Year End Fanfic Meme! Plus year end word count totals!

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Fics this year (newest to oldest):

Criminal Minds:

- Worthy of the Word (Hotch/Reid, NC-17, written for cm_exchange)
- Uncertain Terrain (Hotch/Morgan, NC-17, collab w/innerslytherin, written for cm_exchange)
- Puddle Wonderful (Hotch/Reid, breifly NC-17, collab w/innerslytherin)
- The Expansion of two Natures (Hotch/Rossi, NC-17 overall, collab w/innerslytherin, not yet fully posted!)
- Soaked (JJ/Emily, PG-13)
- Baby, It's Cold Outside (Hotch/Reid, NC-17, collab w/innerslytherin)
- A Better Plan (Hotch/Rossi, NC-17, collab w/innerlsytherin)
- Since We've Nowhere to Go (Morgan/Reid, R for smut, collab w/innerlsytherin)
- You and Me; Push, Pull; and More Bark Than Bite (3 drabbles, Reid/Rossi and Hotch/Reid, up to PG-13)
- Conscious of Our Treasures (Reid/Rossi, NC-17, collab w/innerslytherin)
- A Candlelit Dinner for Two; Presents and Stealth Attacks; and Comfort Through the Dark (3 drabbles, Morgan/Reid, Hotch/Reid, and Reid/Rossi; up to PG-13)
- Smoke and Mirrors (Reid/Rossi, FRT)
- Mischief Comes From All Places (But Especially From Under Your Desk) (Hotch/Reid, NC-17)
- Gang Aft Agley (Reid/Rossi, NC-17, collab w/innerslytherin)
- Camping In (Hotch/Reid, NC-17, collab w/innerslytherin)
- Pumpkin (Rossi/Garcia, PG)
- Fathers are Not Born (Hotch/Reid, PG-13, collab w/innerslytherin)
- Not Sleeping (Hotch/Reid, NC-17)
- Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog (Morgan/Reid, NC-17, collab w/innerslytherin
- Footsteps (Morgan/Prentiss, PG)
- Welcome to the Club (Hotch/Rossi, PG-13, collab w/innerslytherin
- Lessons Learned and Unlearned (Reid/Rossi, NC-17, collab w/innerslytherin)
- No Soul is Desolate (Hotch/Morgan, NC-17, collab w/innerslytherin
- Win-win (Morgan/Reid, PG-13)
- Something Always Happening (Morgan and Reid gen, High school AU, PG-13)
- A Fine History (Hotch/Rossi, NC-17, collab w/innerslytherin
- Never Would It Be Night, But Always Clear Day (Morgan/Reid, featuring Diana Reid, PG-13,collab w/innerslytherin)
- A Modicum of Comfort (Hotch/Reid, NC-17, collab w/innerslytherin)
- Endogenous Opioid Polypeptide Compounds (Morgan/Reid, PG-13)
- Miles to go Before We Sleep (Morgan/Reid, NC-17,collab w/innerslytherin)
- 60 Watt (Morgan/Reid, PG)
- Nerve (Morgan/Reid, PG)

Harry Potter:

- An Intimate Alliance of Contradictions (Remus/Peter, Remus/Severus; NC-17; link is to chapter 29, which has links to all chapters; this is a 62K wip, with brief crossovers with CM and Little Miss Sunshine. Written for Pervy_werewolf's Lusty Month of May)
- Remus' Favourite Toy (Remus/himself, Remus/monkey, Remus/Peter/monkey--no actual monkeys were harmed in the writing of thisfic! NC-17. Written for Pervy_werewolf's Lusty Month of May's Monkey Day!)
- The Bet (Remus/Severus, NC-17, written for Pervy_werewolf's Lusty Month of May)
- Ever-Fixed Mark (Remus/Peter, up to NC-17, collab w/innerslytherin. incomplete serial fic)
- A Week prior (Remus/James, R)
- Single Step (Remus/Peter pre-slash, G)
- On One Condition (Remus/Severus, mild NC-17)
- two drabbles (Eileen Snape/Tobias Snape, and Remus/Peter, PG)

And the meme ganked from elekanahmen:

Total Fics:
44. If I'm counting that all right...

Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?
Holy fucking hell, MORE! I was never expecting to discover that innerslytherin and I could be so prolific together! I would have had more solo-written fic if I wasn't writing with her, and longer solo fic at that, but the sheer word count of our co-written fic (see below) is shocking even to me!

