Various ramblings by the small hobbit

Best wishes to you all for 2021!

A new year, a new start, the same me.  Not much more to be said, except that I will try to remain positive, not in ignoring the rubbish around (of which there is plenty) but in a determination to get over, under, round or through it all.  Wear wellies, borrow Tigger Holmes sou'wester, put on thick gloves and let's tackle this together.


My Yuletide contribution this year was for Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Christmas Eve Mystery

And in return I received:
Ghosts of Christmas Present by croissantkatie, a glorious TV Ghosts fic, which I really enjoyed.
In Which Pooh and His Friends Celebrate Christmas by greerwatson, a charming Winnie-the-Pooh fic with a very sweet illustration
Bring Yourself by Missy, a Madness Winnie-the-Pooh drabble which sums up Christmas perfectly


It's snowflake_challenge and as usual I shall dip in and out.  So hello to anyone who's dropping by from there, I have added an extra sentence to my sticky post, otherwise feel free to browse the tags.

I have stunned myself - my total wordage for 2015 was 144,392. Which is 34,000 more than last year.  Wow!

Once again Get Your Words Out has been discussed and this time I am quite sure I'm not going to sign up.  I've set my own target of 120,000 for 2016, which is the right level to keep me writing without putting any pressure on if I have a bad month for whatever reason.

Other facts from this year in writing: I have posted 123 works on AO3, with a further 12 to be posted (either on Fan_Flashworks or 12 Days fics), to give a total of 135 posted works.  I have gained 40 badges from fan_flashworks bringing my total to 54.

My most popular fic this year, by far, and the one with the highest number of kudos ever is: Five times Thorin made Bilbo swear under his breath, and once when he swore loudly.  Evidence for what happens when I write something including sex for a popular pairing in a popular fandom.  I continue to receive kudos on some of my older fics, and then comes my lewis_challenge Valentine's day fic The Love Poems of James Hathaway.  Followed, in third place, by a pinch hit I wrote for holmestice Molly's Christmas Lunch which is Sherlock/Molly (a surprisingly popular pairing) and which I had to write from Greg Lestrade's point of view, since I can't do either Molly or Sherlock.

As for next year, I shall be continuing with sherlock60 and fan_flashworks and will be writing things I enjoy without worrying about their popularity.  I've promised vix_spes there will be a sequel to my Lucas North/Adam Carter fic Finding a Way Forward which, so long as she and I enjoy it, will be fine.  And I hope to write some more poetry.

So, here's to 2016!

I love the tradition of writing festive fics for each other and responding to requests from people on my flist.  I want to reciprocate, but there won't be time before Christmas (don't even mention the need to make a cake) so I've decided that I will produce a drabble/221B/ficlet for the twelve days of Christmas, starting on Boxing Day and finishing twelve days later on Twelfth Night.

So if anyone would like to prompt something, please comment away.  My main fandoms are Sherlock (BBC), ACD Sherlock Holmes (Mouselet included), and Lewis.  I've even written a Kirk/McCoy ficlet.  BBC Robin Hood is also a possibility and I've just watched series 7 of Spooks.

Two words of warning.  My muse resides in a parallel universe, so there's no guarantee of the direction I shall go in.  Also, during my posting time frame, two episodes of Sherlock will air.  It is therefore quite possible that anything I've written will be thrown out of canon by that time.

So, please let me have your fandom, character(s)/pairing and prompt.

ETA: Much to my total surprise I now have 12 prompts, so all days are covered.  Thank you, flist!

Title: The Challenge
Rating: Blue cortina
Word Count: 560 words.
Notes:  Written for and beta-ed byjinxed100 who provided the prompts of Sam, Gene, kilt, single malt

 

( Sam Tyler regretted getting drunk on Christmas Eve )