KJ

My trope_bingo is all done! My completed card, under the cut:

( Bingo! )

And a list of all the stories, with links, here.

This was a fun project, although I wish it hadn't overlapped so closely with DOINK! and the Dragon Age Big Bang (a large part of why I didn't finish on time). But it got me working with ideas I don't usually play with, even if it was several of the usual suspects as far as characters were concerned. And it also lured me into starting that Iron Man/Sherlock Holmes thing, which was a lot of fun and will certainly continue. Would I sign up for this project again? Definitely! And I actually think choosing the double line worked well, since trying to work two tropes together acts as a stronger prompt for me than any one trope by itself. One thing I'd change for next time, though, is trying to write in more fandoms. A good goal, I think.

Days written: 23/31
Words written: 15,788
Words of fic written: 7,709
Stories worked on: Four
Stories posted: None, not even any ficbits. Very unusual for me these days.

( The chart, it is here. )

Specific goals:

1. Write an average of 5 days per week. I suppose I hit this goal, but it doesn't really feel like it, since the last few days have been completely unproductive.

2. Finish and post giveaway story. I have a complete draft. It's out to beta right now. Hopefully it'll be ready to post soon.

3. Write something for the second round of dragonagewomen (and ideally combine this with finishing off a trope_bingo square). Wrote a draft, hated it, let it sit for a week, opened the file and felt better about it with fresh eyes, polished it up and sent it in today (the due date). So technically yes.

4. Finish up the 30 Day Warden Challenge. Finished yesterday! I credit this and some of the other long posts I worked on entirely for not falling behind on total wordcount in March.

5. Time permitting, start Iron Man/Sherlock story. I did, in fact, start on this. But it needs a plot.

Since it's March, I should probably at least look in on my goals for the year, shouldn't I?

( Behind the cut )

Goals for April:

1. Write at least 5 days per week (I have a little travel coming up, so I want to be able to take weekends off).

2. Finish and post my first giveaway fic and my DA Women fic.

3. Write my DOINK! assignment!

4. Get enough of the Iron Man/Holmes crossover written that I can post at least part of it for trope_bingo, and plan and write the last two prompts. (I may come back here for ideas later.)

This... is pretty ambitious. Especially considering how blah I've been with writing the last week or so. Hopefully I get over this hump soon.

Days written: 25/31
Words written: 19,042
Words of fic written: 15,027
Stories worked on: Five and some ficbits
Stories posted: One new story, two reposts, and the ficbits

( I come with charts. )

Specific goals:

1. Write at least 6 days per week. Yes, except during my trip to LA.

2. Finish my story for the Chocobo Races. Done, and on time! Amazingly enough.

3. Complete final draft for my DABB, due on January 31st. Yes, and a few days early even.

4. Time permitting, clean up "Right Hand Woman" for posting on AO3. Success!

Well that went pretty well. More than pretty well. Maybe I wasn't ambitious enough!

Goals for February:

1. Write at least 6 days per week.

2. Polish and post my DABB by deadline (posting date not yet received).

3. Run DA Kiss Battle, and participate in FF Kiss Battle (I'd love to write at least two fics).

4. Finish the Trope Bingo WIP I started this week and start at least one more.

5. Work on the 30 Day Grey Warden meme (if I do one per day, that takes me to early March).

Because I am smart and never, ever overcommit myself, I signed up for trope_bingo.

( My card: )

Many tasty things here, and almost every one is something I can try to work with, although some are more instantly appealing than others (presumed dead, holiday, and drunkfic are the ones that jump out right away, which suggests either the top row or the last column). The deadline is a few months off -- I would never have signed up otherwise -- so I have some time to poke at it.

Days written: 18/31
Words written: 19,055
Words of fic written: 17,989
Stories worked on: Three, and some ficbits
Stories posted: One plus the ficbits
Words written in 2012: 221,500
Fic words written in 2012: 173,353
Fic words posted in 2012: 107,224

( Graphs behind the cut. )

Goals for the month and the year:

( December )

( 2012 )

Overall, I would say this was a very good fic writing year for me, and I got back into meta some, but I'd like to do more. I'll have more to say about the fic, specifically, when I do my fic year in review post, probably later today.

Goals for 2013 and January:

January

1. Write at least 6 days per week.

2. Finish my story for the Chocobo Races. By Thursday. When I don't even have a complete draft yet. Sure, that'll be easy.

3. Complete final draft for my DABB, due on January 31st.

4. Time permitting, clean up "Right Hand Woman" for posting on AO3.

2013

1. Make progress on "Wardens of Ivalice", for real this time.

2. Do at least two major meta projects.

3. Write at least one non-Dragon Age fic every month.

4. At least three posts or cross-posts in my journal every week, and cross-post fic from Tumblr ot least once a month.

5. Hit my getyourwordsout goal -- I've signed up at the 200k goal again, because why mess with success -- and participate in wrisomifu.

