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The 'When' of Ficcing

will57
Okay, so I'm following the crowd here. During my study break, I put all my fics/drabbles in chronological order. Wasn't easy, because a lot of them don't have a specific time setting and could feasibly occur within a one or two season span of time. But I just pegged things where I'd pictured them when writing each piece.

A lot of post-series stuff, but that's expected since most of my Spuffy is in that post-NFA happy Spuffy place. Nothing from S1 and no pre-series pieces, though. I tend to write later seasons more. Go figure.

Oh, and I've written roundabouts 127,000 words. Damn. I think that's a lot. Sounds like a lot. Makes the 3,000 words I need to write to finish the Influence revisions seem like nothing (My writing woes, let me show you them).



Some vague time during the high school years

What Giles Found in the Library - Giles/Harmony - 100 words - really, it could be anytime.

S2

Luv - Spike/Cordelia - 100 words - during School Hard
Closet: Like - Willow/Cordelia - 1,225 words - during School Hard
Closet: Curves - Willow/Cordelia - 1,311 words - after Phases

S3

Three's Company - Harmony/Faith - 100 words - during Homecoming
Fucked - Warren/Faith - 100 words - early S3
Dancing - Buffy/Faith - 100 words - during Bad Girls
Screwing Vampires - vamp!Willow/evil!Faith - 874 words - during Doppelgangland
Closet: Soap - Willow/Cordelia - 1,282 words - after Doppelgangland

S4

Closet: Different - Willow/Cordelia - 1,525 words - between IWRY and Something Blue
How Xander Got Fired From That Phone Sex Line - 285 words - well...it's before TYF...I'll stick it here
Worth It - Buffy/Spike - 3,910 words - after Superstar
Closet: Vibrations: - Willow/Cordelia - 1,530 - shortly before The Yoko Factor

Between S4 and S5

For Granted - Buffy/Riley - 100 words - I think this one can work at several different points, but this is what I specified

S5

Top to Bottom - Xander/Anya - 100 words - god only knows where this one is set. I'm saying early S5
Cooler Than You - OC, Buffy - 378 words - during NPLH
Costumes - Buffy/Spike - 1,311 words - between NPLH and Family
An Arousing Sexual Encounter Between Buffy Summers and William "Spike" Pratt - Buffy/Spike - ~500 words - Sometime in S5. Mid-S5.

Summertime between S5 and S6

The Love of a Good Bot - Buffybot/Toaster oven - 100 words - yep
Charm - Willow, Willow/Tara - 1,518 words - spans the summer there

S6

Money Expert - Anya - 150 words - this one could be set anywhere from S5 to S6, but I had early S6 in mind when I wrote it
Untitled - Buffy - 673 words - around Flooded and Life Serial
Murphy's Law - Ensemble - ~32K words so far - Technically starts during S5's The Gift, but the actual action doesn't begin until After Tabula Rasa
Lookers for Hookers - Buffy, Anya - 860 words - During Doublemeat Palace
Rut - Spike, Clem - 100 words - sometime during the Buffy/Spike affair...
Reality - Buffy/Spike - 967 words - again, during the Buffy/Spike affair
Missing Heaven - Buffy/Spike - 268 words - after Dead Things
Portents - Jenny/Tara - 100 words - between Entropy and Seeing Red

S7

Buffy Takes Responsibility - Buffy/Spike - 551 words - early S7
Digital Ghost - Willow, Willow/Tara - 705 words - after Same Time, Same Place
Rules - Dawn, Andrew - 150 words - mid S7ish
Scarlet Folds of Heaven - Spike/Andrew - 1,085 words - mid to late S7
Intimacy - Spike/Robin - 3,331 words - after LMPTM
Sexual Secrets of the Vampyre - Spike/Andrew and Buffy/Spike - 662 words - after Storyteller
Everything a Big Bad Wolf Could Want - Spike - 1,241 words - probably before Dirty Girls
Thanks - Spike/Xander - 100 words - during Dirty Girls
Bones - Buffy/Spike - 500 words - fitb fic during Chosen

