Suzie Shooter

So last year I made a resolution to write something every day, however little, and my final total for 2018 was 211,619 words (that includes WIPs as well as posted works). There were only 12 days out of 365 where I didn't write anything at all, and 6 of those were over 2 weekends when I was away from home.

For comparison, my wordcount for 2017 was 54,348, (although that didn't include WIPs) and for 2016 (when I stuck to the same writing-every-day resolution) was 394,729. So a lot better than last year but not as good as the previous (although to be fair I think that huge wordcount coincided with a year where I had fuck-all to do at work and I've been really busy this year).

Anyway, this year's posted fics were:

• 8x Athos/Porthos (7 of which were the Midsomer Musketeers series)
• 1x Laszlo Kreizler/John Moore (The Alienist)
• 6x James Hunt/Niki Lauda
• 3x Sebastian Vettel/Kimi Räikkönen

All on AO3 here.

Oh yes, and Happy New Year!

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So in 2015 I posted 439,036 words of fic - 406,723 words of Musketeers fic and 32,313 words of Musketeers RPF (Tom/Howie). I think it's safe to say I was fairly well focussed on one fandom this year...(plus there's around another 30k unfinished and as yet unposted, but that'll go towards next/this year's total).

Including the unposted stuff that's 90k more than last year. A lot of it had to do with the fact I had fuck all to do at work for several months over the summer. I was getting so bored I started to look for another job, but then they gave me a promotion I didn't want, and now my job's stressful as hell and I miss the peaceful days of dullness. I know, some people are never happy...

Anyway, Happy New Year!

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Looking through the list of fics I wrote in 2013, I saw a title I didn't recognise and said out loud "What the fuck was that?" Clicked the link and the first line of the fic was "What the fuck was that?" XD

So, in 2013 I posted 188,065 words of fic:
One Direction: 128,359 words
Yassen/Alex: 54,522 words
Atlantis: 3,252 words
Top Gear: 1,390 words (technically 5,025 but I counted the Louis T/Jeremy fic under the 1D tally *g*)
River Cottage: 542 words

Not a bad total I guess!

In an experimental mood, I put a couple of my 1D fics up on AO3 yesterday (the latest one, and a rentboy-Harry one from ages ago). Within an hour they'd got more hits than some of the other fics I've had up there for a year! Oh, the joys of a large fandom LOL.

I can certainly see the appeal of AO3, getting hits and kudos and bookmarks is much more satisfying than LJ where suzie_fic might have *coughs* over 10,000 members, but of those I have no idea if anyone's actually read a particular fic. And other than my darlingest darlings who comment on nearly all of them (♥), they don't get a huge number of comments. (I'm terrible at commenting myself, I never know what to say past a brainless flail, so I'm not complaining, but this is where a hit counter and the option of leaving kudos is so great for a shy fandom haha).

I'm not abandoning LJ, but I might start cross-posting to AO3 as well. Something else I've been considering for a while is unlocking the fics on suzie_fic. (I'll have to change them all individually which is a pain, unless I fork out for another paid account, which ain't gonna happen. Although that would give me page stats as well....no.) I'll probably leave the more dubious ones (underage and dub/non-con) locked though. I've always been a bit wary of posting RPF unlocked at all, but there's so *much* 1D fic out there now I reckon I'd be safely buried and anonymous. Any thoughts?