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favorite story this year (of my own): I'm torn between When Day is Night Alone and Grey Crimson Skies. I'm so proud of both of those stories and I've had amazing comments on both. Comments that show people got what I was trying to say, and that's always fantastic. I honestly can't pick.
most popular story this year, in my opinion: When Day is Night Alone, by a long way.
most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: I'm always surprised when anything I write gets more than a couple of comments. So, I have nothing here.
most fun story: It Might Be Instamatic Flu, the co-write with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mahoni The story was written in comments over a weekend and I remember sitting and just clapping with glee when each new part arrived in my in-box. It was an awesome time and I laughed so often.
sexiest story: Oh man, I don't think anything I write is sexy. 99% of my stories end at kissing and hand-holding. Hidden in Plain Sight was my attempt at a kink meme prompt and went over okay I guess.
"holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:Well I wrote a lot of h/c this year, with an extra helping of hurt. Which personally is fine by me, my betas may not agree *g* Oh, wait! Mikey and Gerard as mer people was pretty out there.
story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: When Day is Night Alone and Standing On the Graves of Dreams, simply because of writing Panic/TYV. While I love them I've written much more MCR so each time I do write Panic/TYV I worry that I'm doing them a disservice. So those two stories made me look at all four of the guys and really think about what I was writing.
hardest story to write: Standing on the Grave of Dreams. I had a time limit, I was writing for a very good friend and having to lie to her about what I was writing. I had another looming deadline for another exchange. I was dealing with stuff in RL at the same time. My world building was collapsing around me, I was convinced I was writing the worst exchange story ever. I can never thank my betas enough for getting me through that.
biggest disappointment: Hidden in Plain Sight. It's okay I guess, but I wish I could get over myself and write actual sex once in a while.
biggest surprise: That I wrote something over 70k still makes me boggle.
most telling story: Grey Crimson Skies is telling if you know where to look.
overall: I think my pacing and plotting has improved and I've moved on from writing lots of short stuff to taking the time to let stories develop. Of course there's a handful of silly shorts in there and I'm not the best of writers by a long shot, but I can look back and be proud of what I wrote. That's a good thing.
ambitions for next year: My ambition was always to prove to myself I could write something long, and now that's gone I don't know. Maybe at least try to write sex, but that's something I've been trying to do for years and haven't managed yet. I'd like to join bandom big bang and not let my fears of my name being lost in the crowd stop me. I want to write in the When Day is Night Alone and Sound Tracking universes again. I want to write a long canon based Mikey/Frank story. I want to finish my bandom_au story as I've a big chunk of pre-school Bob fic that I love. I want to write Panic/TYV fic and at least try for stories with pairings different to Mikey/Frank and Gerard/Bob. I want people to get that Mikey/Frank/Pete is the best threesome eva! I want to flood the fandom with Ryan and Mikey as secret BFF fic, but that's a secret plot, so shush!
I've just totalled up my word count and it's over 236k, and that's without adding the co-writes because I have no idea how much I wrote for those. Maybe I should aim for 250k total next year, I'm sure you'll all dying for a 100k plus h/c epic featuring lots of Mikey and Ryan \o/
most popular story this year, in my opinion: When Day is Night Alone, by a long way.
most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: I'm always surprised when anything I write gets more than a couple of comments. So, I have nothing here.
most fun story: It Might Be Instamatic Flu, the co-write with
mahoni The story was written in comments over a weekend and I remember sitting and just clapping with glee when each new part arrived in my in-box. It was an awesome time and I laughed so often.sexiest story: Oh man, I don't think anything I write is sexy. 99% of my stories end at kissing and hand-holding. Hidden in Plain Sight was my attempt at a kink meme prompt and went over okay I guess.
"holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:Well I wrote a lot of h/c this year, with an extra helping of hurt. Which personally is fine by me, my betas may not agree *g* Oh, wait! Mikey and Gerard as mer people was pretty out there.
story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: When Day is Night Alone and Standing On the Graves of Dreams, simply because of writing Panic/TYV. While I love them I've written much more MCR so each time I do write Panic/TYV I worry that I'm doing them a disservice. So those two stories made me look at all four of the guys and really think about what I was writing.
hardest story to write: Standing on the Grave of Dreams. I had a time limit, I was writing for a very good friend and having to lie to her about what I was writing. I had another looming deadline for another exchange. I was dealing with stuff in RL at the same time. My world building was collapsing around me, I was convinced I was writing the worst exchange story ever. I can never thank my betas enough for getting me through that.
biggest disappointment: Hidden in Plain Sight. It's okay I guess, but I wish I could get over myself and write actual sex once in a while.
biggest surprise: That I wrote something over 70k still makes me boggle.
most telling story: Grey Crimson Skies is telling if you know where to look.
overall: I think my pacing and plotting has improved and I've moved on from writing lots of short stuff to taking the time to let stories develop. Of course there's a handful of silly shorts in there and I'm not the best of writers by a long shot, but I can look back and be proud of what I wrote. That's a good thing.
