I've seen a few folks doing these "year in review" posts about their writings over the past year, so I thought I'd do the same, since this was my most productive year so far since starting to write Potterverse fanfiction.

Here are the 2009 stats (not counting micro-fics or autodrabbles):

21539 words written in total
6 stories written
5 stories rated G-for-gen
4 stories with at least one main character who was a werewolf
4 stories with at least one main character who was a member of the Maurauders
3 stories with at least one main character who was a Malfoy
3 stories with at least one main character who was a member of the Trio
2 stories starring Fenrir Greyback
2 stories starring Severus Snape
2 stories starring Sirius Black
2 stories with at least one main character who was a house-elf
1 story rated Not Work Safe

By contrast, here are the 2007 stats:

9031 words written in total
3 stories written
3 stories rated Not Work Safe
3 stories with at least one main character who was a werewolf
3 stories with at least one main character who was a member of the Trio
3 stories starring Fenrir Greyback
1 story with at least one main character who was a house-elf
0 stories starring Severus Snape
0 stories starring Sirius Black
0 stories with at least one main character who was a Malfoy
0 stories with at least one main character who was a member of the Maurauders
0 stories rated G-for-gen

For comparison, here are the 2006 stats:

9380 words written in total
4 stories written
4 stories rated G-for-gen
2 stories with at least one main character who was a Malfoy
2 stories starring Severus Snape
0 stories starring Fenrir Greyback
0 stories starring Sirius Black
0 stories with at least one main character who was a werewolf
0 stories with at least one main character who was a member of the Trio
0 stories with at least one main character who was a house-elf
0 stories with at least one main character who was a member of the Maurauders
0 stories rated Not Work Safe

Looking at these numbers, I think it safe to say I'm mostly a gen writer, and when I do write NWS material, it is likely to star either a werewolf or a canine animagus.

No, I do not have a furry fetish. Really.

<.<

>.>

:F

Title: God Rest Ye Merry Werewolves
Author: Persephone Yavanna the Entwife
Pairing/Characters: Harry, Fenrir, Hermione and Kreacher
Wordcount: 3625
Rating: G for gen (in other words, completely work-safe!)
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: JK Rowling and assorted others have rights to create derivative works within the Potterverse, but I am not one of those licensees, unfortunately. Rather not be sued for playing with the characters, though . . . not making a profit here, just exploring the characters and situations created by the esteemed Ms. Rowling.
Summary: Harry returns early from Christmas festivities at the Burrow
Author Notes: Occurs after Wolf at the Door. The Yule Log is a NYC tradition, where commercial-free Christmas music is played on Christmas Eve by area stations -- the original TV station that started the tradition used to show a burning fireplace for the video portion of the show.

( God Rest Ye Merry Werewolves )

I've decided to try doing NaNoWriMo again, even though last year's effort was dismally inadequate.

I have many more plot bunnies than I had this time last year, plus they've had time to simmer in the back burner of my brain for quite a few months, so I'm hoping I'll do better than last year. (It would be hard to do worse!)

As I've done for the past two NaNoWriMos, I'll be writing Potterverse fics, a series of short stories, some of which will be connected to one another or to previously posted tales. At this point, it looks like most will star Fenrir Greyback, with several being Malfoy-family-centered. Some won't be though, since I want to add more to the "Contingencies" plot that I started during the 2006 NaNoWriMo and also the Snirius AU "Chewtoy" that has proved to be surprisingly popular among those who read me. I've been suffering the slow death of plot bunnies nibbling at me constantly for the past few months, while real-life swirled around me and made it difficult to concentrate long enough to write anything. This way at least I'll have a chance to clear out some of these untold tales that have been niggling at me for so many months.

I have no clue as to whether or not I'll hit the 50,000 word mark by the target date of November 30th, but at least I'll feel better with less of a backlog to deal with.

For those who wish to follow my progress, my author page is here.

I think I'd like to start a meme here on IJ/LJ.

Write a micro-fic -- a story in just six words. (You can see some examples here.)

