2021 in Review

[jocundasykes]

 Fear not, I’m not gonna rehash my monthly reviews. I joined AO3 on 3^rd January 2020. So to this day, I’ve got 2 years to look back on.

 

Here is a pie chart of my Harry Potter words! YAY SPREADSHEETS:

 I wanted to do 20k translation and ended up doing 85k. A lot of these words aren’t on AO3 and I plan to post the bulk of them in 2022.

  

Onto podfic stats!:

I recorded 34 hours last year and 36 hours this year (6 more than my goal). What surprises me most is the similarity of my pie charts in comparison with 2020. My tastes haven’t changed at all. I am significantly faster (unsurprisingly, since I’m less of a n00b and refined my editing and recording) but I had lots of dry spells.

Last year I podficced 91% Snarry, and this year a significant Drarry chunk was my 90k fic.:

Miscellaneous 2021 stats

- I broke 0 Kindles! :sunglasses:

- I haven’t totally mastered Scrivener, but I am getting the hang of it, and I love it. I haven’t looked back.

- I still felt as though I was jumping from fest to fest, without time to read any fanworks. However, I was glad I hadn’t read Avioleta’s AUctoberfest she wrote based on my prompt til I’d finished my Swap fic. We’d trod over the same paths. And it meant I couldn’t subconsciously copy elements of her work.

- Last year I thought it amazing I got 1000 kudos on my Snarry soulmate fic, and now it’s doubly amazing to see 1.5k!!! Thanks all! And 366 on Endgame, after less than a fortnight - blimey people!! I truly appreciate your support.

- I am up to 12 kudos on Of Love Notes and Bottle Caps! YAAAS. MUST finish that in 2022 LOL. For the 15^th year, it is still on my to do list. Bad Joc.

- I beta read about 5 things, not good. 

- I read Self-Editing for Fiction Writers for the 3^rd time. 

- I listened to EVERY SINGLE EPISODE of KM Weiland’s Helping Writers Become Authors podcast. This is gold. Everyone should listen to her. I have learnt so much and I’m sure I’m a better writer thanks to her. It’s been weekly for 10 years! All her posts are on her blog, too.

- Decided not to be in contact with ~30 Drarry fandom people after some nasty group bullying

- A goal from last year was to have a sound dampening podfic frame, and my husband built one. I am no longer recording under a blanket, or crouched in a den.

- Editing podfics takes about 1/3 of the time now I use punch and roll. I’m surprised more podficcers don’t do this, as it’s industry standard amongst audiobook narrators. I utilise a number of macros and believe my quality is much higher nowadays

- I aimed to co-write a Snarry, and we succeeded

- I took part in Voiceteam, Voiceteam Mystery Box, Snarry AUctoberfest, Secret Snarry Swap, Snarry-a-Thon, and HP Podfic Mini Fest.

- I added 200 authors with blanket podfic permission statements to the FPSlist. This will turn their names green on the Chrome extension. I encourage all creators to consider writing a statement -  a ”yes”, ”ask first”, or a ”no”.

My goals for 2022

- I have signed up for another 200k Get Your Words Out challenge

- Translate at least 1 story. Thanks to Bailou I have a shortlist, in order of preference

- Spend most of my year working on my time travel Snarry

- Write at least 1 podfic guide

- Record 20 podfic hours (much less than this year)

- Sign up for ZERO fests. Except perhaps Voiceteam and Voiceteam Mystery Box. How else is this time travel ever gonna get done??

- I am only going to podfic authors with blanket permission statements going forwards

Comments

[bluedreaming]

I love your charts!
(Cheers for no broken Kindles 😂)
I’m glad your fics are doing so well; that’s wonderful!
A sound dampening frame sounds like a great improvement. (Eventually I’m going to have bookshelves behind my head when I record, but that has not happened yet.)
I’m really glad that punch and roll works for you. With my current set up (recording on a portable recorder on an arm with no computer) that’s not a tool that’s available to me, but it’s definitely something I’ve kept in mind.
Cheers for FPS list accomplishments! (That reminds me; have to set up those alerts.)
I’m very curious about the podfic guide!
I hope you can keep to zero fests! I have some goals in that department as well 😂 (it’s always a dilemma; poke mods to allow podfic but then have to participate, or let it sit)

[peasina]

Ahhh, I love the pie charts :-D I don't think I've seen pie charts before for fannish reviews - this is awesome. And wow, you did so much in 2021! I'm in awe <3

[jocundasykes]

It's so nice to put my year 9 maths SATs to good use?? :D
Thanks for your comment! Hope you've been OK?

It's such a shock when I go from turbo-charged Voiceteam to chill, low-output months.

[peasina]

Haha, this, this right here is what you needed that maths knowledge for XD

I'm good thank you friend! Hope you are too <3 I wasn't expecting to be so burnt out by that last round of VT, but now that signups were just announced for this May's round (how does time fly so fast!?) my brain is suddenly back in 100% podfic mode :-D

[jocundasykes]

ooooo I didn't know signups/Voiceteam was here again! What do you reckon??

"although sometimes longer works will earn more points!"

Dangereuse, ooh la la.

[peasina]

I'm actually so glad you pointed that out because I totally missed it! One of my personal podficcing challenges this year is to record longer works, so I'm super interested in ways I can use that for points nabbing, hehe.

I have a lot of RL stuff on at the moment so I'm a tad nervous about how that might interrupt the event but going for low points cap should help with those concerns :-)