That 2005 Fanfic Meme that I gacked from just about everybody on my flist...

[dreamflower]

I could not believe how long it took me to figure this one out. I knew I'd written quite a few stories, but...


Stories I have written in 2005 (including drabbles):

http://storiesofarda.com/author.asp?AuthID=753

Longer stories:

It Takes a Took
The Brandy Hall Incident
Marigold's Wedding
Pippin's Pack of Pickled Pipers
An Unexpected Guest
For the Sake of Friendship
Pippin the Protector
To Lead His People
Hobbit Aid
It's Nothing Really...
The Road to Edoras (WIP)
Chance Encounter (WIP)
Consequences of a Fall (WIP only posted on PippinHealers yahoo!group so far)

Shorter stories:

In Dreamflower's Mathoms (my Stories of Arda place for shorter fics) :

An Appeal to Family
A Gift for Frodo
The Steward and the King
A Special Homecoming
What I Did This Summer...
Three Nights Out of Bree...
Under the Lilac Bushes
Lesson Learned: Spring Flood, 1433
The Lady's Gift
In the Style of Ogden Nash
Third Thoughts
Proposal
All You Have to do is Ask
Comfort Food
The Taste of Strawberries
The Stubbornness of Tooks
Tea and Talk
A Young Hobbit's Fancy
Hide and Seek
Lamentation
In The Sitting Room
A Thorny Problem
Seven (Going on Thirty-nine)
On the Blessed Isle
Captain Freddy
The Pact
Test Results
Standing at the Bow
Last Look
Homecoming
Worth the Wait
Fatherly Advice
Heart's Desire
The Apples Don't Fall Far From the Tree
Moving Day
Down the Green Hills
Gandalf Ponders
The Morning After the Night Before
Muffled Conversation
Morning at Bucklebury Ferry
Gandalf Observes Boromir
A Purpose in Life
Papa's Present
Waiting for Bilbo
The Knight Has Been Unruly
Home at Last
Stop and Smell the Roses
Whisper of Hope
Memory and Sorrow
At Crickhollow
Buckland Spring
The Smallest Hands
The Birthday, S.R. 1402
Pippin's Promise
Five Things That NEVER Happened to Bilbo Baggins...
Bachelor Party
A Small Incident on the Great River...
Surprises
The Heart of the Conspiracy
A Summer's Day Ramble
First Meeting
"Learning Curve"
A Night to Remember
Something To Be Thankful For
Pippin's Charge to Éowyn
Once Upon a Time...
Growing Pains
Sweet Memories
Tom Cotton
Determination
Happy Birthday, Pippin!

In Twice Twenty (my Stories of Arda place for my 20_rings stories):

Cloudwatching
Playing at Stones
What You're Used To...
A Sticky Situation
The Hard Things About Waiting
Cousins and Caterpillars
Running
First Lessons
Clear Night
A First Time for Everything
Sums, Showers and Scones
Looking Back
Bullroarer
Far Away
The Wall Came Tumbling Down
In the Manner of Dreams
Blue Eyes
The Way of Things
"He Sat and Sang a Melody..."
Sometimes It's Worth It
Who Will Best Serve?
The Long Dark of Moria
If I Only Had a Fire
Two Nights Out of Rivendell
O! Water Cold
A Convivial Evening

In Dreamflower's Dribs and Drabs (Drabbles and poems at Stories of Arda)

The Last of the Nine Remember
25 Rethe, S.R. 1422: The Three Travellers Remember
Two Yuletide Carols of the Shire

My favorite of my own stories this year: It Takes a Took

My best story this year: To Lead His People

Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Home at Last--it’s Bilbo; hardly *anyone* properly appreciates *Bilbo*!

Most fun story: What I Did Last Summer…

Most sexy story: It Takes a Took; it has a kiss in it, and one of the minor characters is implied to have been making out..

Story with single sexiest moment: See above. The perils of writing gen; sexy moments are few and far between

Hardest story to write: Hobbit Aid--the story itself just gushed out. But it was so hard for me to write through it. My own feelings were all tangled up in the story.

"Holy crap, that's wrong even for you" fic: None--although I must confess that my contribution to Grey Wonderer’s “The Pepsi Saga” made me feel rather guilty.

Fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Lesson Learned: Spring Flood, 1433 and Hobbit Aid--the first didn’t really seem like much to me until the second came along, but it was a serious shift in my idea of my post-Grey Havens Shire.

Favorite major canon character of 2005: The same as ever--our four lads, together or apart, but especially together. No way I could pick just one of them.

Favorite minor canon character of 2005: Fredegar Bolger, although really, to me he is more of a major one; his late buddy Folco Boffin comes a close second. I find myself often trying to find an excuse to fit him into a pre-Quest story.

Favorite original character of 2005: I would say Menelcar. Even though he’s not a hobbit. My favorite *hobbit* OC, I think, would have to be Mistress Poppy Burrows, the intrepid little healer. And although I wouldn’t call her a *favorite* for I do not like her any better than my readers do, Hyacinth Took has got to be my best OC villian.

Biggest disappointment: Five Things that Never Happened to Bilbo Baggins--almost no response to that one.

