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Milestones
Nov. 23rd, 2014 08:23 pmA story of mine just reached 1,000 hits on AO3 for the first time! It's On a Windswept Cliff, the Remus/Sirius gothic romance AU.
For someone who until about a year ago was, yes, writing fic, but otherwise still mostly sort of hiding and too shy to interact with anyone else in fandom or to do anything more with the fics than just quietly park them there and hope for the best, this feels like a big deal!
And what a year it's been, indeed. Looking back, I see that by this time last year, I'd posted 15 stories (written over the course of about two and a half years), and had only just started to meet other people in fandom. By this time this year, I've now got a total of 47 stories (does that mean 30+ fics written in one year??) and a bunch of lovely fandom friends and acquaintances, I've participated in Remus/Tonks fests and the Remus/Sirius Games and a Sirius event, been nominated for an award, had a fic translated into Chinese(!) and fanart made of my fics(!), dared to branch out a little by posting my stories to communities and events, and really expanded what I've tried in terms of style and content: writing M/M relationships for the first time, writing sex(ier) scenes for the first time, writing AUs in addition to canon-compliant stories, writing about characters I never expected to explore (like Snape or Regulus or Remus' mum), trying out different styles and tones and forms. Oh, and I finally returned to original fiction, too, and wrote the first section of a novel!
Hm, okay. If I ever find myself thinking I haven't accomplished much this year, I'm going to look back at this post.
Anyway, mostly I just wanted to say, WOW, I'm so pleased to have ended up far more involved in fandom than I ever expected to be!
For someone who until about a year ago was, yes, writing fic, but otherwise still mostly sort of hiding and too shy to interact with anyone else in fandom or to do anything more with the fics than just quietly park them there and hope for the best, this feels like a big deal!
And what a year it's been, indeed. Looking back, I see that by this time last year, I'd posted 15 stories (written over the course of about two and a half years), and had only just started to meet other people in fandom. By this time this year, I've now got a total of 47 stories (does that mean 30+ fics written in one year??) and a bunch of lovely fandom friends and acquaintances, I've participated in Remus/Tonks fests and the Remus/Sirius Games and a Sirius event, been nominated for an award, had a fic translated into Chinese(!) and fanart made of my fics(!), dared to branch out a little by posting my stories to communities and events, and really expanded what I've tried in terms of style and content: writing M/M relationships for the first time, writing sex(ier) scenes for the first time, writing AUs in addition to canon-compliant stories, writing about characters I never expected to explore (like Snape or Regulus or Remus' mum), trying out different styles and tones and forms. Oh, and I finally returned to original fiction, too, and wrote the first section of a novel!
Hm, okay. If I ever find myself thinking I haven't accomplished much this year, I'm going to look back at this post.
Anyway, mostly I just wanted to say, WOW, I'm so pleased to have ended up far more involved in fandom than I ever expected to be!
