word count for posted works: 38,500 (+ 907*) words
word count for unposted works (incl. wips): 36,326 words
total word count: 74,826 words
( works posted to AO3 in 2024 )
( general thoughts )
( goals for 2025 )
word count for posted works: 77,080 words
word count for unposted works (incl. wips): 34,320 words
total word count: 111,400 words
breakdown of works, meme, and goals below!
( works posted to AO3 in 2023 )
( unfinished/unposted works in 2023 )
( goals for 2024 )
i was REALLY in my feelings about this last week but spent some time letting the thoughts percolate, and you know what, i AM going to do a thorough, bottom-to-top overhaul/edit/rewrite/whatever of P vs NP.
P vs NP was written in short bursts: first between 2014 and 2015, then in 2016, then in 2019, then in 2020, and finally in 2021. this is a very long series of stretches between years, during which my writing has changed in terms of both process and end result. in spite of the editing i’ve done on individual parts, this fic still has never gotten one single cohesive editing pass as whole so you know what, 2023 might as well be the year for it.
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no quarter is done! and holy shit, i just realized that this makes it six months to the day.
( ...hey basia, did you start writing this fic on christmas day? )
( the journey (and everyone i dragged into hell with me) )
all in all: very satisfied with this fic. glad that it was this that pulled me back to rvb and that i got so much out of it.
EDIT: also tracked word count in gdocs vs. AO3 (per chapter) this time around! it was very interesting: gdocs has 51,630 words and AO3 has 51,765 words, and the word count discrepancy was all over the place. some chapters had a difference of about 10-15 words (and seemingly no pattern as to whether AO3 would be less or more than gdocs), and one chapter was about 90 words less in AO3 than gdocs. three chapters had the exact same word count. 🤷♂️ i can only guess this has something to do with how AO3 and gdocs each parse hyphenations.
wow, it's been a while. to get right into it, this post was sparked specifically because earlier today i drove a nice big loop around the area — incidentally, it was the same drive i referenced at the end of this post. truly mindblowing how life changes.
in any case, hi, i'm writing rvb longfic again (hi writing rvb longfic again), i have navel-gazey thoughts on writing itself.
( wuh oh how does markdown work again )
DW still feels like a nicer place to put Fic Thoughts than tungle, even though i'm using tungle regularly again. i should go back to putting fic thoughts here. :B
word count for posted works: 19,092 words
word count for unposted works (incl. wip): 21,457 words
total word count: 40,549 words
pretty writing-light year for me, not entirely sure why; so it goes, though, i guess. i wrote a lot in both 2020 and 2021 so i suppose it's natural to have a bit of a fallow year. and what a way to end the year too — S11 au sequel cooking in the oven. i may never actually be free of that goddamn show.
word count for posted works: 61,474 words
word count for unposted works: 13,580 words
total word count: 75,054 words
this total word count is off on account of the posted works; i have no clue how to count the rewritten chapter for S11 au. in terms of net word count, S11 au as a whole gained 4,005 words - but almost the entirety of this chapter was rewritten from the ground up. my total word count for the chapter was 43,740, according to AO3, so i whacked 2k off of that as a very generous estimate of the words or phrases here and there that i left intact.
in any case: 7 individual works posted/updated in 2021 across 4 fandoms! deets under the cut.
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( thoughts (mostly about S11 au)(lol) )
and the usual end-of-year meme! as with every year i've done this, i'm defining "successful" as "achieving what i wanted to achieve" rather than any kind of numbers metric.
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currently on a two-week "vacation" in poland (i.e., some family stuff) so i'm using this time to get some more work done on rewriting S11 au part I, and boy, is it a lot of work.
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word count for posted works: 97,830 words
word count for unposted works: 11,418 words
total word count: 109,248 words
whew. probably the most i've ever written in a year. probably definitely because of S11 au.
once again, writing sprints were hugely, hugely helpful for me this year. so was physical note-taking, especially for the two longer fics i wrote this year. i am definitely going to keep doing that in the future.
i posted more individual works this year than i ever have, clocking in at 12. the next closest year was 2012 with 7 works, and some of those were cross-posts, iirc. anyways, down to the nitty-gritty – list of works under the cut.
( works published this year: )
( thoughts, etc. )( end-of-year meme )
christ alive. i started writing this fic... apparently at the start of october, and i've just finished writing it — which is to say, it's ready for editing, and probably heavy editing. but hey! 20k fucking words in about two months. damn.
and quality!
i've posted 7 works on AO3 in the past six months, which is more than i've ever done in such a short amount of time.
...actually, now that i've checked, 2012 had a similar amount of works between may and october — but that includes reuploads/reposts to AO3 of 2 older fics, and 3 works that were part of one series (which i think about as one work, tbh). the one work i orphaned was also, i think, posted in 2012. wow. damn. i wrote a lot of words throughout 2012.
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thoughts, explanations, etc. on the last part of S11 au — spoilers for part iii under the cut.
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yep! yep. i'm callin' it done. gdocs is clocking in at 103,773 words (which is inaccurate for a few reasons, but close enough). i'm waiting until tomorrow to post it, just in case i suddenly think of something to change.
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every time i thought to myself this week "hmm, i might be done and ready for final edits," i think of something else to change or add. mostly that's been a good thing, but i'm probably edging into nervous nitpicking at this point.
i'm in the thick of editing S11 au right now, and it's occurred to me that i've never edited on quite such a large scale before - S11 au is currently clocking in at about 97k words, and while it's technically complete, i have one major gap to fill (gap as in "i did not write the transition from A to B, and i have to write it now), and then a lot of little things to tie up and conversations for characters to have. i keep finding things that i need to embellish or add, and it's actually an incredibly enjoyable process!
my current knot of loose ends to untangle has to deal with reconciling canon events, though, and the question is: do i describe events as they transpired in canon, or do i let the reader do it themself?
my brain wants to pick at things, so i'm trying to trick myself into feeling like i'm editing S11 au by editing S11 au. just not the most recent part.
i'm... done??? i'm done with part iii of S11 au. wow. i'm done with the thing.
this is in need of severe edits and is metaphorically being held together with spit and prayers, but it's DONE. turns out all i needed was a solid shove and to stop being scared of finishing this.
wow. boy. time to put this away for a bit and then start patching up the extensive holes in this thing. current count is 95,312 words, and i have plenty of things that need expanding on.
finally jarred something loose in me today with dndfic. sprinted with kei afterwards, wrote 423 words where i'd been able to do zero for months, and decided to finally start pulling endgame bits from my doc full of fragments.
while i'm at it with year-end things, time for numbers!
word count for posted works: 38,162
as far as unposted writings, i'm not 100% sure on my word count – from a cursory look through my docs full of fragments, i've got 20,062 words, 14,131 of which is in my working doc for S11 au. so all together, about 58k words written this year! which feels like both A Lot and Not.
works published this year:
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