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End of Year Fic Roundup

December 31, 2009 – 1:55 pm

Stories that were posted (if not necessarily written) during the second half of 2009 (all links go to AO3)*:

Jericho (82,602 words)

The Kill Point (3,707 words)

Stargate Atlantis (805 words)

Supernatural (24,781 words)

Total word count for July-December 2009: 106,482**

Word count of works posted in the first half of 2009: ~ 80,059

Total for 2009:  186,541…!!** No wonder the muses got burned out a little toward the end. And a big, BIG Thank You to Tanaqui, who beta’ed most (and probably all) for me.

For comparison’s sake, word count of fic posted in the last few years:

  • 2008:    73,811
  • 2007:    60,512
  • 2006:  128,653
  • 2005:    10,370*

* Since I can only be certain of when fic got posted, and stuff gets written all the time, then put on ice, sometimes for months or even a year, the numbers do not accurately reflect actual writing. 2006, for example, includes The Long Road Home, most of which was written over the course of 2005, while 2009 includes two long stories (Journey’s End and The Price Of Betrayal) that were both mostly written in previous years.

** AO3 counts words differently from Open Office, and generally seems to end up with a lower number, so the actual amount of words for this year is probably higher. Or lower, depending on which system you want to put your faith in :-).

By Scribbler | Also posted in Fic roundup, Jericho, Stargate Atlantis, Supernatural, The Kill Point | Comments (0)

Fic times

September 8, 2009 – 6:37 pm

Writer’s block hasn’t entirely resolved itself (or the Muses are still absent due to me having been on holiday, which always makes it hard to get back into the game), but even so, I have fic!

Fandom: Jericho
Title: Lucky Man
 Rating: General
Characters: Jake/Heather
Word count: 1,600
Summary: Jake Green is a lucky man: he has a wife that knows him better than he knows himself. And she has a surprise for him.

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Written quite a while ago, when I still had muses, but collecting dust for some time while I worked out a couple of other things. Inspired by thoughts about the Roadrunner.

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Fandom: Jericho
Title: The Harder You Try
Rating: Teen
Characters: Beck
Word count: 1,000
Summary: In spite of Major Beck’s best efforts, things are going from bad to worse, and the murder of John Goetz will bring everything to a head. Even so, Beck feels obliged to give Jericho a last chance.

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Written at the height of the writer’s block phase, if you can believe that. Inspired by the [info]cliche_bingo prompt Second Person Narrative, apparently 2nd POV wasn’t enough for the muse, she also added present tense, both styles I hardly ever use.

I can remember writing 2nd POV only once, years ago, but that was for a Choose Your Own Adventure-type story, which by nature addresses the reader as a participant in the story. This, on the other hand, has no “reader = you”, so it was a strange, if interesting, experience.

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Fandom: Supernatural
Title: Lost And Found
Rating: General
Characters: Dean
Word count: 1,700
Summary: Dean has never noticed anything special about his amulet. But when he loses it during a hunt, he feels compelled to go back for it.

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My submission for [info]spn_summergen, this was finished quite a while ago, in mid-July, to be exact. Long before the writer’s block strike 😉 But now that the master list has gone up, I can finally claim it as mine!

And speaking of [info]spn_summergen, make sure you also check out the wonderful story that [info]kinsinger wrote for me, Music:  Sam was making his way through the endless fields of Iowa when the cassette player in the Impala finally gave out with a loud crackle of static. She did a great job with my prompt “Something to do with Sam’s iPod that Dean finds in the Impala”. Go, read!

By Scribbler | Also posted in Ficathons, Jericho, Supernatural | Comments (0)

Jericho ficlet and drabble

June 8, 2009 – 10:38 pm

Oh, time sure flies… A couple days ago I posted another Jericho ficlet and a drabble.

Fandom: Jericho
Title: Back To School
Rating: General
Characters: Jake, Emily
Word count: 1,000
Summary: Emily needs something to distract her from Roger’s forced departure.

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Fandom: Jericho
Title: By Any Other Name
Rating: General
Characters: Beck
Word count: 100
Summary: Like symbols, names have a power of their own.

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One missing scene, while the drabble just popped in my head when I was waking up (thank goodness it happened during the weekend… :-))

By Scribbler | Also posted in Jericho | Comments (0)

New fic… guess what? Yup!

May 27, 2009 – 3:43 pm

Fandom: Jericho
Title: Bird Without A Song
Rating: Adult
Characters: Jake/Emily
Word count: 1,000
Summary: Emily is happy to have Jake back after his return from Texas, and Jake has a sudden insight.

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Continuing on from where Home Brew left off, this is basically the third story in the Jake’s Texan Adventures trilogy. It could also serve as companion piece to my Jake/Emily’s first-time story (as yet unpublished), and I’ll admit to feeling a little guilty… 🙂 In both stories, Emily ends up getting the short end of the stick (no, not like that…!) and I’m sure they had some great times together in between.

