Distracted By Something Shiny

I haven't really been posting my word counts this year, mostly because they have been so dismal and also because I keep track of that stuff on my desktop and I swear, I barely turn that thing on anymore, especially now that I have my fancy new IPad keyboard. But I have been keeping track, so I figured now is a good time to post the first 6 months of word counts.

Here we go! ( January - June, under the cut. )

It's only about a quarter of my yearly goal - which is 100k - so not that great, but maybe I can make up for it in the second half of the year, now that I am getting used to juggling my new spoon-level better. That whole 'write everyday, even if it's just 100 words' thing I tried in May didn't really work. Maybe I should try again.

So, first I started streaming Parenthood through Neflix and I LOVE it! I adore their whole dysfunctional functional family. Ad who would have ever thought I'd like Dax Shepherd - I mean, the Punk'd guy? But I love his character so much! And the kid who plays Max deserves a freaking Emmy! It's so easy to mainline too. But I figured I should take a break and watch a season of something else before I go back to Parenthood.

I tried Bitten, from D's recommendation. I did not like it. First of all, the idea that there aren't very many female werewolves because they aren't strong enough to survive the 'change'? I call bullshit. Do you know what women have to endure with our stupid bodies? So sexist, man. And also, Clay wishes he was Dyson Thornwood. But he isn't. I watched four eps and quit that. Then I decided to try Scandal, per Guy Therapist's recommendation when we were talking about wanting more female leads and 3-dimensional female characters. I am IN LOVE with this show. It's giving me the fresh new shiny toy feeling of love!

Since Guy Therapist is working at the other clinic these days, I decided to pop him an email and tell him exactly how I felt about this show he recommended. For your reading pleasure, here is my freak-out...( Vague spoilers for Scandal S1 under the cut. )

For all my West Wing peeps out there, I highly recommend Scandal, available now on Netflix!

So, clearly, I gave myself some leeway on being sick this month because I missed three entire weeks of writing in a row. It’s the first time I haven’t written at least 500 words in a week in almost two years. November also seems to be the lowest word count I have had since I started having weekly word goals back at the beginning of 2012. I was sad about it, even though I know some of my energy in November was spent on arting, so I was at least doing something with myself. Still, I buckled down at the end of the month and decided if I couldn’t meet the 1,000 words per week goal, I could at least meet the 4,000 words per month goal. Which I did. At the same time that I finished out two WIPS - (my first Criminal Minds fic in the bag!) - and worked some more on that Jeff/Jensen PWP that’s been sitting on my hard-drive forever. (It’s taken a weird turn from my original intention).

Here is my approximate word count for the month.

November, 2013
Week One: 0 words.
Week Two: 0 words.
Week Three: 0 words.
Week Four: 2,050 words of Danny/Martin fic. Completed.
800 words of Criminal Minds fic. Completed.
1,150 words of Jeff/Jensen PWP.

4,000 words written in November!

( Fics posted in November, 2012. )

Two WIPs off the checklist! (I had left Danny & Martin smack-dab in the middle of sex for more than a year on that one, so I feel good finally giving them some closure). December and then done!

Uh. It seems I forgot to put this up last month. That explains why it was still listed in my ‘word-count’ document. Oops. So today I’ll do double-duty of April’s word count and then I’ll put up May’s as well. Writing has been going really well though, so I am happy! And hey, look, this is the month I wrote some Buffy fic!

Here is my approximate word count for the month.

April, 2013
Week One: 1,000 words of Leverage AU.
Week Two: 1,800 words of Dean/Cas fic. Completed. (already posted!)
800 words of Christian/Jensen PWP.
Week Three: 1,550 words of Hobbit Kid-Fic.
Week Four: 2,050 words of Dawn/Spike fic. Completed. (already posted!)
Week Four & ½ : 1,250 words of Hobbit Kid-Fic.

8,450 words written in April!

( Fics posted in April, 2012. )

And that was April!

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!

Leverage has been canceled.

I am so sad right now, you guys. I just started watching this show in the last year. And writing fanfic for it as well. It’s my new fandom and now the show is over. I bottomed out so fast when I heard the news. I just wanted to crawl back into bed and sleep for hours. Instead I have to go my mom’s and fake holiday cheer and decorate cookies. Ugh.

The Sister & BFF tried to reassure me that the cast will all get work somewhere - and they will, I’m sure too - but they won’t all be together. I had heard rumors that this might happen and I know the show-runners were preparing for it by making this season finale be something that they could go out on, but I still didn’t think it would happen. I thought it would be on for 12 seasons like Monk or something and that it would probably reach Psych levels of just being bounced around and placed in any slot they had available when they needed a filler - but I didn’t think it would end.

