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Annual fic meme (2009 edition)
Stories posted this year... (with wordcount)
January
We Happy Few (48,287)
April
Born Every Minute (3,899)
A Fowl Morn (may turn into a fair day) (10,758)
May
Well Played + timestamp (10,955)
Intermezzo (1,888)
June
In the bleak December (2,082)
The Secretary (6,820)
Last Orders (1,549)
Untitled corset porn (386)
A Band of Related Objects (with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cupidsbow) (3,008)
July
Kiss Kiss, Pew Pew (6,040)
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (10,589)
Not with a bang or a whimper + outtake + timestamp (10,171)
August
Performance Review (3,798)
December
First Aid (7,327)
Proxy (1,702)
Kiss the Boys Goodbye (472)
Worked on, but not finished or published:
Fluff fic for 12 Days of Cliche (1,179)
Snippety idea for a cliche story (478)
The desk porn (1,351)
The ancient Rome one (998)
The Jack/Ianto/Jack timetravel porn (1,725)
'In the bleak December' timestamp (823)
The Cyberwoman threesome AU (9,680)
The Owen/Tosh/Ianto with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
amand_r (2,064)
Alien!Ianto snippet for one ofcupidsbow's storytimes (906)
Domestic!Jack/Ianto snippet for one ofcupidsbow's storytimes (1,348)
The surprise!tropical holiday story (622)
Tosh/Martha smut (304)
Statistics
Total published words: 129,731
Total written words: 155,209
Total stories/ficlets/snippets published: 20
Ideas that I still really want to write (but haven't started): approx 10
Wordle of total wordcount (top 300 words, excluding common ones--the, in, on, etc):
Click for full-size.
AND NOW FOR THE HARD PART:
My favorite of my own stories this year:
I love Not with a bang or a whimper and its associated extra bits. It was a very therapeutic to write after CoE, and I love the form/structure as well. I really enjoy those snippets of insight into other worlds. I am glad I can still do them occasionally, and not just constant long stories.
My best story this year:
We Happy Few is massively epic. I am absolutely satisfied that I achieved exactly the story I wanted, and can't say that for all of the others.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go. A lot of thinkiness actually went into this one, WRT tone and form and pacing and whatnot, and I was very pleased with myself for writing a story that wasn't about sex, but still pretty intense. I think part of the reason that it didn't get the sort of response that I'd hoped was because I posted it pretty soon after CoE, and fandom was in a completely different sort of headspace. That or it wasn't as impressive as I'd thought it was *g*
Also, I think I felt pretty sad about the small response I got for We Happy Few, considering how much work went into it and how massive it is. But that's probably because I posted it before I was really in the Torchwood fandom. Oh, and it's not Jack/Ianto, so is fic-ona non grata in Torchwood fandom, really.
Most fun story:
We Happy Few, I think. I had so much fun writing it, half because it really ended up as a vehicle to write out all the ridiculous in-joke storytimes I had with my friends after we all watched Torchwood together.
After that, A Fowl Morn was great fun from a character standpoint, The Secretary for similar reasons, and of course setting up the universe of Kiss Kiss, Pew Pew was very delightful.
Most sexy story:
Oh, god. I don't know? Probably The Secretary or Intermezzo or Performance Review? Or, wait! Well Played & its timestamp!
Story with single sexiest moment:
See above. Feel free to nominate. I cannot make such a judgement!
Hardest story to write:
Um, You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome was a lot of hard work, probably because of timing; I was determined to write it and get it right, but CoE (which aired when I was halfway through it) really threw off my equilibrium.
Intermezzo was also hard, though I suppose it was harder to post (and I did do it anonymously at first, yay porn meme), because it was my first very explicit porn.
"Holy crap, that's wrong even for you" fic:
Ok, I have a problem with this question. I have written several fics this year with kinks that are somewhat unconventional, but, yaknow, part of the reason I was writing them in the first place is to explore characters for which kink is the *opposite* of wrong. One of the things that delights me about Jack is his omnisexuality and polymorphous, unconventional glee/arousal in anything (and okay, maybe I'm over-construing that from what canon gives us, but I care not, that's the Jack *I* write about). That's what I love writing about, especially in porn fic - the unashamed delight Jack takes in everything that feeds his polymorphous pleasure.
So anyway. My point is, that^ is the *antithesis* of wrong, <-- and that is the reason I write them in the first place.
So, to rephrase and answer, my kinkiest stories this year were The Secretary (stationary kink!), Born Every Minute (amputee kink!), Untitled corset porn (various!), A Fowl Morn (wing kink!), and I suppose First Aid (medical kink?). There were various other instances of playing with unconventional stuff in other stories as well. Practically all of them, really.
Fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
We Happy Few, because I was very newly into Torchwood and hadn't mused on character a lot, but wasn't particularly worried about that - the story was supposed to be exagerrated and crackish. But thenkarenhealey said things like, "make sure that gwen is as kickass in your fic as she is on the show", and of course, spending 48,000+ words in a character's head forced me to get more engaged with motivations and whatnot.
More recently, First Aid got me thinking about the characters in a way I hadn't for a long while, I think because I'd never written an S1 story before(!). Typically I prefer to write post-S1 stories, where the relationship is established - this is one of the things that draws me to TW and Jack/Ianto in the first place; that there's no need for all the gay panic/first time stories!
But, yes, especially in looking at the way hurt/comfort and post-Countrycide and post-Out of Time fics are written, writing First Aid got me thinking and talking about the way Jack and Ianto deal with their own hurts and vulnerabilities, and each other's. As well as being forced to get into the mind of a Jack who's still waiting for the Doctor.
Biggest disappointment:
That I didn't finish the Cyberwoman AU. I am so freaking determined to get it done, you guys. I want this story to be written. I wish I could have written it before all the rest of the Lisa-is-awesome epics were written, but eh, hopefully it's still relevant.
Biggest surprise:
All the freaking porn writing! And kinky porn writing! I think the characters demand it, but that I'm comfortable and relatively confident about writing and publishing such stuff still kind of takes me aback frequently.
Most telling story:
I always hate this question. What's it supposed to mean? "The story that most resembles your personal issues?" it's always especially weird when everything you've written is porn.
I would say the Cyberwoman story here, but I haven't finished it. Maybe Well Played, or You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome, for id reasons.
What's next?
Well. I am determined to stick around in this fandom until I've written all the ideas that I've had. Because that's the thing, I'm still having brilliant ideas that I adore; my writing muscle just got broken at some point. Looking at how the stories from this year clustered around the middle months; RL probably overwhelmed it at either end of the year. But forcing myself to write for 12 Days of Cliche has been pretty successful. I'm hoping that I can likewise force myself to get into the right place in order to finish the Cyberwoman story, and the psychic paper story, and the ancient rome story, and the tropical island story, and the grandfather paradox story ... the list goes on.
January
We Happy Few (48,287)
April
Born Every Minute (3,899)
A Fowl Morn (may turn into a fair day) (10,758)
May
Well Played + timestamp (10,955)
Intermezzo (1,888)
June
In the bleak December (2,082)
The Secretary (6,820)
Last Orders (1,549)
Untitled corset porn (386)
A Band of Related Objects (with
cupidsbow) (3,008)July
Kiss Kiss, Pew Pew (6,040)
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (10,589)
Not with a bang or a whimper + outtake + timestamp (10,171)
August
Performance Review (3,798)
December
First Aid (7,327)
Proxy (1,702)
Kiss the Boys Goodbye (472)
Worked on, but not finished or published:
Fluff fic for 12 Days of Cliche (1,179)
Snippety idea for a cliche story (478)
The desk porn (1,351)
The ancient Rome one (998)
The Jack/Ianto/Jack timetravel porn (1,725)
'In the bleak December' timestamp (823)
The Cyberwoman threesome AU (9,680)
The Owen/Tosh/Ianto with
amand_r (2,064)Alien!Ianto snippet for one of
cupidsbow's storytimes (906)Domestic!Jack/Ianto snippet for one of
cupidsbow's storytimes (1,348)The surprise!tropical holiday story (622)
Tosh/Martha smut (304)
Statistics
Total published words: 129,731
Total written words: 155,209
Total stories/ficlets/snippets published: 20
Ideas that I still really want to write (but haven't started): approx 10
Wordle of total wordcount (top 300 words, excluding common ones--the, in, on, etc):
Click for full-size.
AND NOW FOR THE HARD PART:
My favorite of my own stories this year:
I love Not with a bang or a whimper and its associated extra bits. It was a very therapeutic to write after CoE, and I love the form/structure as well. I really enjoy those snippets of insight into other worlds. I am glad I can still do them occasionally, and not just constant long stories.