By Scribbler | Also posted in Jericho | Comments (0)

More Fic: Jericho

May 23, 2009 – 8:53 pm

Fandom: Jericho
Title: Home Brew
Rating: General
Characters: Jake, Heather, Chavez
Word count: 6,500
Summary: Upon his return from Texas, Jake learns more about the changes in Jericho that happened during his absence.

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This is the second part of the story that I mentioned when announcing Green, Green Grass Of Home. It still contains particles of the very first Jericho story I wrote, which never made it to publication, because I came to realize it could set the stage for an entire post-series ‘verse, and as such required much more thought than I originally put into it.

That original version was also the story that turned Tanaqui into a Jake/Heather shipper before she’d ever seen a single second of the show…

By Scribbler | Also posted in Jericho | Comments (0)

Yup… Jericho… again :-)

May 14, 2009 – 7:23 pm

Can you tell my muses really like this fandom?

Fandom: Jericho
Title: Green, Green Grass Of Home
Rating: General
Characters: Jake, Chavez, OCs
Word count: 7,300
Summary: After he’s delivered the bomb to Texas, there’s only one thing left that Jake desperately wants: to go back home to Jericho.

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This started originally as a short piece for Jake-in-Texas, where he met with the governor and learned the hoped-for help was not forthcoming. Then I caught a smidgen of Tanaqui’s disorderly muse, and instead of writing scenes in chronological order (my usual MO for 99% of stories), I found myself writing bits and pieces of the journey home, scenes intertwined with Tanaqui’s The First Seventeen Hours, as well as rewriting large parts of my (never published) first Jericho story about Jake’s return home from Texas.

At one point, it was a monster fic of over 15,000 words. And then I realized it was really two stories. So, this is the first. Expect to see the sequel–what happens after Jake arrives back in Jericho–shortly.

By Scribbler | Also posted in Jericho | Comments (0)

Even more Jericho fic

May 7, 2009 – 5:57 pm

First a small review rant: If a story is obviously a missing scene, set within an 0ff-screen moment in canon, and canon is picking up almost instantly after the final word of the fic…. Why do people insist that I “can’t leave it like that!”…?

Fandom: Jericho
Title: Thunder Road
Rating: General
Characters: Jake, Jonah
Word count: 980
Summary: Jake meets Jonah for the first time.

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Lots of speculative pre-series characterization in this one.

By Scribbler | Also posted in Jericho, Writerly woes | Comments (0)

Jericho fic: Missed Opportunities

May 5, 2009 – 8:11 pm

Fandom: Jericho
Title: Missed Opportunities
Rating: General
Characters: Jake, Heather
Word count: 2,700
Summary: On the way to Black Jack, Heather isn’t sure if she wants to hear what Jake finally has to say to her.

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By Scribbler | Also posted in Jericho | Comments (0)

Three Jericho ficlets…

April 27, 2009 – 10:41 pm

I’ve got a triple dose of fic for ya! Yes, the muses have been busy… 🙂 All three stories are part of Awesome!Jakeverse, the shared (post-series, but some is in canon, or even pre-series) ‘verse of myself and Tanaqui.

Fandom: Jericho
Title: Not To Question Why
Rating: General
Characters: Jake, Thompson
Word count: 1,630
Summary: Col. Thompson of the Texas Air National Guard comes face to face with the man he went to war over..

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One of the first Awesome!Jakeverse stories that I drafted. It’s been held back for a little, while we hammered out a suitable timeline and figured out what was supposed to happen when. Also, I tried to fix (or at least, address) something that’s been bugging me in canon. That’s what fic is for, after all!

Fandom: Jericho
Title: Girl Geek
Rating: General
Characters: Heather
Word count: 447
Summary: Heather tends to babble when she gets nervous. And Jake Green brings out the worst in her….

Fandom: Jericho
Title: Forever Never
Rating: General
Characters: Jake
Word count: 281
Summary: Learning about Heather’s fate while in jail in New Bern, Jake has time for regrets.

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Two short pieces set during the first season. It was the ants that got to me first, and then Tanaqui said I needed to write a Famous Last Words companion piece for Jake set a little later in the show.

By Scribbler | Also posted in Jericho | Comments (0)

Supernatural ficlet

April 22, 2009 – 9:10 pm

Fandom: Supernatural
Title: Desperate Remedy
Rating: General
Characters: Sam, Ruby
Word count: 575
Summary: Sam’s having trouble learning how to kill demons with his mind. Ruby has a solution.

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Probably another of those ‘mandatory’ ficlets for something in canon that just demands exploring.

By Scribbler | Also posted in Supernatural | Comments (0)