The year in fanfic (2011 edition)

[sholio]

And an eventful year it's been.

Previous year's roundups: 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 part 1 | 2010 part 2


I started digging up links for all of my stories from 2011, then realized that there's really no point, because I'm crossposting everything to AO3 now - so it's really easier to just go and look at my list of works on AO3, with all the fandoms, word counts, tags, etc.

New fandoms in 2011: Highlander and White Collar. I mainlined all of Highlander in March and April, and thought for awhile it was going to be my next big fandom. It didn't work out that way - I still like the show, still read and write for it occasionally, but I just didn't really click with it: I find the characters hard to write (enjoyable, but difficult), and then, towards the end of June, I fell hook, line and sinker for White Collar.

I think I've had more fun with WC than with anything since I got into SGA fandom in 2006. It's the first time since SGA that I've fanned on a currently running show that has a decent-sized fandom - it's nowhere near as huge as SGA (which is actually sort of a relief), but it's big enough to have exchanges and challenges and new stories almost every day. And I find it an absolute delight to write. I've been in WC fandom for half a year now, and don't see myself going anywhere anytime soon. (NEW EPISODES IN JANUARY OMG!) I've written longfic in WC, for the first time in several years, and I've been having a ton of fun at collarcorner; its prompts/requests are a unique combination of flashfic, commentfic and fic exchange (at least, unique among the fandoms I've been in so far), and I've been finding it a really enjoyable place to play.

Fannish firsts in 2011: WC is, I think, the first fandom I've been in that didn't have any sci-fi or fantasy elements at all - not the first show I've enjoyed along those lines, obviously, but the first one that grabbed me really hard in a fannish way. And Highlander is the first show in which my default setting hasn't been gen (I'm very multishippish for that show, with a variety of het, slash and moresome pairings). I also wrote Forever Knight for the first time (Treasure Hunt); it's been one of my wander-in-and-out fandoms for a long time, but I'd never tried my hand at writing it before.


General stats for 2011 (taken from stories posted on AO3):

White Collar: 28 stories
Highlander: 12 stories
Other: 5 stories (A:tLA, SGA, Dresden Files, Forever Knight)
Total: 45

Word counts -
White Collar: 195,900
Highlander: 39,200
Other: 39,100
Total words of fic in 2011: 274,200

... wow, I knew I'd written a lot, but according to the fanfic totals in this post, that's more than any year since the ridiculously prolific 2006. (And this isn't counting the original fic!) No wonder it feels like I've been writing a lot lately.

Comments

[mackiedockie]

I, for one, am very glad you added Highlander to your quiver. Your story for the Shortcuts Fest is already pretty much canon in my backbrain. Thank you!

[sholio]

Thank you! :) I definitely like HL, the show and the fandom both (and love your fics, btw - I need to go read your hlh-shortcuts story, but I'm soooo behind on everything). But I'm not sure if I've been in a fandom where I found the characters so incredibly hard to write - Joe is probably the easiest one for me, perhaps because I find him easier to relate to than the Immortals, but even he is a bit of a struggle. I admire the show's writers for being able to do it so well, but man it's hard to write these people, and to come up with plots that they can't easily circumvent.

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[(Anonymous)]

And I'm utterly happy you are writing White Collar - and let me use the occasion to tell you I utterly love and enjoy your stories! (Need to read the Highlander ones still).

So keep writing WC!! :) and Happy New Year
nieseryjna

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[sholio]

Thank you so much! :) I definitely have more White Collar stories in me (and can't wait for new episodes - YAY!). And I am really enjoying your stories as well!