Fanfic year-end summary type thing

[neveralarch]

So, this was my first year posting fanfiction on the internet. Barring a slightly-bizarre drabble I wrote for a friend, my first fic was posted on January 25th 2010.

Which is weird. I've spent a lot of this year writing and thinking about fic, and it's only if I think about it that I realize I haven't been doing it very long at all.

Some numbers:

I wrote approximately 109,900 words of fanfiction this year. Out of that, 102,700 was Doctor Who fic.
This breaks down into 48 stories (which includes commentfic and everything). Out of that, 36 were written for prompts, leaving only 12 that I just wrote.
Out of the prompted stories, 2 were for the asexuality meme, 12 were best_enemies drabbles, 11 were for yuletide, and 11 were for the best_enemies anonmeme. (I've only owned up to 7 of the anonmeme fics, incidentally.)

So, apparently I like writing for prompts, and am pretty mono-fannish. Hm. This may change - I still love Doctor Who, but my reading's always varied a lot, and yuletide showed me that I'm perfectly capable of writing for other fandoms. I'd say watch this space for The Thick of It and Horatio Hornblower fic. Also my epic Caprica continuation that, no, probably will only exist in my head. And possibly more webcomic fandom stuff.

That said, I spent the first two days of the new year writing a response to a prompt on the best_enemies anonmeme. Whoops.

Comments

[tardiscrash.livejournal.com]

That is really impressive and lucky for all of us who love good fic.

[neveralarch]

Aw, thanks!

[janeturenne.livejournal.com]

That's very impressive, especially for a first year posting fic! I'm with you in loving a good prompt, though I think the best ones take on a life of their own and go off in directions far beyond anything the prompter could have planned. Wishing you many more years of excellent ficcery, m'dear :)

[neveralarch]

Thanks! No, I do love prompts - it was just weird to see how much of my output is tied back to one.

[tweedymcgee.livejournal.com]

Wow. That is a great many words.

So looking forward to more of them. More, plz, I effin love your Whostuffs. As you know.

You have got me wanting to re-read a bunch of dense philosophy stuff I haven't looked at in years THE BETTER TO UNDERSTAND ETHICAL REASONING IN YOUR PRON.

*shakes head*

[neveralarch]

Well, it didn't feel like a lot at the time. I definitely plan to keep going, though!

Haha, I can't decide if rereading philosophy texts would be a good thing or not! I mean, I love Schopenhauer, but he's not exactly fun reading (for me anyway).

[mercuries.livejournal.com]

Damn, that's a lot of word! Congratulations. :) And you have an idea for an epic Caprica continuation? I had the idea of writing a virtual season, but realistically, I could never get that many words out. But then a flister informed me that she knew of someone else who was planning on writing something like that. Hopefully fic will be born from all these good intentions!

[neveralarch]

I sort of have an idea, but I'm hitting the same problem - I don't think I could stick with it long enough to actually do a whole season. Realistically, I'd like to do something with Clarice and Lacy, though. I'm just fascinated by what must have happened for Clarice to have an actual church after the failed bombing.

I'm glad to hear there's someone else out there, though! Maybe they'll be able to follow through on their intentions, haha.