JANUARY
When Gift Tags Get Lost -- 332 words; Actorslash. This was a sequel to When Stealth Fails, and somewhere in there I decided to call the series "When the Pieces Fit." This little bit of gigglery struck me like five minutes after I e-mailed "Stealth" to the

Incompetence -- 753 words; Harry Potter. This one would've been longer by about a hundred words or so but I wrote it for
Jacking Harry -- 2634 words; Actorslash. I wrote this one for a request at

A Hidden Magic 14 -- 1774 words; Actorslash. I can't express how happy and relieved I was to finally be able to start posting this again. It'd been over a year since I'd posted Chunk 13 and I'd felt like shit whenever I thought about it, which of course is just a dandy state of mind to be in when you want to start writing something again. [headdesk] But finally it all came together and I finished the darned thing, although I had some reservations about readers' reactions to the last part. [cough] But it was done and I could start posting, yay!
A Hidden Magic 15 -- 1831 words; Actorslash.
JANUARY TOTAL: 7324 words
FEBRUARY
A Hidden Magic 16 -- 1663 words; Actorslash.
A Hidden Magic 17 -- 2164 words; Actorslash.
A Hidden Magic 18 -- 1682 words; Actorslash.
A Hidden Magic 19 -- 2185 words; Actorslash. And here it wrapped. The first story, anyway. I sort of had to promise sequels because I never did manage to actually get Alan and Craig into bed before the end here [hides] but this is where the main plotline ended and so there you go. I've never been one to stick sex on with duct tape just to have sex, so.... I've been thinking about an Alan/Craig sequel, and at this point, I think what I'm going to do is rewrite the whole thing. [hides farther away] Seriously, though, the problem here is pacing. I had two main plotlines -- the internal plotline, having to do with the Alan/Craig romance and getting them together, and the external plotline having to do with the Elven invasion scheme and Craig's kidnapping, and the main problem with the story is that the external plot wrapped significantly before the internal plot was finished. That's a craftsmanship issue, and it'd be better to just fix it than to try tacking something on to the end.
Shade -- 758 words; Actorslash. This was a sequel to Heat, which I wrote and posted back in '04. "Heat" was a very stylized story and although I'd always wanted to write a sequel to it, I couldn't just bang out something in my more usual cinematic style because they wouldn't fit together. It took almost three years to write "Shade" and I'm pleased with how it turned out. I think I needed to think and practice and become a better writer before I could do justice to "Heat" with a sequel and I'm glad I waited.
Just a Nudge -- 4254 words; Actorslash. Another story that'd been hanging out for a while. Back in '05, I did this memething to get story prompts. I'd only ever promised the participants a one-line story and everyone got quite a bit more than that :) but most of the "stories" I posted in response to the meme responses pretty clearly weren't complete. I finished two or three within a few months but I still have a bunch hanging out on my hard drive. I'd been working on this one on and off in the year and a half or so since the meme and finally finished. When I posted it, it'd been so long that the person who'd made the request didn't even remember, LOL! She liked it anyway, though, so that was cool. [snicker]
Sexual Dimorphism in Cross-Universal Organisms -- 821 words; Actorslash. Somewhere in '06 I signed up for the

So Hot! -- 1255 words; Fantastic Four (movieverse). OK, this one was totally not my fault. I was talking to Razzle in comments about the upcoming Fantastic Four sequel and this image just popped into my head and I had to turn it into a story. It's a weird little fandom with only one (dead) community on LJ and it was OMG Het!!!! [crosses and garlic] (kinda-sorta het, anyway -- actually it's a wanking story but he's fantasizing about some chick so close enough) and therefore the feedback was incredibly sparse but dammit it was funny! Anyway, a few people liked it, so that's cool. :D
When Guys Talk -- 715 words; Actorslash. Third story in the "When the Pieces Fit" verse. The original story'd been written as a Slashababy gift for
Unfinished Business -- 3955 words; Actorslash. This is the first sequel to "A Hidden Magic." I decided, rather uncreatively I realize, to call the whole thing "The Magic Series." So shoot me. :P The major sequels will all have "Magic" in the title, but this is just a short so I figured I didn't have to. Besides, I tried to think of a "Magic" title and ended up really reaching so that wouldn't have worked very well anyway. [humming] Anyway, Craig and Alan aren't the only ones with threads left dangling -- Eric was in the middle of a task when the gang took off to rescue Craig. Orlando's determined he's going to finish. It was fun fleshing out the relationship between these two -- this Orlando is two hundred and change and it really gives their dynamic a sideways twist away from the usual. Eric's not the most respectful apprentice in the history of apprentices, but Orlando knows how and when to rein him in and Eric knows when to be serious. I think I'll probably end up writing more about these two.
FEBRUARY TOTAL: 19,452 words
MARCH
No Good Deed -- 2106 words; Harry Potter. This was my second posted Harry Potter story, written for the Animagi round of the