Days written: 30/30 (!)
Words written: 28,278 (!!), 202,445 for the year (!!!!!!!)
Words of fic written: 24,347
Stories worked on: Three
Stories posted: Two (one a finished ongoing WIP), plus ficbits and several reposts

( Behold, a graph )

Specific goals:

1. Write at least ten minutes every day, per the rules of wrisomifu. Success! And most days it was half an hour, or more -- I can only think of a couple of times I sat down, wrote for ten minutes, and stopped. This is a great community and I will probably do it again next year.

2. Complete first draft of my DABB. No excuses. Nope. I made good progress (obviously, because the vast majority of the words above were for it) but it's not done, not really even close. I do, however, have a much better idea of what's left to come than I did even a couple of weeks ago.

3. Write at least one public post on my LJ/DW every day for NaBloWriMo. Yes, if a "day" is "from when I got up until when I went to sleep". It's a good habit to remember to post things here sometimes instead of/as well as Tumblr.

Also, hey, look at that! I beat the getyourwordsout goal with room to spare.

Goals for December:

1. Write every day while not traveling, and while traveling if possible.

2. Finish rough draft of DABB. Not negotiable: the due date is December 13th.

3. Write something for the ff_exchange Chocobo Races.

Light goals for the holidays, if you count having to write the rest of my DABB as light. I will do it, I will! But first, I'm going to drink some more. ;)

Days written: 22/31
Words written: 14,656
Words of fic written: 12,320
Stories worked on: Three, some ficbits, and a bunch of editing
Stories posted: One (an ongoing WIP), plus ficbits and several reposts

( Chart of the month club )

Specific goals:

1. Write an average of six days per week. Nope. Not even close. My trip sort of threw this one out the window -- I didn't write at all in Seattle, and not much on the road.

2. Finish Right Hand Woman, for real. I actually drafted the final segment last night, so I think that counts. I'll try to get it posted this afternoon.

3. Do the WIP files project. Success! This week, I went through everything, mothballed a few stories that will probably never be finished, and got some prompt fics archived on AO3. And earlier this month I finally cleaned up all my stories from the DA Alphabet meme and posted those to AO3 as well.

4. Continue working on DABB story, in preparation for the November 3rd check-in. Not really . This will be my overriding goal for November, since the draft is due December 6th.

I was expecting to feel much worse about my progress on things, but actually looking over it, I did pretty well, with the exception of so many days skipped. I'll call it a win, overall.

Goals for November:

1. Write at least ten minutes every day, per the rules of wrisomifu. With the exception of today (which will be spent wrapping up "Right Hand Woman"), I intend to use these minutes to work on my DABB. Speaking of which...

2. Complete first draft of my DABB. No excuses.

3. Write at least one public post on my LJ/DW every day for NaBloWriMo. It doesn't have to be super substantial, but it does have to be more than a Tweet. That's the whole point of having a journal after all.

That's not many goals, but especially considering that this is a concert month, I think that's enough.

Days written: 23/30
Words written: 16,232
Words of fic written: 13,824
Stories worked on: Three and a number of ficbits
Stories posted: Two (one ongoing WIP), plus ficbits

Graph of the month:
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Specific goals:

1. Write at least five days a week Yes, and fairly easily.

2. Finish "Right Hand Woman" Not even close, I don't think. I made progress but have been slowing down in it. With the DABB deadline coming up, I need to get this off my plate next month for sure.

3. Start actual work on my dragonagebb story. Yes, not much written (maybe 3k?) but I feel like I have a pretty good handle on it.

Since it's the end of the third quarter, it also seems like a good time to check in on my annual goals:

1. Finish "Wardens of Ivalice". Nope, and I have officially put it on hiatus for the rest of the year, at least until the DABB story is finished. I just haven't been able to get into a frame of mind to prioritize it. I might need to find time to play FFXII again.

2. Make my wordcount goal for getyourwordsout. Ahead of pace, by about 10k words.

3. Review every book I read, even if it's just a star rating on GoodReads, and write a substantial review if I can. I've gotten back on the GoodReads train a little bit, but I haven't really managed to make a habit out if it.

4. Work on at least one Final Fantasy fic per month (not counting "Wardens of Ivalice"), ideally to completion and posting. I missed in June and this month, except for random ficbits. Chocobo Races started in August, I should start using those as incentive.

5. Go through my WIP files and unwritten fic prompts, organize them, and determine which will be finished and which should go into cold storage. Not done, and I would need to specifically prioritize it. Speaking of which...

I really have no idea what my time is going to look like for the next while. I could be totally free, I might land a job right away, I might end up filling my time with travel and household projects and other assorted non-writing things. By the end of this week, my goal is to set down at least a rough outline, but I'm not quite ready to do that yet. But I can do some writing goals, as long as I keep them a bit flexible.

1. Write an average of six days per week.

2. Finish Right Hand Woman, for real.

3. Do the WIP files project.

4. Continue working on DABB story, in preparation for the November 3rd check-in.

Days written: 29/31 (!)
Words written: 21,872
Words of fic written: 19,307
Stories worked on: Five and two ficbits
Stories posted: Five (one ongoing WIP) and the ficbits
New fandoms helped to create: One (insert image of mind being blown here)

( Charts are creating their own fairytale ending )

Goals for August are.... yeah. Let's just say my priorities changed, just a little.

