End of year meme

[luzula]

Fraser/Kowalski stories:
Civilization: After spending months on quest in the wilderness, one can better enjoy the pleasures of civilization. 5700 words, NC-17
Desk Duty: "Of course I've never had sex at work, Ray, that would be entirely inappropriate." PWP, 1200, NC-17
Dogs Have All the Fun: Me drooling over Fraser's dogsledding team. Written for ds_flashfiction's self-insertion challenge. 1200 words, PG-13
Further to Fly: It's early spring and the geese are migrating. Ray wonders if Fraser will, too. 4200 words, NC-17
Outside: Fraser is sick of being cooped up inside. For stop_drop_porn. PWP, 1600 words, F/K, NC-17
Right Here: Fraser indulges a fantasy. Written for akamine_chan's birthday. PWP, 1500 words, NC-17
Shifting: It's easy to slip between shapes at the full moon—or hard not to do it, is perhaps the better way to put it. I couldn't have stayed human tonight, even had I wanted to. Written for ds_flashfiction's superpower challenge. 3800 words, R
Watching: Sleepy Fraser, horny Ray. PWP, 800 words, R

Stories about the Fraser family and Fraser's early years:
Leaving Home: The year that Benton turned eighteen, the highway finally reached Inuvik, and he followed it due south. Benton Fraser/Eric Kitikmeot (although it's more of a Fraser-centric story, really). 12,800 words, R
Missing Pages: Caroline leaves something behind. Written for ds_flashfiction's diary challenge. Fraser and Caroline gen, 1000 words, PG
Practise: Written for ds_flashfiction's bad sex challenge. Fraser/Smithbauer (underage), 1300 words, R
Running: Caroline runs, the one moving creature in a white and frozen world. Set in the same AU as Shifting. Bob/Caroline, 1500 words, PG-13

Other stories:
Our Track Record: Fraser/Smithbauer, 700 words, NC-17
The Passage of Time: Fraser, growing old. F/K and Fraser/OMC. 5400 words, PG

Snippets about the Fraser family:
Dare: "You wouldn't dare." Benton and Mark gen, G
Discipline: "No! That's not fair! I did all my chores." Martha gen, PG
Pigtails: That Fraser kid was full of himself, Mark decided. Young Benton and Mark gen, G
Sturdy: Yes, he could admit to himself that he had been trying to impress her. Written for primroseburrows' birthday. Bob/Caroline, PG
Unplanned: On the sixth day she was overdue, she finally admitted the truth to herself. Martha/George, G

Other snippets:
Authority: Damn him, the man was insubordinate. Thatcher and Fraser gen, G
Choices: She can't regret it. Frannie gen, G
Match: An episode tag for "The Edge". Fraser and Macon Lacroix gen, PG
Rain: Fraser in the desert. Fraser, Kowalski, Barbara Kowalski, G
Restraint: Their lives would become secrets and lies. F/K, PG-13
Red: Frannie likes red. Maggie/Frannie, PG

Filk songs:
Shattered Light: A set of post-CotW haikus. Lyrics by kill_claudio, music by me, lead vocals by me, guitar and harmony by my sister. F/K, G

Essays:
Dogsledding—what is it like in practice? Written for ds_workshop.

Due South and C6D podfic: (I'm not posting links to the podfic--you can easily find it all on the podfic archive. It has a good search function.)
American Way, by resonant8 (F/K, NC-17, 2h 22m)
Civilization, by me (F/K, NC-17, 42m)
Your Finest Feature, by arrow00 (F/K, NC-17, 30m)
Out From Under, brigantine1 (F/K, PG-13, 2h 14m)
Vinculum, by sageness (Wilby Wonderful, Duck/Dan, NC-17, 55m)
Feathers, by me (F/K, R, 14m)
What I Like About You, by spuffyduds (F/K/V, NC-17, 16m)
Mosquito Field, AFQ, by raggedass_road (F/K, NC-17, 1h 21m)
Academic Punk, by thehoyden (F/K, R, 2h 21m)
Four Virtues, by cesperanza (F/K, NC-17, 1h 7m)
Two Trains, Running, by nos4a2no9 (Fraser/Victoria, PG, 8m)
The Course, by thisisbone and cimmerians (F/K, NC-17, 4h 1m)

Other podfic: (for amplificathon)
The Inner Dark, by altariel (Ursula le Guin's Earthsea books, gen, 11m)
Not To Yield, by kassrachel (polar explorer RPS, Shackleton/Hurley, R, 20m)


Wow. I always say I'm such a slow writer, but I've actually written a lot this year. \o/

My best story(ies) of this year: Hmm, I feel like someone else should answer that, and not me. Going by audience response, it's my werewolf story, Shifting. And yeah, I was pretty happy with that one.