[I spent a large chunk of March in Florence and posted about it a lot so I didn't do much fiction writing this month.]
MARCH TOTAL: 2106 words
APRIL
Deathbed -- 6248 words; Original. I actually wrote this one a number of years ago but I posted it on April 23rd for International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. IPSTD was created in response to a rant by an officer of SFWA and it was great fun. I even got a T-shirt. :) I wrote this back when I was doing original fiction and sending it out, before the turn of the century. [cough] It collected some rejection slips, including one that just made my day for saying that it was rejected for being too much like a story by Octavia Butler. Woot! :D [Hey, when you're unpublished you take whatever compliments you can scrounge!] At the time I'd never read any of her work but I'd certainly heard of her and knew enough to take it as a compliment. I've always liked this one because absolutely everyone in it is an asshat in one way or another. There's really no one to root for -- you just sort of kick back with your popcorn and watch the train wreck. It's a modern horror/fantasy sort of thing about a bunch of people trying to grab prizes they don't deserve using whatever means come to hand. Everyone gets theirs by the end.
Distraction -- 2432 words; Actorslash. This one came about when I was looking for a plot bunny. I went browsing through entries in

APRIL TOTAL: 8680 words
MAY
When All You Can Do Is Watch -- 3660 words; Actorslash. Fourth story in the "When the Pieces Fit" series. This is where things start to get serious. Before, it was really a romp and Viggo was just sort of daytripping to see how he reacted to the whole BDSM thing. He really likes it, though, and wants to get real. The tone changes quite a bit here, compared with the first three stories, but readers seemed to still enjoy it so that's cool. :)
Family Obligations 1 -- 2028 words; Actorslash. Okay, you know how back when I had that hugely long hiatus in Hidden Magic and I swore I'd never again post anything as I wrote it? That I'd always finish first and then start posting...? Well, that lasted about three months. [facepalm] It's all

Family Obligations 2 -- 2455 words; Actorslash.
Family Obligations 3 -- 2716 words; Actorslash.
Family Obligations 4 -- 2667 words; Actorslash.
Learning to Love Yourself -- 3149 words;
Family Obligations 5 -- 2663 words; Actorslash.
Merciful Gods -- 4231 words; Actorslash. I'd actually finished this one earlier, but figured I'd save it until FO was finished. But at this point I'd started slowing down with FO so I figured I'd post this just to give people who were used to having something to read, well, something to read. [duck] This is another story from the memething back in '05. It started out just sort of funny, but right before I picked it up again and actually finished, there'd been a lot of meta going around the larger fandom about sex-change stories where a guy turned into a woman and instantly felt this overwhelming urge to wear spike heels and miniskirts and make-up and get his nails done, and how horribly unrealistic that was. I mean, I was born a woman and I don't do any of those things :P so the idea that someone who's been a guy for twenty or thirty or forty years, and isn't transgendered but just got magicked or whatever into a female body, would suddenly feel all these "girly" cravings is pretty darned silly. So I wanted to show a guy who turned into a girl and didn't just automatically reach for the nail polish. Both characters turned out to be pretty unlikeable, and that spawned some really great discussion in comments -- check it out.
Family Obligations 6 -- 2572 words; Actorslash.
Family Obligations 7 -- 2610 words; Actorslash.
MAY TOTAL: 28,751 words
JUNE
Family Obligations 8 -- 2980 words; Actorslash.
Family Obligations 9 -- 2778 words; Actorslash.
Family Obligations 10 -- 3158 words; Actorslash.
Family Obligations 11 -- 2569 words; Actorslash.
Family Obligations 12 -- 2605 words; Actorslash.
Family Obligations 13 -- 2831 words; Actorslash.
JUNE TOTAL: 16,921 words.
JULY
Family Obligations 14 -- 2882 words; Actorslash.
Family Obligations 15 -- 2663 words; Actorslash. Done! Wow, the last few chapters here were pretty stressful to write. I'd set up a lot of subplots and planted a bunch of red herrings and there were a bunch of characters all doing their thing, and the last few chapters were where I had to go gather them all up and weave them together neatly into a nice wrap. Posting slowed down toward the end, but looking back, I think it was worth it. I definitely liked this story, and a lot of other folks did too. :D
Hospitality -- 625 words; Actorslash. Another entry in one of
JULY TOTAL: 6170 words
AUGUST
Pick-Up Lines -- 789 words; Actorslash. I wrote this one while at the Vegas Slashy Retreat. I'm totally not into country music [cough] but
AUGUST TOTAL: 789 words
SEPTEMBER
No new words posted, but "Learning to Love Yourself" was published, yay!
OCTOBER
Crawling Toward the Light -- 3333 words; Actorslash. This was written for the

