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Man, things were going so well over the summer, I was really on track, then September came and punched me in the face.

In September I wrote 12,755 words and posted one story, which was actually just a reveal post and not a real post. I even had a to-do list of stories that I'd finished a first draft of and meant to post over the course of the month and that didn't happen either. Somehow I managed to forget how the same thing happened last year--everything starts happening again at work in September. (I can't even blame television--I'm behind on that, too.)

One month left to post my remaining kink bingo stories in progress, and then we hit Yuletide season. Huzzah!

( Movies and Books, September 2012 )

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Wow, I apparently fail at life because I very carefully had this all ready to go for the first of the month and then just completely forgot to post it. For over two weeks. Best laid plans and all. And the reason I very proudly had it all ready to go on the first of the month was because for the first time in ages I actually made my writing goals again. Slightly more modest writing goals than I was working with 2-3 years ago but still. Goals.

In July I wrote 31,244 words and posted two stories in two fandoms (one of which is still anonymous) and finished and began submitting one more. And because I'm posting this late and can do this: as of yesterday, I've written more words in 2012 than in all of 2011. Words themselves are obviously in no way the only measure of success, or even necessarily a very good one in many cases, but they're something concrete that I can track and use to feel like I'm working and moving in the right direction. I know tracking them as closely as I do is a little bit obsessive, but collecting and organizing information like that is something that centres and motivates me, and I have enough data now to understand a little better what the numbers actually mean, and how to read my own trends, which I find really useful. I kind of can't wait to post August's roundup. It's a little bit beautiful to me.

( Movies and Books, July 2012 )

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Doing this now before yet another month gets away from me! (Though I have excellent excuses this time: this past weekend was Pride in Winnipeg, and then last night I had a big presentation for the town council). In May I wrote 4341 words and posted one story. And most of those words were written over three days, when I was on vacation. But at least I read a lot?

( Movies and Books, May 2012 )

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Actually on time this month! I wrote 11,048 words, completed one short original piece and finished editing on something else. I continue to make my minimum standard, but not my goal. I expect April will be more of the same, given everything I've got going on, but then I have some big deadlines at the end of April that might motivate me.

( Movies and Books, March 2012 )

So a lot more books than movies this month, largely because I was housesitting for the better part of a week and didn't have internet access. Clearly the internet has ruined my life. I've also finally actually started using my goodreads that I registered, oh, four years ago.

I signed up for spn_j2_bigbang this year despite not having written CW RPF or Supernatural for a while, firmly believing at the time that I both could and wanted to, but now I'm struggling to figure out what I'm going to do. Turns out I'm not sure I can write CW RPF anymore, my base knowledge is just too far out of date, and I worry that anything I write (and there are several options) would seem quaint. Maybe what I really want to write is old school Supernatural. First and second season era stuff. I have a few things started but I'm just not sure what I want to do.

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I started my year with more realistic goals, based on my time (scarce!) and my recent output (low!). I met one and made about half of the other, which is thumbs-up, I think. I wrote 12,861 words and didn't post or submit anything in January. February is porn battle, which I've never done before but am jumping into for this round, so I'll definitely have some actual posted things to report next month, and I've just finished this odd little fairy tale thing that I need to figure out what to do with.

Here's to continuing what I've started!

( Movies and Books, January 2012 )

The enthusiasm of several people on twitter/LJ/DW in recent times has convinced me I need to watch Lewis, so I'm about to get started.

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It is probably obvious at this point that I'm not doing a monthly roundup for November, partly because there's not much to report and partly because it tends to potentially give away something I've written for Yuletide.

I keep thinking about things I want to post about but then by the time I get to my computer again I've either forgotten what I wanted to say in the first place or I just don't have the energy anymore to put words together in a meaningful way. Tis the season for writing, but I've actually been doing a lot of reading these past two weeks, reading a lot of my own stuff in past fandoms and a lot of newer stuff in the same.

