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It was all going so well when I last posted about GYWO back in April! \o/ \o/ \o/
And since then....

So let's just round up for the sake of completion, and then I can make a fresh start, yes? Very good.

28624 / 75000 words. 38% done!

Monthly goal for April: 6164
Actual word count: 500
Days with writing: 1

Monthly goal for May: 6370
Actual word count: 0
Days with writing: 0

Monthly goal for June: 6164
Actual word count: 0
Days with writing: 0

Monthly goal for July: 6370
Actual word count: 1500
Days with writing: 1

Monthly goal for August: 6370
Actual word count: 0
Days with writing: 0

Monthly goal for September: 6164
Actual word count: 684
Days with writing: 1

27,472 words behind target

OH BUT I CAN TOTALLY MAKE THAT UP, RIGHT?

I'll try anyway. Why not?

Things worked on: iZombie Liv/Blaine fic for

screenexchange drabbles round; White Collar Peter/Neal fic for

slashorific ; White Collar Peter & Neal fic for

fandomgiftbox

I haven't actually got around to posting these on my journal yet, they are posted on my shiny new AO3 account (or the fandomgiftbox comments). So, a question. Those of you with AO3 accounts, do you also post the fic fully on your journal, or do you just link to it? Opinions please and thank you!

Poll #20522 A03/Journals

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12

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Do you post the whole fic on your journal or just a link to Ao3?

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just a link
4 (36.4%)

post the whole fic
7 (63.6%)

Are you more likely to comment on a journal fic?

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I'll comment whether it's on Ao3 or LJ/DW
7 (63.6%)

More likely/prefer commenting on Ao3
2 (18.2%)

More likely/prefer commenting on journal
2 (18.2%)

I don't comment either way!
0 (0.0%)

Crossposts: https://cookielaura.livejournal.com/95811.html

Hello any Lucifer-watchers!

I was wondering if you could help me with a question! Do we ever see Amenadiel drinking anything? ie. alcohol, etc? I seem to recall that he orders a glass of milk at a bar in one episode, but I'm not sure if I've either a) imagined that or b) got it from a fanfic or something? If anyone can confirm/deny, and maybe even give me an episode number, that would be awesome!

The reason I'm asking is that I got assigned Amenadiel as the character that Hannibal Lecter meets in my

intoabar fic. I'm not at all inspired by this pairing but I do want to write something for the comm, even if it's a super short scene, so help on the drinking front would be great. (Also, if you have any plot ideas/requests, go ahead!!)

Thank you!

Crossposts: https://cookielaura.livejournal.com/93827.html

I AM AHEAD OF MY TARGET, WHAT, WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?!

25840 / 75000 words. 34% done!

Monthly goal for January: 6370
Actual word count: 3706
Days with writing: 7
2664 behind target

Monthly goal for February: 5753
Actual word count: 6147
Days with writing: 11
2270 behind target

Monthly goal for March: 6370
Actual word count: 16087
Days with writing: 8
7447 ahead of target

Word count so far for April: 0
4776 ahead of target

I expect I will be behind again soon enough!

Things worked on: fandomstocking fic (Miranda), comment fics and drabbles (Riverdale, Lucifer, Torchwood, The Walking Dead, White Collar, Lost Girl, The Good Place, Guardians of the Galaxy, iZombie), collarcorner exchange (White Collar), agegapexchange (Buffy)

Stuff coming up, for my reference:

screenexchange drabbles due April 21st

intoabar April 19th-May 20th

nightonficmountain April 22nd - June 15th

slashorific now - July 13th

Sign-ups for the last three are still open if you want to join :)

Crossposts: https://cookielaura.livejournal.com/93587.html

Remember when I signed up for Get Your Words Out 2017 even though my 2016 attempt wasn't very good? And then I did a grand total of one progress post? No? Fair enough.

Anyway, here's a final rundown!

Goal for 2017: 75,000 words
Actual word count: 36,274 words

OVER HALFWAY, WOOT WOOT. Better than 2016, anyway.

I didn't get round to accurately recording exactly how many days I wrote for etc, but I can tell you that the words were divided as so:

6,433 for various

fandom_stocking fics (White Collar, Suits, Brooklyn 99, Torchwood, How to Get Away With Murder)
1,555 for

runthecon (White Collar)
2,305 for various trope meme fills, some of which are still unfinished (White Collar)
779 for

comment_fic (Angel, The Walking Dead)
1,890 for a ficlet, and an unfinished fic for Supernatural
21,731 for

wc_reverse_bb (White Collar)
1,581 for

whitecollarhc advent (White Collar)

I have signed up again in the hope that I'll do a bit better this year :) If you'd like to join me and you've not used the community, I can highly recommend it for the friendly mods, the motivation posts, the helpful trackers, the challenges and the amazing resources. You can still pledge up until 15th January!

