The Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Day 1

So I am doing the Fandom Snowflake Challenge, and lucky for me, day one works neatly with sga_santa reveals.

Day one: In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.

I don't think any of my fic defines me as a creator (every story is a piece of me; none of it is more me than anything else), and normally I'd go with rarepairs or something like that, but it just so happens that sga_santa reveals were today, and I just so happened to write three stories for the fest, each of which are something special to me.

What Happens in Pegasus, Stays in Pegasus, Rodney/Jennifer, Rodney/Jennifer/John, NC17, ~11,000 words.

This story started the moment I got my prompt, and went like wildfire. I haven't written too much het, even less explicit het, and then I've written even less M/F/M sex. As in, none. I like threesomes and moresomes, and I like het. I'm glad to have written this piece, and I hope to write more of those things in the future. I'm also pleased with Jennifer in this. I knew from the beginning that it had to be her POV and I think that it worked really well with the story I wanted to tell. Anyway, I'm pleased with how it turned out and I hope I end up writing more of these three. They're quite lovely together.

Warmth, A Divine Intervention, Team gen, PG-ish, ~3500 words.

There was a big Rodney!whump theme in the fest this year; I haven't read all the fics so far, but a good number of the early ones I read were h/c where Rodney got hurt. This is sort of in that vein, though I tried to make it mostly about the comfort (team snuggling is a personal favorite). I really planned to write McShep; somehow the team just kept butting its head in, and I decided if it was really going to be McShep, then it'd have to be in the sequel. I love the VE, though it's not the biggest part of this; I love what Rodney did (and how many episodes I had to research to get my facts right). I had a lot of really excellent ideas for porn, too, just not enough time to write them. Maybe later.

Basement cat has infiltrated heaven, werecat!John/Rodney, G, ~1200 words.

I started a super-angsty h/c fic that whumped the hell out of werecat!John and Rodney for this prompt and I got several thousand words into it before I realized it was simply too big to finish in the time available to me. So I dumped that and started this ridiculously lolzy fic (and then, when cleaning up my writing folders for 2012, promptly deleted the first one /o\). I almost asked them to post it anonymously, I was so embarrassed. I shouldn't have been; it's gotten the most comments of all three fics, despite taking the least amount of time to write, having the least words and lowest rating, and being the crackiest. It's the popular pairing; if I ever needed a reminder that any fic featuring John and Rodney is going to be more widely-read than any other pairing in SGA, this fic served that purpose nicely. I don't generally do humor (or not particularly well, I think), but rereading it, I do sort of love it, in a weird cracky way. John as a ruffled black cat will never not be funny.

2011 Posted Fic

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This was the year of starting and completing novella length works. My big bang (67,255 words) just edged out my mcshep match (55,271 words), and I was writing them at the same time for a lot of the summer. It was a lot of work and a lot of fun (thank you, wintercreek), but it also wore me out and I needed to take two months off writing to be able to get back in the swing of things. I think mostly it was the year of realizing that I shouldn't be signing up for too many challenges. sga_santa is still a well of inspiration, but most of the others that I did last year were like pulling teeth. I'm going to have to think long and hard about mcshep_match this year. (I find that pinch hits are really a kick in the butt too - I may just sign up as a pinch hitter for everything.)

Total of 34 stories in 8 fandoms. Over 300k written and over 200k posted (wowza, hadn't expected that, even with the two long stories), so even though it felt a bit rollercoaster-y, this was a good writing year. I've signed up at inkingitout for 300k next year; I feel confident I can make that total, and I have some things I'd like to play with in my fic, which I hope to do if I can make the writing even more consistent. I'd really love for this to be the year I finish and post Impromptu. It's a big story, but I've finished two of those now, I know how (and there are no deadlines so I can take proper time to polish up the story afterward).

Also - for those of you that like shiny things (like spreadsheets), I've jiggered the writing spreadsheet I've been using for three (four, maybe?) years now that has really been motivational in keeping my numbers up: 2012 Wordtracker. It's not for everyone, but if it's for you, have at!