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ring in the new
HAPPY 2010, EVERYONE. It's that time again; giftfic reveals ahoy.
My Yuletide: Three From the Track, Dark is Rising, gen. Writing Merriman's POV was terrifying, but ended up being a lot of fun. This fic is actually a specific bookend to my WIP post-series novella, that I started forever ago but swear I will finish someday. Yuletide did remind me how much I love writing in this world.
My dSSS: Magnificent Mile, Fraser/Kowalski. I wrote a lot of this while spending Thanksgiving break in rural Maine, hanging out at a diner much like the one in the fic and savoring the cold and the wilderness. Eventually I'm going to write myself into a corner, and then I'll be forced to move to the Great White Nowhere.
My dSSS pinch hit: Dawn, Fraser/Kowalski, kidfic. I think I'd been trying to write due South kidfic since ... at least April. Upon reading my recipient's list of likes, including kidfic, and then a bunch of other helpful guidelines, I suddenly hammered out approaching 8000 words. Bless fic exchanges for untangling writer's block and creating gifts at the same time.
And now, of course, the slightly belated fic-year-in-review meme.
Favorite
Magnetic. I have never had such an easy time writing a fic; it desperately wanted to be written. It has probably destroyed me for all other due South fic ever, though, because nothing since has been as easy, and I doubt it ever will be.
Best
Katabasis. It's plotty, it holds up well, and it's probably the one genuinely new story I've contributed to due South fandom.
Most underappreciated by the universe
And Count Myself a King of Infinite Space, because I expect that the Venn diagram of people who [a] know who Geoffrey Tennant is, [b] know who Billy Tallent is, and [c] don't mind that the fic is pretty much gen, is vanishingly small. I still really love that one, though.
Most fun to write
Signs of Affection: like Magnetic, in microcosm, with more sex! I love flashfiction amnesty season.
Sexiest
Name It. I don't know about you but I think that Benton Fraser should be tied to beds a lot more often.
"Holy crap, that’s wrong even for you?"
as disastrous as to lose is probably the closest I got; I am not really in the market for Bad Wrong Things, and I suspect I should probably discard the question entirely because it implies that there are Bad Wrong Things. But that was the fic where I went there and wrote a much more fucked-up Remus Lupin than I ever suspected I would.
Fic that shifted my own perception of the characters
Dawn, to my delight. Writing Fraser and Kowalski trying to be parents made me consider things about them that I hadn't thought to do before.
Hardest to do
Undercover. My god, that fic would not behave. This boggled me, because F/K/V is something I usually have an easy time with. I never did manage to get the sex scene to behave.
Biggest disappointment
Follow Without Pride. There's nothing technically wrong with it, but I don't think I actually said most of the things about Fraser that I wanted to say.
Biggest surprise
Carry On. I killed Fraser and wrote straight-up Ray/Ray. I am not in the market for killing my favourite characters, even if they stick around as ghosts! I was also astonished by how much I liked how the fic turned out.
Most telling
The Love Song of S. Raymond Kowalski. It is all my most self-indulgent literary stuff, and also, as![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
feverbeats said, I like how this fic is also sort of a love letter to the Great Outdoors, and how it's fucking scary and amazing and shit. I blame your perpetually-open window for this. Or, as he more succinctly put it elsewhere, the more of your dS fic I read the more convinced I am that you are kind of in love with the idea of big naturey spaces without many people. GO TO CANADA, YOU FREAK. Yep.
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
MORE. Absolute bucketloads more. With the exception of February, I posted at least one fic every month of the year. I don't think I've done that before ever.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?
I suppose I might have predicted writing due South fic in January, because I was watching the show and enamored by then. I didn't know I'd be writing any sex scenes, though, because although I think I've been comfortable trying to write them for a few years now, my main fandom before dS was Doctor Who, wherein my OTP mostly has alien sex inside each other's heads. I didn't think I'd write any Battlestar Galactica fic, because I'd seen hardly any BSG this time last year and wasn't remotely fannish about it. I'm astonished that I returned briefly to Harry Potter fic. The whole year has been a surprise!
