Hours Gone By

End of Month (EOM) Stats

Target Words/Day	Average Words/Day	Total Words/Month	Target Words/Month	EOM Difference
1,666	1,490	44,691	50,000	5,309

So roughly 5k words off the target but that's still pretty damn respectable.

Fic I Finished in June
Quite a bit because I was working to get a blackout in trope_bingo . A lot of this was stitching together scenes I'd been poking away at throughout the round.

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WIPs
Getting back to some things I put on the back burning during trope_bingo . I did sign up for Round 13 but I'm not going for a blackout this time. Single line is fine.

• Untitled wipbigbang fic. I got the rough draft done, need to go back and flesh out a few scenes/plot points. The rough draft is due on the 6 and needs to be at least 80% complete and I've got that. Did not get claimed by an artist but that's ok because I was kind of anxious about that and my anxiety does not need more feeding right now, tyvm.
• Assassin AU part 7. Because even though I would steer clear of Assassin!Prowl if he were real, as a fictional character he's fun to write. Difficult, because a lot of what he does is a potential red flag and it can be a fine line to walk, but fun.
• Principatus 3. Probably just going to be getting Jazz set up in their new life as a corporeal entity, however permanent or impermanent that may turn out to be.
• There are a couple more that were inspired by trope_bingo  prompts but weren't going to get finished on time. I don't want to focus on those just yet, I want to clear out the older items from the WiP folder first.

Urgh, I have been writing this one fic since December, I've been working on it for WiP Big Bang and I am just. Sick. Of writing. It.  I don't even know if it has merit any more or if it's nothing more than self-indulgence. The only thing that keeps me going right now is that it's almost frikkin' done.

Then I have to edit it, all ninety-some pages of it. God. Thankfully it's not actually due till the end of July and once I've got the snippets in this Saturday, I can set it aside for a bit and refresh myself. Maybe when I get back to it it won't feel like such a grind.

At least for the second WiPBB fic I realized I can drop part of my outline and actually have it make more sense. Now I just need to get enough of it one between now and Saturday that I'll have three 500-1500 word snippets to submit. That file has been open since January but I've only really been working on it since April and I'm not quite as 'please let this be done' with it. Yet.

Someone send me inspiration and coffee. Please?

Finished up the Nano word count, though not all the stories started for it, at 50,014 words. :)

Me: I'm going to do a bunch of one-shots for this writing challenge. Just one-shots, that's it.

Also Me: Here is a series from this writing challenge.

*headdesk*

So that sequel to Impasse I mentioned? It went sideways on me, morphed from Unrequited Love to Unexpected Friendship and is now going to be at least two sequels. I've also got sequels for Student!Jazz & Wizard!Prowl, Assassin AU, and Principátus underway that I need to work on more regularly.

At least Cushion Covers is complete and TF Fairy Tale Retellings is disconnected stories where I don't have to worry about timelines or story arcs.

Impasse is now part one of Enclave and part two is undergoing a final editing pass and should be online before the weekend.

Years. Before August 2018 it had been YEARS since I'd written any fanfic or anything with a storyline at all, in fact. Now...I don't know what happened but I'm not complaining about it. :)

End of Month (EOM) Stats

Target Words/Day	Average Words/Day	Total Words/Month	Target Words/Month	EOM Difference
1,666	910	25,466	50,000	24,534

Yeah, February was not a great month for me, anything-wise. *sigh* But that's the lowest my productivity's been since July so I'm not gonna cry over it.

I've got a number of WIPs going now, but I'm working on Trope Bingo primarily so I'm excluding the non-TB WIPs. I never name things till it's posting time so these are all the prompts so far:

• AU: Fairy Tale/Myth - two versions of this going, not sure which one'll be posted first
• AU: Other (Barbarian AU, pretty much in the same state it was last month.)
• Reunion - I wasn't going to bring Half-step back into anything that happened after the war broke out but this hit me out of nowhere. 
• Virgin Fic - Still going. A Greater than Zero Percentage brought me to my 'awkward relationship conversations' threshold for the month, it seems.
• Free Space (Epistolary. Still in the same state it was last month.)
• Presumed Dead - does not want to advance beyond the initial scene squirrel.
• Deal with the Devil - Wants to advance way beyond the initial scene squirrel.
• AU: Historical - can't decide if it wants to be a Western, or a Regency AU or some bizarre fusion of both.
• Friends to Lovers - Prowl/Jazz. You're all wearing your shocked faces, I know. :P
• Haunted House - Well. Haunted spaceship. Close enough.
• Rivals to Lovers - Actually NOT Prowl/Jazz. Surprise!

I didn't skip around between prompts for AU Yeah August and October Writing Challenge so I'm not sure why I can't just settle down on one and finish it this time around. It may just be the difference in the length of time - 30 days for those (okay, ~60 in actuality) and six months for these. But, you know, as long as I get something done each day it's progress. It's not like I'm missing work targets or anything here.

End of Month (EOM) Stats

Target Words/Day	Average Words/Day	Total Words/Month	Target Words/Month	EOM Difference
1,666	1,764	51,573	50000	-1,573

That average is boosted up by a couple of days were I made it to ~3-4K words. The chart I use to track daily word count has a few major spikes in it but most of the bars are clustered between the 1K and 1.5K marks. I'd like to get that looking more even, get a more consistent daily production amount going.