Biggest surprise: The Apples Don’t Fall Far From the Tree--I didn’t know anything about the second generation in my Shire until this one came along.

Most telling story: Hobbit Aid. It told a lot more of my feelings than I normally allow in my stories.

What's next? More Road to Edoras, finish Consequences of a Fall, finish 20_rings, and I have a good sized cage full of bunnies eager to get out.

Comments

[gryffinjack.livejournal.com]

My, you certainly have been prolific, my dear! Is it any wonder it is taking me so long to review all of them?

It Takes a Took is one of my favourites as well. Others are: A Conspiracy of Hobbits, A New Reckoning, When the King Comes Back (both versions), Dare, To Lead His People, What I Did This Summer, The Brandy Hall Incident, Anytime I Want To..., and Pippin's Promise. Quite a list of favourites, and that's just off the top of my head!

My favourite of your OC's is Menelcar, although Hyacinth is wickedly wonderful to read. Favourite minor character, I have two - Freddy Bolger and Berilac Brandybuck.

Bilbo is underappreciated, isn't he? It's a delight whenever he turns up in one of your stories!

As for your cage full of bunnies eager to get out, I sure hope my bunny is one of the ones closest to the door!

May 2006 find you writing even more hobbity stories than 2005!

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

it’s Bilbo; hardly *anyone* properly appreciates *Bilbo*!

I love writing Bilbo, I just have been very shy to share my story on the cunning_burglar community...

I am trying to keep up with your impressive production of stories... :)

[topaztook.livejournal.com]

""Holy crap, that's wrong even for you" fic:"

One of the things I like best about your stories is that they are all so right for you, and your very comfortable an beautiful hobbity world.

I am also in awe at how much writing you manage to get done.

[etharei.livejournal.com]

*ish completely and utterly boggled by the list* Wow, I've always known you must be one of the most prolific LOTR writers out there, but that list just proves it! And just for 2005, too. I had to giggle at your 'favourite OC' list though ^_^ Am currently reading 'The Road to Edoras' :-D

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is a long list of stories!

I love your fics, and your Freddy and I treasure the Hobbit Aid story. Not only because I was part of the aid but because I know it was tough for you to write that (and because it is Merry centered too, but not only).

[dreamflower]

I tried counting all of them up one day while talking to danachan and was surprised at the number, but until I started making this list, it just didn't hit me.

I'm having *so* much fun with you reading my stuff chronologically--it takes me back to when they were first written.

I rather like Berilac as well, now you mention him.

I've already made a wee start on your bunny. Shh, don't tell.

[dreamflower]

Bilbo is such a dear! I do wish more people wrote him. I like to *read* Bilbo fic, not just write it!

And thank you! I just hope you enjoy them.

[dreamflower]

I am very comfortable in the hobbity world. It is just the way I am. I'd live there for real if I could.

Well, I do have an advantage over some, being retired, and also having insomnia--I have far more free computer time than the average person. And it's funny,I had slowed down a bit before the hurricane, and after that, I very nearly could not keep up with all the ideas in my head.

[dreamflower]

I hope you are enjoying it. I really need to get back to it, but shorter bunnies just keep appearing and *demanding* their chance, so RtE kind of gets put on the back burner. I have begun the next chapter though. And I am *determined* to stick with it, and make all the little bunnies just wait in line some.

[dreamflower]

Well, you know, dear, that you have inspired a great deal of my best stuff, like "Lamentation" and "It's Nothing Really".

And "Hobbit Aid" was just, well, special, and so were all of you.

[lindelea1.livejournal.com]

My goodness! I knew I was having trouble catching up, but I didn't realise *why* until this moment!

Yes, I do love your Menelcar, your Freddy and your Folco. I love how you think through things in the Shire, socially, politically, family relationships, personalities, surroundings--the people, the settings, the background, the baggage...

You have woven a rich tapestry and each story feels like taking a magnifying glass to a small part. Some parts overlap, and some have the same threads running through them, but each is a brilliant picture in itself, glowing with the love and care you infuse into your writing.

I feel so blessed to have such a treasure trove of reading material.

Now if I only had just a little more time for reading! LOL.

[gamgeefest.livejournal.com]

Most fun story: What I Did Last Summer…


That was so much fun, and so funny! Need more Pippin letters!

[dreamflower]

Well, I still have several of yours to catch up on!

Thank you so much for all the kind words. I just write what I would like to read, and hope it will encourage others to write the same sort of thing, so that I will have more reading material.

Well, if you have to choose between writing and reading my stories: I say *write* because then *I* will have something else to read...

[dreamflower]

It was fun. Pippin's such a succinct correspondent, LOL!

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

Wow! Not that is a lot of writing. Just stopping by to say how much I have enjoyed them all and your Freddy is one of my favorite characters.
"Hobbit Aid" had such feeling in it and you really put so much of yourself into that one. It was very brave.

[slightlytookish]

I love Menelcar! He's just a terrific, well-developed character. He feels like canon.

This is a good reading list! I see lots of things I haven't read. I'd better poke around SoA and start catching up!