2017
LJ link: end of 2017 writing meme
number of fics written: 27 fics/exchange/event fics
total word count: ~113,945
CHRONOLOGICAL BREAKDOWN
03 (18,520w)
it would be better if we weren’t friends Jungkook-centric >> BTS ABO/Hybrid Challenge
Ignorance is the Reason of Fear J HopeSuga >> BTS ABO/Hybrid Challenge
Take My Breath Away Chanyeol/D.O. >> do-itall
(3) Mamamoo microfics Moonbyul/Solar >> 30-day "just kiss" event
04 (8,570w)
Country Manners, or Softer than a Summer's Night Sehun/Chen >> Peachenhun
05 (6,860w)
Peripeteia Suho-centric >> Suhoney
Love Me Right Baekhyun/Chen >> Baekbitfest
06 (2,140w)
We go together like rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong. Chanyeol/D.O. >> Chansoo Week
400 Meters Luhan/Xiumin >> Luminfics
08 (9,435w)
Into the Woods Chanyeol/Kai >> Puppies in Love
Man's Best Friend Kai/Kris >> Kairis Fest
09 (32,610w)
Good morning. (Good morning.) It's great to stay up late. Baekhyun/Sehun >> SeBaek Scum
There is no hunting like the hunting of man D.O./Kai >> Kaisoommer
The Dogs are Howling all Over the Neighborhood (That Ain't no Good) Baekhyun+Chen+D.O. >> Fantasy EXO
It's magic, you know. Kai/Taemin >> Kpop Ficmix
There Will Never Be Another You Chen/Sehun >> Chenpionships
Ruling Heart Baekhyun/Chanyeol >> GoldenExo Fest
10 (20,720w)
Like a Cat Baekhyun/Chen >> Girlexochange
The Easiest Thing in the World Chen/Suho >> Critical Capture
The Young Man and the Sea Chanyeol/D.O. >> EXO Mostly Human
Once in a Lifetime D.O./Kai >> Kaisoommer
Fling or Ring? Baekhyun/Chanyeol >> EXO Housewarming
12 (15,090w) unrevealed fic fest submissions
IN SUMMARY
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in january? No surprises; I stick to what I know.
What's your own favorite story of the year? I really liked Country Manners and Fling or Ring?.
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the new year? I still just want to write more. If I can successfully produce a sequel to one of my stories, I'll consider it a successful writing year.
From my past year of writing, what was ... ?
My best story of this year: I think my best is probably Peripeteia for the subject matter. Otherwise, Country Manners went pretty okay. The ending, like always, leaves a lot to be desired, but I enjoyed it until then.
My most popular story of this year: Fling or Ring? got the most kudos on AO3.
The story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: One of my unrevealed fics hasn't gotten a whole lot of response. I think it's actually pretty fun, but I know there are still those "fans" who are super anti former EXO members.
The most fun story to write: Fling or Ring? was most fun, I think. I love dad fics. Family fics. Kid fics. They're usually sweet [when I'm writing them] and incorporate things from my own life; it's always been fun to get my mom talking about early parenthood and how my dad was.
The story with the single iest moment: Love Me Right, because BaekChen were flirty and kissy in it. Jongdae also sat on a chaise in nothing but a towel, a kitten, and a smile. < ̫>
The most "holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: I did not experience this at all this year, which I'm grateful for. I try to avoid that feeling.
The story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: I don't think there's been any. I don't characterize anyone too far out of the realm of the reality I perceive from videos and interviews and whatnot, so they're not OOC to me or anything.
The hardest story to write: I participated in EXOnaut, a sci-fi fic fest, and sci-fi is always hard for me. I dunno what it is, but I just always struggle. I don't think I did too bad with this one, keeping it more on the characters than their environment.
The biggest disappointment: I didn't finish anything that wasn't for a fest, exchange, or event. Nothing at all. I started a few, but if there's no deadline, it's like I can't produce.
The biggest surprise: I set up a Tumblr for my fics this year, and as I was searching online for mentions of my fics or writer handle, I found a fic rec list with mini reviews that included one of my BTS fics. It was sweet. I never expect comments, much less being recommended like that.
