So I finally had time to go through all my backups, and I think I now have a complete Scrivener file with all of my fanfic wips from the past 20 years, including the ones that for the past five years I thought were lost on a dead hard drive but it turns out I'd been smart and burned a CD!

The Scrivener file has over 500,000 words. There are 222 stories in 47 fandoms, plus 32 distinct crossovers. There are only 9 where I have absolutely no idea what I was going with the thing! (Including one where my only hint is the filename "fpscnsw", so that's... helpful, past me.) There are plenty of others where I don't really know what happens *next*, but I think for most of them that was always the case, which is why they're still WIPs.

Anyway, call it 209 months since I started seriously writing fanfic, that averages about 2400 words a month in WIPs alone over the whole period, and almost the same per story, which isn't great but is a lot better than I would have guessed! (And just over one new WIP a month, which could be... better.)

Anyway, so I have indexed them by Simple Trope, and made a poll. I will use the results of this poll to determine which one(s) I should work on, and either post here as definitely absolutely never to be finished, or actually finish.

Have fun with the poll!

Or, if you want to comment with one of the poll entries, I will give you a long excuse as to why I never finished it. :P

( poll )

Of course, that only includes the ones that made it to files on my computer - ones I only ever wrote into DW entries or comment threads or on paper or only talked about a lot and never put words down aren't counted....