FIC ROUNDUP 2016
tagged by @otppurefuckingmagic
rules: reflect back on your fic from the past year, then tag other writers to do the same!
# of fics (/fandom):
3 || Shadowhunters/TMI
April 2016 - Something Changed // 24,885
July 2016 - Strange Love // 46,632
July 2016 - Strange Love (deleted scenes) // 13,755
total word count: 85,272
most popular fic: Strange Love- 45k hits
fic you’re most proud of: Strange Love. 100%. I felt like I grew a lot while writing that fic, and I practiced writing the little details a lot more. And the response to that fic was so entirely unexpected, that it just blew me away.
favorite comment on your writing: Yeah, I definitely can’t pick one. Honestly, every single comment blows me away, because I never expect anyone to respond to my fics. So every time I get a notification of a new comment, and it’s someone being just so supportive and nice... it’s an amazing feeling.
best flame: I don’t usually get flames- Magnus or Alec usually get the flames for being idiots in love, which always cracks me up. I love it when people reading the story get mad at Malec for being dumb.
what surprised you about your writing this year? I’m always amazed when I’m able to get the words on paper. So just being able to write this year has been a wonderful surprise.
do you have any writing regrets/things you would do differently? I want to be able to write more. So not really a regret, but writing is just a constant experience of learning how to write the details and show instead of tell and expand on certain scenes. I’m just trying to learn and grow as I go.
how many WIPs do you have? do you plan to finish them? Two! And YES. I never leave work unfinished. One is a Malec fanfiction I’m working on called Heart on Fire. I plan to have the first chapter finished this week. And the other is an original m/m sports romance fiction that I want to finish this year.
did you write any original fiction this year? Yes! I revisited an old original story I wrote years ago (about a girl who graduates college and moves to LA, where a gorgeous actor falls in love with her. Except it’s unrequited on her end... until it’s not) and re-wrote the whole thing, and it was amazing seeing how much I’ve grown as a writer in the past few years. Also, the m/m sports romance I mentioned above, about two college swimmers working toward the Olympics and falling in love.
what are your writing goals for the new year?
Get published. Period. I want an agent and a publisher and to start sharing my original fiction with the world.
tagging: @blj2007. @jinkohamilton. @dj-borntoread. @lemonoclefox