jocundasykes

Things I did in 2020

I joined AO3 on 3^rd January 2020. It’s satisfying that there’s an entire year to take stock on!

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

It's mental really to see it like that. A year ago I googled myself and saw that someone imported my fics to AO3 when an archive shut down. The punctuation was horrid, so I claimed them and fixed everything as soon as I could.

It started off a lot like this:

Reading Of Love Notes and Bottle Caps was a bit disturbing – beyond the premise, I remembered very little of the fic I abandoned in 2007. I changed the tense, got rid of lengthy internal monologues, stopped the head-hopping POV issues, made it Deathly Hallows compliant (no quick task), axed sections with no conflict, and gave my OCs names that were appropriate to 1977. I wrote this in defiance of Lily's representation in the books, annoyed that she was just a martyr and a mother (Yes I'm quoting Serving Penance here) with no specific friends. I hope some of her mates will crop up in some 2021 fics!

Aside from self-editing that fic, I edited Her Favourite Songs to be less cringe. Another 2007 oneshot, it had fewer errors but the character development wasn’t quite right. I'm now proud of this oneshot focussing on Blaise Zabini's mum.

I podficced Miles to Go Before I Sleep  after reading a ton of podficcing guides and thinking "This is achievable and sounds fun". Then Andrew 38,  Fall,  The Once and Future Headmaster (a timetravel Dumblepot), Capitulation (a Rodolphus character study), Soulmate Flowers, The Dreaming Spires and I podficced the 2^nd half of the Boy Who Died a Lot.  I wrote a Drarry ficlet called Fuck You and podficced another couple for the Drarry Babble Challenge, which was good craic (Intent and She Was Like Me).

I wrote a Drarry PWP, A Question of Inevitability, which was kind of a big deal for me cos I'd not considered Drarry at all for the last....... many years of fic reading. 

I wrote my first finished fic, Serving Penance,  and recorded it. It's not a literary masterpiece but it said what I wanted it to, and (I believe) it was in character and best of all it was FINISHED! YAY

I wrote 31 AU Snarry Drabbles for AUgust, Thirty-One First Kisses.

I finished my second fic, The Space Between Failing and Falling and recorded it. It was my first time writing non-Harry POV and it was such fun! It was so nice to have some Snarry friends cheer me along (big up to Light!) and it was very well-received by the AO3 masses (mind-boggling, really).

I translated Something I’ll Never Have into English  and recorded it I LOVE THIS FIC! basically anything I podfic I'm reccing. In fact, have a meme:

I took part in Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology, Snarry a Thon, took a prompt from Kinkfest, wrote for AUgust, A Very Harry Birthday, the House of Snarry AUctoberfest, and H/D Erised. I have also babbled a ficlet on the Drarry discord. I’m doing a secret something for the Snape Birthday Swap in January. I'm having fun right now doing Voiceteams Mystery Box.

And finally, I spent 3 months writing my first proper Drarry, and it is unrevealed so I will edit this later. I’m very proud of this fic and hope to record it next year.

This is why I haven’t read a tremendous amount in the last 6 months!

I recorded 34 hours!!!!! WHAT! Here is a pie chart of the split in ratings. Heh. Not really surprised:

And the pairing split reveals my true colours. I REALLY like Snarry:

Miscellaneous 2020 stats

- I broke two Kindles
- I did not read as much fic as I'd like this year, it sometimes felt like jumping from one fest to another. And a big part of fests is the community atmosphere, commenting on each other's work, and I felt rotten not to do that properly
- I got 1000 Kudos on my Snarry soulmate fic!! WOW
- I got 7 Kudos on my Lily fic! YESSSS 

- I beta read about 10-15 things 
- I read Self-Editing for Fiction Writers twice
- I've sort of worked out how to use Reddit, Discord and Dreamwidth. It's been so nice to come back to fandom after 13 years. Everyone has been so friendly (and generous with their time!)
- I recorded 7 or so songs for podfic purposes. Here is Loch Lomond

What are my goals for 2021? 

- I have signed up to Get Your Words Out (gulp) here on Dreamwidth. I have signed up to write 200k (less than this year) (I hope to be doing other hobbies in 2021, pandemic permitting! and uh... my PhD.... ideally) I'd like 20k of these words to be from translation
- I would like to improve my podficcing set up by building some sort of soundproofing frame thingamabob 
- I would like to record 30 podfic hours (less than this year)
- I would like to finish a dialogue project with Lee - we are compiling canon dialogue of each character, to help with writers on characterisation and voice/diction/contractions/vocabulary for that character
- I would like to co-write a Snarry
- I MUST finish Of Love Notes and Bottles Caps oh my gosh it's been on my to do list for 14 years
- I would like to finish my time travel Snarry
- I would like to take part in Snarry-a-Thon and Secret Snarry Swap as a minimum, but don't plan to sign up to many fests