2018 fanfic year-end summary type thing

I wrote and posted 107,653 words of fanfic last year: 9 stories for myself (approx. 90,500 words), and 11 for Yuletide (approx 17,000 words). This is very very close to the most fic I've ever written in one year, beaten only by 109,900 words in 2010 (when I started writing fic for the first time). I was pretty sure I wasn't going to write anything since I also had to finish a thesis and start a new faculty position this year, but, uh. Apparently this fanfic stuff is fun, or something. Also I wrote almost 83,000 words of Transformers fic, so there's the heady rush of 80s cartoon robots to thank for a lot of this.

I've mentioned this a couple times, but large chunks of 2015 and 2016 were really taken up by stressful work and people who were making me unhappy. Most of my free time was spent watching mindless TV and trying to chill out. 2018 was also taken up by stressful work, but this time I had lots of people around who were making me very happy. World of difference for my free time and creative output :)

Yearly questions and answers under the cut:

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