My favourite story of this year: That's a hard choice to make. But I think I'd have to go with Leaving Home, my story about teenage Fraser pre-Depot. It's just the one that's closest to my heart. I also like my snippets a lot, even if I can't single out any one in particular. I like writing gen snippets (you can maybe tell).

Podfic-wise, I'm very fond of Not To Yield, the polar explorer RPS podfic. It's such a wonderful story, and it's very enjoyable even if you know nothing about Shackleton. *pimps*

Most fun story to write: My Fraser-as-a-werewolf story, Shifting. Seriously, I had so much fun writing it that I thought something must be wrong with it. That might sound weird, but it felt like I was writing so much to my own preferences that it would read as self-indulgent to others. But I got reassurance in beta, and people actually liked it a lot. \o/

Also, I had a lot of fun writing my dogsledding essay. I like writing non-fiction.

Sexiest story: Probably Civilization. It's a first-time story, and I think I did a pretty good job with the build-up. I'm happy with the sex scenes, too.

Story with the single sexiest moment: I think it's a tie between the two PWP:s Desk Duty and Watching. They're pretty different (well, as different as two established relationship stories can be that both feature Ray giving Fraser a blowjob), but I'm happy with the mood I set in both of them. Also, I'm someday going to write the sequel to Desk Duty, where Ray gets to be tied up with Fraser's lanyard.

Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: Honestly, I don't think I've written anything that feels really wrong to me. Maybe Practise, where underage Fraser gets semen up his nose and has to blow it out like snot. (But it was written for the Bad Sex Challenge.)

Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: I'm tempted to cheat and say my WIP about Martha's youth. But that isn't finished yet, so I'll go with Leaving Home, or possibly The Passage of Time.

Hardest story to write: Probably The Passage of Time, my story about Fraser growing old. It took a long time to write, and both my betas (and one commenter) said I needed to describe the original character more. They were undoubtedly right, and I tried, but found it hard. Well, I hope I've at least learned something from it.

I'm very happy with other aspects of that story, though.

Biggest Disappointment: On reread (yes, I do reread my stories occasionally), I kind of wish that I'd taken out the sex scene in my wingfic Further to Fly. It's not that it's a bad sex scene, but that story actually has a plot of sorts, and I feel like the sex slows it down and takes the focus away from what the story is about.

Biggest Surprise: I have a couple of stories that just came out of nowhere and got written in a few days. (Most of my stories don't do this--they get written over many months and often go through periods of dormancy where I wonder if I'll ever manage to finish them.) These are my werewolf stories, Shifting and Running, and my recent Fraser and Caroline story, Missing Pages.

Most Unintentionally Telling Story: Probably Leaving Home. I mean, it has folk songs, lots of nature description and teenage Fraser feeling reluctant to cut down a forest. And probably the most revealing are the things I can't spot myself. : )

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what
you'd predicted? More! I remember how I felt after writing my very first longer story last year. It was like I'd written the one story I had in me, and now what was I going to write about? But it turned out I could think of a lot more stories.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2007? None, I think? Or, hmm, maybe self-insertion (Dogs Have All the Fun).

Did you take any writing risks this year? (See above for unexpected pairings, etc.) What did you learn from them? See the question about hardest story, for difficulties writing an original character. Leaving Home felt like something different for me, because it's twice as long than anything else I've written. It's also not a story about a romantic relationship, but a story about growing up.

Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year? I have several WIP:s I'd like to finish. Two of them are close to completion, but I'd also like to write my Benton-goes-to-Depot fic, of which I've written very little so far (though a lot of it is planned out in my head).

Podfic-wise, I'm looking forward to amplificathon. If you look at what I've recorded so far, it's mostly long porny F/K stories. And don't get me wrong--those are a lot of fun, and I'll probably do more of them. But I have a long, geeky list of rare fandom stories I'm itching to record, and that's what I'll do for amplificathon.

I'd like to thank the academy... I want to thank all the smart and generous people who beta-read for me this year: nos4a2no9, isiscolo, primroseburrows, secretlybronte, keerawa, arrow00, j_s_cavalcante, zabira, spuffyduds, china_shop and especially akamine_chan, who is always there for me when I need it. You guys have improved my writing so much. Also, a huge thanks to everyone who has given me comments and feedback and encouragement. &hearts