2018 fic round-up
Jan. 1st, 2019 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
galwednesdayThe year is done, the ball's dropped, the calendar's flipped, and that can only mean it's time for DATA ANALYSIS. LET'S! GET! STATISTICAL!
2018 was the first year I ever tracked how much I wrote daily, which was an excellent idea, because now I have metrics on how much I posted and how much I wrote. I didn't subtract any words lost during editing, only however many new words I managed to get down that day, and for the most part only counted actual prose, not plot summaries or notes to self about what needed to happen.
TOTAL WORDS WRITTEN, 2018: 220,423 words
AVERAGE DAILY WORD COUNT: 604 words
TOTAL STORIES WORKED ON (includes very small tumblr prompt ficlets and things that never got posted): 66 stories, mostly fic but including a couple of original works
TOTAL STORIES POSTED (includes AO3 fics, tiny tumblr fics, WIPs, and unfinished works posted to Junkyard Scraps): 32 fics
That's a LOT. Many of them were quite short, but still, that is Many Stories with Many Words and it's honestly more than I was expecting at the start of the year. I don't have a formal goal for 2019 in terms of stories posted or words written, but I want to continue the writing process I've built up--I want to keep writing 6 days out of 7, at least 100 words a day, except for the odd week out when there's just too much else to focus on. I skipped two weeks last year when I was either incredibly busy at work or on vacation, and those were healthy pressure release valves, so I want to do that again. Writing this year just felt more enjoyable than last year, so to the extend that I can keep that ball rolling, I'd like to.
On a more qualitative note, 2018 had my first collab fics, both major and minor, which were all extremely cool experiences, because I'd never tried to co-write fic before and it turns out I LOVE IT. Opening a doc and seeing a bunch of awesome new lines, leaving gaps and knowing someone else might fill them in, getting to go in and fill in other people's gaps when I couldn't think of what happened next--all of that was a great way to keep momentum rolling, and it's fascinating to watch how other people write in real time.
I did a lot more prompt fic in 2018, which is a trend I want to continue somehow even as I wean myself off of tumblr, so that will take some adjusting. Prompt fics are great warm-ups for me, since it's easy to write something short that I know for a fact someone wants to see. Prompts can also get me to consider ideas I normally wouldn't write, which is a good exercise in thinking outside my default--e.g., being asked for a fic where Bucky and Steve confess feelings later in life, when my usual headcanon is that they've been together since before WWII. I've seen ask boxes on other people's Dreamwidth pages, so maybe I'll figure out how to do that, and/or take prompts on Twitter.
2018 was also the first time I participated in a fandom auction, and I'm planning to write two fics for my Marvel Trumps Hate winners in 2019--I got very fun prompts and I'm excited to get these done, even if my own predictable procrastination urges are going to push the posting date later than I'd ideally want it to be (I was aiming for the end of the year, which, uh, did not happen, but at least they're both started now).
I'm not sure how to list a year's worth of fic here individually without doing a LOT of text formatting by hand, so here's a link to 2018's works on my main AO3 profile and my side account (note that those are both WIPs, although I Never Knew my Heart could Sing's chapters can stand independently and don't end on a cliffhanger).
Here's hoping this year is a productive one in whatever ways we most need it to be, creative or otherwise. I plan to continue flinging stories out into the void and devouring the work of the many talented people in this fandom; what an embarrassment of riches we have here in this pit we all fell into and decided to redecorate instead of looking for an exit. See you all around in 2019!
2018 was the first year I ever tracked how much I wrote daily, which was an excellent idea, because now I have metrics on how much I posted and how much I wrote. I didn't subtract any words lost during editing, only however many new words I managed to get down that day, and for the most part only counted actual prose, not plot summaries or notes to self about what needed to happen.
TOTAL WORDS WRITTEN, 2018: 220,423 words
AVERAGE DAILY WORD COUNT: 604 words
TOTAL STORIES WORKED ON (includes very small tumblr prompt ficlets and things that never got posted): 66 stories, mostly fic but including a couple of original works
TOTAL STORIES POSTED (includes AO3 fics, tiny tumblr fics, WIPs, and unfinished works posted to Junkyard Scraps): 32 fics
That's a LOT. Many of them were quite short, but still, that is Many Stories with Many Words and it's honestly more than I was expecting at the start of the year. I don't have a formal goal for 2019 in terms of stories posted or words written, but I want to continue the writing process I've built up--I want to keep writing 6 days out of 7, at least 100 words a day, except for the odd week out when there's just too much else to focus on. I skipped two weeks last year when I was either incredibly busy at work or on vacation, and those were healthy pressure release valves, so I want to do that again. Writing this year just felt more enjoyable than last year, so to the extend that I can keep that ball rolling, I'd like to.
On a more qualitative note, 2018 had my first collab fics, both major and minor, which were all extremely cool experiences, because I'd never tried to co-write fic before and it turns out I LOVE IT. Opening a doc and seeing a bunch of awesome new lines, leaving gaps and knowing someone else might fill them in, getting to go in and fill in other people's gaps when I couldn't think of what happened next--all of that was a great way to keep momentum rolling, and it's fascinating to watch how other people write in real time.
I did a lot more prompt fic in 2018, which is a trend I want to continue somehow even as I wean myself off of tumblr, so that will take some adjusting. Prompt fics are great warm-ups for me, since it's easy to write something short that I know for a fact someone wants to see. Prompts can also get me to consider ideas I normally wouldn't write, which is a good exercise in thinking outside my default--e.g., being asked for a fic where Bucky and Steve confess feelings later in life, when my usual headcanon is that they've been together since before WWII. I've seen ask boxes on other people's Dreamwidth pages, so maybe I'll figure out how to do that, and/or take prompts on Twitter.
2018 was also the first time I participated in a fandom auction, and I'm planning to write two fics for my Marvel Trumps Hate winners in 2019--I got very fun prompts and I'm excited to get these done, even if my own predictable procrastination urges are going to push the posting date later than I'd ideally want it to be (I was aiming for the end of the year, which, uh, did not happen, but at least they're both started now).
I'm not sure how to list a year's worth of fic here individually without doing a LOT of text formatting by hand, so here's a link to 2018's works on my main AO3 profile and my side account (note that those are both WIPs, although I Never Knew my Heart could Sing's chapters can stand independently and don't end on a cliffhanger).
Here's hoping this year is a productive one in whatever ways we most need it to be, creative or otherwise. I plan to continue flinging stories out into the void and devouring the work of the many talented people in this fandom; what an embarrassment of riches we have here in this pit we all fell into and decided to redecorate instead of looking for an exit. See you all around in 2019!
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Date: 2019-01-01 10:42 pm (UTC)Here's my DW for tumblrites series: https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/tag/dw+how-to
And if you copy some pre-formatted text from somewhere and post it into the "Rich Text" version of the post box, it retains the formatting!
With love,
~Soup
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Date: 2019-01-01 11:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-20 10:50 pm (UTC)I'm endlessly fascinated by ppl who co-write. Mainly because I've never thought of doing it myself? Though it's reassuring to hear nothing but good stuff from people who have done that. :D
Here's to more words from you!!!!