My best story this year:
We Happy Few is massively epic. I am absolutely satisfied that I achieved exactly the story I wanted, and can't say that for all of the others.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go. A lot of thinkiness actually went into this one, WRT tone and form and pacing and whatnot, and I was very pleased with myself for writing a story that wasn't about sex, but still pretty intense. I think part of the reason that it didn't get the sort of response that I'd hoped was because I posted it pretty soon after CoE, and fandom was in a completely different sort of headspace. That or it wasn't as impressive as I'd thought it was *g*
Also, I think I felt pretty sad about the small response I got for We Happy Few, considering how much work went into it and how massive it is. But that's probably because I posted it before I was really in the Torchwood fandom. Oh, and it's not Jack/Ianto, so is fic-ona non grata in Torchwood fandom, really.
Most fun story:
We Happy Few, I think. I had so much fun writing it, half because it really ended up as a vehicle to write out all the ridiculous in-joke storytimes I had with my friends after we all watched Torchwood together.
After that, A Fowl Morn was great fun from a character standpoint, The Secretary for similar reasons, and of course setting up the universe of Kiss Kiss, Pew Pew was very delightful.
Most sexy story:
Oh, god. I don't know? Probably The Secretary or Intermezzo or Performance Review? Or, wait! Well Played & its timestamp!
Story with single sexiest moment:
See above. Feel free to nominate. I cannot make such a judgement!
Hardest story to write:
Um, You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome was a lot of hard work, probably because of timing; I was determined to write it and get it right, but CoE (which aired when I was halfway through it) really threw off my equilibrium.
Intermezzo was also hard, though I suppose it was harder to post (and I did do it anonymously at first, yay porn meme), because it was my first very explicit porn.
"Holy crap, that's wrong even for you" fic:
Ok, I have a problem with this question. I have written several fics this year with kinks that are somewhat unconventional, but, yaknow, part of the reason I was writing them in the first place is to explore characters for which kink is the *opposite* of wrong. One of the things that delights me about Jack is his omnisexuality and polymorphous, unconventional glee/arousal in anything (and okay, maybe I'm over-construing that from what canon gives us, but I care not, that's the Jack *I* write about). That's what I love writing about, especially in porn fic - the unashamed delight Jack takes in everything that feeds his polymorphous pleasure.
So anyway. My point is, that^ is the *antithesis* of wrong, <-- and that is the reason I write them in the first place.
So, to rephrase and answer, my kinkiest stories this year were The Secretary (stationary kink!), Born Every Minute (amputee kink!), Untitled corset porn (various!), A Fowl Morn (wing kink!), and I suppose First Aid (medical kink?). There were various other instances of playing with unconventional stuff in other stories as well. Practically all of them, really.
Fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
We Happy Few, because I was very newly into Torchwood and hadn't mused on character a lot, but wasn't particularly worried about that - the story was supposed to be exagerrated and crackish. But then
karenhealey said things like, "make sure that gwen is as kickass in your fic as she is on the show", and of course, spending 48,000+ words in a character's head forced me to get more engaged with motivations and whatnot.More recently, First Aid got me thinking about the characters in a way I hadn't for a long while, I think because I'd never written an S1 story before(!). Typically I prefer to write post-S1 stories, where the relationship is established - this is one of the things that draws me to TW and Jack/Ianto in the first place; that there's no need for all the gay panic/first time stories!
But, yes, especially in looking at the way hurt/comfort and post-Countrycide and post-Out of Time fics are written, writing First Aid got me thinking and talking about the way Jack and Ianto deal with their own hurts and vulnerabilities, and each other's. As well as being forced to get into the mind of a Jack who's still waiting for the Doctor.
Biggest disappointment:
That I didn't finish the Cyberwoman AU. I am so freaking determined to get it done, you guys. I want this story to be written. I wish I could have written it before all the rest of the Lisa-is-awesome epics were written, but eh, hopefully it's still relevant.
Biggest surprise:
All the freaking porn writing! And kinky porn writing! I think the characters demand it, but that I'm comfortable and relatively confident about writing and publishing such stuff still kind of takes me aback frequently.
Most telling story:
I always hate this question. What's it supposed to mean? "The story that most resembles your personal issues?" it's always especially weird when everything you've written is porn.
I would say the Cyberwoman story here, but I haven't finished it. Maybe Well Played, or You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome, for id reasons.
What's next?
Well. I am determined to stick around in this fandom until I've written all the ideas that I've had. Because that's the thing, I'm still having brilliant ideas that I adore; my writing muscle just got broken at some point. Looking at how the stories from this year clustered around the middle months; RL probably overwhelmed it at either end of the year. But forcing myself to write for 12 Days of Cliche has been pretty successful. I'm hoping that I can likewise force myself to get into the right place in order to finish the Cyberwoman story, and the psychic paper story, and the ancient rome story, and the tropical island story, and the grandfather paradox story ... the list goes on.