GetYourWordsOut: Year Ten!
Pledges & Requirements | GYWO.net

Crossposts: https://cookielaura.livejournal.com/87130.html

Delayed post is delayed.
As of the end of Feb:

11072 / 75000 words. 15% done!

Monthly goal for January: 6,370
Actual word count for January: 10,557
Days with writing: 13

Monthly goal for February: 5,753
Actual word count for February: 515
Days with writing: 2

Overall progress target: 12,123
Actual overall progress: 11,072
1,051 behind target

Fics worked on

Jan:
The Exception (White Collar)
Underwater (White Collar)
Easy Like (Brooklyn 99)
And I Feel Fine (White Collar)
Alibi (How to Get Away With Murder/White Collar)
Other Benefits (Torchwood)
Without Words (White Collar)
Stop The World (Suits)
The First Rule of Bake Club (White Collar)
To Have Loved (Angel)
as yet unposted fic for tropes meme

Feb:
Like Home (The Walking Dead)
as yet unposted fics for tropes meme

Obviously Jan went somewhat better than Feb! January does tend to be a good month - lots of inspiration via fandom stocking prompts, plus we had runthecon. I'm not sure what happened to February /o\

On the plus side: YAY I AM SUPER PLEASED I'VE FINALLY GOTTEN AROUND TO DOING A PROGRESS POST!

Snagged from

elrhiarhodan: Give me a number or three and I'll tell you what I think of the trope, and if I've written the trope. If I have, I'll link you to the fic. If I haven't written the trope and I like the trope, I'll write a snippet or drabble.

1. Genderswap
2. Bodyswap
3. Drunk!fic
4. Huddling together for warmth
5. Shag or die
6. Undercover in a gay bar
7. Pretending to be married
8. First time together
9. Amnesia
10. Crossdressing
11. Forced to share a bed/fake relationship
12. Mind control
13. Handcuffed
14. Wingfic
15. Mpreg
16. Mistakenly assumed to be gay
17. Let’s play truth or dare
18. Mary Sue fic
19. Aphrodisiacs
20. Curtain fic
21. Hurt/Comfort
22. Apocalypse fic
23. Someone has a baby
24. Telepathic soulbonding
25. Circus AU
26. Language barrier
27. Historic AU

I think I've only written about a third of these so you have a pretty decent chance of picking one that's not been done! :D

I have signed up for GYWO 2017! \o/ I have a shiny new spreadsheet! \o/

But I feel like I need to make a record of 2016 first, despite the fact that it was not such a great year for writing /o\ /o\

Goal for 2016: 75,000
Actual word count: 14,321

14321 / 75000 words. 19% done!

January: 4056 words, 6 days writing
February: 559 words, 1 day writing
March & April: 0 words
May: 3759 words, 4 days writing
June: 0 words
July: 729 words, 2 days writing
August, September & October: 0 words
November: 450 words, 1 day writing
December: 4948 words, 4 days writing

Fics worked on:
Of Course (Torchwood)
Enough (White Collar/AHS: Hotel)
Identity Crisis (White Collar)
Stealing Warmth (White Collar)
Bittersweet (White Collar)
This Is The Dream (White Collar)
Unfurled (White Collar)
In Control (How To Get Away With Murder - link to come)
Devil's Breath (White Collar)
A snippet of a possible follow-up to Lost Boy
A HTGAWM Connor/Oliver fic that got Jossed but that I may still complete
Some editing on an old barely-begun WC fic
A fandom stocking fic for 2017

I can't quite believe I wrote so little, but I feel motivated to ensure this year is better! It's off to a reasonable start with a few fics having been written for fandom stocking which I can post later in the week :) I will try and do actual progress posts again this year, a la 2015, in the hope that will keep me on course! I'm also hoping to participate in more challenges, to try and write some longer fics again, and to try and finish off a few of my WIPs. Good luck to anyone else who's got writing goals for the year ♥

You guys you guys you guys! Look what happened :D

76159 / 75000 words. 102% done!

