2010 Fanfic Year in Review

[jackiejlh]

I know, I know, 2010's not actually over yet. But I'm going to be either working incessantly or out of town for the remainder of 2010, and then the new year will bring with it the stress of an impending move before I've even fully recovered from December, so I'm doing this now. Besides, it's unlikely that I'll find time to write more than a drabble

Comments

[madamedarque]

Wow! Almost 100,000 words! That's seriously impressive. If I had to pick a favorite stand-alone, I'd have to say "Everyone Feels Broken Sometimes." But it's pretty close; I also really enjoyed your story bits, and the crossover with The Stand was cool as well

[jackiejlh]

Thank you!!

! I remember you said in the preface to Thought But Never Said that you didn't think you'd be writing more. So I was really thrilled when you wrote not only one more TR fic, but series and crossovers and drabbles and all sorts of other goodies!

I honestly think I have you, jaybee65, clueless_02, daybreak777 and a few others to blame to thank for my continued LFN obsession. Lol. When I wrote TBNS, I had peeked around fandom, decided that there was a good chance no one at all would read my fic, and half-wondered why I was bothering--but I can't not write stories, my brain just comes up with them, and it seemed silly to have a story in my head and not at least write it down, and then even sillier to have it written down and never actually show it to anyone besides my roommate. So I posted, and then all of you lovely people not only read it and liked it, but were sweet and encouraging and awesome, and the muse took all that encouragement as license to keep playing with LFN long past the point where I figured I'd stop. Lol. Not that I'm complaining, mind

[madamedarque]

LOL it's all our fault. Yeah, it's interesting because I think that (in terms of the people who are producing fic, writing meta, etc.) LFN fandom on livejournal is mostly made up of TRs. I mean, this is just in my experience--for all I know there are a few active HRs writing and interacting with each other, but if they're here I don't know where they are; I can only think of one. I just think it's funny that in a fandom that was pretty HR-oriented in general, we've created our own little TR club that seems to be one of the longest-surviving pockets of LFN fandom.

I like the idea of a couple of vignettes! You shouldn't push yourself to do anything you don't want to do; there's nothing worse than trying to write something when you don't want to write it.

[jackiejlh]

It's TOTALLY all your fault. :p

It's interesting to hear that fandom was mostly HR, since by the time I got here, nearly everything was TR. Maybe I'm happier being late to the party...? :D

[anonymous_plume]

So, I saw your user name earlier today and I thought "Maaan, that name sounds so familiar." And then I saw your user profile and I see that you are also an AiW fan/writer in addition to, obviously, SS/HG and I squee'd a little bc there aren't so many of us around. [yet]

May I add you to my flist?

[jackiejlh]

There really do need to be more of us! :D

And you are more than welcome to friend me! *friends you back*

[anonymous_plume]

Yaaaay!