The Twelve Days of Christmas: Day Four for pushkin666

Life on Mars was my first fandom.  I've now drifted away, although the love of writing casefics remains with me.  But I haven't abandoned the characters completely, so when pushkin666 requested "Sam/Gene, Christmas carols" I had fun channelling my inner Gene Hunt.

Once in Loyal Gene Hunt's City

Wordage 2016

This year I have written 166,508 words, which totally astounds me.  This is 22,000 more than last year.  I'm really pleased; last year I was slightly disappointed not to reach 150,000 which was my second goal, this year I've exceeded the third goal.  Wow!

Next year I shall once again set my minimum goal at 120,000, with my hoped for goal at 150,000.  That way if I have a bad month I should still achieve the minimum.  There's no point in stressing myself over something I am only doing for fun.

In the process, I have gained 30 badges from fan_flashworks, bringing my total to 84.

Kudos-wise, my most popular fics are nearly all The Hobbit.  So Much for the Planning and Now or Never tie for top spot, followed by Sleeping Beauty and in fifth place Numbering Off.  So yes, write fluffy ficlets in a popular fandom, not for once with a rare pair (Thorin/Bilbo), and get kudos.  (I'm half tempted to write a longer fic, add a bit of angst and hurt/comfort and see where that gets me.)  Rather surprisingly in fourth place is Twenty-two Point Four Percent which is an Almost Human ficlet I wrote for DW's Chocolate Box.

Looking forward to next year, I need to finish Watson1918, which has three chapters written.  I have the Lewis casefic to write from the three drabbles One Rainy Summer's Day.  I'm still planning on writing a few more fics for At the Drop of a Deerstalker.  So there should be plenty of words available.