1. Write an average of six days per week (really). This one I pretty much blew right past.

2. Finish and post the Everyone Moves Into Stark Tower fic. Done! And it became, within three or so days of posting, my most viewed story on the Archive. Large fandoms, good grief.

3. Make serious progress on Wardens of Ivalice, whether that means writing or hammering out the background/meta issues that I've left hanging for several months now. ...yeah, not so much. I think I have to officially admit that this one is on hiatus for the time being.

4. Start work on my dragonagebb story. Not officially, but I did clean up and crosspost all my Kasia Brosca ficbits to AO3 last weekend, which was an important step towards getting her back in my head. I need to sit down and write a post about my plans for this soon, and maybe get a little help, but I have a major WIP distraction to get out of my way first.

So if I basically ignored two of my four goals in August, what did I do instead? A few things, but mainly: write a Cinders fic. Well, two, technically, but one of them was pretty short. The one that claimed my attention and most of my writing time this month -- and is already 12,000 words and definitely not finished -- is a Cinders/Perrault story inspired by a prompt someone left on the Tumblr community. I always knew it wouldn't be short, but I wasn't expecting it to be this long either. I'm also trying something else new, as mentioned here: posting each scene to Tumblr as it's finished rather than waiting for the complete story to be finished, or even breaking it into chapters. For awhile there, I was getting a new segment up every day; I've slowed down since, but I expect it will pick back up again once I get through the transitional section I'm working on at the moment. It's made for an interesting exercise, although I know I wouldn't want to post every story this way, and I will definitely want to go back and clean things up before I post the entire thing.

So, where does that leave me with September? (Which is going to be a really damn weird month...)

1. Write at least five days a week -- giving myself the cushion because of all the job stuff. Lots of stuff to wrap up, and job hunting is going to have to take at least some level of priority.

2. Finish "Right Hand Woman" (and maybe think of a better title, I still don't love it...)

3. Start actual work on my dragonagebb story.

That doesn't look like much, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be enough.

Days written: 21/30
Words written: 15,425
Words of fic written: 9,409
Words written in 2012: 100,432 (75,053 of fic) - halfway there!
Stories worked on: Five, including a ficbit, and nine Alphabet stories
Stories posted: Three (one ficbit), and the rest of the Alphabet stories.

( Chartus maximus )

June goals:

1. Write six days per week, excluding the week that I'm in Italy. If you count the two days after I got back as part of my vacation, then yes. Mostly thanks to my mad rush to finish the Alphabet stories before I left. I also wrote a tiny bit on the trip, and poked at a few things mentally without setting any words down.

2. Finish the last milestone prompt and the Alphabet Meme. Success! Although I haven't gotten all the Alphabet stories clean enough for posting on AO3 yet. For now, they can be found on Tumblr.

3. Finish the character development interview project. No, but I made good progress on it, especially during downtime in Rome.

4. Science Bros fic as requested by renay? Well..... we'll see. ;) Started, a little bit. Although so far all I've written is Steve having a bit of conversation with Pepper. Which shows you where my Avengers fandom priorities lie. ;)

As has become traditional (in the Bryn Mawr, "twice is a tradition" sense), halfway through the year I also like to take stock of my annual goals.

1. Finish "Wardens of Ivalice". This has mostly been on hold for other projects, although I've poked at it a little bit. But I am determined to finish at least Part 2 this year (I think it's going to end up being three stories, in all).

2. Make my wordcount goal for getyourwordsout. On pace.

3. Review every book I read, even if it's just a star rating on GoodReads, and write a substantial review if I can. I've fallen behind on this a lot, although I do feel like I'm writing more about books, movies, and TV than I did last year.

4. Work on at least one Final Fantasy fic per month (not counting "Wardens of Ivalice"), ideally to completion and posting. I have succeeded in this every month but June, mostly thanks to various WIPs and project sign-ups.

5. Go through my WIP files and unwritten fic prompts, organize them, and determine which will be finished and which should go into cold storage. I haven't done this in any formal way; maybe I should make it a goal for an upcoming month (probably not July).

Not doing too badly, overall, given that life decided to kick my ass in some exciting and unexpected ways this year.

Goals for July:

1. Write an average of six days per week.

2. Finish character development meme. (And post? I don't know, is anyone really interested in reading that many non-fic words about Sereda Aeducan?)

3. Finish and post last chapter of Separation of Powers -- I set that one aside because I found it too difficult to write a Marian Hawke-based fic while I was immersed in Marissa Hawke for the Alphabet meme. (The biggest problem, actually, was getting back into Bethany's head -- she's the POV character for substantial bits of the chapter, and I was feeling too distant from her.) But it's at least half written, and I'd like to get it done.

4. Work on Wardens of Ivalice and Science Bros.