Previous years: 2008, 2007

2009: A Year in Fic

( All THREE fics under the cut )

And... that's it for my year in fic. 1100 words, give or take a few. When you consider that I wrote over 144,000 words in 2007, and over 36,050 words in 2008, the writer's block has managed to hit hard and actually land a lot of punches.

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
*laughs* A thousand words. You must be joking if you think I thought I would write so little.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2009?
It doesn't count because it wasn't posted, but the work on the NANA fic wasn't entirely expected (even though it appeared on the milestone celebration request post).

What's your favorite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest.
Surprisingly, Last Man Standing. 48 words that just decided to pop out and sit there. ^_^;

Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
Last year I called 2009 my Year of Tying Loose Ends. I did not manage to tie all that many up, so 2010 will continue to be so. I also will continue to try and finish something original for publication, even if it is only a short story.

Unposted or Unfinished
These fics do not count towards this year's work.

♠ a 500-word short for NANA that did not pass quality beta and was scrapped.
♠ a 1000-words (and counting) HnG work in progress.
♠ the tiny bit of editing progress I made on Rainbow Man, an original.
♠ all the world-building for Planeswalker that has been scrapped (and it looks like it will be tossed again, anyway).

Earned for various reasons:

• October (?) 2007: Yongha/Yashiro (chaineddove), lost in a guess-the-line game
• SanaTez fluff for marourin (replacement bunny)
• May 22, 2007: Nodame Cantabile fic nutty_scribbler and achariya from here and here.
• Oct 6, 2007: Eiji or platonic Dream Pair drabble for verloren1983 for correct blind_go guess (R4) here
• Dec 12, 2007: SanaYana for chez_maltesers for correct christmas_cacti guess here
• April 4, 2008: "Gossip" bunny for crysaliz (see comment here)
• May 8, 2008: Oka/Shouji for chaineddove for correct blind_go guess (R5)
• May 25, 2008: Yang Hai and Sai, S.A.I. universe, for ontogenesis. Prompt: Yang Hai realizing he's suddenly a "daddy" to a being who's 100 times smarter than he is. See fake crit here.
• August 2007?: Petshop of Horrors/HnG for cienna for lending me the entire PSoH series. For ontogenesis, too, because these two are horrible enablers.
• Sept 24, 2008: 250-reader milestone requests, refer here.

This list is subject to changes anytime, because I just can't get any of these fics to cooperate. T_T I may start just swapping out bunnies without warning (but with tons of apologies).

[Reposted from here.]

Summary below! Needless to say, there are SPOILERS in this post and comments.

( New PoT, ch1 )

My involvement in subrosa_tennis is over. chouta_angel, if you wanted to run the round, all you had to do is reply to my f*cking e-mails, you know.

As of this moment, I am no longer a moderator of subrosa_tennis. Neither thephoenixboy or myself are in charge anymore, so please don't contact us about the challenge.

(x-posted to aiwritingfic and ann_applecore.)

ETA: *calms down a little* I'd like to say to everyone, THANK YOU for your support for the last three rounds of subrosa_tennis. It's been wonderful. I've been meaning to leave, and I guess the decision has been taken out of my hands. I'm not going back, but thank you for the great memories. ♥

I shouldn't be wasting time, I should be writing! Except that my brain feels like mush, and I don't feel like I can do any real writing because of this. So, it's time to procrastinate with year-end wrapping up memes...

( A year in fic )

Rambling on about the writing of Hotel Starlight, which was written for blind_go Round Six. I've got a lot to get off my chest, so this is going to be long, and is therefore cut in its entirety. It's not an apology, btw--I just wanted to say things merely because I need to.

( The Writing of Hotel Starlight )

Subrosa Tennis Round Five Guessing Post
The round five subrosa_tennis fics have been posted! If you can guess which fic was written by aiwritingfic, I'll give you your choice of any of the following prizes:
- Poetry postcard ("postcards from tokyo" tag)
- A fic of your own (... but there is no deadline and you might have to wait YEARS ...)
- Something to be narrated (short = good, but I will take anything up to the length of A Proof By Contradiction and no longer)
- Bragging rights ♥
- Something else (comment and make your request!)

Comment below with your guess as well as your choice of prize. All comments are screened. ^_^ This game closes when the official guessing closes as well. I will no longer give any confirmation until guessing closes, but feel free to change your guess any time up to the final reveal--I'll always take the last guess made. <3

Links that you may find useful in your hunt: Fic/Author Directory ♠ apples_for_me

To my four betas (you know who you are), you're welcome to make a claim here as well for being lovely hand-holders and beta readers. <3

Blind Go Round Six Guessing Post
The round six blind_go fics have been posted! If you can guess which fic was written by aiwritingfic, I'll give you your choice of any of the following prizes:
- Poetry postcard ("postcards from tokyo" tag)
- A fic of your own (... but there is no deadline and you might have to wait YEARS ...)
- Something to be narrated (short = good, but I will take anything up to the length of A Proof By Contradiction and no longer)
- Bragging rights ♥
- Something else (will comment!)

Comment below with your guess as well as your choice of prize. All comments are screened. ^_^ This game closes when the official guessing closes as well. As per an old clarification post, I will no longer give three chances, so only one guess is allowed. Feel free to change your guess any time up to the final reveal--I'll always take the last guess made. ♥

Links that you may find useful in your hunt: Fic Directory ♠ Plot Summaries ♠ apples_for_me

chaineddove, aishuu, ontogenesis, and readerofasaph, you're welcome to make a claim here as well for being lovely hand-holders and beta readers.

Reading this leads me to believe that bees disappear when the local habitat is uninhabitable. By uninhabitable, I mean genetic variations and mutations (whether natural or man-made via genetic modification) that are present in the environment that are not something a bee is programmed for. The part about DNA-destroying irradiation convinces me that the bees are too sensitive to changes in the environment, and it's finally gotten into their food chain in a way that makes it difficult for them to stay.

The question now is: where do they go? Do they die? Abandon ship and scatter in every and all direction? Migrate in a semi-orderly fashion somewhere?

Or perhaps when the presence of polluted genetic material becomes too bad, do they decompose spontaneously?

Some day this will make a good novel.

ETA: After reading about pollinator decline, I am even more convinced.

ETA2: Randomly while reading about the Mary Celeste, I wonder if things are American-only in some cases, or if Americans are just much better about publicizing this sort of thing than other countries. It can't be that this is an American-only situation--that's just weird and wrong. So it must be the spread of news.

... right?