Writing in 2021
Jan. 11th, 2022 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
regshoeI posted eighteen fics in 2021, in eight fandoms: Childe Rowland, Flemington, Flight of the Heron, Malory Towers, Raffles, Song Composed in August, The Silmarillion and The Stolen Child. Total word count was 73,121.
This is slightly more than last year, and given that my last year's writing goals were 'keep making progress and expanding my horizons', I think I've done well.
Fandom-wise it was a year in two halves: lots of Raffles writing early in the year, inspired by the Raffles Discord read-along, and a return to Flight of the Heron with the read-along for that later on. I enjoyed revisiting my Raffles obsession and writing what I think is some of my best fic ever for that fandom—but it's nice to be back firmly in FotH world too, and with the read-along still ongoing I have plenty more ideas to keep me occupied here for a while.
I also wrote for various one-off fandoms in exchanges: I signed up to Once Upon a Fic, Femslashex and Yuletide, and wrote a treat for Hurt/Comfort Ex. I always enjoy the opportunity that exchanges provide to try writing new things—this year that included a second, more ambitious Malory Towers fic and my first ever Tolkien fic, which I'm especially pleased with! I also wrote a bird-related Robert Burns fic for Pod Together, in collaboration withluzula, which was great fun—writing specifically for podfic was an enjoyable new approach to take, and gave me lots of opportunities to include folk songs in the story. :D
A Fortunate Day is my most popular fic of 2021 by hits and kudos, but it's not even in the top five by comments—whether that says anything especially profound about the nature of feedback in different fandoms I don't know, but there you go. Top by comments is Where the White Lilies Grow, the post-Gift of the Emperor fix-it AU. That is also one of the ones I'm most pleased with!
Besides that, I think Lovely on the Water, a gloomy folk-song inspired Ham Common fic, is especially good (happy fic must be balanced by gloomy fic, or at least that's how it always seems to work out...). I also had a great time with my two Yuletide stories, Thy Kingdom's Pearl for Flight of the Heron—a new aspect of my favourite fandom, and plenty of enjoyable historical research—and Feathers Anew for Flemington—a new Jacobite fandom which I was very pleased with managing to write a fix-it for.
Overall, a pretty good year! I'd like to be a bit more consistent about writing in 2022, and I hope that doing Write Every Day—which I discovered in November and have really enjoyed doing since then, if not quite literally—will help with that. And I'd like to sign up for a few more exchanges, about which I have some vague ideas.
This is slightly more than last year, and given that my last year's writing goals were 'keep making progress and expanding my horizons', I think I've done well.
Fandom-wise it was a year in two halves: lots of Raffles writing early in the year, inspired by the Raffles Discord read-along, and a return to Flight of the Heron with the read-along for that later on. I enjoyed revisiting my Raffles obsession and writing what I think is some of my best fic ever for that fandom—but it's nice to be back firmly in FotH world too, and with the read-along still ongoing I have plenty more ideas to keep me occupied here for a while.
I also wrote for various one-off fandoms in exchanges: I signed up to Once Upon a Fic, Femslashex and Yuletide, and wrote a treat for Hurt/Comfort Ex. I always enjoy the opportunity that exchanges provide to try writing new things—this year that included a second, more ambitious Malory Towers fic and my first ever Tolkien fic, which I'm especially pleased with! I also wrote a bird-related Robert Burns fic for Pod Together, in collaboration with
luzula, which was great fun—writing specifically for podfic was an enjoyable new approach to take, and gave me lots of opportunities to include folk songs in the story. :DA Fortunate Day is my most popular fic of 2021 by hits and kudos, but it's not even in the top five by comments—whether that says anything especially profound about the nature of feedback in different fandoms I don't know, but there you go. Top by comments is Where the White Lilies Grow, the post-Gift of the Emperor fix-it AU. That is also one of the ones I'm most pleased with!
Besides that, I think Lovely on the Water, a gloomy folk-song inspired Ham Common fic, is especially good (happy fic must be balanced by gloomy fic, or at least that's how it always seems to work out...). I also had a great time with my two Yuletide stories, Thy Kingdom's Pearl for Flight of the Heron—a new aspect of my favourite fandom, and plenty of enjoyable historical research—and Feathers Anew for Flemington—a new Jacobite fandom which I was very pleased with managing to write a fix-it for.
Overall, a pretty good year! I'd like to be a bit more consistent about writing in 2022, and I hope that doing Write Every Day—which I discovered in November and have really enjoyed doing since then, if not quite literally—will help with that. And I'd like to sign up for a few more exchanges, about which I have some vague ideas.
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