I have no idea what I'm doing

Like several other people, despite the general crapness of 2014, I did have a pretty good year of it fandom and writing wise. Unfortunately, the general crapness did affect some of my fandom participation, and there was a period of time where I had almost zero creative output for several months. But even so, I wound up doing better than expected.

I made a personal pledge to write 365,000 words for the year. I managed 246,662 , after getting some serious haul on the last few days, and double-checking my junk folder and finding a few things I forgot to count. I wrote (and posted) 15 stories total, three of which for exchanges (with many more half-started projects written and unposted). I signed up for four exchanges, and did artwork for one. I intended to participate in a few more, and even had to drop out of modding a few unexpectedly, which is something I still regret.

This year was also a fairly high output year for artwork. Unusually high, actually. I'm not the sort of artist who can just sketch something out and be happy with it, so my output is always bleak. This year, I completed ten pieces, and branched into acrylic paint as a primary medium.

Compared to 2013, and despite everything, I somehow managed this year to double the amount of fics posted, and triple my word count. I also finished eight more pieces of artwork over 2013.


Three of my fics are still in WIP purgatory, though one is more or less complete, and just needs a good thrashing about with the editing stick before I post the remaining four chapters. The other two are going to remain in WIP purgatory forever, at the rate they keep going. For anybody who just can't wait, or mostly for me, because I want to at least put it down somewhere, here are my plans for these three fics:

( Tarbell Course in Magic, vol 1 )


( How to Train your Norse Trickster God )


( Midgard Legends )

I have so much planned for this AU universe, and part of my goal for 2015 is to finish this fic and get at least the next one up as well. Originally, this AU was intended to see how much I could have Loki meddle with the MCU, but I don't think I can get much farther than maybe the Avengers before too much changes and it stops being able to follow along. And the Avengers is a big maybe, considering Loki's role in it. I have an idea for how it might be done, but we'll see how that goes.

I so rarely get days to myself, and it's driving me nuts. I was supposed to get three this week, but then Papa Bear called off from work, so Robin Hood stayed home so I didn't freak out. And he's right. I tried to be a big man about it, and told him he could leave if he wanted, but I would have totally freaked out. Now I'm just sort of enjoying loud music and flygande Jakob that I made just for me. I think Robin Hood is getting home later today, and he can have some if he wants, but it's just really nice to be able to cook what I want to cook and not have to deal with anyone else complaining about it. It's even better than spite-cooking, which I may have been known to do in the past.


There are ten people signed up for the Remix, with still just under a week left. I'm really hoping to get at least 15, but if I could double last year's number and hit 20, I would be over the moon. Go sign up!


I also managed to purchase my Marvel Unlimited account last night, for my blog. I'm still building the reading list, and have 1000 books on it so far. That very well may wind up doubling, at the rate I'm going. But it will be so worth it, I think. There are some titles Marvel Unlimited doesn't have, and that will cause some kinks in my plans, but hopefully I can find them/Marvel adds them by the time I get there. I mean, I'm going to be reading the entire Norse side of Marvel. Even Ultimates, even though I'm so meh on Ultimates, but maybe it'll grow on me. Or maybe it'll just wind up on the WTF side of the blog.