RaisedonRadio

I was tagged by @witchhuntress ! I know you said I could do any fandoms but I decided it would be very fun to stick to only Ghost Hunt. I haven't written for Ghost Hunt since 2021 but I still think about it. And I had 31 fanfics to pick from (not including the couple fics that are multi one shots LOL) I decided to do them justice, and re-read a bunch of them, which was much more enjoyable than I expected. (But ugh. I still found some typos.) Also, I will keep this T rated!

Okay! I will start with a very light hearted one:

Lin’s List A list of 25 things for Lin to refrain from - and keep Oliver from doing - during their stay in Japan. As suggested by Madoka Mori. This was written in 2012. I recall it being inspired by a friend’s list style fic. It was such a fun feat to summarize the entire series in a 25 point list.

Knock Three Times Sixteen-year-old Ayako is invited to a test of courage. Hunting for Hanako-san will be child’s play, right? I really enjoyed learning about Japanese folklore and getting into a younger Ayako’s head for this fic.

Same Old Lang Syne Should old acquaintances be forgotten, and never brought to mind? This story is based after a song by John Fogelberg by the same name. This is one of those types of fics that has sooo much research in it to make it flow properly. Sometimes I think a fic based after a song will be easy: the plot is already there! But no. I wanted to keep the essence of the song strong, but I also wanted it not to stick out so bad when it was based after an American song set on Christmas Eve, but the fic was in Japan. I was quite happy with it in the end. And it hurt so many readers.

The Last of the Real Ones Being determined to expose them all as frauds might mean losing a piece of himself along the way. I don’t say this very often, because I mainly write one shots and am happy to do so, but this one was really was only going to be a one shot. And I realized how it definitely needed at least a little more, so I left it for dead for years. I was very glad I did eventually finish it.

Ever After, Fiftieth oneshot of Wishing Well Each story contains a question, but does it have an answer? Here they are collected together, like coins tossed in a wishing well. The one shot collection of Wishing Well was written from 2011-2014. Fun fact, it was originally a 100 prompt list, but by number 50, I just knew it was time to let it go and work on other things. I had wanted the last one shot to be perfectly epic and I think I achieved that. >:)

...If you want to find the rest of my fics, I am RaisedonRadio on AO3 and on FF.net.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65053591

You may be my lucky star, but I'm the luckiest by far.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63603580

The day they revisited the house they were supposed to move into.

Same Old Lang Syne

Should old acquaintances be forgotten, and never brought to mind?

The Big Heart

Through an unexpected encounter, Luella gets a glimpse into the hearts of her recently adopted twins.

A Ghost Hunt Fanfiction, one-shot, 1000 words. Pre-Series, Rated Gen/K

Read it on: AO3 / FF.net / Under the Cut!

(I started this last year and found it in my drafts ten days before Christmas. And I swore up and down I wouldn’t let it sit for another year. Yes, it is basically that lovely scene from that one Christmas movie that I will list at the bottom notes if you are not familiar with it. Thanks for reading!)

A dream is a wish your heart makes.

Two fools on the other side of the apocalypse, knowing that finding the time for pleasure might be the only thing that keeps them sane and alive.

What a marvel, the extreme steps fate had to take to bring them back together in this lifetime.

There is power coursing through his veins, and love stabbing him in the heart.

Hi, I’m RaisedonRadio & FortressofmyPast on AO3 and FF.net. This is an on-going tradition since 2015. Check out my past year-end posts: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.

Tagging a few, but if you come across this, consider it an open tag! You’re welcome to tag me back, I’d love to read it!

@writercorianarose @shesailsships @talesofsorrowandofruin @azdesertwillow @goneahead @littlemissfandomworld @dreams-of-kalopsia @halleyuhm

Big change for me compared to last year—in addition to NaNoWriMo, I actually posted fanfics! I tried to add some new questions to this year’s edition, I hope they might even move out of my tiny circle.

Total Word Counts: 51,920 for 2023 NaNoWriMo 15,570 on 2022 NaNoWriMo project 19,193 for July 2023 Camp NaNoWriMo (mostly fanfics) 28,310 in published fanfics (this number is overlapping with camp nano, I wasn’t paying attention, so I’m not going to add everything together)

Total Number Of Completed Works: 10 Total Number of WIPS worked on this year: 10 or so How Many WIPs do you still have: 23

Looking back, did you write more than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expected? I wrote way more than expected! I seriously didn’t think I would do NaNoWriMo again. And I published ten fics! That’s ten more than last year!

Did you take any writing risks this year? The NaNoWriMo project was definitely a risk for me. I basically had an idea and no outline. It was quite a challenge to my perfectionism issues—I had to basically never reread anything and just keep going, fully aware that I can better foreshadow the ideas that came up halfway through in the next rewrite.

Biggest Surprise: I wrote for NaNoWriMo again, which I was pretty sure wouldn't happen lol, and hit the word count, all through discovery writing, and having very little idea where I was going with it.

Biggest Disappointment: I dropped that above mentioned project the moment November ended! I can tell it has potential, hidden in there. I will definitely return to it.

Do you have any writing goals for the new year? I’d love to at least finish the first draft of the 2023 NaNoWriMo project, bringing it to a tentative end so I can actually reread it and go from there. And keep writing fanfic, and maybe even work on the 2022 nanowrimo project…

Fanfiction Questions Below! (if you don’t write fanfiction feel free to skip or rework the questions for your original works.)

Being with her was effortless.

She still manages to learn something new about him every day.