john_amend_all

In previous years this has been a meme. I haven't seen it on my flist this time, but I'm doing it anyway. For the year of 2011:

Fics Completed

The Human Bonding Ceremony
The Quest of the Chocolates
The Ace-Team
Storytime! The Six ~~Napoleons~~ Rassilons
The Art of Negotiation
Hasty Ending (drabble)
Five Times Jack Died For Love Of Ace, And One Time He Didn't
Skirmish
The Way We Spy
Death on the Marsh
Jamie's Angels in: Party Tricks
It Already Came For Your Children (drabble)
An Act of Charity
The Horrible Thing (drabble)
Orthography (drabble)
All I Ask
Valhalla
Prospective Partnership
Taken for a Ride
Traditional Christmas
Hidden Talents (drabble)
Near Miss (drabble)
Watch Your Step (drabble)
Preschool Peri and the Potential of Paradoxes (drabble)
More Trouble In Store and You'll Have Had Your Tea?
Untitled Sam/Jean ficlet
Dutch Faith
Plus a couple of untitled drabbles and/or bits of comment-fic.

All in all, 27 fics totalling about 80000 words.

Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?

Because of rl stuff, I was under the distinct (and correct) impression that my fic productivity had gone through the floor. But the total word count is still higher than I thought it would be: it's surprising how all those shorts and ficlets add up.

Where did you publish/archive your stories?

The Whoniverse ones on Teaspoon (usually linked either from my journal and/or an appropriate community). A selection to AO3, mostly crossovers and Jamie's Angels. As usual, the TTR ones were posted on alt.drwho.creative and auto-archived at TTRArchive.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2011?

Martha Jones / Lancelot Fortescue. And then there's Sarah Jane Smith / James Bond (I leave it to you to decide whether that's a pairing or a crossover). By comparison with those two, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart / Gia Kelly is almost plausible.

What's your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.

Death on the Marsh.

Okay, NOW your most popular story.

Skirmish attracted favourable comments from the most people, I think. Then again, 'most popular' applied to my fic tends to be an OverlyNarrowSuperlative.

Story most underappreciated by the universe?

Looking over this year's crop, I think that those which languish in obscurity mostly deserve it. Of all of them, I think I'd pick The Six ~~Napoleons~~ Rassilons for this question.

Story that could have been better?

Dutch Faith should have been a double-drabble at most, but I didn't bother to cut it down, and now it's 119 words too long.

Sexiest story?

Um, I think it's hard to beat post-coital Martha and Lance in Prospective Partnership.

Most fun story?

An Act of Charity, probably, beating out The Human Bonding Ceremony and Party Tricks.

Story with single sweetest moment?

Sarah's heartwarming moment with her family at the end of Traditional Christmas chapter 1 was written with that purpose in mind. I'll leave it to those reading to decide whether it succeeded.

The story that made you cry?

None of them.

Hardest story to write?

Taken for a Ride: I'd signed up to the ficathon knowing I couldn't begin writing until the latest season had finished, so I then had to race to meet the deadline.

Easiest story to write?

Oddly, Traditional Christmas. I'd written nothing for weeks, and then I came up with the idea and wrote it at something like three times my normal speed. I hope it didn't suffer as a consequence.

Most overdue story?

None of them, in the sense that these were stories I'd promised and then missed a deadline to deliver. But I'll come back to this question, if I may.

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?

I took more of a risk timing-wise with Taken for a Ride, as mentioned above, than I usually do when signing up to ficathons. And the moral of the story is: Don't do it again.

Do you have any fanfic goals for the New Year?

Write some.

More specific goals:

Now I come back to what's meant by 'overdue'. I haven't fulfilled any of the more specific goals that I set myself last year:

Another adventure for Zoë and Lily.

Think of a story to match the title TTR: Murder at Midnight.
I'd still like to revisit the Regency at some point.

but I have fragments of all three. It would be nice if something of those fragments could be salvaged.