tragedy. It’s not exactly happy sexy, but it’s a lovely visual in my head, all backlit and close.
Most unintentionally telling story: Red Wine and Hope. I pretty much transcribed one time with a girl I used to be involved with, who was exactly like Katie in that story, except that it didn’t all end happily in our case. It’s the only time I’ve ever borrowed my life for a story. Either that or What Happens Next and Snow Day, because I’m channeling what I wish my own father was like, and the kind of relationship and family that I want.
"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for me" story: Ask me again after all the fic exchange reveals have happened. It’s the one I complained about, because I found one scene really hard to write – it’s just not my thing, at all. I’m kind of proud of the end result though.
Story that shifted my own perception of the characters: Settling the Balance, which is a remix of Necessary Things by
minnow1212, because as much as I’ve always been swayed by a story I read early on in which John actually likes Kavanaugh, I think I’d been swayed back to hating him quite hard by fandom, and this was my ‘actually, he’s not all bad’ story. Hardest story to write: World Without End. It was all *there* in my head, and it wouldn’t come out on the screen right. It’s still not as right as I want it to be, even after getting kicked by my beta reader, but since I can’t actually put my finger on what’s wrong with it, I’m stuck. Plus, it’s tragic and awful and hopeless, and wasn’t any fun at all to write, because there’s just no hope for a happy ending.
Worst story: Hot Seat. Ugh. I wish I could strike it from my journal (and, I mean, I could, it’s my journal, but it doesn’t seem right. My old King Arthur fic is still up there, after all. Please don’t take that as a reason to go looking for it – I prefer to preserve your opinion of me as a half-decent writer).
Easiest story to write: What Happens Next, which was a lot of fun to write, and so easy once I started, especially considering how much time I spent pondering the prompt with mild dismay. Plus, I completely love little Alex, and I got to write Snow Day, which was even more fun to write, and just flowed in about two hours (bear in mind when I say this that it’s nearly 3000 words long).
Story I'd like to revise (but probably won't): None, I don’t think. There’s a couple I’d like to trash completely, and a couple where I’d like to go back to that universe and write some more, but overall I’m pretty happy with what I’ve written.
Story I wish I'd finished: I started this one with Cadman and Simpson during The Return, which was going to be like Getting to Know You, and set up their relationship and the two of them leaving Atlantis, since I use that a lot – kind of a story about my own fanon – but I was writing it for a challenge and got another idea that worked better and stopped. I’d like to go back and get it done though.
Story I didn't write but swear I will, someday: The one where Cam quits the Air Force instead of joining SG1, and starts up a flying school, but he needs someone to go in with him, and John wasn’t allowed back to Atlantis, so Sam suggests maybe him as he’s hating being at the SGC. And then there’s a slow build courtship, and drinking in the back of their hanger while they talk about Rodney and Atlantis, and then later on, when things are getting better, the two of them having sex in the middle of the afternoon with the windows open and the sun shining, because they’re happy. I’ve got pages of bits of it, but no actual story yet.
Or if not that, then the one with Ford, Lorne, Cadman, and a player to be named later running around Pegasus in season 2, after Ford gets captured and fixed before he manages to leave the city.
Nudge me in 2009, because I’ve been saying I’ll write them all year and haven’t done it, so clearly I need prompting.
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I have to agree about Last Cigarette - you made the desperation/bitterness/weariness of that scene very vivid.
Eeee! *anticipating!* The flying school AU sounds awesome - both of them building something together after both losing something important.
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Let's hope so - I'm at the point where I almost don't want to start writing it, because I' m so used to having the two of them in this universe in the back of my head, and once I've written it, they'll be gone.
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Seriously. Wow. I have no idea what my own is, but I intend to start keeping track of everything this year. Also? There are so many fics you've just mentioned that I haven't read yet! *is gleeful at the prospect of going through them all*
Think I'll catch up with SGA first, though :)
And the story you didn't write, but one day will? So can't wait until you do ;)
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I'm seriously freaked by it - I keep looking at the number and going 'that *cannot* be right'. But it is.
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