Because I'm a great big nerd...

[agilebrit]

And self-analysis is good for me. Plus, the Muse seems to have gone into temporary hiding. I need to either re-read the transcripts for "Life of the Party" and "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco" or watch them again for the little plot bunny I've got right now. Meh. Seems like work.

So, what did I do instead? I made a chart of all the fic I've written this year. Twenty-six stories published at FFN, not counting the drabbles. A Lost/Angel crossover, two Buffy, six Firefly, and seventeen Angel.

Of the Buffy fics, neither actually featured Buffy. One was Anya and Giles, and the other was Xander and Faith.

Of the Firefly fics, only two didn't feature Jayne as a main character, and he still got a couple of lines in each of them. *sigh* It's the arms. And the guns. And he's the sort of archetype I love. And I heard yesterday that Adam Baldwin is a fellow conservative. *squees* I knew there was a reason I liked that man.

Of the Angel fics, nine feature Spike & Illyria heavily. Four feature Spike & Fred. Only two don't have Spike at all; one features Lindsey and Holland ONLY, and the other has Angel and Giles ONLY--and both of those are under 600 words.

The fics range in size from 278 words to 12,898. Most of them (twelve) seem to be between 1000 and 3000 words. Six are over 3000 words, and eight are under 1000 words. Four fics in January, none in February, three in March, one in April, five in May, none in June, three in July, one in August, two in September, five in October, and one so far this month. According to FFN's word-counter thing, I've scribbled 61,104 words this year, including my little intro-thingy I have at the beginning of each fic.

What does this say about me as a writer, or even as a person? I have no idea. Am I prolific, or is this just "meh" compared to others? And does anyone else even care or is all this navel-gazing just boring as hell to everyone else?

Comments

[blackandwhite02.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous of your productivity. I wrote sporadically early in the year, whenever the muse forced me to, and a LOST drabble in June was the last one in a long time. Then last Monday I wrote a Supernatural drabble and I've written 3 longer fics and another drabble since then. I'm not sure where it's all coming from but it's given me enough hope to sign up for drabbles100, which is a sure sign that my muse will run away (very very quickly) as soon as (or IF) I ever get the go ahead from them.

Ahem. I'm avoiding a paper at the moment, plus there's a mouse in my house, so all incoherence in the above rambling should be excused. Thank you very much.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Well, I have no life, obviously. My child is an independent little cuss, and so I spend most days huddled over the laptop scribbling my inane crap. It's wild how it seems to come out in spurts, though. I'll have nothing for a couple of weeks and then finish and publish three in four days. My productivity seems to go up when I have no internet access. Fewer distractions, I guess.

[nodrogg.livejournal.com]

Yah, I'm impressed by that output, too. Have you ever considered writing of your own material? Y' know, there comes a time when you're putting OCs into AUs, and it occurs to you that you're really writing your own stories...

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

I have a couple of original works languishing on my hard drive right now. The one I started for NaNo last year, I used a bunch of my own OC's plus a vampire that's sort of Spike but not really. I'll pick it up again eventually, even though there's probably next to no market for a Christian vampire horror novel...

[nodrogg.livejournal.com]

though there's probably next to no market for a Christian vampire horror novel

Not so fast - it depends entirely on how you handle it. If it's the usual pseudo- and not-so-pseudo-homosexual trash, or one of those written by someone with a big picture of Fabio over her desk for 'inspiration,' you're right, it would be bounced so hard you'd see it flying over the rooftops like a Superball.

If you thought it through, though, and wrote the story of someone from the 18th or 19th century who really is an "involuntary emigrant into the future" - or even a Baby Boomer who isn't becoming a "Gerry Boomer" and never will... It could be done right. What would Edgar Allen Poe be like, if he were around today?

It would certainly be worth a few discreet e-mails to potential publishers. I'd suggest you pick up an issue of Writer's Digest at your local magazine rack and see what you find.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

If it's the usual pseudo- and not-so-pseudo-homosexual trash, or one of those written by someone with a big picture of Fabio over her desk for 'inspiration,' you're right, it would be bounced so hard you'd see it flying over the rooftops like a Superball.

*snicker* I like to think I'm a better writer than Anne Rice. And if she can write a godawful novel about Jesus, I guess I can write something that's actually good about vampires. Since I'm rather aggressively heterosexual, my characters tend to be, also. Not sure I'll have any pairing up in this thing, anyway, and certainly not with Rocky. He's destined to be alone, poor vamp.

Fabio doesn't do anything for me, but, um, I have pictures in my head of Adam Baldwin and James Marsters to inspire me. And of course they're shirtless...

Gyah! I just realized how that sounded. They're not TOGETHER, at least not in a slashy way. Might be fun to write a fic where Jayne and Spike meet, though. *ponders*

[nodrogg.livejournal.com]

Might be fun to write a fic where Jayne and Spike meet, though. *ponders*

Well, that's easy enough, since one of them's putatively immortal; what's a few centuries more or less? You could encounter Spike roaming around on Babylon 5™ just as plausibly.

[whirligigged.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think it seems pretty interesting. ^^; Does that make me a great big nerd, too?

I'd try doing this as well, but I'd probably just be discouraged at how little I've written this year compared to you!

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Well, but you actually have a life and friends that you hang out with, which cuts into your writing time. :-)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Am I prolific?

Yes.

Also I think all your new penguin icons are just absolutely wonderful!

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks! They're the penguins from the movie "Madagascar," and they're absolutely hysterical. I can't wait for the DVD to come out.