if i fail, let me be wormfood.

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: 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 )

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 )

i feel like this was a good year for writing – or, at the very least, that i've learned a lot. i published 4 works this year:

• an equinox dancing along the ecliptic, naruto, sakura/ino, 3076 words, complete
• apsidial precession, destiny, uldren/jolyon, 2783 words, complete
• forfeit, destiny, uldren/jolyon, 3239 words, complete
• star by star by star, naruto, naruto/sasuke, 43145 words, in progress

and i also updated syzygy with a final "miscellaneous tidbits" kind of chapter, but i think i'd still count that as a 2017 fic since i did write most of that chapter in 2017... i think.

each of these fics has really stood out to me this year for their own reasons, and i feel good about all of them. the way i planned sbsbs has really been working for me, and i'm looking forward to implementing it for S11 au. equinox was my first femslash february, and i want to write more. apsidial precession was the first thing i've ever written and posted in one day, and the I Must Write compulsion was a hell of an experience. forfeit was a continuation of writing weird, obtuse, flowery things that felt great.

my fic goals for next year are:

• primarily, get back to work on S11 au
• which means finishing sbsbs – but i'm at about the 3/4 mark, i think, so it shouldn't take too long
• write more short fic and oneshots. equinox, precession, and forfeit all felt great to write, and i want to remind myself that it's fine to just write something smaller.

so we'll see! i'm also in a weird spot where i'm still adjusting to how much free time i (don't) have thanks to work; it's not bad, and i genuinely adore my job, it's just weird to have so much less free time than i'm used to. but like hell that's gonna stop me from writing, so, you know. here's to 2019!