Distracted By Something Shiny

So, now that it is the end of the first month of 2015, how about I put up my word counts for 2014? lol I stopped putting up my monthly counts last year just because I was so sick at the beginning of the year, but I continued to keep track of what I was writing, if not weekly, at least throughout the month. So, here it all is!

( Numbers under the cut! )

Just a few things to point out…

16 Fandoms written in.
3 New Fandoms this year - Agents of Shield, Power Pack Kids & Roller Team.
Top 3 Most Written in Fandoms were The Hobbit, The Avengers & CW RPS.
My Least Written in Fandom was Hawaii Five-O.
My Lowest Monthly Word Count was 0 words in April.
My Highest Monthly Word Count was 15,350 words in December.
Finished 2 major WIPs that had been languishing for more than a year - the Jeff/Jensen & Jared/Misha fics.
Wrote my first Tim/Raylan and Kirk/McCoy fics ever.
Wrote 4 Fic-For-Kids.
Completed 21 stories this year. 12 of those were done in December.
53,300 words written in 2014!!

Now, onto 2015, wherein I am determined to finish that fucking Sterek AU! And maybe write that Hunger Games Primrose fic I finally figured out an outline for.

I kept meaning to get this all written up, just some numbers on my word counts for 2013. I actually kept track throughout the year because the previous year, when I added it all up, I realized I was just 750 words short from hitting 100k and there was no way I was going to let that happen again. Especially this time when I added it up at the 6-month mark and realized I had 50k exactly, I had to go for the big goal and get it done.

Fandoms Written In For 2013 - 15; Avengers, Buffy&Angel, Chicago Fire, Criminal Minds, CW RPS, The Hunger Games, Kitties!, Leverage, Lost Girl, Middle-Earth, Once Upon A Time, Supernatural, Teen Wolf, Without A Trace & The X-Files.

New Fandoms Written In For 2013 - 6; Chicago Fire, Criminal Minds, Kitties!, The Hobbit, Lost Girl, and Once Upon A Time.

The Fandoms I Wrote The Most In For 2013 -
Buffy&Angel: 9,250 words.
CW RPS: 13,200 words.
Teen Wolf: 40,600 words.

Lowest Monthly Word Count - 4,000 words in November.
Highest Monthly Word Count - 14,000 words in July.

( Random Things About My 2013 Writing Under The Cut. )

Total Yearly Word Count - 101,200 words written in 2013!!

My goals for 2014 are to finish all of the WIPS in my writing folder. I’m on a mission! I have already finished one this year. Most importantly is to get that freaking Derek/Stiles fic finished! I’m thinking Teen Wolf will probably be the front-runner of word counts again, just in finishing that one fic. But I wonder what new fandoms will strike my fancy during 2014. Anyways, that’s 2013...onto the next!

So, I made Hunger Games art! I actually had this finished a week or so ago. My excitement for Catching Fire kept growing until I had to do a little arting to let it out. This is totally not my original concept at all, not even the same picture - I still may try that idea though - so I was mostly flying by the seat of my pants on this one, rolling with it as it came along. I tried some charcoal chalk and paint this time. I actually used a blush brush to put charcoal chalk on my face for Halloween and then the brush was ruined, so I threw it away. But I luckily decided to pull it back out of the trash, because I thought it would be a good way to apply charcoal for art - which it was, as I used that technique here. I had to touch Katniss up with white paint because I still haven't figured out how not to get dust everywhere. But I knew it needed something more and The BFF agreed, so I added the outlines. My sister suggested I add the Mockingjay, which was way harder than I thought it would be. I'm not 100% satisfied - I never am with my art, I'm such a perfectionist - but I'm getting better at blending two different mediums, I think - in this case, charcoal and paint.

I thought this might look better not quite so up-close, so I took some photo shots as well.

'An Outline Against The Coal'


( A few more shots under the cut, including the actual scan. )

Now I have to go back to working on cartoon/comic style for The Nephew for Christmas!

Last week The BFF and I were in the car and she had a milkshake and she goes, "This is too thick and hard to drink in the car," and I said, "So what you are saying is that it is hard and thick?" And she goes, "Yes. It is hard and thick and I am sucking it into my mouth." And then we both busted out laughing because we are that mature. What?

Anyways, sometimes on the weekend I catch reruns of Criminal Minds. I recently saw the one where in the past the two kids are held by this killer and they try to escape and only one of the boys makes it and leaves the other behind. And he has always carried that guilt with him about what happened to that other kid. Who knows this episode? Every time I catch it, I end up watching the whole thing just for the scene at the end between the two boys, who are all grown up now. It's a great little moment. Is it weird that I ship those two guys? Because I do. I ship the two guest stars of the week with each other. It's just a very compelling connection between them.

