Year-end fic meme
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nonelvisI did this meme last year and enjoyed it, so I figured I'd give it another shot this year.
Fic written in 2010:
Six Lessons (G; Anita/Other Dave, River Song, Proper Dave)
Missing scene from "Echoes" (Adult; Ten/River)
Wrong Turn on the Way to Albuquerque (PG; Eleven/Amy)
Clean-Up on Aisle Three (G; Eight, OC)
Within My Reach (G; Martha, Ace, Mickey)
Souvenirs (PG; duplicate Doctor/Rose, Eleven/Rose, Amy/Rory)
The Power of Cheese (Adult; Eleven/River)
... and huh, more kinkmeme stuff than I thought I'd written this year: A Very Serious Story In Which The Doctor Loses His Emo (Eleven/Romana II); Mind Over Matter (Eleven/Albert Einstein); Boxed In (Eleven/Dream Lord); The One Where Eleven Fucks a Football Team (Eleven/many); Cleaning Up (Eleven/Amy); and one I just posted last week, Happy Birthday (Eleven/Romana II, Eleven/River, River/Romana II).
Leitmotif of the year:
I don't know if this is a leitmotif so much as unusual coincidence, but I posted a lot more gen or nearly-gen stuff than usual. I tend not to write much gen mostly because it requires writing plot, which I'm terrible at, but somehow I came up with three totally gen stories, when last year I had none.
Overall Thoughts:
I worry a bit about whether my porn has started to get repetitive, though I suppose given how much of it I've written, that's kind of inevitable. Still, it's something I want to keep an eye on.
I've also found it increasingly hard to concentrate on writing lately, but I suspect that has a lot to do with how busy I've been at work. Not that I don't like being busy, since busy = money, but I also like having enough time to really think through my stories.
My best story of this year:
I like all of them (or they wouldn't have been posted in the first place!), but I think I'm going to go with Wrong Turn on the Way to Albuquerque, because it still makes me laugh whenever I read it.
My favorite story of this year:
The Power of Cheese, because it really feels like Eleven and River to me, and also because I took what sounded like an impossible prompt – cheese! – and made it work. (Or at least I think I made it work, anyway.)
Story of mine most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
Clean-Up on Aisle Three, underappreciated by Big Finish. Oh well. I had to try.
Most fun story to write:
Tie between The Power of Cheese, for its dialogue, and A Very Serious Story In Which The Doctor Loses His Emo, for plot and dialogue. Writing comedy is hard, but I still enjoy it.
Story with the single sexiest moment:
Cleaning Up. Some of the others are plenty sexy, too, but this one's my runaway winner.
Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
I nearly answered Boxed In, but let's face it, it's The One Where Eleven Fucks a Football Team. Is it possible to laugh and hang one's head in shame at the same time?
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
I wouldn't say Six Lessons shifted my perceptions so much as created them, because the characters are barely sketched out in SitL/FotD; I had to extrapolate their personalities from there. By the end I was really sorry I had to say goodbye to Anita.
Hardest story to write:
Happy Birthday. Like pulling teeth at times. There's at least one totally abandoned take on this on my hard drive, and maybe two.
Biggest Disappointment:
Also Happy Birthday, and I realized halfway through why that was: because I was more interested in the Eleven/River-River/Romana relationships than I was in the actual pornography, which is a problem when you're writing a kinkmeme story. I also think the sex scenes might be hard for people to follow. The story was good enough to post, but still doesn't feel quite right to me.
Biggest Surprise:
I thought I hadn't written much fic this year until I compared this year's count (13 stories) to last year's (12 + 3 drabbles). Guess I was wrong!
Most Unintentionally Telling Story:
I don't think there's anything more telling in any of this year's crop than there's been in the past. Virtually every story I write contains a private joke of some kind I put in to amuse myself, but there's no one story that leaps out at me as being more telling than the others.
Story I haven't yet written, but intend to:
Still haven't written "Five Women River Song Isn't," and haven't decided whether it will actually get written. There's a small chunk of it on my hard drive, but I'm not convinced it's any good or could be extended into a story. I might go back and finish that early draft of "Happy Birthday" that was River/Romana I instead of River/Romana II, though, because it seems like River/Romana I is something that really should exist.
