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annual writing self-evaluation

i was tagged by quite a few people but i only remember seed and mari so <3

1. number of stories posted to ao3

2. word count posted for the year

52,966....so 53k

3. fandoms i wrote for

pjo

4. pairings

percabeth and posally

5. story with the most...

kudos: stuck in my head (stuck in my heart) - 218 bookmarks: stuck in my head (stuck in my heart) - 68 comments: champagne problems - 32

6. work i'm most proud of (and why)

im probably most proud of stuck in my head because it was the first long fic i did and also some of my lines? they really popped off me thinks. but like i also really like all of the posally fics i've done just because i'm creating my own little world for them <3

7. work i'm least proud of (and why)

i don't think i have a least favorite??? idk in my head all of the posally fics are one long continuous fic so it's not any individual one, and the other 4 percabeth fics i thought were all decent? so none.

8. share or describe a favorite review received

the comments on the gdocs drafts are my favorite tbh. so anyone who has beta'd (mainly mari and syd) because i get their real-time reactions to everything happening and they're able to comment on individual lines and such. also any comment that quotes a line i wrote...if you do this i love you so much you don't even know

9. time when writing was really, really hard

all of it. my brain can come up with ideas but the words....words are hard

10. a favorite excerpt from your writing

idk 😭😭 maybe when percy and estelle bicker? i love their dynamics so maybe this???

Estelle plops down beside Percy and he sighs, throwing an arm around her shoulder. She tilts her head to look at him. “Is she your girlfriend?” “Uh,” Percy reaches a hand up to scratch his neck. “No. Um. She’s just my friend.” Estelle narrows her eyes. “I don’t believe you.” “She’s a friend, Stelle. That’s all,” he says, but he wishes the words weren’t true. “‘ You look very pretty right now,’” she mimics him. “You’re a menace.” “So I’m right?” “No, you’re a menace.” “Maybe, but I’m right.” “No.” “But you like her?”

or maybe these ones from stuck in my head

“He thinks it’s funny how things are just things until you love somebody. Purple hair clippies were always just purple hair clippies, but now they’re something that makes his heart speed up and a smile spread across his face because they’re not just purple hair clippies anymore—they’re a part of Annabeth. A part of the person he loves.”

“She’s beautiful not only in her appearance, but in her mind and soul, and it’s hard to look at her without his heart clenching and his lungs feeling like the breath has been knocked out of them.”

“Soft golden light has always made her look ethereal, as if it were hand-woven for her and her alone.”

11. how did you grow as a writer this year

i think my overall style has improved as well as sentence structure? idk my writing doesn't feel as bleh when i read over new stuff as it did with older stuff? i've definitely started using more flowery writing.

12. how do you hope to grow next year

i want to be better at planning and plots. i kind of want to write more long fics instead of one shots

13. who was your greatest positive influence this year as a writer

mari and syd my besties. they beta literally everything i write and they make it so much better and i love them a lot

14. did anything from your reallife show up in your writing?

i don't think so? not that i can think of, anyway

15. any wisdom to share with other writers?

don't feel pressured to finish anything, especially fic. fic is supposed to be fun, and feeling like you're failing when you don't post fic is going to stress you out more than it's worth tbh. i've got like 13 half-written, barely coherent fics sitting in gdocs rn and i simply work on them as inspiration strikes.

16. any projects you're looking forward to starting (or finishing) this year?

hehe yes. i've got one fic that i'm looking forward to writing but i've only got 1k done so don't get your hopes up or anything, and then i've got a long fic outline in the works, but i may end up combining the 1k i have with the outline for the long fic and merge the two together.

17. tag some writers

i'm not gonna tag anyone because i'm like the last person to do this lol (i wasn't on tumblr for like a week because my bf was visiting <3) but if you see this and you want to, have at it!!

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