Post-series

Cardboard Memorial - Spike/Andrew - 100 words - immediately post-Chosen
Twinkling - Buffy/Spike - 683 words - immediately post-Chosen
Lingering - Buffy/William - 35,374 words - post-Chosen
Watcher - Marcie/Faith - 100 words - sometime post-Chosen
Almost Baked - Buffy/Angel - 100 words - sometime during AtS S5
Telephone - Andrew, Xander, Willow, Giles, Dawn, Buffy - 1,013 words - shortly after Damage
Exposed - Minor characters - 1,569 words - during AtS S5
Director's Cut - Buffy/Spike, Andrew - 253 words - post-NFA
Strength - Buffy/Spike - 2,497 words - post-NFA
Into Morning - Buffy/Spike - ~5,000 words - post-NFA
Influence of Demons - Buffy/Spike - ~30K words so far - AU from Checkpoint and starts 5 years from that spot
Crush - Giles/OC - 100 words - sometime after the series has ended
Lotophagi - Buffy, Spike - 1,195 words - post-NFA
Loser Takes All - Buffy/Spike - 2,879 words - post-NFA Spuffy happy place
Sides - Buffy/Spike - 100 words - post-NFA Spuffy domestic bliss
Making Love Now - Buffy/Spike - 100 words - and again...
Cleaning Out the Closet - Buffy/Spike - 500 words - so, so happy...
The Hard Question - Buffy/Spike - 200 words - domestic. bliss.
Not Just For Crayons - Buffy/Spike - 200 words - post-NFA Spuffy happiness
Oral - Buffy/Spike - 100 words - See. They're happy together!
Re-Popping the Cherry - 935 words - Buffy/Spike - Domestic. Bliss.
The Smiling Girl - 600 words - Buffy/Spike - spans Buffy's lifetime post-NFA


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angearia
Nov. 8th, 2009 01:26 am (UTC)
This is me, virtually standing over here, admiring your index and telling myself that I must resist doing this. Must resist!

And also, how cool that you've written so much! 127K is a lot. How long have you been writing fanfic now?
gabrielleabelle
Nov. 8th, 2009 01:37 am (UTC)
I've been writing Buffy fic for a little over a year. I've written fics in other fandoms, but I didn't count those, of course.

See, and I always think of myself as a slow writer. I think it's more that I get distracted easily, so it'll take me forever to write the next chapter of a longfic, but I'll pop out some drabbles and ficlets in the meantime.

This is me, virtually standing over here, admiring your index and telling myself that I must resist doing this. Must resist!

Nah. Go ahead and succumb. All the cool kids are doing it. :)
angearia
Nov. 8th, 2009 01:47 am (UTC)
She didn’t try any more moves, and just skated faster and faster round the rink, refusing to cry.

I'm a rebel. And also lazy.
stormwreath
Nov. 9th, 2009 12:02 am (UTC)
I'm a cool kid now? (Checks suspiciously to see if I've been replaced by a pod person during the night...)

Also, you've written more fic than I have. *sulks* *hands you Hat of Awesome Writeriness*.
gabrielleabelle
Nov. 9th, 2009 12:10 am (UTC)
I have? Really? By story or word count? Cause your list looks longer than mine...

But I'll take the hat, in any case. :)
stormwreath
Nov. 9th, 2009 12:41 am (UTC)
Wordcount. Though actually, that was based on the fact that when I last counted it up a year ago, I'd only written 90,000 words. But since then I've reached a total of 138,673, so I've actually just crept in front of you again. :-)

A lot of my stories are drabbles or ficlets; you've written three 30,000+ word epics. Hence the discrepancy.

My big fic stats post was written a year ago, here:
http://stormwreath.livejournal.com/59201.html
gabrielleabelle
Nov. 9th, 2009 01:05 am (UTC)
30k isn't an epic! 100k is an epic.

And you do realize you've just motivated me to beat your word count, right? Right??

*gets all competitive*
stormwreath
Nov. 9th, 2009 01:43 am (UTC)
When the longest fic I've ever written is 24,000 words, 30,000 certainly is an epic.

And I'm fairly certain your total LJ wordcount is already far greater than mine...

Me: 354 journal entries, 8,270 comments received, 6,902 comments posted.
You: 627 journal entries, 19,154 comments received, 9,158 comments posted.

So there's no need to get competitive. You've already won. :-) (Though if this motivates you to finish 'Influence'...)
gabrielleabelle
Nov. 9th, 2009 01:51 am (UTC)
Good grief. I talk far too much. Er...write far too much.

(Though if this motivates you to finish 'Influence'...)

*whimpers*
louise39
Nov. 8th, 2009 01:32 am (UTC)
Handy dandy list!

[Not nagging but... I'd like to read more of your 'Influence of Demons']
gabrielleabelle
Nov. 8th, 2009 01:38 am (UTC)
Oh Influence...it's being worked on, trust me. Hit a snag during the beta, and revisions are kicking my ass.

The next chapter should be awesome whenever I finish it, though! :)
riccadonna
Nov. 9th, 2009 09:49 am (UTC)
This is a great index, I think you should link it with the tags.
gabrielleabelle
Nov. 9th, 2009 05:29 pm (UTC)
The thought has crossed my mind. :)
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