Thevina's Fanfiction Year in Review

[thrihyrne]

It's nearly the conclusion of 2008, and while I do have a couple of stories which haven't yet had the author reveals, I'm going to go ahead and do a summary of the year. It's been another productive one, in which I dove head-first with great gusto into a new fandom, which really surprised me. I thought my head would be full with Harry Potter and Tolkien and I'd never get involved in any others. Instead, Storm Constantine's Wraeththu series of books totally took over, but I also wrote a few short selections in Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint world as well. I'd love to write some Mary Renault The Persian Boy fanfiction one day, but it hasn't yet happened. ;)

I'm going to organize these by fandoms rather than by date, but here's what I've written and posted in 2008 (not including 2 fest stories not yet revealed):

Wraeththu
All of my Wraeththu fics can be found here at my website. You can't leave reviews, but for the first fic below, I do have it saved as a pdf there, and there are pictures of 'Castlegar' as well as some other yummy pictures.
§ Maelstrom and Mage, Desire Thine Darkling
49,083 words; Ashmael/Vaysh and OCs, adult
Available here at Forever Wraeththu [where you can leave a review! ;) ] or here as a pdf file to download.

§ Down the Whispering Well
44,523 words; Vaysh/Ashmael and OCs, adult
Available here at Forever Wraeththu. I didn't get around to making a pdf of this one, though maybe I will soon.

§ Passion's Acolyte
3,015 words; Cal/Swift, adult
Available here on LJ or here at Forever Wraeththu

§ Interpret Me the Savage Whirr
6,198 words; Seel/Ashmael, adult
Available here on LJ or here at Forever Wraeththu

§ Quare Clausum Fregit (Wherefore he broke the close)
3,364 words; Vaysh/OC [Yazdyar, from 'Down the Whispering Well'], adult
Available here on LJ and here at Forever Wraeththu

§ Mere Trifles
1,723 words; Seel/Swift (not adult), Cobweb
Available here at Forever Wraeththu or here at my website. I don't seem to have ever posted it at my LJ!

§ Swooping to Landward
13,800 words; Chithra/Lemuel (OCs), a study of Fioan/Colurastes cultural interaction, adult
Available here on LJ (link is to part one) or here at Forever Wraeththu

§ After the Storm, Restless Fire
4,979 words; Ithiel/Cobweb and Ithiel/Terzian, adult
Available here on LJ or here at Forever Wraeththu

§ Reap the Wild Wind
24,402 words; Kelp/Blackspur, Kelp/Hunt (OCs), adult
Link to the first post on my LJ here, or you can read the whole thing here at my website. It hasn't yet been uploaded to Forever Wraeththu.

§ Libertine
389 words; Terzian, PG-13
Available here at my LJ

A few Wraeththu drabbles written along the way are here at my website

Harry Potter
§ Cloudscape of Ravens
18,030 words; Ron/OC, Ron/Severus, adult
Written for the ginger_lust Ron-centric fest I hosted with a lot of help. The link there is locked to ensure no-one underage in the community got to it, but you can read it here at my website or here at Skyehawke if you'd care to leave a review.

§ No Shame, This Life, Beloved
14,792 words; Ron/Draco, adult; in all likelihood, the last story in the "Magic Immunity" story arc.
Available here at my LJ

§ A Rally Toward Exalted Moments
5,567 words; Harry/Charlie, adult
Available here at my LJ or here at the weasley_fest community

§ Scotch Game
9,144 words; Ron/Remus, adult
Available here at my LJ; it's locked at the remus_ron_slash community to prevent underage folks from reading it there.

§ The Sensibility of Wantonness
3,181 words; Ron/Draco ["Crown of Rope" universe], adult
Available here at my LJ

I also seem to have written a slew of various drabbles by request on a few different days. Rather than organize them, there are a bunch of requested HP drabbles here (some Wraeththu, too, but I put them on my website), a rare het Ron/Hermione drabble here and Ron/Charlie drabble from the vampire!Charlie incest story I wrote a year or so ago for wolfiekins

I also have one lingering WIP, a Dean/Ron for the very patient Callum James. I actually printed out what I had when I was at his flat in England in October, and I really will finish it. It's just taken a back burner, to my chagrin.

