End of Month Stats

Average Words/Day: 1,007

Total Words/Month: 31,227

Fic Posted in December

Abandoned -  Horror in an abandoned hospital where Sideswipe and his squad are forced to hole up for the night. Originally published in the Homemade Zine.

The Anniversary - Student!Jazz and Wizard!Prowl have been together for a full year. Aww!

WiPs

Still working on finishing an expansion of the accidental sparklet fic from back in 2018, the sequel to Across the Forgotten Plains (working title: Within the Forgotten Plains), possibly a post-TFP fic (that I've already gone back and forth on abandoning a few times and may abandon yet), and still working on finishing Intercept. 

End of Month Stats

Average Words/Day: 1,065

Total Words/Month: 33,007

Fic Posted in October

A Curious Thing - Bookstore AU! Playing with the 'little shop that wasn't there' trope.

The Right Way - Soulmate AU! Prowl fights fate. Fate fights back.

Unleashed - Demon AU! Jazz and Ricochet head to Praxus to check out rumours something big and occult is going down.

Gratitude - Vampire AU! Soundwave is loyal and Megatron rewards this. (Soundwave as a vampire works so well. I  mean, mental powers, control over animals (of a sort) ... it works.)

A Third Option, Chapters Three and Four - Fake Dating AU and Friends to Lovers AU respectively. NSFW in the even-numbered chapters. Prowl, Jazz, and Mirage's relationship develops from one of mutual respect to something more.

WiPs

Still going on AU Yeah AUgust and, because I'm bad with knowing my limits. I skipped Jazz Week and Rarepair Week because I  looked at the prompts and just didn't have anything for them. Plus, there's still the WiP list, which I really want to work down. It's kind of out of control right now.

End of Month Stats

Average Words/Day: 1,502

Total Words/Month: 46,567 - 2,508 words over target!

Fic Posted in August

A Good Beginning - Mirage/Wheeljack cafe AU.

Wings - Turns out Prowl isn't Cybertronian. Jazz still thinks he's gorgeous.

Intercept (Chapter One) - The shuttle never leaves Moonbase One and Cybertron's future history turns out differently. Time travel/canon divergence AU.

An Excellent Solution - Space is limited on the Ark. Prowl and Jazz double up in Prowl's quarters. Basically porn.

In Exchange - Decepticon!Prowl AU.

The Poisoned Needle and the Crystal Grove - Fairy tale AU based on Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree. IDW-based, for once.

Intent - Sequel to In Exchange. Prowl's courting someone. He probably should have let them know.

Looking Ahead - Jazz says good-bye to his sibling before heading off to university.

Embodiment - First Aid finds himself irresistibly drawn to the forbidden research wing of the hospital.

A Third Option (Chapters One and Two) - Mirage's contracted spouse has feelings for someone else, but still goes through with the marriage. Fortunately, Mirage is an accommodating mech.

Direct Methods - Ricochet gets tired of waiting to be asked out and takes the initiative.

Content Strategy - Prowl doesn't spend much time on the human internet. Given his Prime's most recent request, maybe he should have.

Across the Forgotten Plains (Chapters One to Seven) - Barbarian AU! Jazz winds up traveling with a tribe of nomads after being rescued from an attack on his transport.

WiPs

Still going on AU Yeah AUgust and, because I'm bad with knowing my limits, I've also added the prowlxjazz 2020 Anniversary Challenge for this month. There's one more fic I have to finish, or at least get to an ending point, for WiPBigBang, and chapter three of A Third Option. I'm sure something else will sneak in there at some point. ^_^

End of Month Stats

Average Words/Day: 1,228

Total Words/Month: 36,836

Fic Posted in May

I didn't get much finished in May but that's largely because things that were SUPPOSED to be short ballooned...and because I might have signed up for WiPBigBang again. With three fics. Uh, oops? But I did get a couple of things up:

Sacrifice - Jazz isn't happy about getting sent to be eaten by a dragon. That's...not exactly what happens, though. 

Webcloak - Not finished in May, actually written for AU Yeah AUgust 2018 but I wanted to separate it out so it could be part of the fairy tales series.

WiPs

Okay, look, at this rate the last two fics from AU Yeah AUgust 2019 are going to be the first two of AU Yeah AUgust 2020, since they refuse to be short, but the Time Travel AU and the Nobility/Arranged Marriage AU are still ongoing. I've also got three fics going for WiP Big Bang and one for Into a Bar. That's just what I'm actively working on, there's a whole lot more on the WiP list - and I'm pretty sure it expands on its own when I'm not looking.

