Fic in review
Dec. 25th, 2005 03:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravenUrrgh. Having not indulged in the practice for about a week now, beyond salads and fruit and sometimes bread, I want to eat again. In short, I'm unaccountable ravenous and there is absolutely no food in the house at all, beyond about 10kg of miishti from Delhi that have not been noticeably improved by three days in Munich. Therefore Pedar and I are watching Casablanca and being as non-Christmassy as we possibly can. And drinking coffee, because nowhere's open and we shall have to dig into the freezer for food later.
So, my fic year in review:
Stories I wrote this year: These are in the order that I wrote them.
Walking Barefoot To Palestine,
Love Story, Killing The Cat - all Pegasus B
In Blue - Buffy/Angel
Triptych - Battlestar Galactica
Flowers For The Doctor, Bohemian Rose, Effects, Lovers, 'Tis Almost Fairy-Time, After Ever Happily, Children of the Revolution - all Doctor Who, with Bohemian Rose being the first![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
girl_doctor story.
Who Watches The Watchers? - co-written multi-crossover with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
amchau.
The Wolf At The Door - HP
Scratch - Doctor Who (girl!Doctor)
Out Of Africa - SG-1/Doctor Who crossover
Monsoon - Pegasus B
State of Grace - Battlestar Galactica/Doctor Who crossover
Freshers' Week - Pegasus B
The Cat (girl!Doctor), The Sanctity of Ordinary Things, Dancing For Beginners (girl!Doctor), The Bell Jar - all Doctor Who
Another Horsedreamer's Blues - Firefly
Drabbles aren't included but ficlets of more than 700 words are. That's 22 fics in six fandoms. I'm surprised, because I didn't think this was a prolific fic year for me. It totals, very roughly, about 75,000 words, which I suspect is more than last year.
My favorite story this year (of my own): Nothing stands out the way Love Is Not Love did last year, but I think it's probably Effects.
My best story this year: Again, there isn't a stand-out. I think, though, that Love Story is probably one of the best, along with The Sanctity of Ordinary Things.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Trade-off between two stories, here. The Wolf At The Door is HP fandom and it's impossible to get more mainstream than that, but for some reason no-one was reading. The other story is State of Grace, which being a BSG/DW crossover is understandably obscure, so I get it, but still, it's one of my best and it's a shame it is so obscure. Neither of them beat last year's entry though, the entirely invisible Coming Into Being.
Most fun story: The wholegirl_doctor sequence, but among them, Dancing For Beginners.
Sexiest story: Scratch, by virtue of being the only story that actually has any sex in it.
Story with single sexiest moment: Ditto, the sex in Scratch, which is more of a prelude than actual sex, but damn, I am bad at porn.
Hardest story to write: The Sanctity of Ordinary Things. Working with so little canon is hard, and I was distinctly uninspired throughout that fic. Still, I got through it.
Most unintentionally *telling* story: Well, I don't know, but girl!Doctor is more like me sometimes than perhaps she should be.
Most "OHMIGOD HEY *I* WROTE THAT" fanon-turned-canon moment: I had an open-canon fandom this year, but still, I am no Nostradamus. Nothing happened.
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted? I think I wrote about the same amount as I always do, perhaps a little more.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2005? Doctor Who! Firefly I could have predicted, but fic about creaky old British sci-fi with green bubble wrap monsters? Who'd have thought it?
Did you take any writing risks this year? Running with the girl!Doctor thing. I was afraid I would piss people off by basically creating my own version of such a universally-adored character. The response amazed me.
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year? A new girl!Doctor story, with a more serious bent this time. I'd like to do a sober exploration of the change in the Doctor's life, without the emphasis on playing for laughs. There's a new Firefly story I'd like to do, which I already have the plot for; it's a five things that never happened and could be good if I manage to write it right. And lastly, I've been planning, and writing, a Buffy story set in the Normal Again asylum 'verse for almost two years now. I'd like to actuallly finish and post it.
But I don't feel like writing fic right now, or doing work or writing commentaries or anything in particular. I want more time. This, in the meantime, is my only Christmas Invasion icon - three hours to go.
So, my fic year in review:
Stories I wrote this year: These are in the order that I wrote them.
Walking Barefoot To Palestine,
Love Story, Killing The Cat - all Pegasus B
In Blue - Buffy/Angel
Triptych - Battlestar Galactica
Flowers For The Doctor, Bohemian Rose, Effects, Lovers, 'Tis Almost Fairy-Time, After Ever Happily, Children of the Revolution - all Doctor Who, with Bohemian Rose being the first
girl_doctor story.Who Watches The Watchers? - co-written multi-crossover with
amchau.The Wolf At The Door - HP
Scratch - Doctor Who (girl!Doctor)
Out Of Africa - SG-1/Doctor Who crossover
Monsoon - Pegasus B
State of Grace - Battlestar Galactica/Doctor Who crossover
Freshers' Week - Pegasus B
The Cat (girl!Doctor), The Sanctity of Ordinary Things, Dancing For Beginners (girl!Doctor), The Bell Jar - all Doctor Who
Another Horsedreamer's Blues - Firefly
Drabbles aren't included but ficlets of more than 700 words are. That's 22 fics in six fandoms. I'm surprised, because I didn't think this was a prolific fic year for me. It totals, very roughly, about 75,000 words, which I suspect is more than last year.
My favorite story this year (of my own): Nothing stands out the way Love Is Not Love did last year, but I think it's probably Effects.
My best story this year: Again, there isn't a stand-out. I think, though, that Love Story is probably one of the best, along with The Sanctity of Ordinary Things.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Trade-off between two stories, here. The Wolf At The Door is HP fandom and it's impossible to get more mainstream than that, but for some reason no-one was reading. The other story is State of Grace, which being a BSG/DW crossover is understandably obscure, so I get it, but still, it's one of my best and it's a shame it is so obscure. Neither of them beat last year's entry though, the entirely invisible Coming Into Being.
Most fun story: The whole
girl_doctor sequence, but among them, Dancing For Beginners.Sexiest story: Scratch, by virtue of being the only story that actually has any sex in it.
Story with single sexiest moment: Ditto, the sex in Scratch, which is more of a prelude than actual sex, but damn, I am bad at porn.
Hardest story to write: The Sanctity of Ordinary Things. Working with so little canon is hard, and I was distinctly uninspired throughout that fic. Still, I got through it.
Most unintentionally *telling* story: Well, I don't know, but girl!Doctor is more like me sometimes than perhaps she should be.
Most "OHMIGOD HEY *I* WROTE THAT" fanon-turned-canon moment: I had an open-canon fandom this year, but still, I am no Nostradamus. Nothing happened.
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted? I think I wrote about the same amount as I always do, perhaps a little more.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2005? Doctor Who! Firefly I could have predicted, but fic about creaky old British sci-fi with green bubble wrap monsters? Who'd have thought it?
Did you take any writing risks this year? Running with the girl!Doctor thing. I was afraid I would piss people off by basically creating my own version of such a universally-adored character. The response amazed me.
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year? A new girl!Doctor story, with a more serious bent this time. I'd like to do a sober exploration of the change in the Doctor's life, without the emphasis on playing for laughs. There's a new Firefly story I'd like to do, which I already have the plot for; it's a five things that never happened and could be good if I manage to write it right. And lastly, I've been planning, and writing, a Buffy story set in the Normal Again asylum 'verse for almost two years now. I'd like to actuallly finish and post it.
But I don't feel like writing fic right now, or doing work or writing commentaries or anything in particular. I want more time. This, in the meantime, is my only Christmas Invasion icon - three hours to go.
