Writing Year 2014

**Writing** **Year** **2014 (WY 2014)** was the first year of publication for Coeur Al'Aran with a generalized timespan between November 11, 2014 to November 10, 2015, though overlaps of dates and events tend to take place with other Writing Years. “Writing Years” is used as a broad qualifier for works published within a certain interval, but they differ from specialized periods and epochs within Coeur's literary time scale, which may extend into several different years evolving over time, such as structural and narrative changes over time.

## Works Encapsulated

The pieces with published chapters included in WY 2014 are *One Good Turn Deserves Another*, *Professor Arc*, *Professor Arc: Staffroom Chronicles*, and *From Beyond*. There are a total of 53 published chapters, not including other publications such as Coeur's magazine articles, prompts from *The Writer Games*, or reviews on other sites.

### One Good Turn Deserves Another

#### 2014

##### November

* **Tuesday, November 11**: Coeur publishes the first chapter
* **Wednesday, November 12**: Coeur publishes the second chapter
* **Thursday, November 13**: Coeur publishes the third chapter
* **Friday, November 14**: Coeur publishes the fourth chapter
* **Friday, November 21**:
	+ Coeur publishes the fifth chapter
	+ Coeur publishes the sixth chapter

* **Thursday, November 27**: Coeur publishes the seventh chapter

##### December

* **Saturday, December 6**: Coeur publishes the eighth chapter

* **Monday, December 15**:Coeur publishes the ninth chapter
* **Wednesday, December 24**: Coeur publishes the tenth chapter

#### 2015

##### January

* **Thursday, January 8**: Coeur publishes the eleventh chapter
* **Saturday, January 17**: Coeur publishes the twelfth chapter
* **Friday, January 30**: Coeur publishes the 13th chapter

##### February

* **Wednesday, February 25:** Coeur publishes the 14th chapter.

##### March

* **Tuesday, March 31**:Coeur publishes the 15th chapter*.*

##### June

* **Monday, June 8**: Coeur publishes the 16th chapter

##### July

* **Sunday, July 19:** Coeur publishes the 17th chapter

##### August

* **Monday, August 10**: Coeur publishes the 18th chapter.
* **Monday, August 31**: Coeur publishes the 19th chapter

##### September

* **Monday, September 21**: Coeur publishes the 20th chapter

##### October

* **Monday, October 12**: Coeur publishes the 21st chapter

##### November

* **Monday, November 2**: Coeur publishes the 22nd chapter

### *Professor Arc*

#### 2014

##### December

* **Thursday, December 18**:Coeur publishes chapter 1, "A Slight Oversight"
* **Wednesday, December 24**: Coeur publishes chapter 2, "Doomsday Approaches"

#### 2015

##### January

* **Thursday, January 8**: Coeur publishes the third chapter, "Wolf among the sheep"
* **Tuesday, January 19**: Coeur publishes the fourth chapter, "Of forests, Grimm and Special Brew".

##### February

* **Thursday, February 12**: Coeur publishes "White Lies"
* **Tuesday, February 24**:Coeur publishes the sixth chapter, "Just another criminal"

##### March

* **Monday, March 16**: Coeur publishes the seventh chapter, "Awkward circumstances"

##### May

* **Thursday, May 14**: Coeur publishes the eighth chapter, "Lifestyle choices"

##### June

* **Monday, June 29**: Coeur publishes the ninth chapter, "Facing the music"

##### July

* **Monday, July 27:** Coeur publishes the tenth chapter

##### August

* **Monday, August 17**: Coeur publishes the eleventh chapter

##### September

* **Monday, September 7**: Coeur publishes the twelfth chapter, "The Devil's in the Detail"
* **Monday, September 28**: Coeur publishes the 13th chapter, "Forever Fail"

##### October

* **Monday, October 19**: Coeur publishes the 14th chapter, "Unhappy Hour"

##### November

* **Monday, November 9**:Coeur publishes the 15th chapter

### *Professor Arc: Staffroom Chronicles*

#### 2015

##### July

* **Thursday, July 2:**Coeur publishes the first chapter of *Professor Arc: Staffroom Chronicles*
* **Friday, July 3:**Coeur publishes the second chapter of *Professor Arc: Staffroom Chronicles*
* **Monday, July 6:**Coeur publishes the third chapter of *Professor Arc: Staffroom Chronicles*

##### August

* **Monday, August 3**: Coeur publishes the fourth chapter of *Professor Arc: Staffroom Chronicles*
* **Monday, August 24**: Coeur publishes the fifth chapter of *Professor Arc: Staffroom Chronicles.*

##### September

* **Monday, September 14**: Coeur publishes the sixth chapter of *Professor Arc: Staffroom Chronicles.*

##### October

* **Monday, October 5**: Coeur publishes the seventh chapter.
* **Sunday, October 25**:Coeur publishes the eighth chapter of *Staffroom Chronicles*.

### 2015

##### September

* **Monday, September 21**: Coeur publishes chapter 1, "Death of an Arc"
* **Friday, September 25**: Coeur publishes chapter 2, "The Jaunening"

##### October

* **Sunday, October 4**: Coeur publishes chapter 3, "Parajaunel Activity"
* **Monday, October 12**: Coeur publishes chapter 4, "Jauntergeist"
* **Monday, October 19**: Coeur publishes chapter 5, "The Nightmare before Jaunedice"
* **Monday, October 26**: Coeur publishes chapter 6, "Blake Swan"

##### November

* **Monday, November 2**: Coeur publishes chapter 7, "The Blake Witch Project"
* **Saturday, November 7**: Coeur publishes chapter 8, "The Arcsorcist"

## Meta Analysis

Of the four literary works published in WY 2014, the majority of publications have been centered around the romance and humor genres, primarily in *One Good Turn Deserves Another*, *Professor Arc*, and *From Beyond*. The main exception to the rule is *Professor Arc: Staffroom Chronicles*, which features no romance in favor of comedic parodies.

