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dragojustine) wrote2009-01-01 09:47 pm
dragojustine) wrote2009-01-01 09:47 pm
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Writing round-up
I won't do a list, since virtually everything on the fic index was written this year. I'd only done one full-length story before 2008.
Year in Review: Roughly 87k words written total. 75k of fic posted: 22 stories, 2 five-things, 5 schmooplets, and 2 WIP-bits. Mostly slash, but 2 gen, 4 het, another 2 with hints of het, 2 threesomes, and my very first girlslash just barely started. 7 fandoms: SG1, SGA, SPN, CWRPS, Pushing Daisies, Rome, Mary Poppins.
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?: I set a 50k goal which I didn't think I'd reach, so more.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2008?: Hell, back in January, I never thought I'd write a full-length story in anything other than Supernatural! Stargate hit me out of the blue, for which I can never thank![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
miraid enough.
My favorite story of the year: Sic Semper Tyrannis, just because it was so fun to let all the history geekery suppressed since college out to play.
Best story of the year: I have no idea. Everything I re-read, I love, and everything I re-read, I find things that make me cringe.
Most unexpected story of the year: Wind in the East, and the reception it recieved. Who knew?
Story most underappreciated by the universe: The Stars Up Above You Feel Wrong, because it's gen so obviously nobody read it. But I think it's an astonishingly good little moment.
Most sexy story: Hell of a Sight.
Saddest story: Five First Kisses made me cry when I wrote it, and it can still make me cry.
Holy crap, that's wrong: Everybody who commented on Scratch the Itch called it wrong, which mostly seems to boil down to "Mitch Pileggi is old! Ew!" which I don't get. I think the wrong one is Truest Type of Love. Because man, that was fucked up. I mean, way more fucked up than even angsty dub-con incest usually is.
Story with single sexiest moment: That moment in Long Time Denied where I just sort of throw the full extent of my oral fixation out there for all to see. *blush*
Story with single sweetest moment: I think the ending of Second Chances, actually. It's not classically romantic or sweet at all; the ending is tangled and unresolved and hurty, but there's so much loyalty and dedication and determination to work through it and stay together, despite all the history and baggage and complicated emotions, and that pings me so much harder than traditional romance, really.
Most unintentionally telling story: Caught, obviously. It was posted after I broke up with Dustin, but definitely written before. Chuck feeling trapped with Ned, being frustrated enough at the distance between them and her desire to get out that she turns her sexual imagination completely away from him, gets bitter at him for expecting her to stay and be happy with the situation... wow. I couldn't have made that more obvious if I tried. I don't think that's a particularly good characterization of Chuck now. *laughs*
Most disappointing story: Slipping Into Place, which I love with the fire of a thousand suns because it's the first time I've been really satisfied with writing banter, but somehow feels like it should have been a much better story than it was. Also Same River Twice, which I planned to be a much bigger story than it ended up being, with the alternate-timeline year and everything, but I couldn't pull it off.
Hardest story to write: Jesus, they're all like pulling teeth! I guess Truest Type of Love, because I wanted it to be a cute brotherly prank war, and nothing would come out for weeks until I gave in and made it dark dub-con angst.
Easiest story to write: I seem to remember that Stars Up Above You came out all in one sitting with no real revision...
What story do you want to have written (having written is sometimes so much more fun than writing)?: The damned Daniel amnesia fic! At the top of the WIP, in the section for my notes, it says, "I have huge thematic holes- it's not just about Jack or even just about all these individual relationships. He needs to put back the pieces together for a whole life. Which means it's about learning himself as well as other people, and as he gets to understand himself again- to remember how it feels to be Daniel Jackson- he remembers his loneliness, his craving for affection and family, his guilt and feelings of failure, his self-image of himself as an outsider. Oh God. I am in no way a good enough writer to pull that off." Maybe if I delete that last sentence from the notes I'll be able to do it. Just, gah, there's such a powerful story there and I am in no way a good enough writer to do it justice, so I keep putting it off.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?: Yuletide was a huge scary risk for me, and I'd say it paid off in a big way.
This year's theme: Finding what you didn't even know you needed (Five People in John's Will; Problem Solving; Language of the Body). Or, closely connected, realizing that you already have what you're trying to find (Scratch the Itch; Timing; the damn Daniel amnesia WIP).
Do you have any goals for the New Year?: Well, the goal is 100k words, which is ambitious. But mostly I want to write longer connected stories. I seem to have gotten the hang of a 1-4k single scene fic, and I seem to have gotten the hang of connected vignettes, but I have the damnedest time writing a single story of longer than 4k. Mostly because (like with the Daniel amnesia fic), I'm intimidated and want to do them well and so I keep putting them off in favor of little single scenes and dialog vignette bits. So I have WIPs in Supernatural, RPS, and SG1 that I failed to write for mini-nano but am really going to try to suck it up and do this year.
