Writing Roundup 2008

[out_there]

Last year's stats


January:

Last Chance: Dead Like Me, George/Mason, 764 words.


February:

Full Sensory Delusion: Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes, gen, 538 words.

Five Times Ianto Thought Very Seriously About Shooting Jack Harkness: Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, 3,794 words.
Five times shooting Jack Harkness would have been a perfectly reasonable action to take.

Easily, Naturally: Heroes, Matt/Mohinder, sequel to Simple, Uncomplicated, 4,735 words.
In some ways, Matt is a first. The first time Mohinder's had to coax someone in bed, the first time he's found himself taking the lead, pressing for more.

Four Hundred and Twenty Millilitres of Proof: Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, 1,000 words.
"The ceiling's leaking," Ianto said.


March:

How to Dance: Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, 430 words

Welsh Cakes: Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, 529 words

The Day After, and the Day After That: Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, 2,087 words.
Ianto's first day. (After the flashbacks of Fractures.)

Mohinder's Mom: Heroes, Matt/Mohinder, approx 23,000 words.
Mohinder's mom didn't know about Molly or Matt, not until she stayed with her son for three weeks.


April:

The Definition of a Year: Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, 1,136 words
It's an anniversary (of sorts).

Best-Laid Plans: Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, 6,717 words.
The porn that happened after the stopwatch flirting.

Authoritative: Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, 1,419 words.
Jack thinks Ianto’s grey hair makes him look authoritative. (In other words: future UNIT-cap smut.)

Warning Signs: House, Wilson/House, 12,327 words.
Warning signs can indicate any potential hazard, obstacle or condition requiring special attention.

A Meeting Of The Neuroses cowritten with celli: Sports Night, Dan/Casey, 5,734 words.
The one where Casey finds out about Dan’s panic attacks.

In Context: Heroes, Matt/Mohinder, 1,526 words.
Three kisses, in context.

Suprises: Torchwood drabble, Jack/Ianto, 232 words

Something Old, Something New: Torchwood drabble, Jack/Ianto, 510 words

First Name Basis: Heroes drabble, gen (or Matt/Mohinder pre-slash), 1,095 words

TW/Supernatural Drabble: drabble, gen, 368 words

Enough: German soap opera drabble (no, really, I never even wrote down that show's name), Oliver/Christian, 819 words.


May:

All the Dishes Rattle In the Cupboards When the Elephants Arrive: Torchwood/Doctor Who, Jack/Ianto, 12,071 words
Five ways Ianto Jones might meet the Doctor, in chronological order.

Recovery: Torchwood, Jack/Ianto & Rhys/Gwen, 9,101 words.
This is how they mourn.

Creative Accounting: Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, 1,800 words.
"During the day, I file reports and at night, in my exciting moonlighting job, I'm an accounts clerk. It's all a bit dull," Ianto says apologetically.

Random moments of Jack Harkness: Torchwood drabble, first in the series of "Random Jack Fridays", gen, 261 words


June:

The Last Trip to Tescos: Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, 1,513 words
"I'm never going shopping with you again," Ianto said quickly.

Underwear Not Required (Bra Optional): Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, 2,589 words
Genderswitch (girl-Jack) porn.

Random Jack (The Zombie Meme): Torchwood drabble, Jack/Ianto, 400 words

Random Jack (stab people in the face): Torchwood drabble, Jack/Ianto, 343 words


July:

Try Your Best (Think About It Later): Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, 16,461 words
"The alien inside Jones," the scientist says, referring to the kid by name, "somehow sucks the energy out of people through orgasm. So far, it's been fatal three times. How did you survive?"
"I'm not easy to kill," Jack says.

Random Jack (sick day): Torchwood drabble, Jack/Ianto, 497 words

Random Jack (Unexpected Coffee): Torchwood drabble, Jack/Ianto, 368 words

Random Jack (Watching): Torchwood drabble, Jack/Ianto, 83 words

Also, the TW Interview Prayer which still makes me giggle (and then focus, strangely enough).


August:

Random Jack (Strawberries): Torchwood drabble, gen, 252 words

Random Jack (Camping): Torchwood drabble, Jack/Ianto, 509 words

Random Jack (Suits): Torchwood drabble, Jack/Ianto, 216 words

Ianto's List: Torchwood drabble, Jack/Ianto, 161 words

Panic!: Eureka, Carter/Stark, 610 words
"Are you over your homosexual panic?"

Where Blueprints Meet Mnemonics: Prison Break, Alex/Michael, 502 words
Mahone's interest, obsession, whatever you want to call this, is all about that first escape. Michael's skin is a puzzle, a way for Mahone to pull his mind apart and work out what makes him tick.


September:

Form, Not Meaning: Prison Break, Alex/Michael, 10,774 words
"Keep staring like that," Mahone growls as he walks by, "and they'll get the wrong impression."

Pub Stories: Torchwood drabble, Jack/Ianto, 1,246 words
"I can't believe Jack's urge to get naked got us banned from a pub."

