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chestnut_pod who got it from sharpa !
STATS:
Total # of works posted — 5, a relatively high number for me
Total volume of works — 19,255 words
Total # of fandoms — 5
Longest work — "The Consolations of Arabella Strange," which at 11,289 words constitutes the majority of this year's fic posted
Shortest work — "Out of Touch," 400 words exactly
WORKS:
The Consolations of Arabella Strange, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Arabella-centric gen
Who Could Ask For Anything More, Dimension 20: The Unsleeping City, Josefina Gatsby/Misty Moore
Out of Touch, The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Cimorene/Mendenbar
Feeling comes in aid of feeling, Ghosts BBC, Thomas/Kitty
or hesitate to love, Ocean's Echo, Tennal/Surit
REVIEW:
Favorite work — "Consolations" is very, very close to my heart, and I can't really compare it to anything else.
Hardest work — "Consolations" again; but that work mostly didn't occur this year. The final process that led up to posting it was relatively painless. "Feeling comes in aid of feeling" involved a lot of thinking about how to construct it without bumping up against some recipient DNWs and without making it angstier than would be enjoyable, and then a lot of steady work as I ushered the characters through two centuries' worth of posthumous character development.
Out-of-the-comfort-zone work — "Who Could Ask For Anything More" was the first time I've really written about attraction without romance--it's not at all explicit, but aiming for heat instead of warmth was something new.
Most popular work — "Feeling comes in aid of feeling." It's gotten a kudos bump lately, probably because the final season of Ghosts was released. I haven't watched that yet, so I'm not up on happenings in the fandom, but the ship in this fic was pretty rare when I wrote it so I'm glad people liked it.
Least popular work — "Who Could Ask For Anything More," which surprises me a bit because the Dimension 20 fandom is probably the most active one out of all of these. It's easy for stories to get buried there, though, especially for rarepairs, and this story and the one I received in return were the first in English for the ship.
I wrote a lot about grief this year. I only just managed not to put additional non-canonical dead mom content into "or hesitate to love."
LOOKING AHEAD TO 2024
I want to finish "Easily Assimilated." I posted nothing to that fic last year, although I wrote some words. I'm a little stuck on this one--I just need to get the characters out of New York, and then figure out what the story will look like after the New York sections are over. I think the difficulty is that when my brain goes to these characters for comfort, it's usually in the NYC scenario I've established for them, so those are the scenes I'm spinning up in idle moments. Even with a clairvoyant character in the mix, sometimes it's hard to see the way forward.
chestnut_pod who got it from sharpa !STATS:
Total # of works posted — 5, a relatively high number for me
Total volume of works — 19,255 words
Total # of fandoms — 5
Longest work — "The Consolations of Arabella Strange," which at 11,289 words constitutes the majority of this year's fic posted
Shortest work — "Out of Touch," 400 words exactly
WORKS:
The Consolations of Arabella Strange, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Arabella-centric gen
Who Could Ask For Anything More, Dimension 20: The Unsleeping City, Josefina Gatsby/Misty Moore
Out of Touch, The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Cimorene/Mendenbar
Feeling comes in aid of feeling, Ghosts BBC, Thomas/Kitty
or hesitate to love, Ocean's Echo, Tennal/Surit
REVIEW:
Favorite work — "Consolations" is very, very close to my heart, and I can't really compare it to anything else.
Hardest work — "Consolations" again; but that work mostly didn't occur this year. The final process that led up to posting it was relatively painless. "Feeling comes in aid of feeling" involved a lot of thinking about how to construct it without bumping up against some recipient DNWs and without making it angstier than would be enjoyable, and then a lot of steady work as I ushered the characters through two centuries' worth of posthumous character development.
Out-of-the-comfort-zone work — "Who Could Ask For Anything More" was the first time I've really written about attraction without romance--it's not at all explicit, but aiming for heat instead of warmth was something new.
Most popular work — "Feeling comes in aid of feeling." It's gotten a kudos bump lately, probably because the final season of Ghosts was released. I haven't watched that yet, so I'm not up on happenings in the fandom, but the ship in this fic was pretty rare when I wrote it so I'm glad people liked it.
Least popular work — "Who Could Ask For Anything More," which surprises me a bit because the Dimension 20 fandom is probably the most active one out of all of these. It's easy for stories to get buried there, though, especially for rarepairs, and this story and the one I received in return were the first in English for the ship.
I wrote a lot about grief this year. I only just managed not to put additional non-canonical dead mom content into "or hesitate to love."
LOOKING AHEAD TO 2024
I want to finish "Easily Assimilated." I posted nothing to that fic last year, although I wrote some words. I'm a little stuck on this one--I just need to get the characters out of New York, and then figure out what the story will look like after the New York sections are over. I think the difficulty is that when my brain goes to these characters for comfort, it's usually in the NYC scenario I've established for them, so those are the scenes I'm spinning up in idle moments. Even with a clairvoyant character in the mix, sometimes it's hard to see the way forward.