### One Good Turn Deserves Another

Coeur initially published *One Good Turn Deserves Another* as a response to "incredibly convenient and forced" romantic settings by writing a "realistic pairing" featuring the miscellaneous relationship stipulations that inidividuals in romantic settings would face. At the beginning of the work, Coeur notes that within the canon context of *RWBY*, Blake has an underdeveloped realtionship with Team JNPR compared to Ruby, Yang, or Weiss. To compensate for this, Coeur attempts to give Blake and Jaune a "realistic reason" to interact, namely with an unfortunate Grimm incident in the middle of the Emerald Forest. By the end of the chapter, Coeur notes the vast array of threats present in the World of Remnant outside of the Grimm, including thieves, terrorists, and militants.

As Coeur develops the plot, he decides the best approach would be to model the interactions between Jaune and Blake after one of his ex's since, in his experience, relationships tend to involve prior time and friendship. Coeur states that there is a disparaity between Jaune and Blake's personalitites in terms of maturity, so he states his intent at that point would be to have more interaction between the teams since "Blake [and] Jaune are major characters and their teams [are] their family."

Coeur was unsure about chapter 3, noting that he needs the chapter for plot purpose and "pseud-romance", but still wants romantic development to remain slow. He wanted to portray Weiss in a more positive and accepting light, but thinks Weiss may appear out of character. In reflection, he states that he will change his writing style based on the point of view, including some verbal and syntactical changes such as varied use of diction and internal monologues, such as for Blake Belladonna, while Jaune would have a voice in his head dictating how he should do things to look cool. He speculates how Yang's mind would operate, thinking it would likely be near-immediate when locating someone to tease.

In the author notes for chapter 4, Coeur states that he wants to keep the chapter uploads "episodic" due to his current work schedule, although he indicates that he would like to write longer chapters in the future. He bases an interaction from the chapter on real life interactions and responses to perceived notions of romance. Following that, he provides direct characterization of Yang, stating she seems to want to support [you] by allowing [you] to make mistakes, but within safe boundaries.

## Data Analysis

### Reviews

#### Aggregate

Line chart showing the reviews on each of Coeur Al'Aran's literary pieces from November 11, 2014 to November 10, 2015. Each dot represents a known data point, while non-dotted lines represent unknown spaces of data approximated as an average by Google Sheets.

### Performers

One Good Turn Deserves Another, Professor Arc, Professor Arc: Staffroom Chronicles, From Beyond

*One Good Turn Deserves Another* was the first of Coeur's published literatures to reach 100 reviews 25 days after publication, making it the quickest intial growth at that point. It would experience fairly linear growth over the course of Writing Year 2014.

*Professor Arc* was published in December 2014, and took approximately 24 days to reach the first 100 reviews and reached 250 reviews by February and 500 reviews by late-July, making it the newest quickest initial growth rate. Like *One Good Turn Deserves Another*, *Professor Arc* initially experienced linear growth, though it grew at a quicker rate over the first third of Writing Year 2014.

*Professor Arc: Staffroom Chronicles* received some attention following its publication, achieving 100 reviews in the middle of September 2015 and 200 reviews by the late-October, although it did not receive as much attention relative to its parent work, reaching 225 by the end of Writing Year 2014.

Over the course of Writing Year 2014, *One Good Turn Deserves Another* held an initial lead of reviews as the sole story and immediately after *Professor Arc*'s publication from November 2014 to March 2015, being the first piece to reach 100 and 250 reviews. By late-March 2015, *Professor Arc* briefly exceeded *One Good Turn Deserves Another* as Coeur's most reviewed story. The title would switch back and forth between March and July 2015, but by September 2015, *Professor Arc* had taken a decisive lead, becoming Coeur's first piece to reach 500 reviews by August and the first piece to reach 750 reviews by the beginning of October.

None of Coeur's stories would reach 1,000 reviews on their own, although by the end of writing year 2014, Coeur likely would have had over 2,000 cumulative reviews between all his pieces.

#### Daily

Line chart showing reviews two days after each chapter is published. Each dot represents known values and null values are plotted using Google Sheets.

### Date

11 November 2014 — 9 November 2015

To track initial popularity of chapters, we track the number of reviews over two days following the publication of each chapter. Initially, *One Good Turn Deserves Another* experienced a a stable number of reviews, averaging about 12 reviews after two days per chapter between November 11, 2014 and January 8, 2015. The first indication of increased growth took place with the publication of chapter 12 on January 17, which saw 27 total reviews. As 2015 continued, *One Good Turn Deserves Another* would see further increases up until March 31, 2015, when Coeur was unable to write due to medical and work conditions, by which point *One Good Turn Deserves Another* plateaued with an average of 25 reviews after two days per chapter.

*Professor Arc* experienced a dramatic and continued increase over the course of two days following each chapter publication, maintaining a consistent upward trend from December 18, 2014 to November 9, 2015.

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