I did not abandon this, I just...lost track. But hey, it's Snowflake so there's no deadlines. :)

• I already posted a little bit about this when I did my end of year wrap-up for my writing stats in 2019 but I'd like to reach my target of 528,706 words for the year and an average daily word count of 1,458. The numbers are based on what I achieved the previous year, though since I wasn't working most of last year I'll not be surprised if I don't meet those targets, but that's okay. I'll just get a more realistic target for 2021.
• Start doing UI design again, maybe look at putting some stuff together to sell on Redbubble. I am not a magnificent artist but I can manipulate the hell out of pixels.
• Write some original fiction. Maybe even show it to people.
• Finish the Unplanned Reproduction expansion I've been working on since 2018. (They're giant robots and Accidental Pregnancy doesn't really apply to the version of TF reproduction I'm using.) One of the things slowing me down here is that I said a lot of what I wanted to say with this one in All the Good Things so I guess I'll just have to find new ideas to explore. :)

Happy New Year everyone! 2019 was not fabulous, though it got better toward the end, so let's hope 2020 is much improved.

End of Month (EOM) Stats

Target Avg/Day	Actual Avg/Day	Total Words/Month	Target/Month	Difference
1,667	1,345	41,691	50,000	-8,309

Fic I Posted in December

Interconnected References (Assassin AU #7) - It took most of a year but I finally managed to get it done! I could not get it to work the way I wanted so numerous rewrites were required. I will try not to have nearly another year go by before part 8 is out but sadly can make no promises.

Overloaded - Roughly the same time last year I posted Second Act I was fretting over posting something that was basically just porn. I nearly restricted it to registered users only on AO3. But now? Yeah, have an anthology of unconnected, plotless smut, free for everyone to see.

Vital Signs - I'm still trying to finish AU Yeah AUgust 2019 but stuff keeps running away from me. Oops. I keep trying to write drabbles but things will keep getting longer.

Plus, I've got three more fics (a plotless fluffy one and two Secret Solenoids) that I finished in December but haven't posted yet that should go up soon.

WiPs
These are just the active ones, not all the files I have in the WiP folder. I...have to go through and count those. I'm kind of afraid to.


I also finished a fluffy, plotless little thing and two fics for Secret Solenoid that haven't been posted yet. They'll be up in January.

End of Month (EOM) Stats

Target/Day	Average/Day	Total Words/Month	Starting Word Count	Target/Month	Difference
1,667	1,257	37,708	149,642	50000	-12,292

Fic I Finished in November
With Full Knowledge of Identity - I keep saying I'm done with the immortal!Jazz and reincarnated!Prowl 'verse but, like Prowl, it keeps coming back to life. :) The title for this one took me forever to get pinned down.

Overloaded - It's a porn anthology, with varying levels of smuttiness in each ficlet. I'm listing it as 'finished' because the first little ficlet is done. There are more waiting but I don't have a regular update schedule for this one. Just whenever I don't have anything else to post, I guess.

Interconnected References - A continuation of Assassin AU at last! I've been working on this pretty much since I finished Workspace but it's been fighting me. I finally realized that part of the problem was Jazz never having inquired into the nature of their seed client and him just generally being too damn incurious as it was. That's why there's a prologue flashing back to the interim between A Transfer of Skills and Workspace.

WiPs
Oh, lordy, here we go...and these are just the active ones, I've got some on standby.

AU Yeah AUgust 2019 - Still going! Currently working on the Roadtrip prompt, which had become the obligatory Breakdown Lives! AU.

Rendezvous (working title), an expansion of the fill by the same name for Prowl x Jazz Anniversary Challenge 2019. War-weary Autobots Jazz, Prowl, Bluestreak, Inferno, and Red Alert show up on Earth in response to Prime's transmission. I don't know what all's going to happen but I do know it goes AU sometime during S2.

Wizard AU pt 8 (working title: The Mentor) - I keep trying to make this too complex. This is actually half of the original draft of The Party, until I realized that I was trying to tell two A stories at once - which I'm still trying to do. *sigh* I'll get it sorted.

Guarding Meister (working title) - Prowl is the Enforcer assigned to guard Meister, thief turned state's evidence, while the latter is under protective custody.