In other CM news, I was wondering if the storyline where Reid is on crutches took place because Matthew Gray-Gubler had a broken leg. So I went to look it up and apparently he like completely dislocated his kneecap on the dance floor. And the doctors told him that 40 years ago this kind of injury was met with amputation, because there was just no recovering from it, especially because the cartilage was completely shredded. And like none of his leg was attached to any other part of his leg? As it stood, they wanted him to go to Norway and have some experimental surgery. They weren’t sure he’d ever get full use of his leg back. The interview I read was from a year after the fact and he said even then he was limited to ‘walking’ as his only physical thing; still no running, dancing, etc, and how the Criminal Minds writers had to work around that for the season. Luckily, he has gotten full use back now.

In final news, a little while back I was watching ‘Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows’ and made this comment to The BFF…( Spoilers for Deathly Hallows and Hunger Games' Mockingjay. )

Which leads me to how I intend on finally putting up some Hunger Games fic, hopefully tomorrow, but certainly by this weekend.

I started this year with 26 unfinished WIPs on my computer. That is 26, at least from the beginning of 2010, when I started really writing again. All I have worked on since the end of December are my WIPs - (I'll be interested to see what that number looks like by the end of the year). But I have finished two of them! My Dean/Cas PWP, which I have been picking away at 500 words at a time since November, is with the beta and my Johanna/Annie fic, which I started last summer and then let sit for like seven months, is at that final editing stage. I think I may reward myself by starting some new porn this week, maybe Teen Wolf or Justified, depending on my mood.

So I thought, to help myself along with the Finish All The WIPs Project, I'd make up a little meme. Steal away, if you like!

Write up the following for the works-in-progress you currently have; Working Title, Current Word Count, First and Last Sentences/Paragraphs thus far.

( My WIPs Under The Cut. Beware The NC-17. )

I don't expect to have them all done by the end of the year, since I have many other ideas I want to work on, but half would be nice.

Fandoms Written In For 2012 - 17; Supernatural, Firefly, Hawaii Five-O, Without A Trace, Justified, CW RPS, Hunger Games, Leverage, Avengers, Real Person (various), The X-Files, X-Men, Harry Potter, Falling Skies, Spiderman, Angel and Teen Wolf.

New Fandoms Written In For 2012 - 5; Hunger Games, Leverage, Avengers, Falling Skies & Teen Wolf.

The Fandoms I Wrote The Most In For 2012 -
This was actually tricky because I wasn’t sure how to categorize ‘Apocalypse! Alien Asteroids’. <--That’s srz bznz, man! I mean, sure, it counts as all 25,600 words towards the fandom of Real Person (various), meaning Neil deGrasse Tyson comes up in the top three (as he should), but then what to do about The X-Files & The Avengers? It seems cheat to add the whole word count for those, since they are only in like half the story, but it also seems unfair not to count them at all. So I just went halfies at 12,800 words...making The Avengers my most written fandom of the year!

Supernatural - 18,700 words.
Real Person (various) - 25,600 words.
The Avengers - 31,300 words.

Lowest Monthly Word Count - 5,200 words for March.
Highest Monthly Word Count - 15,350 words for October.

Total Yearly Word Count - 99,250!!

I'm a little surprised by so many words for The Avengers. Go Team Avengers! If you were wondering, even without the word count of Apocalypse! Alien Asteroids, my Avengers count was still 18,500. Also, I’m VERY HAPPY with the total word count for the year but, oh man, if I had known I was so close to the 100k mark, I would have gone for those extra 750 words.

On to 2013, where I’m betting Teen Wolf wins everything. That’s right, I said Teen Wolf!

So I voted on the People’s Choice Awards for the first time in my life. Walking Dead FTW!! I really just went over there to browse, but I ended up voting in a few categories. Walking Dead was up under Sci-Fi and Cable Drama, so I voted there. If Justified had been up for a cable drama, I might have had to go that route, but it wasn’t, so…TWD FTW!!! But what I really want to talk about is the movie ‘on-screen chemistry’ category. It was about chemistry and I was hoping there might be some same-sex options in there - (I friend-ship the hell out of Tony-Bruce, but I couldn’t really think of any others from recent movies that I wanted to see in there). The nominations made it clear that it wasn’t just romantic options, because Jeremy/Scarlett were on the list - (they did have amazing chemistry together, didn’t they?). Even without RDjr-Ruffalo, I say that the People’s Choice Awards get kudos for progressiveness...because there was a Threesome option!!! Remember while I was reading the Hunger Games and I was like, “Omg, Gale/Katniss!” and then after the movie I was all, “Omg, Peeta/Katniss!” and then I was like, “What do I do? Oh right, OT3!” and then I freaked out at therapy in front of that old lady? Yeah - Jennifer/Josh/Liam - OT3 FTW!! I totally voted for them. It actually doesn’t seem quite right though, because I don’t think Josh and Liam had any screen time together - (did they?). They just didn’t want to divide up the ‘ships - (like me, someone at the PCAs couldn’t pick either!) - and anyways, I support threesomes! I was kind of bummed to see Community didn’t get a nomination though. Anyhoo, now I guess I have to pay attention to the winners. Though I am still not watching the actual awards show.

