2009 Year in Fic
Harry Potter - 2,379 words total
Indulgence (Rated PG-13, 566 words, Harry/Ginny) A girl, a boy, and an enchanted boat. Written in response to a prompt on catchmysnitch.
Life Cycle (Rated PG, 864 words, Harry/Ginny) A Floo call from Ron disturbs Harry. Written in response to a prompt on catchmysnitch.
Morning Breath (Rated PG, 949 words, Harry/Ginny) A light-hearted scene between Harry and Ginny the morning after his 26th birthday. Written for arasnaem's birthday.
Star Trek XI - 6,487 words total
At a Window (Rated PG, 2,745 words, Spock/Uhura) Set after the destruction of the Narada but before Enterprise makes it back to Earth. When she is finally released from her station, the events of the past two days catch up to Uhura with a vengeance.
Keep Talking (Rated PG, 341 words, Spock/Uhura) Uhura's voice is hoarse, strained, cracking with agony and exhaustion, but she refuses to give up, to abandon her station. Combines prompts #42 and #77 from yahtzee63's Star Trek Reboot Drabble Challenge #3
Untitled ficlet (Rated PG-13, 426 words, McCoy & Gaila)
Untitled ficlet (Rated PG, 533 words, McCoy, Sulu & Kirk)
WIP: Intersections (Rated PG-13, 2,442 words, Spock/Uhura, McCoy/CFC) A medical crisis leads to a multiplicity of intersections for the Enterprise crew.
Vorkosigan saga - 470 words total
Untitled ficlet (Rated PG-13/R, 470 words, Ivan, Simon/Alys)
2009 word count (fic only):10,166
2008 word count: 44,277
2007: ~ 60,000
2006: ~ 40,000
2005: ~ 77,000
Ficwise, 2009 was a dry spell for me. I didn't write any fic until the end of April, and much of what I did write last year were short fic(let)s of less than 1,000 words, with the exceptions of the one-shot and WIP I wrote in the Star Trek Rebootverse. Part of that was due to fandom malaise - I'd burned myself out on fests in previous years and so didn't sign up for any in 2009 - and I wasn't committed to any single fandom for very long (though my fannish squee over the Trek Reboot was intense, and in fact I have another Spock/Uhura WIP on my hard drive that I'm not counting in my 2009 tally because I haven't posted any part of it online anywhere). I was also rather busy in RL, wrapping up my master's degree studies, looking for a job, and moving.
In fact, I was more prolific in 2009 than my fic tallies suggest. Earlier in the year I was writing my master's thesis, a project that ended up being over 25K words, with an additional 8K+ words in footnotes. Then in November I successfully participated in NaNoWriMo, writing 50,029 words for an original mystery novel. So if you were to add up all the writing I did last year, I was more prolific then than in any of the previous years I've been keeping track.
For 2010 I've set myself a few specific goals:
- Take part in takingitinturns, a Harry/Ginny fest/exchange that runs February-April.
- Finish at least 2 of my outstanding WIPs. Leading contenders are Intersections (ST) and The Golden Horn (HP, Harry/Ginny). I also have the aforementioned unposted Spock/Uhura WIP, set in Kenya, and I would dearly love to finish The Transformation of Ducklings (HP, Rose/Scorpius) in 2010, since I only have 2-1/2 chapters to go. I'll only commit to a promise to finish 2 of them, however, so which 2 they turn out to be is anyone's guess.
- Write more Vorkosigan saga fic. This was my hope for last year as well, and I'm determined to see it through in 2010.
x-posted to magglenagall