Untitled Prowl/Jazz/Barricade threesome fic - Prowl confesses his old crush on his former partner Barricade to his new lover, Jazz, who is more than happy to help Prowl make his fantasy come true when Barricade comes to town to visit.

Secret Solenoid - I've finished one of the prompts on the list and have another sketched out. Not sure what I'll do with the third yet though.

End of Month (EOM) Stats

Target/Day	Average/Day	Total Words/Month	Target/Month	Difference
1,667	1,270	38,089	50,000	-11,911

Fic I Finished in September
In Good Hands - Browsed the kink meme and a request tickled my fancy. It's basically just porn and that's OK.

AU Yeah AUgust 2019 chapters five and six (days thirteen and fourteen, respectively.)

Prowl x Jazz Anniversary Challenge 2019 - Twenty-four chapters, nearly posted on time. I had to double up a few posts but I did get it done on the 30th. I ended up adding a lot more to the Senses-verse than I expected, and playing more in the sandbox of In Every Voice He'd Ever Had.

The prowlxjazz fills account for the vast majority of the words written and posted last month, roughly 24K.

WIPs

AU Yeah AUgust 2019 - Still going! Two more days, that are separate from the drabble collection, are ready to post. I will get it done. Not during August (unless it's next August :p) but they will get done.

TF Rare Pair Trick or Treat 2019 - I managed to restrain myself and not claim every prompt, limiting myself to six. :) The first one, Storytime, where Bluestreak and Hound go camping and tell each other spooky stories before cuddling up, is already done. I had fun adapting two urban legends (that I learned at camp myself) and making up one Cybertronian one.

The prowlxjazz community is running a Halloween Bingo Challenge and I've claimed a set of prompts from that as well.

Rendezvous (working title), an expansion of the fill by the same name for Prowl x Jazz Anniversary Challenge 2019. War-weary Autobots Jazz, Prowl, Bluestreak, Inferno, and Red Alert show up on Earth in response to Prime's transmission. I don't know what all's going to happen but I do know it goes AU sometime during S2.

Forgot to post this at the start of the month! In my defense, I was finally working after a long dry spell. It was only a few weeks temping BUT STILL. It worked well enough to get me my mortgage which gets my ex out of the house, not yet but soon. I mean, we still get along but he doesn't want to be here any more and I'd kind of like my space, thank you. Now I need a new job but I've got contingencies, a second interview I'm pretty sure is just a formality coming up, and enough set by for a few weeks so I'll be ok. Poor, but ok.

Anyway, on with the stats.

End of Month (EOM) Stats

Target/Day	Average/Day	Total Words/Month	Target/Month	Difference
1,667	1,372	42,527	50,000	-7,473

Fic I Finished in August

Keeping Warm - Day 1 of AU Yeah August 2019, a little Bluestreak/Hound ficlet for pipermca

Fifty Drabbles from Fifty Prompts - Fifty true drabbles from fifty prompts written to celebrate the fiftieth title I've posted under the Transformers - All Media Types tag on AO3. Pretty much just an experiment.

Secured - Day 3 of AU Yeah August 2019.

For Love Reforms Vitality - I wanted to play more in the universe of In Every Voice He'd Ever Had so I wrote Jazz and Prowl's origins and first death/not death and reunion.

All the Good Things - It's so weird to look at the cotton candy (sweet fluff) piece this became compared to the very first draft with a severely depressed Prowl with a borderline eating disorder, neglected by his guardian and basically ignored by any and every authority figure whose supposed to be helping him. I stripped thousands of words out of this and rewrote it a few times to get to the end product. I was working out a lot of my own issues on this one and wound up not particularly wanting to put them on display. But, I did feel better once I got that darker rough draft done so - free therapy, I guess.

A Beneficial Arrangement - I decided to play more with the Mirage/Megatron arranged-marriage-to-shut-up-the-rebel AU from last year. I want to continue this one, I'm just not sure where it could go yet.

AU Yeah August - Drabbles - So far, there are four entries in this, days 2, 5, 6 and 8, and I'm not sure how many more there will be. Depends on
what I can keep short and what blossoms out of control.

Open Offers - Day 6 of AYA 2019, decided to write Perceptor/Jazz just 'cause.

A Meeting on the Sprawl - Transformers/Dead Space fusion written for the 2019 intoabar fic challenge.

The Emperor's New Plating - A Transformers version of The Emperor's New Clothes requested by the guest commenter I've nicknamed Fairy Tale Anon.