And now…fic! I have no Thanksgiving story this year - (I did like one year and that is it) - but this year I have written in several new fandoms. I have three stories ready to go and I thought I would post one on like Monday. Now I just can’t decide which one to go with. So I am just going to put up a bit from each fic without telling you what new fandom of mine it is in and then let you pick which one grabs your interest more. Mostly this is just a more fun way for me to decide, rather than doing eeny-meeny-miny-mo.

[Poll #1879269]

Finally, Jeremy Renner is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend! Tivo is set to go!

Well, halfway through the month and I finally get around to posting this. My word count for last month! The lowest yet this year, but still more than double my ‘500 words a week’ goal - considering I had The Tilting Virus all month, I am quite happy with this.

A few new things this month - I started the month with the urge to write porn. When I think porn, I think Jeffrey Dean Morgan. So I tried for a pairing I had never done before and went JDM/Jensen. Though, of course, I wrote 750 words and still haven’t gotten to the actual porn yet. /shakes head/ Then I also started my first Leverage fic ever, thanks to mid-afternoon reruns on TNT. But mostly, March was about The Hunger Games.

lizibabes was encouraging me to write a threesome in this fandom and I told her, “Well, I already wrote my gen fic and then I have to finish my Gale/Finnick fic and then I want to start my Johanna/Annie fic and after that I have an idea for a Gale/Peeta fic and then I’ll write a threesome. Oh…huh. I guess it is official - I have a new fandom!”

Here is my approximate word count for the month.

March, 2012
Week 1/2: 750 words of JDM/Jensen PWP.
Week One: 1,200 words of Hunger Games Gen fic. Completed.
Week Two: 700 words of Leverage AU.
Week Three: 1,000 words of Gale/Finnick fic.
Week Four: 1,550 words of Johanna/Annie fic.

5,200 words written in March!

( Fics posted in March, 2011. )

Not as many fics completed in March as usual, but I am working on them this month. I am wicked excited to be trying out two new fandoms! I have lots of ideas for The Hunger Games and Leverage. So far this month I have finished the Gale/Finnick fic and written some more Without A Trace. I also have some LJ-peeps celebrating birthdays soon, so I hope to write some fics for them before the end of the month.

This had to be a separate post from my earlier happy one because…I have reached page 300ish of “Mockingjay“. This is why I don’t read a ton of books. With a movie, you get two hours of being tense and upset and then maybe a day or two of obsessively thinking about it. With a book, it takes days to read and you are upset and tense the whole time and spend days waking up in the middle of the night thinking about it and…yeah.

This book is really upsetting! I left a little note on the wipe-board for my roomies and then a voicemail message on Cherri's phone. You can read them under the cut…

( …but beware of the most spoilery spoilers ever. )

I really want to work on my Gale/Finnick fic now for some cathertic release. Yes, I am writing Gale/Finnick. Shut up. Off to read the last 60 pages of book.

Well, eleven days into the month and I am finally getting my word count up for February. I actually hit a pretty good count last month. Not quite as much as in January, but still well beyond my goal of 500 words a week.

Most of my words seemed to be Dean/Cas, but I also managed a little Firefly. And I wrote some Without A Trace fic for the first time in probably five years. I don’t even know where that came from or what just happened there. There is this image I have had in my head for years of Martin trudging up the stairs to his apartment and finding Danny sitting there, head bowed. I sat down to meet my word count and out of nowhere, the story for that image just wrote itself. After all this time, that was quite a nice surprise. I also wrote my first real Justified fic - (not counting that drabble I wrote last year and intended to flesh out but never did). Finding Raylan and Boyd’s voices took me a minute but I am really happy with how it came out.

( My word count for February 2012, as well as a look back at Fic of Februarys Past. )

I did sit down and write that Hunger Games fic that has been needling at me. I am unsure if it is any good or fits very well in canon, since it’s been awhile since I read the first book, but writing it was definitely a cathartic release that I desperately needed. And it’s Sunday today, which means I should be writing some Firefly Apocalypse fic, but I really just want to go read more Catching Fire. Decisions, decisions.