elle1991’s 2019 round-up!
Wow, it’s hard to believe the year is almost over. It’s been an exciting one, so let’s take a look back on what’s happened, and what’s coming up in 2020!
The stats...
In 2019:
I wrote 3 stories
I wrote 171,836 words
25,110 of you read my stories
The fics...
Here are the stories that I wrote in 2019:
Time After Time (124,026 words) - Steve Rogers, Iraq war veteran and long-time loner, feels like his life is stuck in a rut. With no family and a grand total of two friends, he spends most of his spare time alone, painting, jogging or having flashbacks of the war. Which is why when Natasha invites him to a masquerade party at a kink club, Steve throws caution to the wind and decides to give it a go. There he meets the mysterious Winter Soldier, but as things blossom between them, so does a dangerous undercurrent. Both are harbouring a big secret from the other, and the fallout could have lethal consequences...
Memento (31,043 words) - A deadly virus has decimated the world's population. The lucky ones die quickly. The unlucky ones die slowly - becoming increasingly zombie-like and aggressive. This is the post-apocalyptic world that Steve Rogers wakes up to, after a 4-month medically-induced coma at a military base - his memory gone. As food supplies run low, he and a handful of other survivors - fellow amnesiacs Bucky and Natasha, along with the mysterious Dr. Banner - are forced to leave the relative safety of the base. With their memories gone, they have only their instincts, one another, and mysterious mementos they left for themselves prior to their amnesia - objects that they hoped might one day manage to make them remember who they really are...
Dear Steve (16,767 words) - What if Bucky never fell from the train and was never captured or frozen by HYDRA? "Dear Steve" explores that idea, This is a series of love letters written by Bucky Barnes for Steve Rogers, starting in 1945...
Captain America Reverse Big Bang 🎉
I cannot talk about my year in fandom without mentioning my favourite fandom event, @capreversebb! This was my second time taking part in this event, this time solely as a pinch hitter. I was lucky enough to write for the incredible @diurnaldays / @diurnaldaysart and together we produced the art and story of Memento. A big thank you also goes to @nursedarry who betaed for me at such short notice, and of course the amazing mods who ran this event and made this all possible: @potofsoup2, @kajmere and @artgroves! Thank you to all of you for helping make fandom a fun and positive place, you are all super-awesome people 😀
Coming in 2020...
New year, new decade, new fics! I look forward to continuing to entertain you guys in 2020 with more stories! Here’s what’s in the pipeline:
Dear Bucky, part II of The Stucky Letters - 17 chapters, starting immediately after the end of Dear Steve.
UNTITLED - Stucky holiday romance ❤
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A special message for you...
And last but certainly not least, I cannot talk about 2019 without giving a huge hats-off to you guys, my readers! I love writing and would do it even without an audience, but the fact that there are thousands of you out there who read my fics makes it a million times more rewarding!
THANK YOU for your readership, your loyalty, your kudos, your comments, your love, your excitement and your enthusiasm for my stories. You make writing so much more fun, and knowing that you guys enjoy reading my works and that these stories touch your lives in some small way is such a humbling and wonderful experience.
I look forward to sharing more stories with you next year, and reading your thoughts in the comments section of AO3! And if you’ve been a silent lurker so far… come and say hi! I’m not scary, I promise, and I love to connect with readers ❤
All the best for 2020, folks. See you on the other side!
Lots of love,
Eli
xxx