Post it in a comment here and in your own journal.

It'll be fun to see what folks come up with, within a form even more constrained than the drabble.

Here are two I wrote:

Fenrir picked his teeth, saying, “Yummy . . .”

Fenrir isn’t fussy — he enjoys nomming.

Edited to add another:

"Tofu again?" Fenrir asked Hermione, aghast.

I thought I'd do a followup to this post about my having a story nominated for an award.

I didn't get it.

Thank you to those who nominated and seconded me and to those who voted for my story -- it was much appreciated by myself.

iulia_linnea wrote me an absolutely scrumptious ficlet, Training a Pet, as a consolation prize of sorts for having bid in her auction for Live Long And Marry but not succeeded as the winning bidder.

This is a very in-character Fenrir, full of rage and resentment at not receiving the respect he feels is his due, and what he does in order to get it. I loved the subtle power dynamics of the relationship too and how she approched my prompt, "Fenrir wears bunny-slippers."

Yay for Fenmione! :F

Spurred on by a post by the_con_cept, I decided to do a reading of my fic Puppy Pile which can be heard here. It was my first time using the audio recorder that comes with Windows, so I hit a few snags, namely that the recording changes volume about 2/3 through. I may try re-recording it and re-uploading it sometime in the future, but for now that's how it stays.

So now you all know what I sound like. :)

I'm also going to offer fic-reading for the Live Long and Marry fandom auction. You can bid on my offering here.

I'm now an official nominee for The New Library Awards in the category "Best Gen Humour" for my story Poisson d'Avril.

The voting has now started -- you vote by screened comment to this post, but it's important to read the rules, or your vote won't count. (Those without LJs can vote by email, BTW) One of these rules is in each category, please list two (no more, no less) stories that you would like to see win. The list of nominees is here, with my competition fellow nominees in the humour category listed here.

Voting ends at midnight (EST) on July 12th, so I hope folks go by before then and vote. (Preferably for me!)

~~ makes wulvie-cub eyes at f-list ~~

I just found out my story Poisson d'Avril has been nominated for the first round of The New Library Awards in the category "Best Gen Humour".

I'm really happy about this, as you can imagine, since I've never gotten an award for my writing and I'm glad someone liked my writing enough to have nominated me. (Many thanks to whoever did that!)

The nomination needs to be seconded, however, before I can be in the general voting, so I'm hoping some nice person on my f-list will second the nomination of my story. (You can do that here.)

~~ makes wulvie-cub eyes at f-list ~~

The fabulous shiv5468 has written some custom Fenmione for me, for my prompt "Dark romance. With bunny slippers. On Fenrir. :D" Go read the scrumptious drabble here.

Title: Poisson d'Avril
Author: Persephone Yavanna the Entwife
Pairing/Characters: Lucius, Narcissa, Severus, Peter, Remus, Lily, Sirius, Bellatrix, Rodolphus, Rabastan and Horace
Wordcount: 8411
Rating: G for gen (in other words, completely work-safe!)
Warnings: None, to my mind, but hints of femdom and mild language might offend the more sensitive souls
Disclaimer: JK Rowling and assorted others have rights to create derivative works within the Potterverse, but I am not one of those licensees, unfortunately. Rather not be sued for playing with the characters, though . . . not making a profit here, just exploring the characters and situations created by the esteemed Ms. Rowling.
Summary: Severus gets some unexpected help in turning the tables on Sirius Black
Author Notes: The title comes from the French term for April Fools. This is also my first Marauders-era story.

( Poisson d'Avril )

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Title: Puppy Pile
Author: Persephone Yavanna the Entwife
Pairing/Characters: Remus and Fenrir
Wordcount: 1138
Rating: G for gen (in other words, completely work-safe!)
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: JK Rowling and assorted others have rights to create derivative works within the Potterverse, but I am not one of those licensees, unfortunately. Rather not be sued for playing with the characters, though . . . not making a profit here, just exploring the characters and situations created by the esteemed Ms. Rowling.
Summary: One of the things Remus had missed most about his time as Dark Arts professor was the children.
Author Notes: Happy Birthday Remus!

