Beware: The Chibis Have Taken Control!

Since I doubt I'm getting anything written between now and the 1st, I thought I'd go ahead and get this posted.  It was another slow year, but I think I'm starting to understand why, at least. The good news, though, is that even though it was a slow year, and I didn't post as much to AO3, it was a more consistent year than I've had in a while.  Even if they were only little less-than-1000-worders, I wrote something most months.  So, I'm going to go ahead and count that a win.  ^_^

Date		Title		Fandom	Words
1/12		Muet 12		LM	5903
2/23		That's What Friends Are For		LM	1667
3/6		Muet 13		LM	5056
5/14		A Word For That (Rated: E, mild D/S undertones)		LM	5632
10/14		Twenty-Four Years Late and $200 Short		Power Rangers	4708
12/18		Anon YT fic			4640
				Subtotal	27606
Tumblr Fic
1/9		Luke Skywalker ficlets		SW	564
1/23		Courferre: "I almost lost you" kiss		LM	353
1/23		Exhausted Parents Kiss (A Jehan Muet backstory fic)		LM	664
2/8		Kiss Me (A Grantaire/Jehan Muet outtake)		LM	766
2/21		Enjolras/Feuilly: "I'm not going to hurt you."		LM	281
3/5		Enjolras/Feuilly: Druxy		LM	612
3/5		Enjolras/Feuilly: Gymnophoria		LM	711
3/5		Poetry Smash: "Am I dreaming?"		LM	733
5/4		Jango/Obi-Wan: “I immediately regret this decision.”		SW	545
6/10		Enjolras/Jehan: Hair brushing/braiding, sick/injured HC		LM	671
7/8		Billy/Jason: "I saved a piece for you."		Power Rangers	664
10/1		Inktober #1 -- The Old Man		LM	1014
10/3		Inktober #2/4 -- The Forest Witch/The Ancient Wizard		LM	766
10/5		Inktober #3 -- The Dryads		LM	593
10/7		Inktober #5 -- The Lost Girls		LM	848
10/30		Enjolras/Courfeyrac Sick!Fic		LM	886
12/30		Inktober #6 -- The Ancient Robot		LM	875
				Subtotal	11546
WiPs
6/22		Muet 14		LM	1072
12/8		Our Place In Time 6		Teen Wolf/The 4400	1795
				Subtotal	2867
				Total	42019

Well, here we are, again. Another year passed. It seems like I just did this for 2010 yesterday. O_o;;; I have too much going on this morning to really delve into detail about the past year, but I worked my ass off organizing this last night and I'd like get it posted.

A few little notes:
1) The four fics at the end listed as "to be revealed" are the four I wrote for Yuletide. Author reveal is in like... 30 minute, but I can't wait that long. I have to be out the door by then. So... yeah.

2) I was nowhere near as prolific this year as I was last year. I think part of that was burn-out from NaNoWriMo the year before and part was that I was just so damned busy. :-P Still, a respectable total word count: nearly 180,000 words. Not too shabby. ;)

3) Fandom spread this year was also more even. Hair beat out everyone else again for the most written for fandom, but not by nearly as much as last year. Newsies (musical) came in second, Book of Mormon third and Fushigi Yuugi fourth.

4) This year also marked a major writing milestone for me...

I wrote smut.

With a vengeance.

(NC-17 stories will be starred in case you want to avoid them.)

O_O Yes, you read that right. After years beyond count resisting, I have finally caved. As promised, Nuriko and Tasuki had the honor of being the first. Claude and Berger followed after them fairly quickly. Elder McKinley and Lucifer (Don't. Ask. Seriously. I still don't know what happened there. O_o;;;) were next, then Claude and Berger (again), then Connor and Eric (My fandom has twins. *_* ^_~), then... heh. Then, I wrote het smut. *sweatdrop* Yeah. I don't know, either. -.-;;;

5) Second major writing milestone was this: I participated in two fic exchanges this year -- the Power Rangers femslash ficathon and.... YULETIDE. OMG, I had so much fun. *_* Seriously. Read my love letter to Yuletide. If you can handle all the tail wagging, that is. ;)