Fic written in 2010:
Six Lessons (G; Anita/Other Dave, River Song, Proper Dave)
Missing scene from "Echoes" (Adult; Ten/River)
Wrong Turn on the Way to Albuquerque (PG; Eleven/Amy)
Clean-Up on Aisle Three (G; Eight, OC)
Within My Reach (G; Martha, Ace, Mickey)
Souvenirs (PG; duplicate Doctor/Rose, Eleven/Rose, Amy/Rory)
The Power of Cheese (Adult; Eleven/River)
... and huh, more kinkmeme stuff than I thought I'd written this year: A Very Serious Story In Which The Doctor Loses His Emo (Eleven/Romana II); Mind Over Matter (Eleven/Albert Einstein); Boxed In (Eleven/Dream Lord); The One Where Eleven Fucks a Football Team (Eleven/many); Cleaning Up (Eleven/Amy); and one I just posted last week, Happy Birthday (Eleven/Romana II, Eleven/River, River/Romana II).
Leitmotif of the year:
I don't know if this is a leitmotif so much as unusual coincidence, but I posted a lot more gen or nearly-gen stuff than usual. I tend not to write much gen mostly because it requires writing plot, which I'm terrible at, but somehow I came up with three totally gen stories, when last year I had none.
Overall Thoughts:
I worry a bit about whether my porn has started to get repetitive, though I suppose given how much of it I've written, that's kind of inevitable. Still, it's something I want to keep an eye on.
I've also found it increasingly hard to concentrate on writing lately, but I suspect that has a lot to do with how busy I've been at work. Not that I don't like being busy, since busy = money, but I also like having enough time to really think through my stories.
My best story of this year:
I like all of them (or they wouldn't have been posted in the first place!), but I think I'm going to go with Wrong Turn on the Way to Albuquerque, because it still makes me laugh whenever I read it.
My favorite story of this year:
The Power of Cheese, because it really feels like Eleven and River to me, and also because I took what sounded like an impossible prompt – cheese! – and made it work. (Or at least I think I made it work, anyway.)
Story of mine most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
Clean-Up on Aisle Three, underappreciated by Big Finish. Oh well. I had to try.
Most fun story to write:
Tie between The Power of Cheese, for its dialogue, and A Very Serious Story In Which The Doctor Loses His Emo, for plot and dialogue. Writing comedy is hard, but I still enjoy it.
Story with the single sexiest moment:
Cleaning Up. Some of the others are plenty sexy, too, but this one's my runaway winner.
Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
I nearly answered Boxed In, but let's face it, it's The One Where Eleven Fucks a Football Team. Is it possible to laugh and hang one's head in shame at the same time?
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
I wouldn't say Six Lessons shifted my perceptions so much as created them, because the characters are barely sketched out in SitL/FotD; I had to extrapolate their personalities from there. By the end I was really sorry I had to say goodbye to Anita.
Hardest story to write:
Happy Birthday. Like pulling teeth at times. There's at least one totally abandoned take on this on my hard drive, and maybe two.
Biggest Disappointment:
Also Happy Birthday, and I realized halfway through why that was: because I was more interested in the Eleven/River-River/Romana relationships than I was in the actual pornography, which is a problem when you're writing a kinkmeme story. I also think the sex scenes might be hard for people to follow. The story was good enough to post, but still doesn't feel quite right to me.
Biggest Surprise:
I thought I hadn't written much fic this year until I compared this year's count (13 stories) to last year's (12 + 3 drabbles). Guess I was wrong!
Most Unintentionally Telling Story:
I don't think there's anything more telling in any of this year's crop than there's been in the past. Virtually every story I write contains a private joke of some kind I put in to amuse myself, but there's no one story that leaps out at me as being more telling than the others.
Story I haven't yet written, but intend to:
Still haven't written "Five Women River Song Isn't," and haven't decided whether it will actually get written. There's a small chunk of it on my hard drive, but I'm not convinced it's any good or could be extended into a story. I might go back and finish that early draft of "Happy Birthday" that was River/Romana I instead of River/Romana II, though, because it seems like River/Romana I is something that really should exist.
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on 2010-12-31 08:49 am (UTC)I truly get stories being a bit hard to write, though. I have two that I've been struggling with myself (an Eleven/Martha/Mickey one and a Handy/alt-Martha one) for months now. Some stories are just like that, I guess? Either way, as I said, I really liked 'Happy Birthday' lots. :)
Oooh, somehow I missed 'The Power of Cheese' the first go round (looking at the date stamp, it looks like it was around the time I left my job, so that makes sense). About to check it out. I can't wait!
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on 2010-12-31 02:44 pm (UTC)And yeah, some stories are just really hard. Sometimes I find that's because I'm attacking the story from the wrong angle; sometimes it's because it's genuinely tough to get into certain characters' heads or figure out their motivations. Either way, I'd love to see you finish both those stories, especially the Eleven/Martha/Mickey one.
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on 2010-12-31 11:20 am (UTC)The One Where Eleven Fucks A Football Team, though, I know all about, and it remains brilliant.
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on 2010-12-31 02:49 pm (UTC)