2007 Fic Output. Do I need a plumber?

[icarus]

2007 Fic Output. Do I need a plumber?

Usually, I write about 1-2 stories a month, with a run of drabbles somewhere in the year.

This year, with a massive WIP, my fic production seems ... low.

Out Of Bounds - word count this year ~61,000. Total word count thus far ~92,000.
Tanlines & Dogtags
No More Quasi-Religious Alien Sex Rituals
Liar's Chair
The Quick Bird On Hot Sand, aka Civilian Authority
Lost in the Temple of Law
Self Sufficiency

Then some drabbles in February:

And Liberty For All
Betrayal
Coming Attractions

I mean, I wrote 61,000 words of Out Of Bounds. Intellectually, I realize it's the equivalent of a dozen average-length 5,000 word stories.

I recognize that I had a death in the family which took a lot of time, energy, and school-and-writing-sapping enthusiasm. But still....

Compare that to 2006 -- and yes, this is normal:

The Stars Look Very Different Today
Early Birds
Necromancy for the Living
Power Napping
Compassion For The Enemy
First Time A Soldier
Last Port Of Call
About Ten Days Before The Wraith Attack
In The Spotlight (the Unicorn Remix)
Colony Atlantis
Breeding Ground
Traces Through Time

And some February/March drabbles (I drabble in winter, it seems):

Pavlovian
Appalling Hurt/Comfort Fic
Class A's
Double Bed
Doo-Wop
Pastoral Symphony
Nowhere But Up
Taking Stock
First Christmas

Plus I wrote the first 31,000 words of Out Of Bounds.

But maybe I haven't slowed. Maybe the total word count is the same, and I'm just not used to a large WIP. I could open all those stories and add all the word counts, and compare.

...

That's way too anal even for me.

I've signed up for sga_santa and kicked a Supernatural story out the door to keep myself moving forward. The fics must go on!

Comments

[droolfangrrl.livejournal.com]

oh just like shut up and write! :P

I haven't written anything so there!

[helkamaria.livejournal.com]

I was bored. And anal. So I counted the words. If I haven't made a major mistake, your word-count in 2006 was c. 70 750. This year, it's c. 102 870.

[theemdash]

*cough, keeps a spreadsheet with her word count for each year*

[bruinsfan.livejournal.com]

I can't regard a year that produced "Tanlines & Dogtags" as an unproductive one, no matter what the total word count. Meanwhile, I have been stalled out 2/3 of the way through my first promised drawing for that story since... when was it, mid-April? (To be fair, I've had numerous trips and a lot more painting and drawing at work this year, which always cuts down on my at-home creative energy.)

Oh, did your Heightmeyer/Lorne story ever make it through beta?