Since the new year finished up and I saw @ncisduckie doing this, I figure I might as well wrap up last year.
What I Worked On:
This year is a weird year for writing for me. A lot of what I wrote was for my writing course or my English course for university, however in the earlier months of the year before we started really living in a completely dystopian universe, I wrote a few fanfiction pieces for a couple of fandoms. Some of which is unpublished either because I have no desire to share it or because it’s still a WIP.
Total Word Count: ~80k across everything
Demographics/Genres/Fandoms Written In:
Ghost Hunt, D.Gray-man and some OG stuff. And technically speaking I wrote fic for a book called “A Tale for the Time Being” for my lit. course.
Looking back, did you write more than you thought this year, less, or about what you’d expected?
So so so much less. But between university, life drama, and the pandemic this year, I’m not going to beat myself up over it and I’ll just give it another shot this year.
What’s your favorite thing you worked on this year?
Probably the piece I started for Baillie’s birthday, a fic that’s still in progress and much longer than it should be. Otherwise, I really loved “The Hallway”, though I need to work on it a lot more, or perhaps “The Bunny”, my final written piece for my creative writing course in the earlier semester. I also really loved the first thing I wrote for my creative writing course.
Did you take any writing risks this year?
Hmmm, I suppose any writing I did that was original was a risk of a kind, especially The Hallway. Otherwise, “You Had Better” was a very different style of writing to what I usually do, so I would consider it a risk.
Do you have any writing goals for the new year?
I just want to write more. I want to try and complete some short stories that aren’t for university. I just want to focus on my writing in general in a non-fanfiction specific realm. In terms of fanfiction, I really want to finish off Nefelibata officially, and I also want to get at least a few more chapters of TCOL published this year.
Most popular story of the year?
“The Cases of London” (TCOL) is by far my most popular fic, as expected given the length and what-not. Otherwise, “Peaked Interest” according to AO3 which is... somewhat shocking to me.
Most under-appreciated story of the year?
"The Hallway” got mixed feedback so for OG writing, I would say that. For fic, it’s “The Complications of Love” which makes sense because it’s a very specific style of fic and it’s not something I ever wrote for people to enjoy so much as something I wrote for myself.
Most fun story to write:
Hmmm... I think I had the most fun working on You Had Better. It was just different and new.
Most unintentionally telling story:
Either the Complications of love or My Stranger, i guess?
Biggest Disappointment:
Not writing as much as I wanted to this year, and not doing as well as I would’ve liked for my writing course in general.
List of all the fic I published in 2020:
Peaked Interest
Marionette
Feverish
Nervous
Sunshine
You Had Better
My Stranger
The Complications of Love
And then some new chapters for The Cases of London