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2008 Fanfic in Review




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2008 Fanfic in Review


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Published : 11 months ago (Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:44:25 PST)
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Um, this is going to be stupidly short. I can't believe how very, very little fic I wrote this year.

Stats
How many fics did you post?
7

How many words did you post?
~25,933

Fandom Breakdown:
Bandom 1 fic, 900 words
Fullmetal Alchemist 1 fic; 3,100 words
Harry Potter 1 fic; 1,170 words
Stargate: SG-1 3 fics; 17,330 words
crossover 1 fic; 2,633 words (FMA/Saiyuki)

Story Breakdown:
Gen: 1
Het: 1
Slash: 6

Rating Breakdown:
PG: 0
PG-13: 3
R: 2
NC-17: 2

Challenges, Recs, and Awards:
Continuing, [info]stargatefic100. I’ve completed 28/100.
Continuing, [info]sg_15_fics. I've completed 2/15.
In April, I participated in a Sweet Charity auction to support the Writer's Strike. I put two stories up for auction and raised approximately $40.
In July, I participated in the fifth annual Jack/Daniel Ficathon at [info]jd_ficathon.
If you've recced a fic of mine and I missed it, please let me know. I try to thank every reccer I can.

Stories written in:
Stories listed by the month in which they were written.

March: 1
One-Time Deal (Harry Potter; Remus/Sirius/Regulus; NC-17) Threesome and incest and FLOCKED.

April: 2
The Long Way Home (SG-1; Daniel/Sha're, Jack/Daniel; PG-13) Season 3. Daniel's relationship with Sha're deteriorates as his relationship with Jack grows ever closer.
Obviously There's Something On Your Chest (FMA; Havoc, Roy/Ed; R) Semi-genderswap insanity.

May: 1
Of All the Bookshelves in All the World, You Were Sitting On Mine (Bandom: FOB; Pete, Patrick; PG-13) Pete writes Wizard Rock.

July: 2
The Advantages of Mind Reading (SG-1; Jack/Daniel; R) Season 5. Jack/Daniel off-world cyberpunk.
First Name Basis (SG-1; Jack/Daniel/Cameron; NC-17) Season 9. Threesome of angst co-written with [info]melanyeseahawk

Review
Who do you have to thank? [info]melayneseahawk, [info]janedavitt, [info]katilara, and [info]princessofg for betaing this year. [info]sopdetly for talking to me and encouraging me since we became friends. Several people on my flist for supporting me through my anxiety over Sweet Charity, including [info]inksheddings and [info]lady_ganesh. My whole flist for forgiving me while I worked on original fiction instead of posting fic. [info]katilara for letting me tag along on the whole original fiction thing.

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted? Man, I wrote waaaaay less. I wound up with a very big work project the latter half of the year, which meant that I didn't have much extra time. Even so, I'm a bit disappointed because I miss posting fic.

Story that surprised you:
The Advantages of Mind Reading: Mostly because it was 12,000 words long. This fic also surprised me by how easy it was to write a mission fic (which I'd really never done before) and how very gen it turned out. It kind of made me want to write more of both.

Story that was most assuredly inspired by insanity:
Obviously There's Something On Your Chest: It's genderswap with Havoc kind of going insane because he likes Ed's boobs. There was quite a bit of insanity involved in its creation, I'm sure.

Hottest story:
One-Time Deal: I'm dirty and I have a thing for those Blacks. I can't help it.

Most difficult story to write:
Obviously There's Something On Your Chest: I had a lot of problems with the prompt for this one. Some things seemed incongruous and the majority of the prompt was for fic I really wouldn't read let alone write. But I made the best of it and actually would up really pleasing the person who won the fic at auction, so once I made it past the initial hump things fell into place quite easily. (Man, giving Ed boobs is clearly the default solution to writer's block.)

Story you'd write differently now:
The Advantages of Mind Reading: Though mostly because I'd make it longer, turn it into an epic, and flesh out more of the backstories of the OCs. (I may have stolen all the OCs from the steampunk, so I know the cyberpunk versions very well.)

Favorite story:
The Advantages of Mind Reading: I loved playing with all the OCs and writing a mission fic. I'd been dying to write a real mission fic, so doing so was pretty amazing.

Favorite character to write:
SG-1: Jack O'Neill. I still love writing Jack. His uncertainty about emotions but certainty about strategies really makes him very interesting. Plus I love thinking about what he's thinking when he doesn't have POV. I just really love getting in his head.

Harry Potter: Sirius Black. I've been RPing Sirius this year and really loving it. I love how boisterous he is and how underneath it all he's loyal to a fault. I probably identify with Sirius a little too much, but at least I have fun with it. ;)

Favorite opening lines:
First Name Basis: You’ve been working with Daniel Jackson for over a year, and even lying in his bed, covered in sweat and semen, you still don’t understand him. (Actually I think this is [info]melayneseahawk's line.)

Favorite closing lines:
Of All the Bookshelves in All the World, You Were Sitting On Mine: Patrick rolls his eyes when he gets back to GarageBand, but six months later Patrick actually smiles when he's singing at a library, "Your magic doesn't freak me out (even though your wand's longer than mine)."

Obviously There's Something On Your Chest: He shouldn't be too surprised, he thinks, it usually takes a pair of boobs to get him to notice anything.

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