298 | 2024 fic writing year in review

[straightforwardly]

As the header states!


Aladdin - 1
with venomed fangs

Cinderella Phenomenon - 2
the return of miss karma
ice type

Crossover - Chronicles of Narnia/ASOIAF - 1
another winter's woods

Chronicles of Narnia - 1
fool me twice

Digimon Adventure - 1
the secret name of every death is life again

Dracula - 1
this hungry heart, yearning

Dragon's Bait - 1
Never So Bold

Fire Emblem Awakening - 1
The Sweetness of Strawberry Tarts

Fire Emblem Fates - 1
forgotten

Original Works - 1
What Doesn’t Grow In Shadow

Pokémon Legends Arceus - 1
biodiversity

Pokémon (Main Games) - 2
One Day in Summer
Innoxious

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - 8
As I Yearned For You
A Time Traveller’s Guide to the Three Step Process for Strategic Planning
it couldn’t wash the echoes out
every monstrous hungry part of you
I Desire and I Crave
the river drowns itself
that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain
A Whole New World (Of Mushrooms)

Star Ocean: The Second Story - 1
sleeping next to you

Stardew Valley - 4
Malicious Matchmaking
and all the greens of summer come blowing through the door
strawberry blossoms
Through the Long Summer Day

Till the End of the Moon - 2
lost in your reflection
what the water gave me

Valdemar - 1
so lay me down

Total Posted Wordcount: 36928
Total Stories: 30 works in 17 fandoms.

Fandoms I Wrote In For The First Time: Dragon's Bait, Star Ocean: The Second Story, Till the End of the Moon

Most Frequently Written Pairing: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu - 2
Most Frequently Written Character(s): Both flavours of Shen Qingqiu - 3 each

Number of Fics By Category

Gen - 9
F/M - 8
M/M - 7
F/F - 5
Other - 2
Poly - 1

Longest Story: “What Doesn’t Grow In Shadow” (Original Work) at 9.2K. If we ignore OW, my longest actual fic was “The Sweetness of Strawberry Tarts” (Fire Emblem Awakening) at 2.5K, which comes as a genuine surprise to me! I could have sworn that some of the Scum Villain fics I wrote for Battleship were longer than that, but nope.
Shortest Story: “what the water gave me” (Till the End of the Moon) at 94 words, written for the Three Sentence Ficathon.

General Thoughts
When doing this wrap-up last year, I believe I only made a single goal for 2024: to finish more of my pre-2024 WIPs. I… didn’t completely fail at this, but I hesitate to call it a full success either. The vast majority of what I wrote last year was either for Battleship or the Three Sentence Ficathon, and thus were fully new. But I did finish “As I Yearned For You” (2020), which I believe was also the only fic I posted this year outside of an event. And I also finished “What Doesn’t Grow In Shadow” (2021) through iddyiddybangbang. Otherwise, I did occasionally add words to WIPs, but nothing more has been finished. I’m not being too hard on myself about this, though. It would have been nice to do more, yes, but I’ve also had a rather busy year IRL, and I’m pleased with what I’ve written overall.

This coming year, I think I’m going to once again attempt to focus on finishing some of my older WIPs—I’m thinking about aiming for at least 5 pre-2025 WIPs completed?—but we’ll see what happens. I would also very much like to do iddyiddybangbang again.

On a different note, an unexpected side-effect of compiling this masterlist is that it’s gotten me very excited for the next round of Three Sentence Ficathon. Thankfully it’s starting soon, because I am currently vibrating with anticipation.

Comments

[tinkaton]

Wow that's an impressive list, both in number of fics and mix of fandoms!

Good luck in completing more of your old WIPs! I didn't participate in the Three Sentence Ficathon last year, but maybe this year...

[straightforwardly]

Thank you, on all counts! I'm fairly multifannish, so a wide spread of fandoms on my yearly wrap-ups isn't uncommon for me, to the extent that I actually get more excited when I start repeating fandoms within a year, haha. I would be very happy to see you over at the Three Sentence Ficathon, if you do decide to participate!