2017 writing year in review

[sebenikela]

I wrote a total of 178901 words in 2017.

There’s a lot of month-to-month fluctuation, and a lot of fluctuation in what I wrote: things that took over my brain (April is mostly that one where Allie has a baby…) and things with deadlines (November is almost all the Parker fic for the Leverage Big Bang) and things I actually planned to write (the rebellion stuff). Toward the end of the year I also did a bunch of haphazard research for the Moss and Rain story I am actually going to write (I hope).

I also wrote for more fandoms this year: Hunger Games is still the bulk of it, but I also wrote another Leverage fic, a Star Wars Rose and Rey one-shot, a Stranger Things bit about Eleven, and started a Dragon Age II f!Hawke/Isabela fic (which I need to finish….).

It was a hard year. So mostly I’m just glad I kept writing.

Top 5 by hits:

1. The fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy (515) Star Wars, post-The Last Jedi
2. It’s just messy (268) Dragon Age II
3. seedlings search for light (254) Stranger Things
4. My Perfect Thief (191) Leverage
5. Start taking back what they stole (177) Hunger Games

Top 5 by kudos:

1. The fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy (107)
2. My Perfect Thief (32)
3. seedlings search for light (30)
4. Start taking back what they stole (16)
5. It’s just messy (13)

Top 5 by comment threads:

1. My Perfect Thief (8)
2. Proof that the spirit has not died: Hunger Games, The Rebellion from Below Part 3 (6)
3. The fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy (6)
4. It’s just messy (3)
5. 3 Hunger Games fics tied with 2 threads each ( 123 )

My 5 favorites (in no particular order):

• Proof that the spirit has not died, because the world needs all the “normal people overthrowing the government” fic it can get.
• My Perfect Thief, because ilu Parker and also ART
• I think that it’s best if we both stay, because it was just so much fun to write and Jake is hilarious
• The fevers that just won’t break, especially the first chapter. This is cheating, because I wrote the first draft of this chapter in November 2014, but I posted it last year so I’m counting it. Not because it’s good writing, but because it was the first time I ever wrote something that made me…cry, and forget to breathe, and see myself differently.
• The fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy, because I can’t believe both of these women exist IN CANON.
• THIS WAS HARD I LOVE ALL MY CHILDREN

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