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My writing in 2020
Jan. 7th, 2021 05:30 pmI posted sixteen fics in 2020, to a total of 66,248 words, for seven different fandoms: Flight of the Heron, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Childe Rowland, Malory Towers, Lolly Willowes, Cargill and Piranesi.
This is more than three times the word count of 2019, which I'm pretty pleased with! I have met all the writing goals I set myself last year, including some of the specific fandoms I was thinking of writing :D
Definitely the fandom of the year has been The Flight of the Heron, which I wrote for the first time in February and ended up posting eight fics for over the year. I've really enjoyed getting properly into a new fandom, and contributing to the much-deserved general growth of Broster fandom that's been going on :) It also got me really into historical research and detail in a way I wasn't before, and I think my writing is better for that. I also wrote for five new one-off fandoms, of which one fic was joint first in the fandom with two other Yuletide fics and one other is still the only fic in the fandom tag on AO3. I've greatly enjoyed expanding my fandom horizons and writing more new stuff, especially the folk song fic!
I signed up for two exchanges, Once Upon a Fic and Yuletide, as well as writing a treat for Femslash Ex. All great fun! I'll definitely sign up for more exchanges this year—I'm already considering which Child Ballads I'd most like to nominate for this round of OUaF...
Writing JSMN for Yuletide seems to be a fairly reliable way to get my most popular fic of the year—it's certainly the closest I ever get to a big fandom, haha—and The Education of a Magician is already top on all metrics despite only being revealed two weeks ago. I am fairly pleased with it!
I think the story I'm most proud of is No Man Can Shun It, a relatively long (for me) fic which involved developing a fairly complicated idea, doing some historical research on a period I started knowing next to nothing about and creating original characters, and which, judging by the comments, was pretty successful :) But it's also very depressing, so I'll also mention my other favourite of the year, my FotH fix-it duology Up in the Grey Hills and It Will Be Summer, which made me very happy to write.
I don't have any particular goals for this year—keep making progress and expanding my horizons, I suppose. I already have a couple of ideas in development, so we'll see where they take me. :)
This is more than three times the word count of 2019, which I'm pretty pleased with! I have met all the writing goals I set myself last year, including some of the specific fandoms I was thinking of writing :D
Definitely the fandom of the year has been The Flight of the Heron, which I wrote for the first time in February and ended up posting eight fics for over the year. I've really enjoyed getting properly into a new fandom, and contributing to the much-deserved general growth of Broster fandom that's been going on :) It also got me really into historical research and detail in a way I wasn't before, and I think my writing is better for that. I also wrote for five new one-off fandoms, of which one fic was joint first in the fandom with two other Yuletide fics and one other is still the only fic in the fandom tag on AO3. I've greatly enjoyed expanding my fandom horizons and writing more new stuff, especially the folk song fic!
I signed up for two exchanges, Once Upon a Fic and Yuletide, as well as writing a treat for Femslash Ex. All great fun! I'll definitely sign up for more exchanges this year—I'm already considering which Child Ballads I'd most like to nominate for this round of OUaF...
Writing JSMN for Yuletide seems to be a fairly reliable way to get my most popular fic of the year—it's certainly the closest I ever get to a big fandom, haha—and The Education of a Magician is already top on all metrics despite only being revealed two weeks ago. I am fairly pleased with it!
I think the story I'm most proud of is No Man Can Shun It, a relatively long (for me) fic which involved developing a fairly complicated idea, doing some historical research on a period I started knowing next to nothing about and creating original characters, and which, judging by the comments, was pretty successful :) But it's also very depressing, so I'll also mention my other favourite of the year, my FotH fix-it duology Up in the Grey Hills and It Will Be Summer, which made me very happy to write.
I don't have any particular goals for this year—keep making progress and expanding my horizons, I suppose. I already have a couple of ideas in development, so we'll see where they take me. :)
