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2019 Fanfic Year-End Summary Type Thing
3/1/20 07:00 pmI posted 155,218 words of fanfic last year! This is the most I've ever written, even I were to try some complicated math to eliminate part of the co-authored fic - second place goes to my very first fic writing year of 2010 (109,900 words), so this is one hell of a way to close out a decade. The count breaks down into 28 stories: 11 stories/11,549 words of Yuletide and 17 stories/143,669 words of Transformers, and then further into 42,022 words of fencing au, 60,201 words of Decepticon Rung, and 41,446 words of miscellaneous TF stuff.
I am second-year tenure track faculty. I bought a house this year. I started dating. I'm still fencing/competing/refereeing. I have to take care of my cats!! Where did I find the ENERGY for this?
I mean, the main answer is that writing fic is fun and I enjoy it, haha. Transformers continues to be endlessly inspiring. And also, I made friends with Dez (Desdemonakaylose/sauntervaguelydownward) this year! Ever since LJ and its communities evaporated, I've really struggled to connect with people online - I never really got tumblr. But I get Discord okay, and I'm starting to get Twitter, I think! Becoming good friends with Dez led to becoming friends with some of her friends, and also encouraged me to reach out to more fan people in general. I feel more connected to TF fandom than I have to any fandom since Doctor Who - so it makes sense that I'm reaching and exceeding the productivity of my Who era.
Also, I mean. About 65,000 words of my count was written either with Dez or in Dez's AU. And that's not even counting all the fic I've brainstormed in chat. There are SO many ideas in chat.
Yearly questions and answers under the cut:
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I am second-year tenure track faculty. I bought a house this year. I started dating. I'm still fencing/competing/refereeing. I have to take care of my cats!! Where did I find the ENERGY for this?
I mean, the main answer is that writing fic is fun and I enjoy it, haha. Transformers continues to be endlessly inspiring. And also, I made friends with Dez (Desdemonakaylose/sauntervaguelydownward) this year! Ever since LJ and its communities evaporated, I've really struggled to connect with people online - I never really got tumblr. But I get Discord okay, and I'm starting to get Twitter, I think! Becoming good friends with Dez led to becoming friends with some of her friends, and also encouraged me to reach out to more fan people in general. I feel more connected to TF fandom than I have to any fandom since Doctor Who - so it makes sense that I'm reaching and exceeding the productivity of my Who era.
Also, I mean. About 65,000 words of my count was written either with Dez or in Dez's AU. And that's not even counting all the fic I've brainstormed in chat. There are SO many ideas in chat.
Yearly questions and answers under the cut:
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