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My Writing Year 2018
Jan. 17th, 2019 09:52 pmSlightly belated, but there it is.
Last year I wrote 171,691 words. Which is about 13,000 words less than 2017, but I'm quite happy with that. My goal for the year was 150,000, so I exceeded that quite comfortably, with over a month to spare. I shall go for the same target this year - it feels happily doable but still requires a certain commitment.
I reached 109 badges for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fan_flashworks , which meant only 8 new badges. The impetus fell off for a while, but I'm now working for them again - as well as the lovely new seven year bingo badges. I did get my four year fan_flashworks badge (the Undauntable) which was good.
Kudos-wise, four of my five most popular are all The Hobbit, with Gandalf's Small Mistake making its way into my top five overall. It's one of my favourite tropes: being turned into a rabbit.
I wrote three fics over 10,000 words: The Human Element being my Grantchester fic for SmallFandomBigBang and two Lewis fics, Summer Murder in the Rain, which was inspired by the previous year's Lewis Summer Challenge and The Missing Student which I wrote forstory_works Casefic challenge, and this time inspired by the year's Summer Challenge. Both Lewis fics are in my 'Oxford Tales' series.
Looking ahead, I have my Spooks 1920s houseparty AU to complete. I wrote the first chapter in November, but since then I've written a prequel for thestory_works Changes challenge (A Change of Fortune) so it may well need tweaking. And I've got a couple of other Spooks AUs which I may expand - Sentinel/Guide and Werewolf!Lucas.
There will continue to be regular challenges/exchanges but nothing major has attracted me at the moment. Time will tell.
Last year I wrote 171,691 words. Which is about 13,000 words less than 2017, but I'm quite happy with that. My goal for the year was 150,000, so I exceeded that quite comfortably, with over a month to spare. I shall go for the same target this year - it feels happily doable but still requires a certain commitment.
I reached 109 badges for
fan_flashworks , which meant only 8 new badges. The impetus fell off for a while, but I'm now working for them again - as well as the lovely new seven year bingo badges. I did get my four year fan_flashworks badge (the Undauntable) which was good.Kudos-wise, four of my five most popular are all The Hobbit, with Gandalf's Small Mistake making its way into my top five overall. It's one of my favourite tropes: being turned into a rabbit.
I wrote three fics over 10,000 words: The Human Element being my Grantchester fic for SmallFandomBigBang and two Lewis fics, Summer Murder in the Rain, which was inspired by the previous year's Lewis Summer Challenge and The Missing Student which I wrote for
story_works Casefic challenge, and this time inspired by the year's Summer Challenge. Both Lewis fics are in my 'Oxford Tales' series.Looking ahead, I have my Spooks 1920s houseparty AU to complete. I wrote the first chapter in November, but since then I've written a prequel for the
story_works Changes challenge (A Change of Fortune) so it may well need tweaking. And I've got a couple of other Spooks AUs which I may expand - Sentinel/Guide and Werewolf!Lucas.There will continue to be regular challenges/exchanges but nothing major has attracted me at the moment. Time will tell.
