Running a little late, but I've been doing this annually so....

Most of last year's fic was, once again, written for gift exchanges. As I was a bit "written out" after Yuletide, I felt it better to take a short break at the beginning of 2019. Then I signed up for the Worldbuilding Exchange, followed by the new Wayback Exchange (for which I wrote a pinch hit), Not Prime Time, FK Fic Fest (of course!), Remix Revival, the Exchange at Fic Corner, Trick or Treat, and Yuletide. For the last of these, I wrote six stories—though one of these was both short and late, and went into the Madness collection.

Having said all this, I honestly feel that in some ways my biggest accomplishment has been finally putting Filezilla on the old laptop I've been using. I have thus been able to upload to my website. As I suspect pretty well everyone who reads my fic does so on AO3, this probably seems trivial. However, I do like designing pages for the stories I write; and it has been frustrating having them waiting around on the computer with no way to put them up. So those links are included below along with the AO3 ones.

The list:

• "A Little Cold" (AO3) - "Depths of Cold" series, Pt. 1
  
  • The Flash & DC's Legends of Tomorrow, 1634 words, 15 March, written for rivulet027 in the Worldbuilding Exchange
    


• "Growing Cold" (AO3) - "Depths of Cold" series, Pt. 2
  
  • The Flash & DC's Legends of Tomorrow, 1819 words, 27 March, written for rivulet027 in the Worldbuilding Exchange
    


• "Chill" (AO3) - "Depths of Cold" series, Pt. 3
  
  • The Flash & DC's Legends of Tomorrow, 2370 words, 29 March, written for rivulet027 in the Worldbuilding Exchange
    


• "A Different Shade of Gold" (website, AO3)
  
  • The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton), 6636 words, 15 May, written as a pinch hit for luciferinasundaysuit in the Wayback Exchange
    


• "Silver is Gold" (website, AO3)
  
  • DC's Legends of Tomorrow, 3148 words, 3 July, written for rivulet027 in Not Prime Time
    


• "Know Why I Cry" (website, AO3)
  
  • Forever Knight, 2339 words, 14 July, written in FK Fic Fest
    


• "A Winchester Always" (website, AO3) - remix of Secrets and Lies" by fawatson
  
  • M*A*S*H, 22,491 words, 20 August, written for fawatson in Remix Revival
    


• "The Downy Bird" (website, AO3)
  
  • Stalky & Co. (Rudyard Kipling), 1964 words, 1 September, written for mrsredboots in Fic Corner
    


• "Jean at Dawn" (website, AO3)
  
  • Jean Robertson series (Janet Sandison), 2591 words, 22 October, written for fawatson in Trick or Treat
    


• "Gunpowder, Treason, and Blood" (FKFIC-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU, website, AO3)
  
  • Forever Knight, 100 words, 5 November (posted to AO3 on 24 Nov)
    


• "Badge No. 16596" (website, AO3)
  
  • Forever Knight, 2017 words, 17 December, written for chamilet in Yuletide
    


• "Let Me Fend for Myself" (website, AO3)
  
  • The Charioteer (Mary Renault), 1219 words, 22 December, written for deliarium in Yuletide
    


• "The Celestial Clock" (website, AO3)
  
  • The Dean's Watch (Elizabeth Goudge), 3413 words, 24 December, written for mrsredboots in Yuletide
    


• "A Letter from Brabant" (website, AO3)
  
  • Forever Knight, 1304 words, 24 December, written for thatwhichyousee in Yuletide
    


• "In Which Pooh Hunts for the Meaning of Christmas" (website, AO3)
  
  • Winnie-the-Pooh & The House at Pooh Corner (A.A. Milne), 1655 words, 25 December, written for small_hobbit in Yuletide
    


• "Sun under Moon" (website, AO3)
  
  • The Enchanted Castle (E. Nesbit), 639 words, 26 December, written for Yuletide Madness
    

The inclusion of Remix Revival is an oddity here: on the whole, I'm not inspired to fic on other people's fanfic; and I doubt if I'll sign up again. However, I was immensely frustrated by my sister's story for Fandom5K, particularly since she first decided to write a major last-minute addition and then had to modify its ending in a hurry. I asked her if I might rewrite it; but, although she granted me permission, I think she may have taken the reason wrong, since she then suggested that I do Remix Revival, for which she was signing up. Obviously, I schemed my sign-up to match to her. Later, though, I mentioned that I'd got the assignment I wanted, adding that, had I not, I would have defaulted. And she then said blithely that, should that have happened, I should simply have come up with a different idea—which so totally missed the point that I suspect she never actually got it in the first place!

So, in all fairness, though that fic is "mine" by fannish custom, I actually consider it more of a co-writing experience. It's quite long, for I not only thoroughly reorganized Flo's original, but added sufficient new material to double its length. The result is one of the longest things I've written.

In fact, this past year, though I've also written short fic, there have been other substantial pieces. This had not been true in the previous couple of years; so I consider it a hopeful accomplishment. As I have a number of unwritten plot bunnies that promise to require time and effort, perhaps in 2020 I'll manage to do even better.