Easy reading is damn hard writing.*

[bending_sickle]

Meme: My Year in Fic via qthewetsprocket

The Contenders:

Fanfic:
Ninja Pirate Angel on a Zombie Unicorn
The Blank Slate
Stonehenge Antimony
Eliminate the Impossible
A Slip of Comet

Original Writing:
Time We Saw a Miracle
The Ballast Water Metaphor
The Last Wild Angel
Blog Like It's the End of the World

Total number of completed stories: 9

Total word count: 57,657 (or 7,297 if you don't count Nanowrimo)

Fandom breakdown: Supernatural (3, or 4 if you count Nanowrimo) ; Crossovers a) Doctor Who (1), Stonehenge Apocalypse (1) and b) House (1), Sherlock (1), Iron Man (1) ; Original (4)

Overall Thoughts: More crossovers than I would have thought, less stories than I would have wanted, and nice balance between main fandom and original.

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted? Realistically, either more or about as much as I'd predicted, because I predicted either a gazillion or nothing and expected a few.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January? Stonehenge Apocalypse, not that it existed last year.

What's your own favorite story of the year? Fandom, it's Stonehenge Antimony, and original, it's The Last Wild Angel. The Nanowrimo is on a scale of favoritism all its own.

Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year? WRITE MORE (and possibly FINISH SHIT).


From my past year of writing, what was...

My best story of this year: The Blank Slate is pretty fine, I think.

My most popular story of this year: The Blank Slate, by far. spn_deanw recommendation, whoot whoot!

Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Stonehenge Antimony, by far.

Most fun story to write: Eliminate the Impossible

Story with the single sexiest moment: Time We Saw a Miracle. Granted, it's the only story with anything remotely sexy, so it wins by default.

Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: The Kezef scenes in Time We Saw a Miracle might be in that area, but honestly, I know I've got worse in my head than I wrote down.

Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: The Blank Slate, which basically is a character study of how the characters see each other.

Hardest story to write: Time We Saw a Miracle had some trully torturous parts.

Biggest Disappointment: How there aren't more stories in the list.

Biggest Surprise: The Last Wild Angel. I swear I wrote that high on some sort of author auto-pilot. (And to a lesser extent, Stonehenge Antimony and how it went from crack to "rather wistful", leaving me pleasantly surprised.)

Most Unintentionally Telling Story: Time We Saw a Miracle, I guess, because there's so damn much of it. One day, I will go though both Nanowrimos and add footnotes. (Mainly so I don't forget all the little references and in-jokes that I sprinkled inside.)

In conclusion: To echo qthewetsprocket: WRITE MOAR YOU LAZY SOD.


Meme: Your Nanowrimo Wordle via poisoned_sleep, even if it's not so much a meme as her genius idea


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Quote of the Day: emerald_embers, here

IT'S ALMOST THE END OF THE YEAR, SELF. YOU WILL CROSS THIS FINISH LINE IF YOU HAVE TO DAMN WELL CRAWL ACROSS IT.

Video of the Day: Hallelujah Chorus (featuring les freres de St. Francis de la Sissies).

Links of the Day:
Supernatural:
jensen_misha - \o/
mobiusklein's Meta A Stick Up One's Ass or Standards? (Dean)
amber3444's Review Appintment in Samarra
alwaysenduphere's Fic You Will Be Alone Always and Then You Will Die (Dean/Castiel) ♥
heart_wrapper's Fic Following My Footsteps Home (Future!Dean/Sam/Dean)
princess_aleera's Fic Don't Read Between the Lines Part 2/3, Part 3/3 - Ngh...
evil_knitter's RPFic Cloudy (Jen) with a Chance of Misha - ♥!
paxlux's Fic If They Send the Wolves, I'll Join the Wolves
philomel's RPFic The Cofee Carol
bangafewgongs' Fic Into the Furnace (Sam/Castiel, The End)
lassiterfics' Fic Ashes, Ashes (Claire!Castiel/Dean) - Ngh ♥
leonidaslion's Fic Fumbling in the Dark Errant (A Terrible Life)
SPN Fanfic Reviews
40yearsnopie's Fanvid Castiel's Headspace
dearigdaio's Fanvid Your Mountains of Sins
turquoisetumult's Fanvid Cheap and Evil Girl (Bella)
forever_lost2u's Fanvid Falling Slowly
Ifitmakesyousad's Fanvid Falling Slowly
squeemonster's Fanmix Living in the Shadows of Your Soul (Dean/Castiel)
geckoholic's Fanmix Last Ever Lone Gunman
dougalbug's Fanmix Dry Your Eyes, Mate (Dean)
classicmystery's Fanmix For Heaven's Sake (Dean/Castiel)
nanoochka's Fanmix W: A Dean Winchester Mix
lassiterfics' Fanmix Another Country (Castiel)
secretlytodream's Fanmix Shades of Three (Dean)
artmetica's Fanart In the Shelter of Your Wings (Dean/Castiel) - ♥
dean_sam's flocked Official Magazine Scans, #21

Doctor Who:
qthewetsprocket's Review A Christmas Carol
redscharlach's Review A Christmas Carol
Big Finish's Special Story Podcast

Sherlock:
na_shao's Fanmix Your Little Blue Veins (John/Sherlock)

Other Fandom:
kerrykhat's Firefly/BtVS Fic Stay With Me Tonight
DailyMail's Life on Mars The Scorpion's Sting: A thrilling three-part mystery specially commissioned by the Mail, The 2nd part of our exclusive short story from the show's creator

Multifandom:
obsessive24's Meme Fanvids of 2010
Celebrity Snap's Top 80 Men of 2010

Random:
oakenguy's embeds Funny British Animal Voiceovers
theweaselking's Dinner Recipe via aor
greygirlbeast's embeds It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Fishmen / The Carol of the Old Ones
cleolinda's Review Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
cityscapes' New York City Wall Art
Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap's Episode 16 - Lutheran Indian Fusion Cuisine
YouTube's Death to the World (Cthulhu!)
Busted Tees - *grabby hands*


* Nathaniel Hawthorne

Comments

[poisoned-sleep.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I can't take credit for it- someone posted one on the Office of Letters and Light blog just after Nanowrimo ended. It's cool though- and I love seeing all the words that I didn't necessarily realize I was using (or overusing).

I like yours!

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

*smishes* It really is a neat idea :)

Happy New Year!

[seschat.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that Wordle is so pretty! *stares* Also, I adore everything you've written forever, what with your writing style being unutterable divine. Just, you know. So you know. ♥

I realized yesterday when I couldn't sleep that I hadn't written a single story this year?!?! God, I suck.

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Aw, thankee! ♥ to you forever.

I'm ridiculously pleased that Chip and Icarus are huge and intersecting and that Dean is all tiny underneath Chip :)

...OMG WRITE MORE! I remember you were tempting me with some Torchwood fic, yes? Come one, write! Share!

Happy New Year! *smish*

[seschat.livejournal.com]

*grins* It's awesome, indeed!

Ah my fic writing skills suck, but we'll see, okay? You're too sweet to me, anyway. *huggles*

You, too, darling! Hope you have a wonderful evening. ♥