That Writing Meme, 2009 edition

I've managed to do a round-up of the year's writing every December so far, probably because every December I've been trying to find ways not to write my SeSa story, so here is this year's edition.

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?

Less, definitely. I'll start with last year's SeSa fic, Collaboration, which obviously couldn't be included in the December '08 edition of this meme; after that there was only one little snippet, a follow up to the long-ago Justin Junior, until I got to my Dragon Challenge story for this year, in June—and even that was hard work as inspiration was a long time coming. After which, things seemed to pick up a bit and I produced a Remix story, a couple of Trickyfish vampire fics, an Epic Poem and some shortish bits of fun at the end of the year. The substantial exception was my rpf_big_bang story which clocked in at just under 34,000 words, almost exactly half the year's output of some 66,000 words, well down on 2008. I remember being extremely frustrated at the beginning of the year that I just could not seem to write anything. So many times I went through the prompts on fic_requests and realised I had no inspiration. Gah. At least I managed to fill a couple towards the end of the year.


What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2008?
Lance Bass/Adam Lambert!


What's your favorite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest?
Has to be Bouquet. I really fell in love with this pairing as I was writing the story, and there will be more of it. Also, I have been very lucky with my artists for big bang fics, and got a gorgeous illustration by samibee for this one.


Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
Risks, no, I don't think so.


From my past year of writing, what was...

Best story
Bouquet.

Story Most Underappreciated by the Universe
Jolly Hockey Sticks, my poor little unloved Girls Boarding School AU with Adventure and Stuff. Written for the Poptober Challenge, and pretty much unread, I think. *haz woe*

Most fun
Oh. Probably the Outtakes from Bouquet, which were trouble-free to write as they were so much fun they just flowed out; although The Song of Chris Kirkpatrick was also a lot of fun to do.


Most disappointing
I... don't think I was particularly disappointed in any of my stories this year. Possibly I wasn't being very ambitious. A bit disappointed in the participation in the Dragon Challenge, though—half that of the previous year, and as far as I could tell, not a lot of feedback from readers. Bad readers!


Most sexy
Possibly Bite, even though the actual sex in the story gets short shrift!


Story With a Single Sexy Moment
Erm. Don't think I really did this.


Hardest to Write
Bouquet, I expect, because I *really* wanted it to be right, and the rewriting was a bit harrowing.


"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
Madame Louella Pearlman's Academy for Young Ladies, probably! Though I wouldn't ever have expected myself to write, deliberately, a sexy vampire bite story.


Most Unintentionally Telling
Um.... nah.


Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?

I *still* have two more parts of the Chronicles to finish. I'm procrastinating with them because they're likely to take a while.

I'm really quite close to finishing my fanfic100 challenge, only perhaps ten stories left to be written.

I would definitely like to dispose of a bunch of prompts from fic_requests, it seems such a shame to let the community drift but I have found it difficult to work on these this year. For some reason I seem to be finding it harder to write short fics than I did when I started writing popslash.