Oh, more shiny!

This one is gakked from nostalgia

1. favorite fic you wrote this year
Probably A Conversation In the Yellow Drawing Room, and Other Letters to Mrs Strange, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

2. least favorite fic you wrote this year
Soaring High (The Flying Lesson Remix), Harry Potter. I don’t dislike it, but it didn’t exite me either.

3. favorite line/scene you wrote this year
The tea must have rendered the Master more companionable because he suddenly surprised her with a question.

“Why do you keep a robot dog in your cleaning cupboard?”

“He is just my dog. I turn him off when I leave home because he isn’t functioning properly. But he is quite fun- you should have turned him on.”

“I see. The laser beam in his nose is still fully functional, I gather.”

“Oh yes, it works perfectly,” Sarah Jane said brightly, and the Master snorted and relapsed into silence.

It’s from Nothing Interesting Ever Happens In Perivale. Sarah Jane and Ainley!Master bounce so nicely off each other.

4. total number of words you wrote this year
32672

5. most popular fic this year
How do you count popularity? By hits, kudos, comments or bookmarks? Anyway, Remembrance, Versailles, got the highest numbers in all those categories.

6. least popular fic this year
Weddings Nerves, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, got the least hits and kudos and Soaring High (The Flying Lesson Remix) the least comments and bookmarks.

7. longest completed fic you wrote this year
Remembrance with 10537 words.

8. shortest completed fic you wrote this year
Weddings Nerves with 504 words.

9. longest wip of the year & 10. shortest wip of the year
I only have one WIP I started this year, so The End of the Story, Versailles, currently with 5896 words wins in both categories.

11. fandom you enjoyed writing for the most this year
Must be a tie between Versailles and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell> as I’ve written two fics each in those fandoms and only one in the rest.

12. favorite character to write about this year
Difficult to say, I go with Sophie de Clermont as I’ve written two fics about her.

13. favorite writing song/artist/album of this year
None; I can’t listen to music when I write.

14. a fic you didn't expect to write
A Conversation In the Yellow Drawing Room, and Other Letters to Mrs Strange. I wrote the first chapter as a one-shot treat for Yuletide a couple of years ago. But I ran out of time before the deadline, and somehow forgot I hadn’t posted it. Then I found it again and realised that not only was it better than I remembered, but it also begged for more chapter.

15. something you learned this year
Pace yourself and don’t sign up for exchanges when you are too stressed to manage deadlines.

16. fic(s) you completed this year
Only seven- I didn’t write anything between April and August.

17. fics you'll continue next year
I’ll defintly finish The End of the Story

18. current number of wips
Three.

19. any new fics to start next year
I always have ideas, but no fixed plans.

20. number of comments you haven’t read
Zero. I don’t get so many comments I can’t keep up, and I want to read them at once!

21. most memorable comment/review
Actually, this has been the year of great comments. I’ve never got this many long and thoughtful reviews on several of my fics.

22. events you participated in this year
Only Chocolate Box and Remix Revival.

23. fics you wanted to write but didn't
I have notes on a few fic I wanted to write as treats for Yuletide, but I realised it would only stress me out to work against a deadline right now.

24. favorite fic you read this year
I can’t say. I only bookmark fics I love a lot.

25. a fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read
It really depends if itäs in a fandom you enjoy, isn’t it, so I can’t rec anything for everyone.

number of favorites/bookmarks you made this year
Only five. I have not read many fanfics this year.

favorite fanfic author of the year
No one that stands out from the others I like.

longest fic you read this year
Be Unwearied, Unceasing, Alive, The Mummy, with 5947 words.

shortest fic you read this year
Old Friends and Wartime Acquaintances, Agent Carter & Lord Peter Wimsey, with 499 words.

favorite fandom to read fic from this year
Well, the most fics I’ve read are in the Doctor Who fandom…

Answers to the fanfic meme

wendelah asked: What made you start writing fanfic?
I’ve always made up stories about books I’ve read, first and foremost Tolkien, but I never wrote anything down apart from synopsizes. I first encountered the term fanfic around 2000 and for a couple of years, I read a lot without ever considering writing any myself.

But then, some time during the winter 2003/2004 I came upon this promo shot from Peter Pan featuring Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook and suddenly it triggered something in me and I started to write. It was like opening a floodgate and for about a year all I could think of was writing, spending every free moment on it. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realise I was actually working out quite a few issues with the help of writing fanfic. And when those were thoroughly worked, I had got into the habit of writing.

thisbluespirit and paynesgrey asked: Which of your own fanfics have you reread the most?
I don’t know. It’s not like a put a mark down when I do. I re-read current WIP’s several times when I work on them. But it feels like I have read Ghosts, The Mummy, A Place In the Shadows, Penny Dreadful, and Professor Keller, Doctor Who, the most. Probably because they are all fics I felt almost turned out as I wanted them.

navaan asked: Name three stories you found difficult to write. And why
Solace and All That You Love Will Be Lost, both written for Doctor Who, were about loss and grief. I wrote them after the loss of a family member and writing was very cathartic, but also difficult as a lot of feelings kept bubbling up as I wrote. I cried a lot when I wrote these.

Professor Keller, was difficult for other reasons. I had a very clear idea of what I wanted, and I worked hard to convey it. It’s a horror story and I both wanted it to be really scary while still not too explicit. It’s the only fic I went back to after a few months and re-wrote every single chapter as well as adding a few things and an epilogue. I’m rather pleased with the result, but it’s definitely the fic which has the most energy and time spent on it.

verdande_mi asked: What's a theme that keeps coming up in your writing?
As a whole my fics are driven by my emotions, not plots. My fics, even multi-chapters, are generally quite short and with only two or three significant characters, concerning a certain emotional arc. I’m full of envy for those who can imagine up a sustainable plot for a long work.

The strongest theme is definitely the protagonist saving her/himself, emotionally and/or physically, or they don’t get saved at all. There is never a hero swooping in and saving the day, though he sometimes turns up at the end to give support. In my current WIP, it’s the heroine who saves her love interest though. It strongly reflects my own view that even if family and friends are very important, you are always the one who has to do the job and saving yourself. Emotionally, that is- most people don’t get captured by villains.

Rape/non-com is a recurrent theme. As I mentioned in the first answer I started to write to deal with issues, and a date-rape when I was 18 was one of them. At first, those stories were darkfics with unhappy endings, now they mostly end with the protagonist dealing with it. It’s also something I write about less and less; I don’t have the need to write it anymore.

verdande_mi and frelling_tralk asked: What kind of relationships are you most interested in writing?
Love, or at least sexual M/F relationships (69 fics), followed by Gen (29 fics). M/M and F/F gets a handful each and Multi only three. I often read slash, I just don’t feel I’m very good at writing it; several of my M/F and Gen stories in the Doctor Who Fandom have the undertext “The Master is obsessed with/love the Doctor”, but it is rarely stated in an explicit way.