“Maybe the secret of the stars has nothing to do with being alone.”
Beth Revis - Across the Universe
(Source: such-torturous-things)
I’m posting this here because a) I didn’t have a Tumblr when I wrote it, b) It seems like a lot more people have read Matched now than when I originally posted it, and c) This is honestly probably my favorite fic that I’ve written this year (besides Cinnafic). So if you like The Hunger Games and/or Matched and/or Across the Universe, enjoy!
Beth Revis, Across the Universe (via breakmenow)
Finished! WHAT DID YOU THINK? TELL ME YOUR THOUGHTS.
Today is the day! A MILLION SUNS is now available wherever books are sold, and Beth Revis has put together a completely awesome virtual launch party complete with MYSTERY and PRIZES. Head to her blog to find out how to celebrate!
The source of this blog’s inspiration. Used with permission from artist Tom Gauld.
Total Fics Posted:
45, counting each Cinnafic as its own piece; 40 if counting it as a collective.
Total Words Posted:
277,614 (Shit.)
Total Words (of Fic) Written Including Wips:
~340,000
Total Words (of Anything Excluding Blogs) Written:
~500,000 (Semi-productive year, even if I never… finish stuff. Roughly 1400 words/day isn’t too bad, though? Maybe? SOMEDAY I WILL BE A WRITER WITH DISCIPLINE I PROMISE.)
My favorite story this year:
Obviously, The Five Places Cinna Came From, because it is my baby forever and ever I will love it forever and ever and feeeeeeeeeeelings.
BUT! Here are my otherwise top five:
What They Don’t Tell You About History
Five Times Alec Wrestled the Angel
À La Vôtre
Twenty-Four Victors, Twenty-Four Tributes: Meet Your Quarter Quell Contestants
and
The Very Last of Their Kind
Most of those are not ~popular fics or whateverrrr~ but they’re the ones that I most enjoyed writing and the ones that I think turned out best. I’m also fairly pleased with Dark Toast but it’s not actually one of my favorites because I think it feels extra-extra derivative.
Which it is, so.My best story this year:
Easily, easily Cinnafic, although again, I personally kind of feel like What They Don’t Tell You About History is the most ~artistically written. And I loved writing Twenty-Four Victors, Twenty-Four Tributes: Meet Your Quarter Quell Contestants and I’ve been so happy/pleased/amazed/humbled by the attention that it’s gotten. :} And I think my most in-character fic was À La Vôtre.
Story most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
(Taking skellerbvvt’s lovely wording from when she did this as a Year End Meme in 2010, but the sentiment is true and also mine):
“I never really feel like any of my fics deserve more feedback then they get. I mean, I’m usually astonished by how much they do get, when the chips are down and the man is getting beat up for his watch.”
In fandoms as supremely talented as THG and PJO, I’m surprised that anyone has ever read any of my fics at all. I mean, I’m NGL, I am a commentwhore because I’m super needy and have no self-esteem, so I’d be happy with moar commentz on errthang, but… getting any at all is more than I ever expected, and I’m just happy every day to have found/joined fandoms that were open to new writers with new and peculiar ideas. ♥_♥ AT EVERYONE.
Sexiest Story:
The Five Worst Ways to Keep the Virgin Part of the Virgin Oracle of Delphi. I fail at writing sex that is actually sexy (because that’s not usually why I’m writing sex? I… should change that?) — although I did like writing St. Clair’s filthy French in ALV. >:-}~
Most fun story:
TINY LITTLE PEETA! BY FAR. This is definitely the most fun of my stories, but I put that almost wholly down to Raife’s flawless illustrations. Mwah!
ALV, Jolly Sailors Bold, and Nico’sFiveSeven Worst Qualities (And Why They Make Percy Love Him More)/TheFiveSeven Virtues of Percy Jackson (And How Nico Corrupts Them All), too. Because ugly hats and pirates and Nico Di Angelo.“Holy crap, that’s *wrong*, even for you” story:
…Um. Cough. Valor, Valeria, Capitol Pastries.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
Dis meme’s redundant. Valor, Valeria made me start to like Gale (as a person/character, besides as a narrative device [although he will never be my fave]). The Five Places Cinna Came From changed my perception on my writing, as well as on Panem and the characters. Twenty-Four Victors, Twenty-Four Tributes: Meet Your Quarter Quell Contestants changed… a lot about The Hunger Games for me. Although… if I write a fic and it doesn’t change my feelings on the characters or fandom in some way, then I don’t think I wrote it correctly.
Hardest story to write:
Upside-Down Cake, which I kind of hate because it’s kind of terrible.
Biggest surprise:
KIERSTEN WHITE COMMENTING ON The Very Last of Their Kind. RAINBOWBARFING FOREVER.
But also, that anyone would read my fics at all, in fandoms as huge and talented and awesomesauce as THG and PJO and TMI. It honestly surprises me every day. I’m also surprised by how much angst and hurt/comfort and disturbing content I’ve written into things, because I kind of think of myself as being a solely fluff writer.
I also reallllllly love crossovers! I hated them before this year, but I think I was just looking at the wrong writers in the wrong fandoms. :)
A story I want remembered:
Mostly, I write fic it brings me joy. I would love it, though, if the movie!canon/movie!fandom for THG and TMI doesn’t end up forcing all pre-film fic into laughed-at obscurity, and if I had to choose only one fic to survive that transition, it’d be — you guessed it — Cinnafic, just because I did work SO hard on it and I love the multiple headcanons that I made up for it, and I just never want it to be laughed at. Well, I mean. I never want to be laughed at in general. But. You know what I mean. I’m okay-ier with people laughing at the other stuff, I guess.
Resolutions for 2012
1.) Finish all help_japan, Prompt Meme, and fandom_flood_ap fics. FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE… PAAAAAAAAAAALM.
2.) Survive #1. FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE… PAAAAAAAAAAALM.