Balance - So, possible-demon!Jazz and Enforcer!Bluestreak from Trope Bingo Round 12 decided they wanted my attention again and that they should be a series. Thus, Systematic Chaos was born. (Because if I can name a series after a Dream Theater album, I will. ^_^) I don't know how they're going to solve the murders but I do know that Prowl's a warrior monk of sorts in this one.

Day 13, Horror, of AU Yeah August is finished but unpublished, a little Knock Out/Breakdown drabble.

WIPs

AU Yeah AUgust 2019 - I haven't forgotten it! But working full time after not doing so for a while, plus some personal stuff, drained me and gave me less time than usual to write so it's still ongoing. One year I may finish this challenge in August, but 2019 is not that year. Not helped that the entry I'm caught up on, Day 12, is pretty much just smut and I didn't want to write it at work.

Prowl x Jazz Anniversary Challenge 2019 - Short fics, minimum 500 words (except for #1 where I wasn't aware of the minimum) that I'm almost keeping up with!

A handful of other stuff, including Assassin AU 7, Wizard AU 8, Principatus 3, and Enclave 4, that are technically on hold but that I'll work on if I have time/inspiration during AU Yeah August.

An original horror fic that I'm mentioning here to shame myself into trying to finish it, even though it didn't work last month. Might try and sell this one, we'll see how it goes.

End of Month (EOM) Stats

Target Words/Day	Average Words/Day	Total Words/Month	Target Words/Month	EOM Difference
1,666	1,621	40,125	50,000	+125

Fic I Finished in July

In Every Voice He'd Ever Had - For the immortality/reincarnation prompt from trope_bingo Round Thirteen. gatekat 's note in the bookmarks of 'Immortal Jazz and Primus lets stubborn fraggers come back' is my favorite summary of this so far.

The Party - Part 7 of The Adventures of Student!Jazz and Wizard!Prowl. While its short, this was underway for a while because I couldn't quite get it to work - not until I realized I was trying to tell two separate 'A' stories at the same time.

The Scientific Method - Done for trope_bingo and tf_rare_pairing and just why was Prowl hanging out in Perceptor's lab during Quest for Survival anyway? Besides to poke at alien plant specimens - no, seriously, he does, just leans over Perceptor's shoulder and prods the Morphobot fragment a couple times. Now I headcanon Prowl as being tactile and that's where the cushion covers in A Greater Than Zero Percentage came from.

All the Good Things, Chapter One - This is the wipbigbang fic I've been working on since what feels like forever and, if I'm being honest, am still editing and rewriting parts of. The original rough draft was quite a bit darker and after I left it alone for a bit and came back to it I realized I was using it to exorcise a lot of nasty stuff from my past. This was good for me, but not good for the fic, so I cut a lot of it out. I'm still worried about dangling plot threads but I think I've got almost all of the snipped so far.

WIPs
I almost forgot about AU Yeah AUgust this year, which would've been a shame because the 1st one in 2018 is the one that got me writing again. Thankfully, I got my memory jogged when I saw someone else doing it. BUT! I have learnt my lesson and will not be creating one big multichapter fic for the whole thing because I'll just end up splitting something off into a series. (Assassin AU, Wizard Prowl, Principatus, Enclave...) Drabbles can get grouped together, everything else, we'll see.

• AU Yeah AUgust 2019 - One short fic, Keeping Warm (Hound/Bluestreak, bed sharing/huddling for warmth) and one drabble, Unconventional (in which Jazz tries to talk Prowl into attending a con and inadvertently lets him in on the existence of RPF), are already done.
• Fifty Different Flavours: Fifty Drabbles from Fifty Different Prompts is exactly what it says on the tin. I'm approaching my fiftieth (!) item published under the 'Transformers - All Media Types' tag on the AO3 and I wanted to do a sort of anniversary thing. It'll be done and up either today or tomorrow, probably.
• Untitled Transformers/Dead Space fusion for the intoabar challenge that is almost done and just needs an ending. This also covers the AU: Fusion prompt for trope_bingo . Needs to be up by August 25.
• A handful of other stuff, including Assassin AU 7, Wizard AU 8, Principatus 3, and Enclave 4, that's technically on hold but that I'll work on if I have time/inspiration during AU Yeah August.
• An original horror fic that I'm mentioning here to shame myself into trying to finish it. Might try and sell this one, we'll see how it goes.