Happy New Year! Time for a yearly fic round-up/yearly can I still do stats.
Total Stories Written: 55 (/266- 20.7%; 12 fewer than last year
Total Words Written: 160,141 (/1,076,186- 14.9%; this is more than last year, by over 40,000 words so a fair amount more than I thought)
Average words per story [mean; rounded to nearest full digit]: 2,912 (4,046- 72%; this is over a thousand words more per fic and while the total average words per fic has gone down a couple of hundred, it's not changed much)
Shortest story: Promises (72 words, 0.45% of the total words)
Longest story: The Questing Flower (74,174 words, 46% of the total words, so a bit of a range)
Most common:
Fandom: Once again The Flash (TV 2014) at 32 works (58%), which is closely followed by the Flash (Comics) at 20 works (36%) so it's all Flash stuff again
Pairing: Barry Allen/Iris West; 8 works total (14.5%)
Category: Gen; 31 works total (56%)
From the past year, what was:
Most challenging to write: Fixed Point has beeen in my drafts for literally years with different directions and me not sure which way to take it, so that at least needs a mention here
Most fun to write: The Questing Flower, I know not all of it has been just this year, but playing with making up worlds and fairy-tales and place names (there was a lot of time spent on the generic forms of place names in Ireland and the United Kingdom Wikipedia article), making fictional libraries and also skeletons, it was just great fun
Biggest disappointment: Wound Back, I deleted a lot of my ffn fics a long time ago, mostly while having panic attacks, and I do actually regret it and had intended to never delete anything on AO3, but I got so close with this one
Favourite opening lines: "Hal was sure the whole world slowed down as Barry fell.
Eobard Thawne was cackling. Lightning crashed around them, Wally at the centre of the storm, his eyes glowing blue, and he gave chase, Jay hot on his heels, Thawne fleeing the chaos left in his wake." Fallen, not what I was expecting to say but actually I do quite like how this one turned out
Favourite closing lines: '“Enough focusing on the past,” Tess said. She offered Barry her hand. “Time to look to the future.”
Barry took her hand and smiled.' Team Flash, this was just a really satisfying way to end the series
Other favourite lines: "Home," Barry said. "Your lightning feels like home." Eleventh Hour, this is actually pretty much an end line too, but I have a soft spot, it's just Barry and Iris, in every universe that's their person, whether I'm writing it romantically or platonically, and since it's from The Flash & Hawkgirl honestly sometimes I do have a vague queerplatonic lean in my head
Goals from last year:
-Carried over from 2020, pass a million words on AO3 by the end of this year, yes, I did! I have written so many words!
-Also from 2020, finish either the Questing Flower or the Wally Fic, or come up with a title for the Wally Fic at least, I still don't have a title, but The Questing Flower is complete
-Finish the Tess Lives AU, also done
-Finish The Flash & Hawkgirl, well I finished the planned fic I had (Fortune's Told), but I do enjoy writing it and there's not a huge overarcing plot or anything to finish, so I might call it in limbo of the planned bits are done but I may drop snippets in still if inspiration strikes, it's a fun 'verse
-Continue the streak of gen being my highest category, also managed that one
Goals for next year:
-Let's stick with the keeping the gen up there, gen fic is great
-While the month long events like Writer's Month and Flufftober are really fun, I'm not convinced I can manage to do all of them, so instead I might say some of the prompts for Multiamory March looked intriguing, rather than picking one and going for it, I think I might aim to just write a couple of fics for all three and then maybe do all of one depending on what prompts there are and what time I have
-I think I'd like to do another experimenting kind of fic, I don't know if it's a goal because I don't really have a set idea, but something like trying a new genre or tense or style, something like that might be fun, I've had fun before with fics like Ghosting and The Lovers and the Dreamers playing around with things, so something new to play around with could be fun at some point
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