Last year's stats (which were posted March)

(Guys, I'm getting worse at doing these every year. Swear to god, my 2025 resolution will be to write this up in January.)

( 2023... )

Last year's stats (which were posted in March)

If I keep posting later every year, eventually I'm going to end up posting in December for the year before that.

( This year )

Last year's stats.

( Writing Roundup 2016 )

Fannish works posted in October:

Cupid Is Not His Preferred Name - Glee, Kurt/Blaine, AU, 9670 words.

When Blaine joined the acolytes of Aphrodite, there was respect for the art of matchmaking. Admittedly, that was a long time ago. These days, helping people recognise true love is a lot harder. (AU, set early s2. No spoilers.)

2012 total so far:

108,600 words.


Thoughts:

I make no promises about actually getting something posted for Nov and Dec. Given how the weeks are flying by, I really can't commit to anything. But it's nice to have had a productive writing year.

Fannish works posted in July:

Types, re: Breaking Them, Glee, Sebastian/Blaine, Kurt/Blaine, AU, 12251 words.


2012 total so far:

94,253 words.


Thoughts:

Yay for this year's wordcount. It's so nice to feel productive again.

Also yay for writing that story. I tried to write it within a reasonable wordcount (let's be honest, I start a story and seem incapable of writing below 20K words. That might be fun to read, but only if the plot really requires them. Otherwise, you might need an editor to pull it all back to shape) and I'm happy with the end result. I knew the format I wanted (present, past, switching POVs and timelines) but I had to write each section seperately and then piece them back together for the final product. But I had fun and I still like everything that was said in it.

(And, okay, everything I said in reply to comments. I swear, I was so involved in that story that I think I answered the first dozen comments with paragraphs of comments on Blaine, Kurt and/or Sebastian. If you asked a question now, I'd still rave for paragraphs about it.)

I'm mostly through another Glee story, an extremely light-hearted Hall and Oates thing that has... no conflict and no real point, but sometimes, you just want to write fluff about your OTP.

The cupid wip is still in progress but I haven't worked on it in a while.

The PB and Inception stories... I haven't done anything on. Maybe get the next Glee one done and then try to focus on those for the end of year? Plus, I promised people stories in like, January, but I haven't written them. I haven't forgotten, I just got... blinded by the adorableness of Kurt/Blaine.


Shopping Thoughts:

This isn't part of the monthly tally thing, but given it's my birthday in two weeks, I'm considering treating myself. I'm tossing up between two indulgences.

The first is this pair of nude Mary Janes heels, that I've had my eye on for a while and are now on special. I love the scalloped edges and the slightly chunky heel. On the other hand, I have thick ankles so the straps might not be flattering and I'm not entirely sure what I'd wear them with. My work clothes are all grey and black. But, yes, pretty. I like them.

The second is the Wii Glee Karaoke Revolution Volume 3 which I saw in K-Mart tonight. I like the selection of s2 songs (even if there's a noticeable lack of Warblers) but buying a game for my birthday feels a little silly. Plus, I don't play the Wii anywhere near as much as I thought I would when I got two years ago so there's a good chance I wouldn't play it much.

Sometimes, the thought of shopping is almost as fun as the shopping itself.

Fannish works posted in April and May:

None.


2012 total so far:

29,187 words.


Thoughts:

I'm posting this tally early because realistically, I'm not going to get the glee cruise wip posted this month. It will probably be June and it's 53K of words so that makes for an awesome annual tally, even if I didn't hit my post-something-every-month goal.

Because I've just sent something off to beta, of course I'm thinking of the next thing I want to write.

My current wips/ideas are:
- "Specificity is the Whatever of the Whatever" -- Inception, Arthur/Eames, taxfic. I want to write about Arthur first meeting Eames over taxes. (No, really. This is what I want to write. Arthur being a slightly dodgy professional "consultant" and Eames undercover as part of some forgery/fraud/thingy and pretending to be a tax agent -- he faked his references and qualifications, clearly -- and interviewing Arthur for his return. And then Arthur, because he's smart enough to maintain several fake IDs with actual governmental records, running into Eames again -- except under a different identity -- and Eames pretending to be a CPA but under another name, and... yes. I don't know where the plot will go from there but I have the set-up.)

- Prison Break, a story I started for a few people who requested it (including Isagel) that started like this: ( .... )

It feels like it should be the start to something, but I don't know what.

- Glee wip: Klaine AU set in a magazine publishers, starting with Sebastian/Blaine and hopefully ending with Kurt/Blaine. I have ideas. Thoughts. Things I want to say about Blaine and choices and settling. It's big and blurry, but interesting (to me) so I think that might be next.

- Glee wip: See, I had this idea for a "A Series of Firsts" set during the year apart for Kurt and Blaine. I had a scene written. I had ideas of skype dates and long distance serenades. I had unexpected visits plotted in my head. I also have an actual playlist devoted to this idea and how the first song Blaine would sing to Kurt would totally be "Hey There, Delilah," with Kurt Hummel replacing Delilah in the lyrics (it totally scans, I've sung it in the car). Except canon might not match well.

It wouldn't be the first detailed fic idea to never make it to words, but when I still hear new music and think of that playlist (at the moment, Ingrid Michaelson's Parachute feels like the Klainiest of Klaine songs to me), I'm undecided.

But, to sum up: nothing posted, will be something next month.

Fannish works posted in June:

Nothing.


2010 total so far:

~ 13,969 words.


Thoughts:

Why is it that the perfect story snippets -- description, dialogue, scene shifts -- always come when you're nowhere near a computer (say, in the shower or in bed with the lights off, debating whether to get up) and when you have a spare ten minutes with a keyboard and computer screen, your mind goes blank?

I have three current wips (which in and of itself is something of a victory for me):

Prison Break - "PB talking" wip. OT3 Alex/Michael/Sara (or, hmm, more Sara/Michael, mentions of Alex/Michael, Sara/Alex which might possibly lead to Sara/Michael/Alex but I can't be sure yet). Jason-verse. Current word count: 3,410.

Heroes - "Undercover AU" wip. Matt/Mohinder. Undercover FBI AU that's lingered way too long. Current word count: 11,747.

White Collar - "Mozzie POV" wip. Neal/Peter (with mentions of Neal/Peter/Elizabeth) from Mozzie's POV. Current word count: 6,497.

That's over 20,000 words sitting in wips, and I haven't posted a finished story since March 2010. And the thing is, I've sat down at times and known the next scene and the next conversation, but I seem to be avoiding the sitting down and typing part of it.

I mean, yeah, for June, writing wasn't viable. Once you factored in organising the travelling for July and getting work stuff done before I go, I haven't had the brainpower to sit and work at fannish stuff.

I suspect that my lack of writing discipline will lead to my days of fannish writing ending with a slow, drawn out whimper. But given how well most of my life is going, I can't really complain about the little sacrifices that allow the bigger things to happen.

So, in lieu of actual writing from me, how about a quick SPN rec: Freedom Hangs Like Heaven by aesc. Cas/Dean, 42,000, AU from 5.14. Awesome, awesome Cas characterisation (cranky, stubborn, serious but adorable Cas is something that should appear in all Cas/Dean fics) and the ending was perfect for me.