greerwatson | 2022 Fan Fiction Year-in-Review

In some ways, this has been another frustrating year; but it ended well. From spring to summer, RL was hair-tearingly slow as various house repairs were pending ... pending ... pending. However, come October, the contractor got his act together and all have now been done. Fannishly speaking, some exchanges that I've done in the past were either ended, or ending, or had no prompts that interested me. On the other hand, I completed two more installments in the M*A*S*H series I've been writing about Hawkeye's first year home after the end of the Korean War; completed an unfinished Sime~Gen story that's been lingering for more than ten years (and the first part of another that's waited just as long); and wrote my first Original Work, which came in at a mere 38K.

Of course, I also got only partly through the story I'd been writing for FK Fic Fest, and had to quickly substitute something much shorter, and didn't get any more written on the Arrowverse series about Leonard Snart's childhood. Also, the Original Work decided, even before the anon period was up, that it wanted a sequel; and then, over Christmas, informed me that there had to be a third part as well. (It clearly has ambitions.) Some of this may augur well for 2023, of course.

This year, in some of the gift exchanges I did, I asked for Original Works with a variety of superhero related prompts; and, of the nine stories I got this year, no fewer than five fit that description! I may have my favourites; but I'm not saying. I can assure you, quite truthfully, that there were no duds.

Anyway, here's what I wrote in 2022. Since I've been spending Christmas with Flo, I haven't made any webpages for my Yulefic; so those links will have to come later, when I get home.

"The Doctors Pierce" (website, AO3)
- M*A*S*H, 7693 words, 7 February, written for tjs_whatnot in the chocolateboxex gift exchange - Part 2 of "Crabapple Cove"
"Jean at the Darkest Hour" (website, AO3)
- Janet Sandison's Jean Robertson series, 1602 words, 17 March, written for fawatson in the Worldbuilding gift exchange (worldbuildingex)
"Limner" (website, AO3)
- Forever Knight, 2103 words, 29 May, written for FK Fic Fest (fkficfest)
"Message by Sparky" (website, AO3)
- M*A*S*H, 451 words, 7 October, written for fawatson in the Trick or Treat gift exchange (trickortreatex)
"Trial by Jury" (AO3)
- Original Work, 38,803 words, 26 October, written for c_arts_sock in the Fic in a Box gift exchange (ficinabox)
"Curl Up in Memory" (website, AO3)
- M*A*S*H, 7148 words, 6 November, written for melacka in the Fic in a Box gift exchange (ficinabox) - Part 3 of "Crabapple Cove"
"Best Laid Plans" (AO3)
- Mary Renault's The Charioteer, 1948 words, 17 December, written for fosfomira in the Yuletide gift exchange (yuletide_admin)
"Tales from the Ancients" (AO3)
- Jacqueline Lichtenberg & Jean Lorrah's Sime~Gen series, 2666 words, 19 December, written for Elf (Elf_Herself) (elf) in the Yuletide gift exchange (yuletide_admin)
"After" (AO3)
- The Champions (TV series), 2045 words, 23 December, written for fabrisse in the Yuletide gift exchange (yuletide_admin)
"To Serve and Protect" (AO3)
- Jacqueline Lichtenberg & Jean Lorrah's Sime~Gen series, 9388 words, 24 December, written for Elf (Elf_Herself) (elf) in the Yuletide gift exchange (yuletide_admin)