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2023 Fic Writing Wrap-Up

Sat, 06 Jan 2024 09:14:32 GMT

In 2022 I wrote 100K of fic, which was absolutely a record high of prose writing for me. This year I wrote less, especially in the second half of the year. That was actually intentional; as I launched into some pretty big creative projects in my work life, it was necessary to scale back on my fandom productivity.

Also during the second half of the year I helped moderate the Kfic Big Bang which was its own whole project; I participated as an artist and betaed an amazing Seventeen fic by liebchen which I am as proud of as anything I wrote myself this year.

Still, despite my busyness, I managed to finish three fics ranging from 2K to 23K and made progress on two other WIPs. I'm happy with that! I have a feeling next year I will have even less time to write fic- if I manage to just finish my two in-progress works by the end of this year, I will be happy.

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fic writing ask meme

Sun, 14 May 2023 07:56:28 GMT

I saw 4xaroundthesun respond to this fic writing asks meme from tumblr so I also decided to answer the questions that I found most interesting!

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2022 Fic Writing Wrap up

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 08:59:14 GMT

In 2022, I wrote almost exactly 100K words of fic, and also posted a lot of words that I wrote in 2021. This is very unusual for me– I have never had a writing year like this before! I credit a huge amount of this to making friends with a bunch of other wonderful, creative, productive writers; so much of my writing was done because I wanted to keep up with them, or have fun doing the same thing they were doing. Having regular weekly and also random impromptu writing groups on discord has been such a game changer in the past year and a half. Writing has been the opposite of a solo hobby; it has become the center of my social circle and the hub that the majority of my friend groups orbit around. I am so happy with everything I wrote, and excited to see what the future brings!

This year I posted 6 complete stories ranging from 950 words to 44K words, and also updated my very big, ongoing co-written WIP. Pretty much all of them were a first for me in one way or another, so I wanted to write a little bit about each of them.

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