#almost 200K words of fic in some form or fashion is crazy to me

[rocketonthemoon]

Fic Write Meme!

I got tagged this morning by @wonderbreadnicoinwonderland this morning which hey! Thanks so much :D

(also a general reminder you can find all my writing either here or on ao3)

Fandoms: Privately, I’ve written for a bunch - James Bond, Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman even once -  and on FFnet you can find a Hunger Games one shot collection I wrote my first year of college, but for a long time now it’s pretty much solely Sailor Moon with occasional dips into other gay things.

Number of fics: Oh jeez.... Between all three platforms I’ve ever published and my compulsive Cross Archiving there’s... around 75 fics total I’ve written with 16 at least being WIPs but I’m pretty confident that number is higher than I think it is, I’m just terrible about labeling things nowadays.

Fic I Spent the Most Time On: “Pictures of Us” easily is my longest running collection and technically speaking is not completed. But One Fic by itself that’s completed would probably be And Then There Were... only because combine my need to edit while writing and making sure it made sense with the nursery rhyme it took me ages

Fic I Spent the Least Time On: Not counting any parts of PoU, Wake Up took me almost no time. I’m still to this day astounded how quickly I got that one done, but it was definitely a midterm week fic.

Longest Fic: I am famously brief and struggle hard with anything over about 500 words. Pictures of Us is the longest in terms of “chapters” with 70 and 24K+ words, while my Hunger Games collection clocks in at 20 chapters with 36K words.

Shortest Fic: Again a Pictures of Us entry I think - Number 3 and 70 both come up as 108 words.

Most Hits: According to the stat counter on FFnet, Pictures of Us has 116,889 hits! holy shit!

Most Kudos: “A Dressing Down” with 142 on Ao3 pretty much cause it’s my only smut fic AND one of my few fics over a thousand words. Still a fun one though.

Most Comment Thread: Almost none of my fics get comments.... And i’ve no good way for tracking comment threads or the like on things here on Tumblr so probably it’s Picture of Us cause I think back in the day I had one or two regular reviewers who would respond back to me saying thanks once or twice.

Most Bookmarks: Bookmarks like Ao3 uses them it’s “A Dressing Down” again with 15. Although my Hunger Games Collection had 123 Favorites? Which I kinda remember being bookmarks? or something like that? So probably that one. 

Total Word Count: So according to my math of things I have logged on actual typed up documents I’ve got 180,581 words of fanfiction written.... damn. 

Favorite Fic I Wrote: I’ll be honest, “Call and Response” is still one of my all time favorite things I’ve done, both content and how happy I am with how it came out. I’m really enjoying writing a smut fic with my OT3 at the moment and it’ll probably be my favorite when I finally do get around to finishing it if only because of how self-indulgent it is for me.

Fic I most Want to Expand On/Rewrite: One of my big all time projects I wanna do is editing/transferring Pictures of Us to Ao3 since I just like their set up better and it’s just so much nicer in formatting. Otherwise it’s just a matter of getting my butt in gear and actually finishing projects I start instead of just dropping them and never getting back to them. In a perfect world tho, right?

Share a bit of a WIP/Story Idea You’re Working On:

“Goodness, aren’t you simply a vision?” She says when Dulcinea tugs at Pro in the right direction. It’s all she can do not to ruin the perfectly wonderful moment with a cough. She fails, but only just. The Woman waits, impossibly blue eyes watching with impossibly knowing sadness. A different sort than others. Like she’s been exactly where Dulcinea is - terribly young and frighteningly old all at once. But still those eyes shine endlessly more vibrant than her own. A galaxy of life in a gaze. Dulcinea shakes at the possibility, at the promise. And at the small stain on Her sleeve. 

“You have blood on your dress,” says the Young Mistress of the Seventh House, Duchess of Rhodes, by way of greeting. The Woman only tilts her head back and laughs. A warm beautiful bell chime Dulcinea will practice in secret, later, when not even Pro can hear.

tagging @thestarryskiesofpalaven  @thefaustaesthetic  @howmanyheartaches and really anyone else that wants to do it because fuck it why not????? No pressure though

[lienwyn]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💖

Oh my! Thank you <3

It's honestly a little difficult to pick, but I think I have to go with:

1. Hyperborean - The Losers (Cougar/Jensen, 127 000 words)

Will forever be a favourite since it was the first novel-length AU I wrote where I just let my imagination and world-building run WILD. I just had so much fun with the world I created, the various details, the lore, the social structures etc. It was also challenging to write (in a good way) and managed to include some twists for the reader ;) If I ever were to file the serial numbers off a fic and try to publish it as an original novel, it would be this one. Because, well, this kind of made me realise that, yeah, I CAN write a book if I want to — and I can make it dramatic and epic and wonderful. I’m actually capable of that. Yay me!