Anyway, I have plenty of fic plans for the coming year. I promised smutty ending to the Book of Mormon and Newsies boys. I need to get back to cracking on the third Algea fic. I have plans/starts for several other Hair fics (and I'm seeing it twice next week in Philly, so muse... get ready for a jolt ^_~). Yuletide opened up a few new fandoms to me that I hadn't considered (or more accurately, had forgotten I was considering), and whetted my appetite for more. I also have a few fics in my notebook that weren't included in the year end meme because I don't have counts on them, but they're short, little things. Only a few small handwritten pages, so... eh. Probably bumps the word count over 180,000, though... eh. Maybe I'll type 'em up and count 'em later. ;)

Aside from that, I'm still mourning the loss of my crashed hard drive and now that I'm slightly more financially secure, I can consider getting that recovered. *cheers* But I seem to have done OK without it, regardless, wouldn't you say? ^_^

( And now... what you all came here for. )

Oh, one last thing I forgot. I'm driving to PA today, but I will get my four Yuletide fics shifted over to LJ when I can. If you want to know what they are before I move them, you can find them on the AO3 (link is on the right). Author reveal should happen in another 10 minutes and you can find them, then. ;)

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!! :D

You've all heard me squealing and blushing for years at the very thought of writing sex. Well... I've become aware (thanks to all my Hair stories) that I'd like to get over that. The problem is two-fold:

1) I have no practical experience. I am not a gay man, nor am I ever likely to be one. Therefore, everything I know about gay sex I've gleaned from other first or (more likely) second-hand accounts. That makes me extremely uncomfortable. I don't like feeling under-knowledged about a subject for which I intend to write.

2) I promised Nuriko a loooooooong time ago that out of love for him, he and Tasuki would get my first lemon. Then I realized that it would have to happen towards the end of OB (if not as an epilogue O_o) and my rewrite on that SOB has seriously stymied my efforts.

...Which, as it turns out, has been a really convenient excuse.

( Cut for babbling about erectile writing dysfunction and THE HAIR TOUR!! )

Nuriko: O. M. G--.

Tasuki: Did... did I really just read that right?

Nuriko: *nodnod* *wobble eyes* *glomps the fic author*

R-chan: *blush* *bluuuuuuush* *BLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSH* *little voice* I'll try, OK? That's all I'm promising.

Nuriko: I don't care. I'll take it!

R-chan: *twitch* Fine. Then help a girl out! Stop talking at each other and start sexing each other up, already!

Nuriko: *twitch* I'm trying!

Tasuki: *sweatdrop* Um... yeah. This one's my bad. I'll work on it.

Nuriko/R-chan: *sweatrain*

Edit: And... 2 1/2 hours later, I still have no paper, I have almost 2000 words of FY fic... and still no sex. O_o;;; At least I've gotten them through the talking and they seem to be ready to get down to business. Now if only I wasn't too bloody exhausted to type. Neeeeeeed sleeeeeeep. *thud*

Yep. This is solely for word counts. ^_^ Enjoy?

Starting word count for Chapter 5 -- 8,694
Last word count (1/26/11) -- new: 2,564; total: 10,117

10:28 PM

3641 / 10625 words. 34% done!

*eyes icon* No, Setsuka. Just... no. I really won't. Why? Because I live on Long Island and we've gotten more snow so far this season than freaking Anchorage, Alaska. That is not right. O_O It's Alaska. We're... not. *twitch*

( Anyone who doesn't want to listen to me babble about general life, TV shows, ficcage and Hair (again)... flee now. ^_^ )

Final bit of random other news: I am one of the new mods for 15_minute_fic, successor to the now defunct, 15minuteficlets. Long story. ^_^ Anyway, the point of the comm is that every week a word is posted under a cut tag. Once you look at the word, you have 15 minutes to write... whatever. ^_^ It's kind of a fun way to get your writing juices flowing when you're a little stuck. Head on over and check it out! We could use some fresh meat. ;D

I think I'm gonna go toddle off and do some writing or something. ^_^ *waves* Later!