According to the Tabloids: Torchwood/Alias, Jack/Ianto with past mentions of Jack Harkness/Jack Bristow, 972 words
"Ianto Jones, this is Jack Bristow," Jack said, and Bristow's shoulders stiffened. "We go back."
"How far back?" Ianto heard himself ask, and noticed Bristow's right hand move slightly closer to his body, like Jack when he was getting ready to pull his pistol. "Or would you have to kill me if you told me?"

Random Jack (Amateur Comedy): Torchwood drabble, Jack/Ianto, 294 words


October:

A Monopoly on the Truth: Prison Break, Alex/Michael, 1,112 words
Michael doesn't know what he's doing but Sara knows it, and Alex knows it. If he has to feel his way through this on faith, Michael can't think of two people he trusts more.

Similar Creatures: Prison Break, Alex/Michael, 980 words
"How much?"
Michael doesn't act coy, doesn't pretend not to understand. Instead, he shrugs and keeps watching the passing buildings. "Whatever you think I'm worth."

In Need Of...: Prison Break, Alex/Michael, 660 words
...because Alex needed a hug.

Routines: Prison Break, Alex/Michael, 1,156 words
Everyone has routines, little habits to fill in spare time, to keep them connected and grounded. Michael tends to stay inside, do something with his hands like fold origami or play cards.

Stargazing: Prison Break, Alex/Michael, 640 words
"If you follow the line straight down, there's bright white star," Alex says, leaning a little closer. "That's the centre of Orion. The row of stars is his belt, the white star is the edge of his sword. He's supposed to be a hunter."

Puppies : Prison Break drabble, Alex/Michael/Sara, 409 words

Distractions: Prison Break drabble, Alex/Michael/Sara, 430 words


November:

Your New Twin Sized Bed: Prison Break, Alex/Michael/Sara, 10,770 words
Alex takes a two bedroom apartment that's close to his new office. The main bedroom is serviceably large, but it seems too big after months spent in a cabin, feels too empty after sharing a small boat with Michael and Sara, so Alex buys a large desk and makes it a study. The second room is tiny, but it fits a twin sized bed and a bedside table.

Thanksgiving: Prison Break, Alex/Michael/Sara, 737 words
Cooking with Brad Bellick is a lot like sharing a prison with him. It's an experience Alex never wants to relive.

Find Yourself Smiling: Prison Break, Alex/Michael/Sara, 3,900 words
She should discuss it with Alex, but then she'd have to talk about Wyatt, about the screams, about his conscious choice to inflict pain on a living human being, and Sara doesn't know how to do that without accusing, without blaming Alex for doing exactly what he promised he'd do.


December:

Road Trip: Prison Break drabble, Alex/Michael/Sara, 240 words

My Family by Jason Tancredi: Prison Break, Alex/Michael/Sara, Jason-verse, 442 words

Ask Jason Tancredi: Prison Break drabbles, Alex/Michael/Sara, Jason-verse, 995 words

Doctors and Dentists and Bravery: Prison Break, Alex/Michael/Sara, Jason-verse, 3,051 words
Every time, Michael tries to talk around it -- claims he's feeling fine, claims there's no point in investigating if he's not showing any symptoms, claims it's his health and his life and he should get to decide whether or not he needs medical attention -- but it always comes down to one thing: it scares Michael.



Conclusion:

56 stories, counting the drabbles and ficlets individually.

Breakdown by fandom:
1 Dead Like Me - 764 words
1 Eureka - 610 words
1 German soap opera drabble - 819 words
4 Heroes - 30,356 words
1 House - 12,327 words
1 Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes - 538 words
1 Sports Night - 5,734
16 Prison Break - 18,798
30 Torchwood (including crossovers) - 67359

Crossovers:
- Torchwood/Alias - 972 words
- Torchwood/Doctor Who - 12,071 words
- Torchwood/Supernatural - 368 words

Total words written: 137,305

Every year, I'm surprised by the sheer number of stories and words that I churn out. (Every year, I think of myself as a not-too-frequent writer, someone with far more wips than output, and feel vaguely guilty that I don't devote more time to trying to finish half the stuff I start. Turns out that guilt is... not entirely necessary, I guess.) I wrote more than last year (total word count: 81,861) but I don't know if I included the 13,637 words I'd written on "Mohinder's Mom", so this year's total...

Actually, this years total doesn't count anything I have in wip status, and I think I'd have about 10,000 words spread across the half dozen wips, so it probably evens out.

The fandom stats are interesting. It really proves that for me to write in a fandom, I have to fall hard for a pairing. Jack/Ianto pushed all my buttons, Alex/Michael or Alex/Michael/Sara makes me surprisingly happy, and Matt/Mohinder seems to have completely disappeared from canon which is probably why I haven't written any Heroes fic this year. (Also, the storylines are... not of the fascinating and no longer adorably domestic, so that's a contributing factor too.)

It's kind of added incentive for me to focus on the PB wips and get them finished before the show finishes for good. Because once the show-love is gone (or a New Shiny comes to replace it), the wips can sit in limbo forever. (Case in point: my Heroes undercover AU. I need to get back to it, and yet... I keep getting distracted.)