12-31-12

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Official List of Books Completed for 1/12
~The Book of (Holiday) Awesome
~A Song of Ice & Fire: Game of Thrones
~Royal Pains: Sick Rich

Official List of Books Completed for 2/12
~Peter Pan
~Redwall*
~Treasure Island
~Supernatural: Bobby Singer's Guide to Hunting
~Supernatural: War of the Sons
~Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban*
~Supernatural: Coyote's Kiss

Official List of Books Completed for 3/12
~Supernatural: One Year Gone
~Ender's Game*
~Supernatural: Night Terrors
~Fruits Basket: Volume 1*
~A Song of Ice & Fire: Clash of Kings

Official List of Books Completed for 4/12
~Slam!*
~Dancing on the Edge*
~CSI: Skin Deep
~The Hunger Games
~Catching Fire
~Mockingjay
~CSI: Shock Treatment

Official List of Books Completed for 5/12
~Dry*

Official List of Books Completed for 6/12
~A Song of Ice & Fire: Storm of Swords

Official List of Books Completed for 7/12
~Teen Wolf: On Fire

Official List of Books Completed for 8/12
~Supernatural: Rite of Passage
~Skellig
~Arabian Nights

Official List of Books Completed for 9/12
~The Losers: Book One
~The Losers: Book Two

Official List of Books Completed for 10/12
~Wolves of the Beyond: Lone Wolf
~The Book of Angels
~Wolves of the Beyond: Shadow Wolf

Official List of Books Completed for 11/12
~Wolves of the Beyond: Watch Wolf
~The Last Thing I Saw: A Donald Strachey Mystery

Official List of Books Completed for 12/12
~A Christmas Carol
~Real Wolfmen: True Encounters In Modern America

Total: 37


And now, obligatory Year In Review Meme...

List of ficcage for 2012:

Sink Or Swim (JS)
Watch Your Back (G)
Lullaby (H50)
Beat (MBAV)
Waking Up In Port Charles (GH)*
In the Middle of My Darkest Hour (Rescue Me) (GH)*
A Happy Ending (JS)
A Haven In A Heartless World (P)
When Things Explode (GH)
Slow Burn (BN)
Flesh Wounds (H50)
We Can Just Runaway (SD)
Picking Up Pieces (BN)
If It’s Gonna Be A Rainy Day (G)
Stealing Kisses (C)
Hidden (SC)
Back Where We Belong (PE)
It Can Always Get Worse (But Sometimes It Gets Better) (TW)
Combustion (SH)
Dancing Lessons (H50)
You Should Stay (N)
Traditions (CM)
Time Lines (BWOC)
Sleepless (Psy)
Flicker (A)
Destiny (TM)
Body Language (MBAV)
The Difference Between Lonely & Alone (JS)
Bitten (GB)
The Utherians (TSA)
Off-Balance (On Steady Ground) (CSI)
Aftermath (FN)
Reunion (L)
An Invitation (SPN)
A Day Off (POI)
Dream House (OUAT)
Twas The Night Before Christmas (GH)*
Acceptance (S-BBC)
Second Chance (BN) [Yuletide Fic, edited on 1/1/13 after author reveal.]
+2 Commenfic Drabbles (G, Saw)
+1 GH_U Response*

(JS - Jumping Ship, G - Grimm, H50 - Hawaii Five-0, MBAV - My Babysitter’s A Vampire, GH - General Hospital, P - Priest, BN - Burn Notice, SD - Scooby Doo, C - Cursed, SC - Saddle Club, PE - Primeval, TW - Teen Wolf, SH - Sky High, N - Newsies, CM - Criminal Minds, GB - Gator Boys (RPF), BWOC - Big Wolf On Campus, Psy - Psych, A - Avengers, TM - Tin Man, TSA - The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, CSI - CSI, FN - Fright Night, L - Losers, SPN - Supernatural, POI - Person of Interest, OUAT - Once Upon A Time, S-BBC - Sherlock. *=GH_Unwrapped Fic)

Estimated Word Count for 2012: 151,578



Favorite fic:
I actually have a few. Oddly, they're the long ones for weird fandoms - the Jumping Ship ones (Sink or Swim and A Happy Ending), ugh, Combustion (Sky High), A Haven In A Heartless World (Priest) and Hidden (Saddle Club).

Least favorite fic:
There are a couple things I rushed through in order to finish the cottoncandy_bingo card that maybe should've had more work - things toward the end like the OUAT fic and Sherlock and that GH Christmas fic, too. But, I don't necessarily dislike them, I just think they could've been better.

Hardest to write:
I think the most difficult was maybe POI - it was hard to nail down their personalities and I'm still not convinced I did it well. The Fright Night fic was tricky, too, just cause I dove into it so fast (plotting halfway through the movie is a bad idea).

Easiest to write:
GH, Hawaii Five-0, and Burn Notice I think were the easiest. Grimm, too, maybe.

The story most underappreciated by the universe:
Things were pretty well appreciated this go around. I did a lot of stuff in a lot of new fandoms with the cottoncandy challenge (along with my added 'no repeat fandoms' rule, so yeah. Everything got a couple of reviews, even the Saddle Club fic. Maybe Combustion? I thought the Sky High fandom was a little bigger.

Most fun story:
Hm. Dancing Lessons? Time Lines? A Day Off? There were a few fluffy cute ones.

Sexiest story:
What had sex in it this year? Hm. Ugh, the grief sex Burn Notice thing. A Happy Ending did, kind of. Either of those two, I guess. Picking Up Pieces is rougher and more involved, so...

Biggest surprise:
Ugh… don’t think there was really anything surprising. Nothing got an inexplicable amount of reviews like with what happened with that one Cursed fic that one time.

Looking back, did you write more fic this year? or less? or about the same as you thought you would?
WAY WAY WAY more, mostly cause of cottoncandy_bingo, though some of the fics before I started that were pretty long and involved.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you never would have predicted a year ago?
A lot, I guess. I ventured into a lot of new fandoms. I didn't think I'd never write them, but, yeah...

Greatest risk taken:
Mm, writing for weird fandoms?

What are your goals for this year?
Write more. Keep writing. Black-out another bingo card (or more). Try a few more fandoms on for size. Maybe do something original? And, as always, write more.