End-of-year Meme

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I saw that Sineala did this end-of-year writing meme & I wanted to give it a go!

Fiction posted this year:

January:

1. Fireworks. Star Wars, Han Solo/Luke Skywalker, 921 words. 

February:

2. Love, Firelight, and Warmth. Written for the AroAce Luke Skywalker fic drive. Star Wars, Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker, 1,320 words. 

3. Moving in Together. Endeavour, Endeavour Morse/Jim Strange, 936 words. 

March:

4. Something came up. Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Phryne Fisher/Elizabeth Macmillan, 1,476 words. 

5. “E—E For What?” Endeavour, Kay Belborough/Endeavour Morse, 1,362 words. 

April:

6. Small Talk (completed in April, started in February) Endeavour, George Fancy/Endeavour Morse, 13,841 words. 

7. The Wolves Come Circling. Endeavour, George Fancy/Endeavour Morse, 1,044 words. 

8. Soft Smiles and Soft Words. Endeavour, Monica Hicks/Endeavour Morse, 481 words. 

9. What’s In A Name. Endeavour, George Fancy/Endeavour Morse, 814 words.

May:

10. Oxford 99. Endeavour, George Fancy/Endeavour Morse, 3,962 words.

11. Bobsled Team. Cabin Pressure, Martin Crieff/Theresa of Liechtenstein, 2,358 words.

12. First Meetings. Endeavour, Endeavour Morse & Shirley Trewlove, 1,763 words.

13. I speak of love awake, I speak of love in dreams. Endeavour, Max DeBryn/Endeavour Morse, 1,497 words.

October:

14. Tranquil. Written for Inktober. The Eagle of the Ninth, Marcus Flavius Aquila/Esca MacCunoval, 1,141 words.

15. Expensive. Also written for Inktober. Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Phryne Fisher/Elizabeth MacMillan, 701 words.

November: 

16. In Hoc Modo Incidemus (last updated in November, started in July) The Eagle of the Ninth, Marcus Aquila/Esca MacCunoval, 17,063 words.

December:

17. Chosen. The Mummy (2017), Jennifer Halsey/Princess Ahmanet, 2,647 words.

18. Warmth and Protection. The Eagle of the Ninth, Marcus Aquila/Esca MacCunoval, 1,605 words.


This year I wrote & posted:
18 stories & 54,924 total words! I tried writing for some new fandoms & pairings that I wouldn't have considered before, so it's been an exciting year for writing!

Overall thoughts:
I wrote a LOT this year!!

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

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?
The Eagle of the Ninth! I hadn't read the book in so so long, & it used to be probably my favorite ever when I was like 12, so I read it again over the summer & became just as enamored with it again. I'd forgotten just how much I loved that book, so I had to write some fic to properly celebrate & appreciate it!

This year's theme & the story that demonstrates this the most:
The theme of this year was probably just writing whatever I feel like? The story that demonstrates that most is prob "Oxford 99" XD

What's your own favorite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest?
Oh that's a hard question... ! There are so many that I love from this year. I love "Small Talk" & the other Fancy/Morse stories I've written, & I also love "Chosen" & "Incidemus", so I don't think there's one story that I'd say is my favorite.

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
I don't think so tbh... I guess I tried to really write for myself, & I learned that those stories often get pretty popular!

Best story of this year:
Not quite sure how this is different from most popular story & favorite story, so I'm just gonna say "Small Talk" "Chosen" & "Incidemus"

Most popular story of this year:
"Small Talk" definitely!! I've never gotten that amount of kudos before!!

Story of mine that is most under-appreciated by the universe in my opinion:
I'll probably have to say "Oxford 99" tbh, though that is a weird crossover, so  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

My least favorite story of this year:
I don't think I have a least favorite?? That's like saying I have a least favorite child lol!!!

Most fun story to write:
Like all of them tbh!! "Small Talk" was amazing tho, & I haven't finished "Incidemus" yet but that has been amazing too!

Story with the sweetest moment:
Well I wrote a lot of fluff this year, but I think "Incidemus" prob has the most amount of sweet fluffy scenes? "Fireworks," "What's In A Name," "Tranquil," etc. were pretty much all tooth-rotting fluff tho... Idk, all my stories this year were fluffy haha!

Story with the sexiest moment:
I guess the closest to a sex scene I've written was in chapter 4 of "Incidemus"...

Most "holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
Hmmmm, well I didn't really write anything very dark, but probably the most angsty one was "The Wolves Come Circling" in which Morse has nightmares about The Tiger... That resulted in a lot of fluffy h/c tho, I can never just write straight up angst with no comforting afterward XD 

 ALTHOUGH in "E—E For What?" I did attempt some angst sans comforting so maybe I should count that instead...

Most overdue:
Tbh I think we know I'm not particularly timely lol, but "Bobsled Team" & "Oxford 99" both took a while to polish & finally post.

Most eye roll-worthy title:
Like ALL of them haha I'm terrible at coming up with titles.

Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
Well "Incidemus" definitely gave me some insight on Esca & really made me appreciate his character more, "Bobsled Team" gave me insight on Martin and Theresa & why they both like each other, & "Small Talk" gave insight of George Fancy & made me love him even more!

Hardest story to write:
None of them have been particularly hard to write, but I had some difficulty with the latest chapter or so of "Incidemus" because it's sometimes hard to think of what would be going through Esca's head in some parts of The Eagle. I was also kinda nervous about "Love Firelight & Warmth" just because it was very different content than I usually write & I didn't want to get things wrong... 

Biggest disappointment:
Probably that I never got around to writing/finishing some of the other ideas I had! I often have too many ideas I think.

Biggest surprise:
I guess the weird/plotlessly fluffy stories of mine that got tons of kudos or some reason??

Most unintentionally, personally telling story:
I have several for many different reasons, but I don't think I'm going to tell... XD

Favorite opening line:
I often have a hard time writing really good opening lines, but I liked the opening for "Moving In Together" quite a lot:

"The bright sunlight streaming through the thin curtains woke Jim up, as it did most days now, and he rolled away from the window with a sigh. He was almost surprised to see Morse curled up by his side, facing toward him, his coppery hair catching the sun and making a halo around his head. This was so new, this relationship of theirs, that he hadn’t quite gotten used to it. And he’d wanted it for so long—almost since the day he’d met Morse—that he couldn’t believe they were finally together."

Favorite closing line:
I feel like I had several good closing lines last year tbh! One that I really like was from "E—E For What?" :

The walk back to Bixby’s mansion was awkward and mostly silent, a complete contrast to how pleasant the rest of her evening had been. She missed the warm feeling she’d had before, Morse’s closeness, his hands in hers, and the softness of his lips. She and Bruce left almost immediately, and her eyes met Morse’s one more time, longingly, as she was led out the door, away from him.

In conclusion:
Happy New Year, guys!!

Fic-writing goals for the coming year:
I'm going to try and finish the first draft of an original fiction novel! I hope I can be as productive with that as I've been with fanfiction this past year, but I feel like writing my own characters is going to be a challenge... Wish me luck!!! I'm also in the process of writing fic for The Silver Branch (which I'm apparently kinda obsessed with now) & I plan to finish "Incidemus"!