Where did you publish/archive your stories?
Here, cm_slash, morganreid_cm, pervywerewolf and lupin_snape(on IJ)... probably other places. I started to update my Skyehawk, but didn't get very far (I lost steam somewhere in the middle of the massiveness of Miles to Go). Same goes for my Journalfen.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2008?
Well, CM is a whole new fandom to me. I kept thinking my HP muses would come back. They didn't. Once I started writing in CM, though, I would have never expected not to settle down with an OTP, or that, in addition, I would become such a massive ship whore. The only pairing that I resisted writing that surprised me is Reid/Rossi. Now I just want to cuddle them. :)

What’s your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.
Solo-written: either You and Me, or More Bark Than Bite
Collab: Puddle Wonderful

Okay, NOW your most popular story.
Miles To Go Before We Sleep. Hands down. Not only does it have the most commets, but it continues to get comments sporadically, and I keep seeing it recced (or hearing from people that they have/do rec it to other people).

Dude, we got lucky first CM fic out. We should just quit. Nowhere to go but downhill now. ;)

Story most under appreciated by the universe?
The Expansion of Two Natures. The response is making me kind of sad. Of course, it's not fully posted and we've been sporadic in getting it up, so I am fully aware that part of the lack of excitement is due to that.


But really, our Hotch/Rossi stories tend to get the fewest comments. It used to surprise me, because I think Hotch/Rossi makes more canon sense than Reid/Rossi... but I've come to accept that people in this fandom would read about Reid fucking anyone. People in this fandom would read about Reid fucking himself with a cucumber and be pleased as punch. :)

Story that could have been better?
A Better Plan. Mostly because it was PWP and not that exciting for PWP. Somehow that fic went unintentionally to nothing but porn, when I don't think either of us really think Hotch/Rossi needs to be super porny. The draw there for me (and us, I think) is in the comfort, not the hawt.

Sexiest story?
Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog. Submissive Morgan (not outrageously so, btw) + Chocolate sauce. Mmmmmm. *drools* ...I think Gang Aft Agley is a close second.

It's so weird to think about just posted fic, though, because we have hotter (imho) porn written that isn't yet posted...

Most fun story?
Puddle Wonderful. We got two gorgeous men absolutely filthy, and let a toddler beat one of them up. FUN!

Story with single sweetest moment?
Hmmm... It's probably either the stairwell scene in Conscious of Our Treasures, or the hot chocolate scene and last scene in Puddle Wonderful. (Ever-Fixed Mark had a million sweetest moment, but sadly, I don't think many of my favourites [haha--slipped into Brit spellings just thinking about it!] were ever posted.)

The story that made you cry?
The Expansion of Two Natures was the worst, I think, but Miles To Go got me too, and I cried a few times writing Ever-Fixed Mark. I still can't re-read certain scenes from The Expansion of Two Natures without bawling, though.

Hardest story to write?
Miles To Go Before We Sleep. One, because it was our first venture into the fandom. Two, because it was difficult and frustrating and hard dealing with Morgan's abuse issues. And three, because that was back when I thought I had to do two hours of research on random knowledge every time Reid spoke. Such a pain. My Reid is way more relaxed now, which may or may not be super canon (I think he IS relaxing in canon a lot, though), but it makes me want to tear my hair out less.

Easiest story to write?
It's almost always easy to write with innerslytherin. We get stuck and in funks sometimes, but usually not, and it feels like every new fic we work on becomes our new favorite fic. LOL So my answer is Puddle Wonderful, but that might just be because it's so recent. :P

Most overdue story?
Well, An Intimate Alliance of Contradictions is a 62k wip last updated in May. Not sure it will ever be finished, actually, which is sort of sad, considering there really isn't much more it needs. If I can poke my HP muse enough, MAYBE I'll finish it this May. Maybe.

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
I started writing with a partner, switched fandoms, became a massive multi-shipper, co-wrote an ending to a canon cliffhanger (Miles To Go contains our own resolution to Lo-fi), dipped my toe into femslash for probably only the third time since I've been in fandom, written more "kid fic", which I'd only done once before... I'm sure there's more, and I've learned more than I care to spend typing out...

Do you have any fanfic goals for the New Year?
OMFG do you see that word count below?! I don't think I need to set work count goals, unless the goal is to write LESS. LOL I do want to finish my WIPSs though, and write fewer, but longer solo fic, rather than handfuls of ficlets. I'm also nudging innerslytherin towards stretching with our pairings even more, to JJ/Hotch, Garcia/Rossi, JJ/Emily, Rossi/Prentiss, etc...

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Word count totals!
cm_exchange fic wordcount included below. Future chapters of The Expansion of Two Natures that should be posted this month are obviously not included.

Non-collaborative fic word count total: ~86,950 words

Collaborative fic written with innerslytherin word count: ~450,000 words** (~318,500 words of Criminal Minds fic + ~68,000 of posted Ever-Fixed Mark serial fic [HP] + ~63,500 of original novel.)

**This total does not count the RP in which we wrote Remus/Peter together that started this crazy amount of co-writing. Nor does it include the ~200K+ (at least) of Ever-Fixed Mark that was never posted. SO, the real number is probably something like ~750K with the unposted fic and the RP.

LOL We could have written like TEN 75K novels this year if we'd only been doing original writing! Holy shit. XD