Seven Years
Dec. 24th, 2012 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primeideal
I've been writing fanfiction since before I knew what the word meant. But Christmas Eve marks the anniversary of me signing up for Fanfiction.Net and really plunging head-first into this virtual world. I've had fat years and lean, but there's always something new to smile about.
2012 was the year I immersed myself in the world of fests on Dreamwidth and LiveJournal (after lurking on the fringes for quite a while, but never committing--I'm not sure whether it's more not wanting to look like a bandwagon-hopper or just being afraid it would be too much of a timesink). Either way, I'm glad that I've joined up at last and just as glad that book series finished for several (or more than several) years still have these communities going strong.
I'm probably going to participate in the fandom![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
snowflake_challenge early next month, so I can ramble on some more about that. Their suggestion to make a masterlist of one's fic (say on Ao3), "Because your works are important, too. Even those early ones that you'd rather forget about." is oddly terrifying--all my fic is on FFN, so I'm clearly not making much of an effort to hide the old/bad/incomplete stuff and I agree Ao3 is easier to navigate. So why do I freeze up at the thought of copying-pasting it over when I have an alternate pseud and backdating for this purpose? Just, can't bring myself to do that. Oh well.
And looking ahead, this was also my first year in the Yuletide exchange! So very psyched. According to Ao3, I wrote 13,010 words in five stories, spanning a range of Ratings, Relationship Types, Warnings, Characters, Relationships, and of course Additional Tags. Here's hoping they're half as fun to read as they were to write! :D
2012 was the year I immersed myself in the world of fests on Dreamwidth and LiveJournal (after lurking on the fringes for quite a while, but never committing--I'm not sure whether it's more not wanting to look like a bandwagon-hopper or just being afraid it would be too much of a timesink). Either way, I'm glad that I've joined up at last and just as glad that book series finished for several (or more than several) years still have these communities going strong.
I'm probably going to participate in the fandom
snowflake_challenge early next month, so I can ramble on some more about that. Their suggestion to make a masterlist of one's fic (say on Ao3), "Because your works are important, too. Even those early ones that you'd rather forget about." is oddly terrifying--all my fic is on FFN, so I'm clearly not making much of an effort to hide the old/bad/incomplete stuff and I agree Ao3 is easier to navigate. So why do I freeze up at the thought of copying-pasting it over when I have an alternate pseud and backdating for this purpose? Just, can't bring myself to do that. Oh well.And looking ahead, this was also my first year in the Yuletide exchange! So very psyched. According to Ao3, I wrote 13,010 words in five stories, spanning a range of Ratings, Relationship Types, Warnings, Characters, Relationships, and of course Additional Tags. Here's hoping they're half as fun to read as they were to write! :D