I've got a number of WIPs going now, but I'm working on Trope Bingo primarily so I'm excluding the non-TB WIPs.

• AU: Fairy Tale/Myth
• AU: Other (Barbarian AU)
• Reunion - I wasn't going to bring Half-step back into anything that happened after the war broke out but this hit me out of nowhere.
• Virgin Fic
• Accidental Stimulation - writing some conversations is just as awkward as experiencing them, my god, not helped that I haven't had to negotiate a relationship in a long damn time.
• Free Space (Epistolary) 
• Presumed Dead

I'd like to get the full card done. Nothing gets me writing like a target and/or a deadline, apparently. Because I seriously did not write any fanfic, or much of anything else, for years and then I randomly decide to do AU August and - bam! Productivity.

Snagged from spikedluv :

Questions:

1. Do you think your style has changed over time? How so?
2. Which of your own fanfics have you reread the most?
3. Describe the differences between your first fanfic and your most recent fanfic.
4. Do you think your style has changed over time? How so?
5. You've posted a fic anonymously. How would someone be able to guess that you'd written it?
6. Name three stories you found easy to write.
7. Name three stories you found difficult to write.
8. What's your ratio of hits to kudos?
9. What do your fic bookmarks say about you?
10. What's a theme that keeps coming up in your writing?
11. What kind of relationships are you most interested in writing?
12. For E-rated fic, what are some things your characters keep doing?
13. Name three favorite characters to write.
14. You're applying for the fanfic writer of the year award. What five fanfics do you put in your portfolio?
15. Question of your choice!

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Oh, god, I honestly can't believe it's 2017 already. Thank whatever powers might exist that the clusterfuck of 2016 is over - and that's honestly all I want to say about the past year. Pretty sure most people agree with me.

But! Snowflake is back! :D This is honestly one of the highlights for the start of the year and I'm grateful to everyone who stepped up as a new mod because I really needed this. That's definitely not a criticism of akamine_chan and co-runners! I understand they've had a tough year, and I also get that if you don't have the spoons, you don't have the spoons and need to step back and engage in some self-care. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that and whoever tells you otherwise is lying. *hugs for you all*

Day 1

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'm still pleased with The Longest Night, a LoTR fanfic I wrote in 2015 for the International Fanworks Day challenge over on lotr_community. It came in 2nd place in the Tree and Flower Awards 2015 for Favorite Story Featuring a New Author, which was a most pleasant surprise!

Honesty, an SPN fanfic that I really need to remember to post on A03, is one I think I include in this challenge every year but it's one of my favorites. It's a drabble based around Dean and Future!Cas' conversation in the truck during 'The End'. Future!Cas breaks my heart, he truly does.

Through the Gates, a Goblin Emperor fanfic written for smallfandomfest Round 19 and based on the prompt 'It's not quite love, but it's not just duty, either.' It's about Maia and Csethiro's developing relationship, because I wanted to see more of that, dammit!

Calling Frequency, a Dead Space fanfic also written for smallfandomfest Round 19 and based on the prompt 'Trapped on Tau Volantis after the events of Dead Space 3, an injured Carver has to rely on Isaac for help.'. This one was challenging because a) I've only played DS3 single-player and thus only really know Carver through cut scenes and b) it's mostly dialogue and I had a hard time remembering to include actions and descriptions and not wind up with something that read like, as How Not to Write a Novel says, two disembodied brains in a jar having a conversation. But I succeeded!

For the curious, previous versions of this challenge are at the following links: 2016, 2015, 2014.

Day 03

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Some of these are repeats, both because I still like them and because I got a grand total of, um, two fics done since the last Snowflake Challenge. 2015 sucked and from a lot of people's Day 1 posts I see I'm not the only one.

To Chain Together
Fandom: The Doctrine of Labyrinths
Summary: What do you say when someone you never expected to see again shows up to say what you never expected to hear?

This one is was written for smallfandomfest in 2015. Mostly. The beginning was supposed to be the answer to the 2015 Snowflake Challenge's Day 6 but the opening paragraph wouldn't yield to anything larger. I ended up using it as a jumping-off point for the fic for the challenge just because I liked Mildmay's description of the lighthouse. The rest of it is because I wasn't satisfied with one of the plot threads I felt was left dangling - though to be fair it is the kind of thing that happens in real life - and because, dammit, Felix and Mildmay deserve a happy ending!

Well, reasonably. It is Doctrine of Labyrinths, after all. I'm sure something will try to possess or kill them soon.

Decisions
Summary: Erestor decides what to do with his day.

Written for the 2014 February Fanon Busters challenge on lotr_community. The idea of Erestor spending all his time inside and buried in paperwork never sat right with me: if you're immortal you're probably going to develop process improvement at some point, after all.

Honesty
Summary: Cas has his reasons for letting Dean see what he does.

Sad drabble based around Dean and Future!Cas' conversation in the truck during 'The End'. Future!Cas breaks my heart, he's the wreck and ruin of everything Castiel was, and I'm firmly convinced that the entire conversation in question came about because he knows that and wants to change it.