ambitions for next year: My ambition was always to prove to myself I could write something long, and now that's gone I don't know. Maybe at least try to write sex, but that's something I've been trying to do for years and haven't managed yet. I'd like to join bandom big bang and not let my fears of my name being lost in the crowd stop me. I want to write in the When Day is Night Alone and Sound Tracking universes again. I want to write a long canon based Mikey/Frank story. I want to finish my bandom_au story as I've a big chunk of pre-school Bob fic that I love. I want to write Panic/TYV fic and at least try for stories with pairings different to Mikey/Frank and Gerard/Bob. I want people to get that Mikey/Frank/Pete is the best threesome eva! I want to flood the fandom with Ryan and Mikey as secret BFF fic, but that's a secret plot, so shush!
I've just totalled up my word count and it's over 236k, and that's without adding the co-writes because I have no idea how much I wrote for those. Maybe I should aim for 250k total next year, I'm sure you'll all dying for a 100k plus h/c epic featuring lots of Mikey and Ryan \o/
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i don't know about you but i personally am dying for this one. just so you know :D
(also wheeeeeeeee more sound tracking universe! i really loved this story ♥)
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Yeah, I've always planned to write about Mikey/Frank/Pete and what happened when Mikey and Frank were sex slaves and Pete saved them. Apparently I have a thing.
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(could it be about mikey sibling-ly bonding with orphaned runaway ryan afte gerard adopts him? :D? :D?)
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Oh my goodness. Mikey bonding with runaway Ryan. You know my weak spots for sure.
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oh, you know. ryan likes gerard all right, but gerard is an adult and also has power over him (and maybe spencer), and ryan's long out of trust for such things. but mikey, mikey's his age and quiet and reserved and friendly without pushing, and mikey's here - and mikey also knows how easily he could've ended in ryan's position if gerard didn't manage to pull himself together at the last minute after helena's death. soooo...
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OMG! I have notes about this story! How did that happen?
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When I start the Ryan bashing you'll be the first person I contact :D
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I think you should know that I'm dipping my toes in the sci-fi-space-au-stuff for the first time now and I blame both you and
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YAY! I'll totally take that blame! That's awesome.
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That's awesome that you accomplished your goal of writing. And, hey, I can't write sex anymore. I used to, and when I read some of my old stories I'm boggled by the sex, and I think, did *I* write that? But now, I just feel silly.
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Yes! Silly is the word. I like reading sex scenes and am very impressed by anyone that can write them, but when I do I end up breaking things down and just thinking it's ridiculous.
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Please to be considering a 100K plus bus accident fic with crazy half-blind Justin, too. ;)
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239k, damn that's insane! Go you!
Mikey/Frank/Pete is the best threesome ever.
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Well you know, the shelter fic bumped that up a lot.
They are!
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You can write sex, I've seen you! You "just" have to find that mental space again.
Everyone gets a little lost in the crowd during BBB so you should definitelyy not let that fear stop you from participating next year. I love that you want to write more in the Sound Tracking universe! There is nothing wrong with writing Gerard/Bob, it's an awesome pairing :-D And you're soooo wrong, the best threesome ever is Bob/Gerard/Frank! Or possibly Bob/Gerard/Mikey or Bob/Gerard/Ray ;-D
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Seriously, thank you. I love that you let me know you like them so much.
You see everything! *g* I don't know, maybe I'm doomed for one sex snippet per year.
Ah, but see my plans are to write the Mikey/Frank/Pete story from Soundtracking and I know you won't like that. But I will concede Bob/Gerard/Mikey is a nice threesome.
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I bet you're miffed that you wasted this year's effort on Frank/Gerard then ;-D
You're going to attempt that sex-slave pre-story then? Or is it going to be a sequel?
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Well, I'd like to attempt the sex-slave pre-story but I know it would only appeal to a tiny audience. Which isn't a problem as such because I write what I like, just it'll probably be something I work on in fits and starts and not an actual full on story. If that makes any sense at all.
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(also, I'm a little sad that I had to step back from your beta team and missed so much goodness in progress. It's so *odd* for me to be reading about your years writing and not know the stories intimately. Damned work, eating my head. And Hurray for your awesome beta team!)
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Oh dude, you're mega busy and that leaves no time for you to beta all my babble. I totally understand that. You are a miss though, you taught me so much ♥
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Mikey&Ryan secret BFFs forever \o/
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Ahahahaha. You know the sad thing? That's probably right before you guys get at my stories and make me add more.
YES!
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Of course we are! :D
That is an awesome word count, I know I had a blast reading everything!
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YAY! I'll start planning it now!
Thank you ♥
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I've enjoyed your stories so much. It's interesting to read your thoughts on them!
Writing Instamatic Flu was SO FUN, yes!
That's an awesome word count!! And you definitely should be proud of what you've written.