Custom goal for December: 16,488
Actual word count: 17,647

Overall progress target: 75,000
Actual overall progress: 76,159

Days with writing: 8

Fics worked on:
Lost Boy
Take Me Home
A Dark Matter fic

I am so thrilled that I managed to make the word count :D I had some serious doubts that it would get done!

A huge, huge thank you to everyone who encouraged me along the way, left comments on my fics, gave me prompts or beta'd. I couldn't have done it without you! ♥ ♥ ♥

I've signed up again for 2016 \o/

It's been a while since I've meme'd! Snagged from

aragarna and

sheenianni.

Give me the titles of one or more fics I've written, and the number/s you want me to answer for it.

You can find my masterlist here, though feel free to ask about ones that aren't on there too.

1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?
2: What scene did you first put down?
3: What's your favorite line of narration?
4: What's your favorite line of dialogue?
5: What part was hardest to write?
6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?
7: Where did the title come from?
8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?
9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?
10: Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?
11: What do you like best about this fic?
12: What do you like least about this fic?
13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn't listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?
14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?
15: What did you learn from writing this fic?

I can't believe I've been at this for 11 months o.O

58512 / 75000 words. 78% done!

Standard monthly goal for November: 6,164
Custom goal for November (half of the remaining amount for the year): 13,580
Actual word count: 10,672

Overall progress target: 68,630
Actual overall progress: 58,512

Days with writing: 15

Fics worked on:
When I'm Sixty-Four
My WC Big Bang
A little of my WC Hurt/Comfort Advent fic
A short fic for WC that I haven't posted yet
A tiny SPN comment fic

I didn't quite make my custom target for November, which was half of the remaining yearly target, but at least I managed to catch up a little. By the end of the month I was only (!) around 10k behind, instead of the near-15k-behind that I was at the start of the month.

This leaves me 16.5k words to write in December if I want to make my target. I definitely have enough things to write - the end of my WC Big Bang, three different advent fics, and hopefully some fandom stocking fics - but the issue will be time, because I have so much stuff to do on the house before Christmas, and then we'll have guests for five days. I'm still hopeful though!

...in which I kind of suck.

47840 / 75000 words. 64% done!

Monthly goal for October: 6,370
Actual word count: 3,402

Overall progress target: 62,466
Actual overall progress: 47,840

Days with writing: 7

Fics worked on:
This is your life
All Wrapped Up (or: Five Times Peter Comforted Neal with a Blanket)
My WC Big Bang

October has not been a great month - I might do an update post later - and I've barely written anything in the last couple of weeks. This leaves me 14,626 words behind my target! /o\ And means I have to write around 13,600 words in November and another 13,600 in December in order to finish. That's around 500 words a day. This seems... wildly unlikely?

But it could happen!

Woot! *has actual progress to report*

44438 / 75000 words. 59% done!

Monthly goal for September: 6,164
Actual word count for September: 10,241

Overall progress target: 56,096
Actual overall progress: 44,438

Days with writing: 14

Fics worked on:
In another life (I would make you stay)
Switch
My White Collar Big Bang
A prompt for Collar Corner that's about 3/4 done

Ok so I'm still 11,658 words behind my target, but that's a lot better than the 15,940 words behind that I was at the beginning of the month! I'm hoping I'll be able to keep up the momentum in October :)

Current Music: Amy Macdonald - Let's Start A Band

Ok, so I might have got a little behind with updating my progress. And with also actually making progress!

34197 / 75000 words. 46% done!

June
Monthly goal for June: 6,164
Actual word count for June: 3,361

Overall progress target: 37,191
Actual progress: 33,743

Days with writing: 7

Fics worked on: Advanced Transformative Magic

I was doing pretty well for the first week, and was above my target before we went on holiday. But then it all stopped and I didn't write anything after the 9th.

July
Monthly goal for July: 6,370
Actual word count for July: 454

Overall progress target: 43,561
Actual overall progress: 34,197

Days with writing: 1

Fics worked on: A potential opening scene for a potential YA novel.

I spent a lot of time thinking about writing in July, and trying (and failing) to plot out a couple of novel ideas, but I didn't get a lot of words down onto the screen.

August
Monthly goal for August: 6,370
Actual word count for August: 0

Overall progress target: 49,931
Actual overall progress: 34,197

Days with writing: 0

OH, THE SHAME.

At the start of September I was therefore 15,940 words behind my target. But September is proving to be a better month and I'm trying to get back into the rhythm of writing regularly. I'm not sure whether I'll catch up to my target before the end of the year but I'll try my best :)

30382 / 75000 words. 41% done!