The most unintentionally telling story: Probably Peripeteia, which deals with family loss and having to adjust to it and the changes that come from it.
Favorite opening lines:
The sun rises to the cool embrace and soft kisses of the receding tide, leaving the shore wet and alive with burrowing oysters and scuttling crabs.
Jongin's used to the raging powers beneath his skin. Even as a child, he'd cross his arms over himself and clutch his shirt, just to keep his magic from breaking free of his body. In this little parlor, however, seated before a stranger barely older than he is, he thinks he feels calm for the first time in his life. Rather than screaming, his magic seems to be singing.
Honestly, the entire being of Park Chanyeol should be a huge nuisance to Kyungsoo.
→We go together like rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong.
If life can be likened to a road, Joonmyun wants to get off the pavement and sit in the grass. The hairpin turns and rolling hills and sudden bridge collapses are keeping him awake at night and wearing him down.
Sehun's summer-before-college plans are squashed and reorganised, courtesy of his mother. She presses a bus ticket into his hand--a physical, printed ticket; she didn't just email it to him--and wordlessly hovers as he packs a suitcase. He moves too slow, he supposes, because there's a thud as another suitcase is dropped on its side on his bedroom floor, and his mother starts emptying entire drawers.
→Country Manners, or Softer than a Summer's Night
Humans are born with only two innate fears: the fear of falling and the fear of loud sounds. Everything else is learned.
→Ignorance is the Reason of Fear
5 favorite lines from anywhere:
“Morning, Seulshine.” His daughter grunts and drives her face into his kidneys, trying to block out all light and sleep on her feet. “Careful, baby bear; that end’s loaded.”
The ocean can’t be trusted. She—always she, and always affectionately—can turn cruel and torturous when mere minutes earlier she was tranquil and sedate or sending quick waves to collide with the rocks surrounding the lighthouse and spray entire exterior. Those playful times, Chanyeol finds her the most beautiful, when the spray hangs on the wind like gems that catch the sunlight to glisten so vibrantly he can almost hear her voice laughing, Look at me!
Joonmyun catches her elbow before she can leave. "Don't be rude. Chanyeol is your friend, too. Your salty jealousy can wait."
"Fine, Mom," Baekhee hisses. "I'll just suffer in silence."
"Good," Joonmyun hisses back and smiles at Chanyeol.
“Haven’t I taught you to duck?” She grabs his chin when he jerks away again. “Hold still, Sehun Oh, or so help me.”
“I said I’m fine.” He gently grabs her wrists to plead mercy on his delicate face. “I don’t need a nurse. Just give me some Anacin and ice.”
“I should give you another black eye for being so careless, but our business will take enough of a hit with you looking like a hoodlum.”
→There Will Never Be Another You
Once upon a time, back when Jongdae was in his "experimentation stage" of magic and his older brothers were already trying to ignore his existence, Jongdae had a shadow named Jongin. He may not have shown much magical talent, but he was interested and curious and followed Jongdae around like he was an authority on all things magic.
Frankly, he was gullible.
Jongdae used him as his magical guinea pig.
There was one time when Jongdae flipped to a random page in one of the books his dad had inherited from some relative and found what he thought looked like a really easy potion. The text was really faded, though, and he still doesn't know what it was actually for. The title was all but gone from the page, and the drawing was old and just really bad. Like Middle Ages artists trying to paint cats bad.
Jongdae followed the directions, substituting ingredients when he didn't know what was wanted, and handed it to Jongin. "I'm the wizard, so I can't drink it, or I won't know if it worked," he'd said.
And Jongin drank it.
And Jongin shrank down to a little green frog that could still cry and scream for his brothers.
Minseok held Jongdae down while Joonmyun made him finish the rest of the potion, and then they took both sobbing frogs to their mom in separate jars when she finally came home.
→The Dogs are Howling all Over the Neighborhood (That Ain't no Good)
fic writing goals for 2018: Write more for myself. Branch out to other fandoms more, too.
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