2020 in review: fic

[luzula]

Here's what I wrote in 2020:

For Flight of the Heron by D. K. Broster:
the series That Good Faith, To Which an Enemy as Well as a Friend Is Entitled (Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham, 55,200 words)
the series If Fate Should Reverse Our Positions (Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham, 103,400 words)
The White Sands of Morar (Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham and Ewen Cameron/Alison Grant, 1,700 words)
The Highlands of Scotland (Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham, filk song)
The Tools at Hand (Ewen and Lochiel, 800 words)
Not Your Glove (Ewen Cameron/Alison Grant, 300 words)

Other fic:
A Last Taste of Life (Flemington by Violet Jacob, Captain Callander/Archie Flemington, 3,600 words)
To Fólkvangr (Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison, Halla and Steinvor, 1,800 words)
Different Kinds of Freedom (647 words) (a crossover between Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison and Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Halla and Laura Willowes, 650 words)

Ha ha, all my fic this year is for works by four British female authors born in the 19th century. *g*

So, obviously I wrote a ton this year, and got into a new fandom with a vengeance. It felt like such a gift for this to happen during the pandemic, to give me an inner world to lose myself in when I was limited in the outer world!

I posted about 168K words in 2020 according to AO3, but I wrote an additional 60K or so on another longfic. So that's about 228K! But even without the unposted words, this is more than twice what I posted during my second most prolific year, which was 78K words in 2010. Wow.

I never thought I could write novel-length stories, and was delighted to discover that I could. I also delighted in attempting the old-fashioned style of Flight of the Heron, and diving into research for it (bless university interlibrary loans).

I suppose the stories I'm happiest with are the two longfics. And I am very grateful to my beta-readers and fellow fans garonne, hyarrowen, and regshoe. ♥

Comments

[hyarrowen]

<3

Wow indeed. You've written three novels as well as all the other stuff you've been doing!

[luzula]

Thanks! And I know, it's a bit mind-boggling...

[ride_4ever]

I am hoping to be inspired by your saying "I never thought I could write novel-length stories, and was delighted to discover that I could." (Requiem Publications recently intimated that if my short WIP due South crossover with Sapphire & Steel could become novel length they would be interested in making a zine of it...and I told them I'm more of a "sprinter" writer than a "long-distance runner" writer.)

[luzula]

Well, it can definitely happen, as I can attest! So I hope it happens to you, too. : )

[jesse_the_k]

Huzzah!

[luzula]

Thanks! A fitting icon as always. : )

[regshoe]

An amazing achievement, and I'm very glad to have had so much good FotH fic to read this year :D

[luzula]

Awww, thanks! <3

[brigantine]

So, obviously I wrote a ton this year, and got into a new fandom with a vengeance. It felt like such a gift for this to happen during the pandemic, to give me an inner world to lose myself in when I was limited in the outer world!

Yays for writing a ton! Well done, you! \o/

That's so great, that you were able to find a fresh fandom to play in and be inspired! As you say, the timing on that could hardly be better.

I've been re-discovering some old TV friends, like M*A*S*H and "Night Court." Being from the 1970's and '80's, sometimes there are aspects that make me squinch a bit with "Ehhh, no..." but they're not too terrible, and then I see how society on the whole has changed for the better regarding those things over the last 35,40 years or so (oh man, how'd I get so old??), and that's a nice thing.

[luzula]

Yes, it really was great timing. Glad you're finding some way to relax, at least!