2014: The Year of the Writing Exchange

[scribblemyname]

2013 was the year of my 365-day challenge in which I attempted to write one piece of prompted fiction or poetry per day. 2014 was defnitely the year of the Gift Exchange, in which I did more promptathons, prompt communities, writing challenges, and gift exchanges than ever before.


Invisible Ficathon

Fandoms: Averil's Atonement — Anne Shirley (fictional book); It Was a Dark and Stormy Night - Snoopy (fictional novel); The Havenite 'Faxes Colloquially Known as "Smutsies", Preston of the Spaceways (Fictional Show), Manticoran Holodramas (Fictional Entertainment), Honor Harrington Series - David Weber; The Stonebender Family stories by Jubal Harshaw

[7 stories & 2 poems, 6985 words]

Remix Madness

Fandom: Iron Man (movies)

[1 story, 369 words]

Be Compromised Remix Exchange

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe; Firefly

[2 stories, 6161 words]

Rare Pair Fest

Fandoms: Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis; Marvel Cinematic Universe

[2 stories, 2128 words]

Trope Bingo

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe; Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol; X-Men (Movieverse); Firefly

I wrote a ton for this one because you could write for other challenges, fests, and exchanges with it, but counting only the stuff that was written for Trope Bingo and not appearing in the other counts here. (The link is everything but the Tumblr stuff [The Unusuals/Little Trip to Heaven], including overlap.)

[20 stories & 2 poems, 35,770 words; also 1 fanmix and several tumblr photosets with meta snippets]

Be Compromised Promptathon (of which I have some leftover to finish writing)

Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe; a smattering of comicsverse

[28 stories, 22,861 words]

Comment Fic Community (with more than 100 not yet crossposted :headdesk: )

Fandoms: Too many to list - no, really

Some of these are counted under Trope Bingo and one under the Promptathon, but that's because I'm not counting these. I have more than 100 not crossposted and those that are appear here.

Be Compromised Secret Santa

Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe

[1 story, 7,074 words]

Holiday Requests (of which, again, I have 2 more to write)

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe; Leverage; X-Men: Evolution

[6 stories, 3,281 words]

Yuletide

Fandoms: The Unusuals, Nashville, Unusual Dragon Hoards - iguanamouth, Divergent series - Veronica Roth, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Hawkeye (comics), Endgame (TV)

Drabble Fandoms: Gotham (TV), The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgsen Burnett, Sovay (Traditional Song), Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery, Black Widow (comics), Conscientious Objector - Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye, Prince of Egypt, Queen's Thief series - Megan Whalen Turner, Good Will Hunting, Austin and Murry-O'Keefe Families - Madeleine L'Engle, The People - Zenna Henderson, Emma - Jane Austen

[9 stories & 30 drabbles, 15,243 words]

Aside from this roughly 100K worth of completed fanfic, there's a whole lot that had nothing to do with exchanges and/or fanfic. I think it's safe to say though that this was the most significant portion of my output.

Comments

[spyforaday.livejournal.com]

That is an impressive accomplishment. I've only read your Be Compromised work, but if that is any indication, you not only have quantity but quality, as well.

I'd say keep up the great work, but maybe I'd better say that it's ok to take a little break. ;) Actually, if it makes you happy, full speed ahead. Looking forward to more great stories in 2015!

[scribblemyname]

Thank you!

I did a lot more Clint/Natasha stuff for Trope Bingo and Comment Fic. I think I promoted all the Trope Bingo stuff on Be Compromised but I know I promoted next to none of the Comment Fic because it's mostly short stuff and I would write several a day when I wrote over there.

I do hope to keep it up. The Promptathon's what really started the floodgates staying open, I think. It'd be nice to keep writing at this rate, just up the original fiction content. I got original stuff done this year but not nearly as much as I wanted to.

[alphaflyer.livejournal.com]

Wow. Where do you find the time??? Also -- why not collect all those comment fics in one place and post them as a collection? (I did that a couple of times, and one of the collections has actually proven to be one of my more popular things).

PS: Have to look for that Unusuals fic -- not many of those around ...

[scribblemyname]

It's an AO3 series, thus the "crossposted here" link. On fanfiction.net, it's a pain to do the rare fandoms, so I have the MCU ones under one (woefully behind) collection and I'll eventually get the X-Men ones up because that's what I'm known for over there and there's a bunch of poor underserved readers that will want them.

It takes me about an hour or two to write a 1-3K fic when it flows well. I write much less when it doesn't. Also, the commentfics usually take less than 15 minutes. Usually.

[alphaflyer.livejournal.com]

Wow. I've only managed that veeery occasionally. Little comment fics take me about an hour or two. (I'm the two-steps-forward-one-step-back kind of writer, and edit compulsively.)

[scribblemyname]

Comes from three years of writing almost nothing but drabbles. They took much longer when I first started.

And plotty fics of any length still take me days, weeks, or months. It took about 10 months to write my first (and so far, only) 10K fic. Though technically, a few years before that, it only took a week to write my first 20K MG novel, so mileage varies.

[scribblemyname]

Fixed the links for the Yuletide fics. :headdesk:

The Unusuals fic: http://archiveofourown.org/works/2745413

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