Monthly goal for May: 6,370
Actual word count for May: 7,127

Overall progress target: 31,027
Actual overall progress: 30,382

Days with writing: 10

Fics worked on:
My second WC RBB, Nature of the Chase

I was so excited to finish Nature of the Chase, partly because it had been stalled for quite a while, and partly because it turned out twice as long as anything I've written before. It's given me a bit of confidence to write longer fics!

For June, though, I am hoping to write some more fills for the prompts I got for my trope bingo card, and there are a couple of prompts at

collarcorner that have caught my eye too :)

After that I will have to start thinking of what to write for the White Collar Big Bang I've signed up for at

whitecollar_bb - exciting! And, as always, quite terrifying.

...or lack of progress.

23255 / 75000 words. 31% done!

Monthly goal for April: 6,164
Actual word count for April: 1,040

Overall progress target: 24,658
Actual overall progress: 23,255

Days with writing: 4

Fics worked on: My second WC Reverse BB.

...so, that went well. /o\ I tried to write, but my brain wasn't happy to play along. My sleep's been totally out of whack too. I'm below my overall target for the first time, but seeing as I have a fic deadline this month that requires me to write quite a bit, hopefully things will pick up soon. *bites nails*

*is surprisingly punctual*

Overall progress meter:

22215 / 75000 words. 30% done!

Monthly goal for March: 6,370
Actual word count for March: 7,967

Overall progress target: 18,493
Actual overall progress: 22,215

Days with writing: 12

Fics worked on:
I finished (the first draft of) my first WC Reverse BB, and added quite a bit to my second one.

I had a lot of days where I didn't write, but I'm still on track, though I have yet to emulate the heady heights of January! I'm really enjoying the fic I'm working on, it's the first time I've ever really written fantasy(/sci-fi?) so it's fun and challenging. I'm hoping I can get it mostly finished in April, fingers crossed!

*is slightly late with this*

14248 / 75000 words. 19% done!

Monthly goal for February: 5,753
Actual word count for February: 2,531

Overall progress target: 12,123
Actual overall progress: 14,248

Fics worked on:
From the Start
A WC ficlet for the prompt-fest which I will post soon
My second WC Reverse BB, which is still proving troublesome, but which now at least has a beginning!

I also posted Deal With It which was written in January.

I didn't do so well in February. Embarrassingly I only wrote on three days! But three days is better than none :) I was feeling pretty rough a lot of the month. So I made less than half my monthly goal; fortunately due to success in January I'm not behind in my overall wordcount. I really need to make some more progress in my WCRBB though. Fingers crossed for March being better!

My first progress post! Woop!

Overall progress meter:

11717 / 75000 words. 16% done!

Monthly goal for January: 6,370
Actual word count for January: 11,717

Fics worked on:
- Let It Snow
- My first fic for the WC Reverse Big Bang, which I've done about 80% of I think, maybe a little more
- My second fic for the WCRBB, which I've done only a few hundred words on (and I think a lot of that will need to be rewritten cos I'm not happy with it)
- A couple of short fics and a hope-it-will-eventually-be-long fic for my trope bingo card

I wrote 5347 words more than my target for this month! \o/ I've written more in January 2015 than I did in the whole of 2014, so I'm feeling pretty positive about that, even though I'm not thrilled with every word and I went a few days without writing anything. I haven't achieved a whole lot else this month to be fair as my health and sleep have been very up and down, so I've been resting a lot and just reading or writing, but still I feel that that's productive :) And the more I read and write, the more I think: a) I heart fanfic soo much, and b) yes, maybe I can has novel one day. *bounces*

Last year one of my resolutions was to write more. More fanfic, more original fic, more book ideas, just more. But as it turned out, I wrote less. In fact, from March to October I wrote not a single word of fic /o\. Overall, I wrote about 10k in 2014, of which over half was in December for my WC H/C Advent fic and yet-unposted Fandom Stocking fics. But getting back to writing has reminded me how much I love it, so! I signed up for this:

GetYourWordsOut: Year Seven!
Pledges & Requirements | GYWO.net

They've introduced a new lower pledge for 75,000 words (reserved for those with chronic conditions, which I qualify for, so yay, I guess \o?). That's 7.5 times what I wrote in 2014! I know it's kind of a small number compared with a lot of fanfic writers, but it's pretty epic for me, so please to be cheerleading :D I shall be boring you all with progress reports along the way!

Also, you should totally join as well :)

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Safetysuit