Not a fic!

[sermocinare]

Favorite:
Fanfic: Arachnophobia. Short, fun, and it just has that flow.
OF: Late-night airplane tinkering. Probably because it's the defining thing when it comes to Dee and Irene, and how they interact.

Best:
Fanfic: Odd Jobs. IMHO, this is one of the best things I've ever written, fanfic or not.
OF: Explosion. It's a lot more action-packed than my usual stuff, but I think it worked really well.

Most under-appreciated by the universe:
The universe, being comprised of mostly empty space and some hydrogen, probably doesn't even register that either myself or my writing exists. So, everything? :P

Most fun to write:
Fanfic: Arachnophobia again. Like I said, it just flowed. And I was snickering pretty much all the way through writing it. So, yeah.
OF: People watching in the park. Why yes, I like writing fluff. And I loved having them just sit there and snark, nomming ice cream. It was relaxing.

Sexiest:
Fanfic: Sharp dressed men. It's Eddie an Adrian. In suits, ffs. And then getting rid of the suits. All right, partially. To repeat: Eddie. Adrian. Suits.
OF: The German AU still awaits its first glimpse of real porn.

"Holy crap, that’s wrong even for you?":
*evil snicker* I don't even know what that word means. Depending on your perspective, writing the Crimebusters as grade schoolers might be wrong. The same could be said about trying to get a very short glimpse into the mind of a mad terrorist.

Fic that shifted my own perception of the characters:
Fanfic: I'm not sure. Problem is, I don't have one and only one interpretation of the characters in my mind. I have several, which probably shows in my fics. I don't know how it is for other fanfic writers, but part of my enjoyment of writing fanfic is that I can let each and every one of those interpretations come out and play. With all that said, Odd Jobs kind of caused me to go "fuck you, Adrian, and your stupid refusal to let other people affect you".
OF: Shell shocked drove home the already half-formed notion of just how conflicted Dee is between his love and loyality to his father and his wish to just escape everything and be his own person.

Hardest to do:
Fanfic: Pinned. I tried to pull off some OzyCom fluff while still keeping their love/hate baseline intact. I'm still not sure if I managed it.
OF: Explosion again. Because it's really kind of out of my usual, more character and dialogue driven field.

Biggest disappointment:
I regret nothing! ...seriously, I don't. If I'm not happy with something I wrote, I re-write it. I do this for fun, and for my own amusement. The moment it stops to be fun, I stop doing it.

Biggest surprise:
Fanfic: Arachnophobia. Mostly because I never would have thought that people would like it that much.
OF: The return of Roy. When I wrote the first piece with him in it, I seriously didn't think he'd become a recurring character. But the boy has grown on me.

Most telling:
Fanfic: Pinned. There's just so much of my personal OzyCom canon in there.
OF: Late-night airplane tinkering. Let's face it, I'm a shipper.

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?:
LOTS more. I wasn't sure I'd write anything this year, seeing how sporadic my writing is. And by sporadic, I mean "once every blue moon". Here's to hoping I can keep it up. Oh, and as far as fanfic is concerned, at the beginning of the year? I didn't think I'd ever write fanfic.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?:
See above. I usually don't write any fanfic at all. And if somebody had told me in January 09 "hey, guess what, you're going to write OzyCom porn", I would have sent them to have their head checked.

Did you take any writing risks this year?
Yes. Once again, fanfic. I'm one of those people who are more comfortable writing original fiction than fanfic, because I used to be quite neurotic about doing it wrong, mostly about the characters being horribly OOC. I have a huge respect for other people's sandboxes. Yes, looking at the amount of crack I write, it doesn't seem like it, but it's the truth. As for original fiction and risks, let's just say I'm still terrified of the doomsday plot I'm trying to build.

Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?:
What's profic? As in, getting published? Lol, no. As for goals, well, I hope to write some more Watchmen fic, maybe even some srs bznes stuff. And I want to pull off that doomsday plot, dammit! With airplanes and spies!