Chasing Fear -- 4386 words; Original. This was the first fresh-original story I wrote for Torquere, for their Halloween Sip Blitz. (They have a sort of drinks theme on their site, and a "sip" is a short story.) This story is set in the same universe as Hidden Magic, but it's down in the LA area, whereas HM is set up in San Jose. It worked as a stand-alone because while it's in the same universe, nothing else is the same -- no overlapping characters, no Sentinels or elves or anything. Martín is a "Greenman," which is a name I made up for someone who magically controls plants. He's just a dude with a talent, though, and he doesn't use it to Fight Evil like the boys up in San Jose do. This is a much smaller story, in that it only involves Martín and his lover Emilio, who's the POV character. I like it, though, and it got a nice review. :)
OCTOBER TOTAL: 7719 words
NOVEMBER
Swords and Shadows -- 33,411 words; Original. This is my NaNoWriMo story, and rather than list all seventeen chunks of it separately, the link goes to the "November" calendar page of my NaNo journal. All but one post there are story posts, labelled "Chunk1," "Chunk 2," etc. It's not finished, and I didn't make the 50K NaNo goal :( but I'm still working on it. As always, I learned some useful things about myself and my writing habits while doing this, so it was definitely worth it, win or no. And I've got a nice chunk of a story that has a lot of potential, so that's cool.
NOVEMBER TOTAL: 33,411 words
DECEMBER
The Joy of Exchanging Gifts -- 3623 words; Original. This is a Christmas story, part of Torquere's holiday sips thing, where they posted a bunch of holiday-specific short stories in a few batches during December. It was sort of funny when we were talking about it, trying to figure out how to describe the group of stories. They're not just Christmas because we wanted it open for any December holiday, and it turned out there are a couple based on other holidays. So someone suggested a "winter" theme, but a few of our writers are from Australia and it's summer there, so.... LOL! Anyway, we ended up with just "holiday," with the stories divided into "naughty" or "nice." Which is pretty Christmas-specific, but whatever. [duck] Mine went in the "nice" category, because the protag was trying to do something nice for a friend, even if it didn't go quite the way he'd originally planned. [snicker]
Catching Courage -- 1953 words; Original. This was my contribution to Torquere's Advent Calendar promotion-thingy. They got thirty writers and an artist to contribute little freebies to be posted to the site over the course of December, one per day. It could be anything, but the most common was a very short story, or a recipe, or a story and a recipe, which is what I did. This is a sequel to "Chasing Fear," my Halloween story, and it comes with a recipe for trés leches cake.
The Spice of Life -- 5238 words; Actorslash. I wrote this one for

DECEMBER TOTAL: 10,814 words
2007 TOTAL: 142,137
Last year I wrote a total of 92,598 words, and I wondered out loud whether I could double it for this year. Turns out I couldn't [duck] but I bettered it by quite a lot, so that's cool. I'm still doing to try to do better this coming year, but I don't think I'll go for twice as much as this year. Maybe I'll try again for twice as much as last year? :) Around 185K or so is probably doable, without a ridiculous amount of pushing. [ponder]
One thing that's sort of startling is that I posted only five stories last year, and that's counting NaNo. O_O Wow. Looking at this year, I was a lot more productive in terms of getting things done and posted, a lot more than twice as many stories. Five times as many, in fact -- counting Hidden Magic and Family Obligations as single stories, I still finished and posted twenty-five stories this year, woot!
Angie