words about words! i'm writing a long...er fic again and, as always, i have Thoughts. (primarily: oh god the word count keeps going up help)

for last year, one of the goals i set (and achieved!) was to write a humorous fic — something funny for the sake of being funny. i really, really love reading humorous fics and i'd tried multiple times to write something start-to-finish humorous (i'm pretty sure there's at least one author's note on my fics saying something like "well this was supposed to be funny"), but i didn't actually achieve it until in stitches. none of the fic i've posted since then has been explicitly humorous start-to-finish, but i've noticed that in general, humor has become much more present as i'm writing; the conscious effort it took to write something humorous really made an impression on me, and i've been wanting to do it again.

so here i am! 15k words into an explicitly humorous fic. with much more to go.

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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 )

( end-of-year meme! )

( goals for 2024 )

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) )

( brief detour: rvb17 )

( the actual writing part )

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.

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.

( works posted to AO3 )

( end-of-year meme + thoughts )

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: )

( end-of-year meme )

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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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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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?

( spoiler alert: this question has no one true answer )

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.

( edit now that i've had a snack and some time to think )