Year in Review: Roughly 87k words written total. 75k of fic posted: 22 stories, 2 five-things, 5 schmooplets, and 2 WIP-bits. Mostly slash, but 2 gen, 4 het, another 2 with hints of het, 2 threesomes, and my very first girlslash just barely started. 7 fandoms: SG1, SGA, SPN, CWRPS, Pushing Daisies, Rome, Mary Poppins.
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?: I set a 50k goal which I didn't think I'd reach, so more.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2008?: Hell, back in January, I never thought I'd write a full-length story in anything other than Supernatural! Stargate hit me out of the blue, for which I can never thank
miraid enough. My favorite story of the year: Sic Semper Tyrannis, just because it was so fun to let all the history geekery suppressed since college out to play.
Best story of the year: I have no idea. Everything I re-read, I love, and everything I re-read, I find things that make me cringe.
Most unexpected story of the year: Wind in the East, and the reception it recieved. Who knew?
Story most underappreciated by the universe: The Stars Up Above You Feel Wrong, because it's gen so obviously nobody read it. But I think it's an astonishingly good little moment.
Most sexy story: Hell of a Sight.
Saddest story: Five First Kisses made me cry when I wrote it, and it can still make me cry.
Holy crap, that's wrong: Everybody who commented on Scratch the Itch called it wrong, which mostly seems to boil down to "Mitch Pileggi is old! Ew!" which I don't get. I think the wrong one is Truest Type of Love. Because man, that was fucked up. I mean, way more fucked up than even angsty dub-con incest usually is.
Story with single sexiest moment: That moment in Long Time Denied where I just sort of throw the full extent of my oral fixation out there for all to see. *blush*
Story with single sweetest moment: I think the ending of Second Chances, actually. It's not classically romantic or sweet at all; the ending is tangled and unresolved and hurty, but there's so much loyalty and dedication and determination to work through it and stay together, despite all the history and baggage and complicated emotions, and that pings me so much harder than traditional romance, really.
Most unintentionally telling story: Caught, obviously. It was posted after I broke up with Dustin, but definitely written before. Chuck feeling trapped with Ned, being frustrated enough at the distance between them and her desire to get out that she turns her sexual imagination completely away from him, gets bitter at him for expecting her to stay and be happy with the situation... wow. I couldn't have made that more obvious if I tried. I don't think that's a particularly good characterization of Chuck now. *laughs*
Most disappointing story: Slipping Into Place, which I love with the fire of a thousand suns because it's the first time I've been really satisfied with writing banter, but somehow feels like it should have been a much better story than it was. Also Same River Twice, which I planned to be a much bigger story than it ended up being, with the alternate-timeline year and everything, but I couldn't pull it off.
Hardest story to write: Jesus, they're all like pulling teeth! I guess Truest Type of Love, because I wanted it to be a cute brotherly prank war, and nothing would come out for weeks until I gave in and made it dark dub-con angst.
Easiest story to write: I seem to remember that Stars Up Above You came out all in one sitting with no real revision...
What story do you want to have written (having written is sometimes so much more fun than writing)?: The damned Daniel amnesia fic! At the top of the WIP, in the section for my notes, it says, "I have huge thematic holes- it's not just about Jack or even just about all these individual relationships. He needs to put back the pieces together for a whole life. Which means it's about learning himself as well as other people, and as he gets to understand himself again- to remember how it feels to be Daniel Jackson- he remembers his loneliness, his craving for affection and family, his guilt and feelings of failure, his self-image of himself as an outsider. Oh God. I am in no way a good enough writer to pull that off." Maybe if I delete that last sentence from the notes I'll be able to do it. Just, gah, there's such a powerful story there and I am in no way a good enough writer to do it justice, so I keep putting it off.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?: Yuletide was a huge scary risk for me, and I'd say it paid off in a big way.
This year's theme: Finding what you didn't even know you needed (Five People in John's Will; Problem Solving; Language of the Body). Or, closely connected, realizing that you already have what you're trying to find (Scratch the Itch; Timing; the damn Daniel amnesia WIP).
Do you have any goals for the New Year?: Well, the goal is 100k words, which is ambitious. But mostly I want to write longer connected stories. I seem to have gotten the hang of a 1-4k single scene fic, and I seem to have gotten the hang of connected vignettes, but I have the damnedest time writing a single story of longer than 4k. Mostly because (like with the Daniel amnesia fic), I'm intimidated and want to do them well and so I keep putting them off in favor of little single scenes and dialog vignette bits. So I have WIPs in Supernatural, RPS, and SG1 that I failed to write for mini-nano but am really going to try to suck it up and do this year.