[May end]

[bonnefois]

May:
Lapdance (Echidna/Lalam) 3,828 words, kink meme NC-17

Capoeria (TouyaShindouGo) 103 words, alphabet meme

Conspicuous (Saeki/Ashiwara) 126 words

Ash Falls (Platonic!IkeSoren) 742 words, alphabet meme

Your Kiss Is A City of Stars (Xavin/Karolina) Runaways, 726 words, 52_flavours

Elegant Means (Or: A Fragment Chronicling Sanaki’s Epic Quest To Get Laid ) (Sephiran/Sanaki) Fire Emblem 10, 552 words, alphabet meme duex

Rose Petals (Zuko/Mai) Avatar, 180 words alphabet meme duex

A Fire Made By Hand (Zuko, Iroh and Azula gen) Avatar, 145 words, alphabet meme duex

Solari (sort of unrequited Issei/Shirou) Fate/Stay Night, 354 words, alphabet meme

Not To Be Outdone (Naesala/Sanaki, Sephiran/Sanaki) post Fire Emblem 10, 287 words, alphabet meme

Echos of Nothing (Shinon and Laura gen) Fire Emblem 10, 455 words, alphabet meme duex

Seeds to Wind (Ninian piece, Eliwood/Ninian) 718 words, 52_flavours

Fever Dream (dark second ending Yggdra piece) Yggdra Union, 2,267 words, 52_flavours

Sweetberries (Durant/Yggdra in varying shades of requitement.) Yggdra Union, 5,227 words 52_flavours

Rhiannon (original piece – best described as the regrets of a man upon the disappearance of his female friend) 1,847 words

the color of apples (Lucia, Elincia and Geoffrey childhood gen, minor hints of Lucia/Elincia and Geoffrey/Elincia) 331 words, 52_flavours

whispers across the sheets (Lucia and Elincia childhood gen) 236 words bigyurimeme

waltzing choreographed by madmen 214 words, second alphabet meme

This Fragrance (BoydMist, implied or hinted IkeSoren, KieranOscar, RhysTitania and Shinon/Ale/Whores) Fire Emblem 9/10, 3,633 words, 52_flavours / second Alphabet Meme

Thick As Thieves: chapter 2 (original homoerotic thieves parody) Original, 3,527 words. 52_flavours

You Are All I Know (Childhood Ike, Soren and Mist) pre-Fire Emblem 9, 1,091 words, 31_days

It’s Good To Be King (Kyouya/Tamaki) Ouran, 702 words, comment_fic

On A Champagne High (unrequited Kyouya/Tamaki, implied Tamaki/Haruhi) 1,115 words, comment_fic

In summary:
total: 23 pieces, 25,215 words. Hee, it’s the reverse of last month! Otherwise, I felt groggy for a good half of the month so I didn’t get quite as much done as I wanted. Actually, I did a ton of work on this one WIP project, a good 6,000 words of dedicated writing but I currently don’t count stuff that was

myaru does. Maybe I should start too.

On that note, if you’re counting along and go IT DOESN’T ADD UP I attempted to estimate only what I finished this month. Several of these were pieces I started in other months and simply got to finishing this month.

I suppose the biggest disappointment is that Thick As Thieves was the only thing I got to update. I worked at most all my other current WIPS, posted or in progress but I just couldn’t finish them in time. Hopefully I can get them on for this month.

Read: 30 (including comics)

Botchan by Natsume Soseki
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Runaways vol 2
Runaways issue 1 (Pride)
Young Avengers 1
Young Avengers 2
Clover 1
Clover 2
Clover 3
Clover 4
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Runaways vol 6
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (audio)
Dress your family in corduroy and denim by David Sedaris (audio)
Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea (audio)
A Separate Peace by John Knolwes (audio)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (audio)
The Wheat Field by Steve Thayer. (Audio)
The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue (audio)
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula Le Guin
Runaways vol 2.
We Were There, Vol. 1, Yuki Obata
LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER by Stewart O' Nan
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (audio)
The Jane Austen Book Club (audio)
A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb (audio)
The Absolute Sandman vol 1 by Neil Gaiman
We Were There Vol 2 Yuki Obata
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat


I thought about separating the comics from the written books since it's almost cheating considering how fast I can read them, but Sandman totally counts as literature so they all stay.

Comments

[myaru.livejournal.com]

The word count thing started back when I was trying to keep track of stuff I wrote outside of class versus for an assignment. Now I'm trying to keep track of my average output in a given month so I know how much I CAN produce, if necessary, without the burnout that comes after Nanowrimo. So in-progress stuff counts.

If you just want to keep track of how many fics you wrote, or list it as an accomplishment, then maybe it's better to look at just the finished stuff. I'm not sure, but whatever works for you, right?

You always make me want to read more. How do you get through so much? Admittedly I'm really lazy about it and read in spurts, but... geez. I haven't managed a list like yours outside a semester schedule.

[measuringlife.livejournal.com]

Well, in my case, I just finished a fic in a new month when I worked seriously hard on it the month before. Because I only count what I actually finished that month, I'd only get to count maybe 200 words of finishing off and editing :|

It's more than simply accomplishments? I'm trying to keep track of how much I'm writing to make it easier for the end of year round up. I want to keep track of the variances (length, genre, how much original I'm doing, etc) so I can fix the issues.

This is deceptive XD At least half of what I read were comics, and of those comics, The Absolute Sandman 1 was the only one which wasn't a quick read. What wasn't comics was audio books which can be listened to at all times of the day or while working. The rest were rather short. Botchan, Last Night At The Lobster, The Cement Garden and The Tombs of Atuan were all under 200 pages. I have a thing for novellas at the moment. They're kind of an obsession, possibly because of how sparse and pristine they are when done right -- and because under 200 pages seems a doable goal for writing my own novel.

Huh. I need to post my thoughts on the books. I keep meaning to start up the sorta-of-review post, but I keep slacking off on it.

[myaru.livejournal.com]

Hahahah, god, that yearly round-up meme was a pain in the ass, you're right. That's actually what made me think of doing monthly word counts to begin with, but then it turned into this contest with myself to write more more more and fail more too. But I do run into that problem, where you've written most of a fic one month, and then finished it off with two hundred words the next. That's why I count unfinished stuff - otherwise it just throws off the numbers, and that's bad for my purposes.

Tombs of Atuan! I really liked that one, and haven't gotten to The Farthest Shore yet. It gave me a crazy dream that turned into the backdrop for a story. I'd like to read anything you say about the book. Nobody geeks about it, really.

Old fantasy and SF is really good about packing content into small packages. Honestly, it seems like the current fantasy trend is to pack the books full of filler to make them longer when they'd be better at two or three hundred pages. Not everything is like that, but sometimes they go on and on and on.

[measuringlife.livejournal.com]

It took me over THREE DAYS to chronicle mine. I nearly gave up like all the other years when I meant to.

I liked Atuan's creepiness and the psychology, but Arha annoyed me a bit with her fits. It's understandable, but still I found it more grating than compelling. I think the most notable character of all was the tombs itself -- and Sparrowhawk, who was awesome as per usual.

Is that Eragon and Twilight syndrome? XD I actually am quite lacking in the fantasy department. I read a bit of YA fantasy when I was younger but I never touched the sort of "High Fantasy" I've started on a few series as of late but I'm trying to not burn myself out like I've managed to do with other genre books.