My 2013 Fiction Writing Year in Review

I'll have to update the landing page with the items that aren't on it yet, but tomorrow after I've had sleep. And now my list of last year's fiction writing... (Where not otherwise indicated, links are to Dreamwidth posts)


2013 Fiction Writing in Review

Word Count according to my tracking spreadsheet: 41,788 (avg 114 words/day)

Prompt Call: Goals & Achievements

• Home at Last (LJ link) In which an alien abductee finally makes it back to Earth.


• Best Laid Plans (LJ link) Blaine takes Kristine out to the country planning to as The Question...


• They Think What?! (LJ link) A failed invasion isn't the Battle Sorcerer's greatest surprise.


• All According to Plan (LJ link) Kyle's genre savviness doesn't like it when things go exactly according to the plan.


• Ready, Aim, Miss (LJ link) Lt. Nolan's final war game and what comes next.

Nyalla the Catgirl

• Character description (LJ link) A few paragraphs about Nyalla.


• Two Nyalla snippets (on dA) Two brief snippets. One follows up minutes after Saying Goodbye (LJ link), the next is a little longer and shows her meeting with the chief engineer for Major Isaheld's new ship.

Independent One-Offs (so far)

• Thanks Royce, or Dragons on the Mind (LJ link) a brief snippet of an idea that came to mind. A girl showing up for parent teacher night not with her mother, but her mother's boss The Dragon. So far follow-up attempts have failed to come together.


• Mecha Hero? (LJ link, dA link) A mecha pilot volunteers only to have the war end before his training does.


• Perfect Escape (on dA) Doc Despair is tired of constantly fighting the super heroes, so he sets in motion a plan to escape their attention... (a partial rewrite has been made but not completed).


• Long Live the King. A scrapped followup to 2012s Surrender (LJ link). Bleh. May eventually give another try to writing a followup to that, but this wasn't it.

Tonya, AKA Circuit Bender, AKA The Sparkler

• Ice Cream (LJ link, dA link) Tonya runs across an acquaintance from the bad (not-so) old days.


• There is an additional incomplete follow up a few days/weeks after Ice Cream, which will hopefully be finished this year.

Precedent

• Precedent (LJ link, dA link) An alien attempts to justify her kidnapping adopting an orphaned human by citing as a precedent Peabody's adoption of Sherman.


• Precedent, part two (LJ link, dA link) The conclusion of the trial part one lead to.

Character-a-Day


Seven days of characters created using FATE Core, with short snippets involving them.



• Johnny Romero (LJ link) Hero of the Trantin invasion of Earth, and captain of the Sky Patrol ship Silver City.


• Denise De Haven (LJ link) Primary pilot of the Silver City and taskmaster of the Pilot Cadets.


• Rav (LJ link) Exiled Trantin who once almost killed Johnny and now follows him serving out a debt of honor.


• The Professor (LJ link) A professor of SCIENCE! One of Johnny's former professors who now serves as an advisor on the Silver City.


• The Kid (LJ link) An orphan who stowed away on the Silver City to see a bit of the universe in the time she has left.


• Bethlyn, head of security (LJ link) Haunted by the past Bethlyn is driven to train her people to perfection.


• Wanda: The Reporter (LJ link) Embedded gonzo journalist on the run from her family's reputation.

In other people's playgrounds
(Content warning: while I don't think these two items should be problematic, Addergoole has content that may bother/offend some such as mind control, slavery, and abusive relationships)

• That Girl Thursday: Cody (LJ link) a few paragraphs describing Cody sh'Leyla cy'Caitin oro'Yolanda, aka that girl who somehow remained (mostly, usually) happy even after Addergoole started revealing its secrets. Even if (as with most students) the school was not at all what she expected. Arguably happier at Addergoole than she was at her old school.


• Guest Story: How to Trap a Cody (on Addergoole.com) in which Cody finally finds her way to Addergoole's library.


• There was another guest story, but it was emailed way late (and might have run afoul of spam filters). On the other hand that's an opportunity to give it another editing pass and maybe split it up into a few smaller pieces.


• Unfinished/unposted: Down the Rabbit Hole/We Did What?! Part Three. Hopefully to be finished this year.

Unfinished items (other than those mentioned above)

• I tinkered with a few pieces in a shared universe setting called Fenspace, none of which have yet been completed.


• I also at long last started on the third part for Unquiet Past. Hopefully returning to working on it soon.


• Started two attempts at following up Oops (on LJ), AKA 30 Days prompt 12 A Scene in a Sushi Bar, AKA the one with a touch of mpreg.