I have to call my cousin tonight and tell her the bad news. If you recall, she was without TV for a few weeks recently after she moved and she borrowed a bunch of DVDs, one of which was Leverage. She never said anything to me about it and I was a little worried that she didn’t like it. I had been sort of embarrassed to loan it to her because, let’s face it, Leverage can be kind of stupid and I thought she might roll her eyes at it. She came over a week ago and I finally asked her. Oh, she’d loved it! She’d watched the first two seasons and had been frantically searching for 3 & 4. So I loaned her 3 & 4 as well. She was so happy. She’d caught part of a season 5 on TV and wanted to know what was going on with Parker & Hardison. A week later, she’d watched all of seasons 3 & 4 - in a week! I was so ecstatic to have someone to talk about Leverage with in my RL! ! Not to mention we haven’t had a show in common since we both quit Criminal Minds and Bones.

Now I have to go make cookies, but I just needed to vent this all out first. Leverage will always live on in my heart. You stupid, silly show - I love you.

First, let me just say that as I was scrolling through my July archives to see what fic I had posted in years past, I came across two things of note. a) I was legit bitching in a post back in July of 2010 about how Red Dawn is never coming out. Apparently, even back then I thought the wait had already been too long for the release of this movie. Little did I know how much longer I would have to wait. And b) I was scrolling by posts and I saw this jump out at me - Please tell Jeremy Renner to come over later and make-out with me. K? Thanx. It was a letter directed at Ben Affleck about his movie The Town. I'm just sayin', I have always had good tastes in men, okay? (Still haven't actually seen The Town yet though - should make sure it is in the Netflix).

Now word county stuffs: Almost forgot to post this month. I went to put in my word count from yesterday (2,350 words!) and I saw that last month's list was still in the document. Oops. I would say it is a pretty diverse month, but I feel like I always say that, don't I? Still five different fandoms this month, including Falling Skies fic, so add a brand new fandom to my list! Also, the cabin fic that I wrote out by hand ended up being 300 words more than I had estimated once I had typed it out. But so very, very little on The BFF's fic.

Here is my approximate word count for the month.

July, 2012
Week One: 550 words of Leverage fic.
Week Two: 1,700 words of Falling Skies Tom/Weaver fic. Completed.
Week Three: 1,550 words of Christian/Jensen AU fic.
Week Four: 1,500 words of SPN Weechester Cabin fic. Completed.
Week Four and a Half: 700 words of Secret Crossover fic.

6,000 words written in July!

( Fics posted in Julys past. )

My goal between now and the end of September is to finish The BFF's fic - it already has 8,000 words and it needs about 4,000 more, I think, to be completed. I also want to finish The Nephew's back-to-school fic which I started yesterday. That needs about 1,500 more words or so. And, of course, the birthday fic I started for wolfrider89 last year right before I went into the hospital. That one needs another 2,500 words, possibly more. It is going to be a challenge though because I stopped right in the middle of a sex scene and it is hard to start back up again right in the flow of porn, you know? If I have time, I would also like to finish the little Leverage fic I am working on. It needs another 1,000 words and I figure I can work on it when I am feeling tapped out on the other stories. That's about 9,000 words in six weeks - I can do that, right?

My word count for the month of June! I almost came in with my lowest numbers yet this year, but I pushed myself on the last day of the month and went over the edge. I was at 3,100 words on the 30th of June and I sat down to finish the story I had started earlier that week. By the time I went to bed, I had written that story and another story - a total of 2,600 words for the day. I didn't do enough on The BFF's fic this month but I did finally write another piece in the Burrowing 'verse for Harry Potter. I'd been wanting to do that for about four years now. I also completed my first Leverage fic ever! Who would have thought that the first Leverage fic I finished would turn out to be an Eliot-Parker friendship fic? Also, not my first X-Men fic ever, but my first one in the subgenre of 'First Class' was completed this month. All in all, a pretty diverse month, even for me.

Here is my approximate word count for the month.

June, 2012
Week One: 950 words of X-Men: First Class fic. Completed. (already posted!)
Week Two: 1,050 words of Secret Crossover fic.
Week Three: 600 words of Secret Crossover fic.
Week Four: 2,050 words of Wee!Weasley Harry Potter fic. Completed.
1,050 words of Leverage Eliot-Parker fic. Completed.

5,700 words written in June!

On a side note: 41,800 words so far this year!

( Fics posted in Junes past. )

So far this month I have started a new Leverage fic and written some Falling Skies fic. I have so many thoughts about Falling Skies, I need to make a post. We will just say that I wrote some Tom Mason/Dan Weaver fic and it got weird and though I really like it a lot actually, I am not sure I am brave enough to post it. I would probably have to make a new 'kink' tag for it. Let's just leave it at that. (Now all I have done is intrigued you all, haven't I?)

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.