2. Autonomy - Marvel (Bucky/Tony, 184 000 words)

I guess I can’t NOT mention Autonomy? Just like Hyperborean, I went crazy with the world-building and had so much fun exploring the HYDRA virus vs. the Rebirth Serum, Tony’s backstory, and just... everything. It was my first for the ship and I remember being SO nervous about the characterisation, but I’ve been told it’s pretty solid, so thank god for that x’D This was also the fic that more or less introduced Winter to the Winteriron fandom (and he has, since then, become a fanon staple, to the point where not many even know this was his origin) and I guess I can feel a little proud over that?

3. Allies - The Hobbit (Bard/Thranduil, 20 000 words)

I am so ridiculously attached to this fic it’s kind of funny, since no one really cares about it? Except me, I guess (and my wife, but she’s partial). I LOVE this one since this fic, more than any other I’ve written, is where I managed to hit JUST the right tone and pitch. This sounds and feels EXACTLY the way I want it to and I had a lot of fun with the more old-fashioned, fantasy-ish style. Also,Thranduil’s POV is, hands down, one of my favourite POV’s I’ve EVER written. I had an absolute blast and some of my absolute favourite lines I’ve ever written are in this fic.

4. Who Holds the Devil - The Devil Judge (Ga On/Yo Han, so far 142 000 words)

Not finished yet, but already a favourite. Possibly one of the best things I've ever written? Not in terms of pacing, perhaps (since it's hella long already and nowhere near done) but because of the way I get to really pick these characters apart and explore their behaviour and emotions. There are so many nuances, details, and facets and it’s just SO fascinating. Also, I feel like I get to be more experimental with my word choices and sentence structures thanks to all the dreams, which is an absolute delight. I’m just really enjoying this one since it feels like I’m growing and learning a lot. Also, it’s very satisfying to write such complex and fascinating characters. Will, without a doubt, beat my current record for The Slowest Burn Ever to Burn a.k.a. “It took them HOW long before they kissed?!” (see below).

5. The Thunder Moon Chronicles - Teen Wolf (Derek/Stiles, 292 000 words)

The first. The one that started it all. While the writing isn’t on par with what I can do today, this was still the start of something so much greater than I could ever have imagined. I’d promised myself I had to write at least one fanfic before I died and decided I might as well go big or go home. So I wrote a third season for Teen Wolf which ended up being almost 300k. Yeah. My first fanfic was 300k. And it’s not even one of those “let’s write and see what happens” fics. Oh no. This is a tightly planned epic with three parts, each with their own dramatic curve that together form a cohesive story, with a burn so slow it took Stiles and Derek 200k to kiss. To this day, I still can’t understand how I managed to pull that off. My guess is blissful ignorance. I just didn’t understand how easy it would have been to crash and burn and just embraced my own eagerness and enthusiasm. And that is why this fic will forever be a favourite. The sheer and utter JOY it brought me as I wrote it and the doors it ended up opening for me later on.

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I swear I didn't intentionally pick from five different fandoms, it just happened x'D And I know this looks like I’m just choosing my longest fics, but that wasn’t intentional, either. I guess it’s just easier for me to feel proud over the long ones? Since I got to really show off my skills, both in terms of writing and storytelling, but also world-building, characterisation, and my ability to convey emotions etc. SO YEAH.

Also, fun fact: the reason why I figured I would only write one fanfic was because I assumed I wasn’t a very good writer and no one would want to read them anyway. And I don’t mean that in a “without readers, it wouldn’t have been worth it” way. I just assumed that once I had written one, I could cross that off my bucket list and move on with my life. So, uh, that backfired. SPECTACULARLY x’D

And, before any of you start to worry: I know I’m not a bad writer. It took me YEARS to accept and there are times when I still can’t quite grasp what it means — since I don’t know what I’m doing that might qualify me as a Good Writer — but enough people have told me that I am that I can’t just ignore them.

But, also, most importantly: I enjoy doing it. I truly LOVE writing. So that, more than anything, is why I’m still sticking around ;)