Starting word count for OB part 5 rewrite: 8,694 2564 / 10117 words. 25% done!

*deep breath* OK. Everyone's doing it, so I thought I would do it, too. ^_^ Especially as this is the first year that I've had an impressive enough word count to make it worth while.

And there are links to all the fics listed on the word count chart for anyone interested in rereading anything. ^_^ You know. Just to make it easier. Links to WIPs that have fic snippets are also available. ^_^

( Obsessive word count table behind the cut )

tl;dr -- The upshot? I have written over 380,000 words this year. O_O Can you believe that? I can't. I have never been that prolific in a year -- not even during my Sailor Moon days. Scary thing? Over 260,000 of those words were Hair fanfic. *chuckles* Are you amused? I'm amused. ^_^ I've averaged about 30,000 words a month. This all makes me very proud. ^_^

On another note, miss_warina, I think you've got a good idea. I think I'm going to let my websites go for the year and make an lj community for my fics. Eh, we'll see. I'm still thinking about it. *sigh* Nothing's ever simple. :-P

Finally, I'd just like to say that 2010 has been... well... interesting. On the one hand, it has been the toughest, most depressing year I've had in a long time... but ironically, it's also been one of the most awesome. I'll be sorry to see it go. ^_^ Here's hoping that 2011 will be just as good (if not better), with a lot less of the scary, awkward crap on top. ^_^ Happy and Healthy New Year, everyone! May yours be filled with Peace, Love and Harmony. ^_^

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Man, oh man, did that scene I wrote on Sunday drain me. O_O Couldn't write a damned word all day yesterday and most of today. Then all of a sudden, I got pissed off at my professor's idiocy and *Bam!* ...1363 words done. O_O Now if only I didn't have to go to class... *whimper* Wanna stay home and write... Stupid class. :(

So... I'm not going to officially do NaNoWriMo because I:

a) have a major paper due in two weeks that I don't want to procrastinate on
b) Don't have anything new that I wish to start
c) Don't think I have 50,000 more words in the story that I have started that I do want to finish.

So, I'm going to do a mini-NaNo. ^_^ I have just under 10,000 words in a story that I'm pretty sure will be (at least) a 50,000 worder. So, I'm going to track my writing on that as if I were doing NaNo, but I'm not doing it officially because this would be cheating. ^_^ However, if I hit 60,000 on it (a possibility at the rate I'm going O_O), I will be pleased as punch. ^_^ If it looks like it's going that way, I will shift the counter accordingly. Maybe next year I'll do this for real. ^_^

A day late, but hopefully not a dollar short (like my voter registration... *scowls*):

NaNoWriMo Day 1 (word count that would have been yesterday's ^_^): 9337 / 50000 words. 19% done!

O_O 4,393 words on a new Hair story. It fits into the WDIG?-verse in the Fall right after "Hair: Redux." And it's a Crissy story. O_O I don't know. It feels like a one-shot... with potential. I think this is going to lead somewhere good, possibly into the next in that set. Which is interesting, because I didn't think there was going to be a next in that set. *chuckles*

Have my sister's b-day party/sleepover to go to tonight -- for which I really need to leave. Like... twenty minutes ago. O_O Hopefully I'll finish it before I go to bed. I haven't had a Hair story spew out of me this quickly or intensely since I wrote "Where Do I Go?" I'm feeling an almost physical pain at having to leave it temporarily unfinished. O_O Uncool.

Well, hopefully soon. ^_^ Yay for inspiration!

Finally got around to typing up what I'd written for the sequel to The Algea. 1,674 words so far... and we're barely through the first scene. Finally gettin' my writing groove back! And it's about damned time, too. :-P These last couple of months have been massively of the suck as far as writing goes. *sigh* I'll keep working on it. ^_^

In other random news... I have moved Jeanie and Cloud into their house in Simville. ^_^ And cheated to make it all pretty. I was all excited to start playing with them... but then I realized that I was too tired and I'd rather spend what little energy I had typing up the afore mentioned fic.

^_^

Later!