( Puppy Pile )

Dave Legeno has been cast as Fenrir Greyback, according to his management company's webpage. You can see more pics of him here in this article.

Speaking only for myself, I think he's a most drool-worthy choice for the Wizarding World's bad-boy werewolf.

~~likes "rough trade" ~~

Gakked from eeyore9990:

hp_hardcore presents Hardcore Valentines! Click here to get your own!


I opened my Valentines and just like last year had a few pleasant surprises. rakina, foudebassan, and misterporcelain all sent me greetings, as did Anarchist Nomad and Cheshcat from LJ. I also got one from Bethy NYC, which surprised me a bit, and an anonymous valentine as well.

~~ wonders if Fenrir sent that one ~~

As a follow-up to my prior post, the mod deleted the post and has also decided to remove my posting access. That was completely unnecessary, since I could have posted a link to unlocked G-for-gen fic housed here and still been within that community's rules.

This only confirms my reasons for not wanting to post my fics in their entirety to any community.

Just got a set of comments from from the mod of a community I posted an entry to that had a link to Wolf at the Door. She told me I had to post the entire story to the community, or my post would be removed.

So I guess it's going to be removed, even though I'd explained to a prior commentor why I had an f-locked post in an f-locked community. (That explanation being that that community is not the only one to which I made a post about this tale which is housed on my personal IJ and some of these communities do NOT have age-restricted membership. On my profile I give the IJ FAQ # and TOS section that form one of the reasons I f-lock my stories rated higher than G-for-gen. My stories are posted in full ONLY in my personal IJ, NOT in any communities. Communities only get a link to the post -- which is an f-locked one if it contains NWS material.)

As an author, I want to have control over where my fiction shows up and when I post to a community, I don't, since the mod can remove posting access from me at any time. If I do not have posting access, then I cannot edit the post. So if I decided to remove the story, I cannot. If I wanted to remove the story and put in a link to it, I cannot. If I want to change a typo, I cannot.

THAT is why I post ONLY to my own journal. I refuse to allow someone else the power of who can and cannot see my fic, especially if said fic contain NWS material.

I have VERY good real-life reasons for restricting the access to my adult fiction. If someone cannot respect that, well, so be it.

It would have been nice to have posted further parts to that storyline to that community, but it seems that's not going to be happening, now or in the future.

This piece has been written for luciusfqf's Lucius Malfoy Fuh-Q-Fest.


Title: The House-elves’ Dilemma
Author: Persephone Yavanna the Entwife
Pairing/Characters: Lucius, Narcissa and assorted house-elves (contains OEC -- Original Elf Characters)
Wordcount: 1422
Rating: G for gen (in other words, completely work-safe!)
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: JK Rowling and assorted others have rights to create derivative works within the Potterverse, but I am not one of those licensees, unfortunately. Rather not be sued for playing with the characters, though . . . not making a profit here, just exploring the characters and situations created by the esteemed Ms. Rowling.
Summary: Written for the prompt Dobby has gone, set free by that blasted Potter boy and his loathsome sock. Lucius is devastated beyond words.
Author Notes: I'd planned on writing something along these lines for a while, but had never done so. This fest gave me a reason to tell things from the house-elves' point of view.

( The House-elves’ Dilemma )

sofiaottoman has added Wolf at the Door to her Harry Potter/Fenrir Greyback rec list.

I've never been recced before! :D

~~ is squeeful ~~

the_con_cept has just written the most fantabulous Christmas-themed Snenrir ficlet for me, Christmas Condiments, with the prompt I had given her of Mistletoe and plum pudding are not usually part of a werewolf's Christmas celebrations -- especially if said werewolf is Fenrir Greyback.

This story is yummy in so very many ways -- I just adored squeaky, terrified Draco and cranky Fenrir, so very not in a holiday mood. Scrumptious Snapage as well . . .

~~ licks chops ~~