The thing about RPF fandoms is that they're really, really hard to get back into again--as a writer, I mean; there isn't the same kind of learning curve as a reader. When you're in the fandom, you have a kind of saturation with the canon that just comes out naturally when you write. I was reading one of my AI RPF stories and I casually referred to details I'd completely forgotten about and would probably never know again without a lot of work because there isn't just a finite canon you can review to get back into it. There's never a finite canon, period--when you come back to it even a year later, there's not only a wealth of details but often a whole different cast of characters. I've been picking at a couple of my old CW RPF epics, and even if I do manage to finish them I think I need to put a note in big letters that they were conceived years ago (good god, has it really been three years?) because the differences are very conspicuous.

Life's not been great lately, so I seem to be doing what I do and immersing myself in fictional worlds at the expense of human interaction. At least that means I might start writing prolifically again?

In the meantime, I've just finally sucked it up and watched "Death's Door" so I need to go...do something else now.

It's past time to admit that this job, much as I do love it, is killing my writing. Which is funny because you'd think finally have a job in the arts again would inspire me. And it does, but I somehow haven't had the mental energy to write all summer (for a number of reasons, not just work). I'm hoping that now that things are settled down again, now that we've gotten past sorting through the mess of the past couple of years, things will change. And to that end, I'm going to attempt to write more today than I have in the past two months combined. A word count which not that long ago was known as "a slightly above average day."

In September I wrote 1610 words and didn't post anything. I didn't even finish the things had on deadline, so I'm hoping the deadlines might be a wee bit flexible because I really do love what I'm working on and want to get it done. I actually wrote more than that, but a chunk of it is longhand that I haven't transcribed yet. However, I did read more than average, which is something at least.

( Movies and books, September 2011 )

Also! The new episode of slashcast is out today, and among many fantastic features there is an interview with me about being multifannish. I can't bear to listen to my own voice, but I'm assured that I didn't make a complete idiot of myself so go on and check it out!

In July I wrote 2071 words, which shockingly is still more than I wrote in June, but remains about an average day's worth of writing. My life just got really weird and exhausting (which I've talked about a little, but less so the last couple of weeks when it got really upturned) and I've been struggling just to carve out time for myself let alone some dedicated writing time. But I've got some serious deadlines coming up and things I need to finish, so I'm hoping I can find my groove again. I need to find more time for all of the things that make me happy, otherwise I'm...not going to be happy.

( Movies and books, July 2011 )

Almost forgot to do this!

Wrote 33,141 words in May and posted 7 stories in 3 fandoms, ranging from 662 to 4700 words. So I'm feeling good about May! June means Kink Bingo (I'll have to post my card after my move, because I've barely even looked at it yet let alone plotted what I want to do this year) and the glory of X-Men First Class and somehow those two things are starting to merge in my head so that should be fun. June is going to be deadly on my numbers, but I've pretty much gotten used to that. I am so, so tired of moving.

( Movies and books, May 2011 )

Shit, I completely forgot to do this! Well, at this point might as well kill two birds with one stone...

In March I wrote 8327 words and posted two stories on one fandom. Man, I look at that number and it looks so small, but I spend the rest of my time writing (non-fic) stuff now, so I feel like I've been writing this whole month. March was weird, too. Halfway through the month I had to very unexpectedly replace my computer and man, I forget how long it takes to set up a new computer just exactly the way I want it. (And I still have no idea where my Photoshop install disc is, which vexes me terribly.) I spent so much time moving data across drives, and then trying to catch up with the work I missed while doing that, that I lost a chunk of writing time. And yet, I feel good about where I'm at coming into April, so...okay then!

I finally got off my ass and posted my formerly-anonymous Sherlock kink meme fills to AO3, so my second bird is linking them here.

Eight Ball [ Sherlock and Lestrade gen, R - drug use, 966 words ]
Matriarch [ Sherlock, John and Mycroft gen, R - see notes, 1092 words ]
Burning Down the Cake [ ensemble gen, PG, 494 words ]
Points and Edges [ Moriarty gen, PG-13, 544 words ]
So Fine and Rare [Sherlock/Molly, NC-17, 2269 words ]
Bells [Sherlock and John gen, PG - see notes, 921 words ]

I've also been posting original microfiction to my website every week (and since I'm trying not to cross-contaminate my real name and fannish name any more than they already are, this is the last you'll hear of it here), and doing television recap-review-reactions for Girls on Screen.

And, lest we forget, ( Movies and books, March 2011 )