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I’ve been tagged in two different end-of-year fic memes, one by

the-prince-of-professors over on Tumblr and one by

potentiality_26 here—thank you both!—so I’m combining questions from both memes and posting on both sites. :D

How many fics did you write this year? How many words?

30,554 words across 6 fics.

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expected?

About what I expected, although I am fairly pleased considering I wrote nothing in the incredibly busy first half of the year.

Are there any fandoms you didn’t expect to write for but did? What about fandoms you expected to write for but didn’t?

Shirley was definitely a surprise—it was just another nineteenth-century book I particularly enjoyed but hadn’t really thought of being fannish about, until I saw

alona’s Yuletide prompt for a Shirley/Caroline Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell fusion and simply had to write it.

Speaking of JSMN crossovers, I had hoped to write one for Lolly Willowes, and got quite a long way on a draft before getting stuck. I’m hoping to get unstuck on this one shortly!

Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the new year?

I’d like to write a bit more this year, but I’m not setting a specific target. Finish some of the multiple incomplete drafts that have been languishing on my computer for months. Write the first ever fic on AO3 for a fandom, specifically E. M. Forster’s The Longest Journey (I mean, I certainly won’t be complaining if someone beats me to it, but it would be cool).

What were your most popular fics this year, and how would you estimate that? By comments, kudos, hits, or some combination of the three?

I don’t need to do complex estimations, because When the Winds Begin to Sing is by far the most popular on all three metrics (it got about half my total comments and kudos for the entire year). I'm fairly proud of this one and I hope it deserves the attention, although it being for Yuletide certainly helped.

Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion:

The Curious Case of the Bracknell Emeralds, although I realise it’s a pretty niche crossover :P

Were any fics you wrote this year particularly difficult? Were any particularly easy?

Under the Jewelled Sky took quite a lot of effort in the planning stages—it’s the longest and plottiest fic I’ve written so far, and required a bit of historical research for a period I’m not familiar with—but once it got to the actual writing I found it came together fairly easily. So, both?

Did you get out of your comfort zone at all?

This has only been my second year (first full year!) of writing fic, so a lot of things were new—writing longer fics with more involved plots, writing in more different fandoms, writing exchange fic for specific prompts. I’m pretty pleased with things, on the whole.

Biggest surprise:

Likewise, I have surprised myself with how much I’ve achieved this year in general! There’s still a lot more to do, however, and I hope I can continue experimenting and broadening my writing skills in 2019. :D