New Year’s fic wrap-up
I don’t know why I didn’t see this before. Tagged by @a-still-small-vox! Check her stuff <3
Fics written in 2018, and their word counts, in absolutely no order:
Total fics (excluding the other section): 23 fics
Total word count (excluding the other section): 55 647 words
Specifics:
I still like Places we weren’t meant to go, it’s got a good balance of not revealing anything while actually being on point?? Idk
I could find several worst titles tbh there are a lot where I just wasn’t inspired but to this day I still hate “what does a chancellor even do” bc this was just me being annoyed at worldbuilding and it shouldn’t be there and I didn’t find anything better to name this fic so it stays
Best/worst quote/passage? Man I don’t know! In every fics there are things that are contextually good and other that are retrospectively bad. Also I don’t fucking remember like 89% of the stuff I’ve written and I’m not going through all my fics again to find something.
But okay I love a lot of the stuff I’ve written in Le dernier salon de thé, especially when Caduceus starts drinking the tea and I had to find a taste for Molly, and I wanted to mingle the experience of taste with Caduceus having visions/impressions of him and I feel like the transition works really well and I’m super fucking proud of myself.
“Molly a le goût de violettes, de prunes, de cerises rouge foncé écrasées au soleil. L’amertume des feuilles de thé tapisse le palais de Caduceus. Il peut voir, derrière ses paupières closes, la terre riche dans laquelle les fruits trop mûrs s’enfoncent et décomposent. Leur peau se fend, leur chair se flétrit, leur noyau éclate et leur germe s’élève à la recherche de l’air. Le cycle de la vie.
Molly a de la terre plein la bouche quand il naît. Il a du sang plein la bouche quand il meurt.”
(Also the slightly vampiric undertone of the mouth filled with blood, to go along with the fact that Caduceus is quite literally drinking him at this moment. I’m happy about that too.)
Best/worst first line? Heh. A lot of my first lines are really not that interesting bc either they work with the next line or I just don’t care bc it’s fic, people read the ship name and warnings first anyway, they don’t come here with the same expectations as when you have to ease them in.
Best last line is from Rage, I think, contextually. It’s a good conclusion to the progression of Yasha’s mental state.
I don’t know which one is the worst either. There are a lot of ficlets that I didn’t care how they ended tbh?
General questions:
Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted? I had so many ideas and I thought I would write some of these and then I did write some of these, but maybe not as much as I thought, and wrote some others that came out along the way. So I guess all in one I accomplished pretty much what I wanted.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year? Critical role bc I didn’t even know it existed last year.
What’s your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest. I really really like Le dernier salon de thé bc it turned out real good and I’m proud!!!! I got better!!!!
Okay, NOW your most popular story. Places we weren’t meant to go which isn’t surprising bc it’s promptis and also it’s damn good.
Story most underappreciated by the universe? I mean I can’t ask people to read critrole fics in french, so I’m happy for the 25 hits I have on these, but why are we so few.
Story that could have been better? All of them probably??? But everything I wrote between like, may and august, I would probably rewrite because I was sooo tired and depressed and trying to force myself into writing, and I didn’t enjoy writing anything I wrote during this time, so they’d deserve more effort.
Sexiest story? Honey this doesn’t end until you beg for it, honestly. :P
Saddest story? I don’t know?????? Rage probably?????
Most fun? I can’t believe it’s not computers, I think
Story with single sweetest moment? I think it’s colours that the morning reveals even though it’s gen so far, bc I liked working on making the atmosphere and the relationship between Prompto and Wiz as soft and quiet as possible.
Hardest story to write? All The Worlds And All The Gods because I loooove this idea and also one of my fave writers loved the premise too so I really wanted to do good. Which is why it still hasn’t updated lmao
Easiest/most fun story to write? I wrote places we weren’t meant to go in almost one sitting and it was incredibly fun.
Did any stories shift your perceptions of the characters? Not really. Usually it’s fics that I read that shift my perceptions.
Most overdue story? I think it’s also colours that the morning reveals because it’s the only one that I really told someone “I’m gonna write this when I have time” beforehand, and didn’t just post as a surprise gift.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them? I mean I wrote a lot of explicit stuff, I suppose that counts. I wrote almost exclusively in english as well. I didn’t learn shit though?? I just did my shit in my corner bc I liked it.
What are your fic writing goals for next year? 1) Writing more often in french. 2) Finishing my fucking wips!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tagging: well it’s a little late for that now but if you wanna have fun with it feel free!