Swordspoint
These are nearly all drabbles, though I think I did write a vignette. LOL. I've written a lot this year and can't keep it all straight! Hence the annual wrap-up.

Basil's Banquet, Fall of the Kings drabble
Untitled Richard/Alec drabble
Revenge Effloresces, Richard/Alec drabble

Hmmmm. Thought I'd written more Swordspoint than that; I think I just wish I had!

Lord of the Rings
Unbelievably after my start in the Ardaverse, the only things I've written in LotR fandom this year have been drabbles, but I do seem to have written a few. All are general rating unless otherwise noted.

Untitled Halbarad-centric drabble
Alliances, Gimli-centric
Untitled Gimli-centric drabble
Untitled Éowyn-centric drabble
Untitled Celeborn/Aragorn drabble, adult
Another untitled Gimli-centric drabble

Wow. So, looking at the non-drabbles, it appears as though I've written around 200,000 words of fanfiction this year. I'm not a real word-counter usually; it's just good for me to look at the year and see where my focuses have been. Obviously it's been with Wraeththu more than anything else, and I don't know what my focus will be next year. I will be expanding "Maelstrom and Mage," trying to double it in length to get it ready to be a proper novel available from Immanion Press, and my slashy_santa fic is Tolkien. This year I also started out trying NaNoWriMo, so I wrote about 3K of actual original fiction. Wheeeeeee.

For those of you who have read and enjoyed my stories and let me know, thank you so much! Feedback, commentary, and enthusiasm are always gratifying for an author.

Comments

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

I would be stunned and amazed if you had written nothing but Maelstrom and Mage and Down the Whispering Well. Awesome year, darling!

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Aw! Well, I do tend to write. A lot. Keeps me sane, at least some of the time... ;) Thank you for the enthusiasm!!

[jaiden-s.livejournal.com]

O_O

In ONE year?! Good grief! I'm thrilled to do two stories in a year!

I bow to your mad productivity skillz. ;)

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was 2008. I think it's pretty much been like this since I first started writing back in '03, though at first it was all Tolkien, then a Tolkien/HP mix, then nearly all HP, and now Wraeththu's in the mix!!

It's true that I do tend to write a lot. ;) So glad that my writings introduced me to you!

[jaiden-s.livejournal.com]

Actually, we met over my pretty icon. *grin*

I've read one of your drabbles, but I don't think I've read any of your longer stories yet. *hides* I keep meaning to...

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Actually, we met over my pretty icon. *grin*

That's right, lolol!! I forgot! I don't think I've ever actually become a friend of someone over just an icon, but I do believe that we have some other friends in common, as well as the Tolkien aspect. Not to worry about reading my longer stuff- though I'm looking for several Tolkien slashy folks to beta my slashy santa... are you in that field?

[jaiden-s.livejournal.com]

Actually, we have several friends in common, so that's been fun. :)

I am in the Slashy Santa exchange, and I know you don't have mine, because my writer has already blabbed and told me she has mine. ;)

I love to beta. Give me some direction about what to look for and off I go. Right now, I'm working with erfanstarled on a longer piece she's revisiting, and will do a few shorter fics for friends in the Supernatural fandom, but that's it. Lots of time to put off writing my own fic. LOL

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

prolific much?

great work.

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Yes, pretty prolific, despite circumstances. It really does help me stay in my right mind, I think. :D

It's been different, with so few HP fics and only drabbles in Tolkien. The Wraeththu really stoked the fires of my creativity this year.

[elfscribe5.livejournal.com]

It was great chatting with you last night and I look forward to your new fic. This is an awesome list of fics and a great exercise to let you see what you've accomplished. Especially impressive given your move. I decided to do the same thing and although my output wasn't nearly as impressive, it came to nearly 95,000 words. Not too shabby. *g* Maybe I can improve that this next year.
Hugs!

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

I was so glad we were able to connect!! I've really missed that.

Well, this list certainly shows what the major influence was on my writing for this year; it astonishes me as well when I think about my cross-country move, the limited planning time, the huge changes and ups and downs of this past autumn, trips to Washington and over to England... writing is the constant, I suppose! And 95K is certainly nothing to sneeze at. :)

(((hugs)))

p.s. Didn't finish the story last night, but I only have the two remaining scenes and I don't think I'll put in another sex scene, so it may not take too long. Thanks for being willing to beta!

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