Did you take any writing risks this year?
Hmm. This year is definitely the first year I've sat down specifically to write porn without any plot value in. I do feel like in the latter half of the year my writing stalled a little, though; I need to do something new and challenging to jump-start it.
What did you learn from them?
Well, I learned that I do not squeak and get embarrassed at the idea of writing porn.
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
See above re: doing something new and challenging to jump-start my writing, because I don't feel like my writing's become significantly better since the naming of things. I do specifically want to write a Doctor/Master fic after I've seen the last special, because I want to bookend my fannish time with Ten and because it's at least a little possible that it'll be the jump-start I'm talking about. I also have the scary and ambitious project of the due South s2 AU, which has a rough-draft deadline of April. At some point I need to finish my accidental post-series Dark is Rising novella. Perhaps that deadline can be Midsummer, because that seems appropriate. These next few months will be exciting.
And once I'm done with undergrad, I aim to actually work on a non-fanfic novel-in-progress or two; I'm probably deluding myself in thinking that I'll have any more time once I have (a) job(s) instead of classes, but a girl can dream.
My Yuletide: Three From the Track, Dark is Rising, gen. Writing Merriman's POV was terrifying, but ended up being a lot of fun. This fic is actually a specific bookend to my WIP post-series novella, that I started forever ago but swear I will finish someday. Yuletide did remind me how much I love writing in this world.
My dSSS: Magnificent Mile, Fraser/Kowalski. I wrote a lot of this while spending Thanksgiving break in rural Maine, hanging out at a diner much like the one in the fic and savoring the cold and the wilderness. Eventually I'm going to write myself into a corner, and then I'll be forced to move to the Great White Nowhere.
My dSSS pinch hit: Dawn, Fraser/Kowalski, kidfic. I think I'd been trying to write due South kidfic since ... at least April. Upon reading my recipient's list of likes, including kidfic, and then a bunch of other helpful guidelines, I suddenly hammered out approaching 8000 words. Bless fic exchanges for untangling writer's block and creating gifts at the same time.
And now, of course, the slightly belated fic-year-in-review meme.
Favorite
Magnetic. I have never had such an easy time writing a fic; it desperately wanted to be written. It has probably destroyed me for all other due South fic ever, though, because nothing since has been as easy, and I doubt it ever will be.
Best
Katabasis. It's plotty, it holds up well, and it's probably the one genuinely new story I've contributed to due South fandom.
Most underappreciated by the universe
And Count Myself a King of Infinite Space, because I expect that the Venn diagram of people who [a] know who Geoffrey Tennant is, [b] know who Billy Tallent is, and [c] don't mind that the fic is pretty much gen, is vanishingly small. I still really love that one, though.
Most fun to write
Signs of Affection: like Magnetic, in microcosm, with more sex! I love flashfiction amnesty season.
Sexiest
Name It. I don't know about you but I think that Benton Fraser should be tied to beds a lot more often.
"Holy crap, that’s wrong even for you?"
as disastrous as to lose is probably the closest I got; I am not really in the market for Bad Wrong Things, and I suspect I should probably discard the question entirely because it implies that there are Bad Wrong Things. But that was the fic where I went there and wrote a much more fucked-up Remus Lupin than I ever suspected I would.
Fic that shifted my own perception of the characters
Dawn, to my delight. Writing Fraser and Kowalski trying to be parents made me consider things about them that I hadn't thought to do before.
Hardest to do
Undercover. My god, that fic would not behave. This boggled me, because F/K/V is something I usually have an easy time with. I never did manage to get the sex scene to behave.
Biggest disappointment
Follow Without Pride. There's nothing technically wrong with it, but I don't think I actually said most of the things about Fraser that I wanted to say.
Biggest surprise
Carry On. I killed Fraser and wrote straight-up Ray/Ray. I am not in the market for killing my favourite characters, even if they stick around as ghosts! I was also astonished by how much I liked how the fic turned out.
Most telling
The Love Song of S. Raymond Kowalski. It is all my most self-indulgent literary stuff, and also, as
feverbeats said, I like how this fic is also sort of a love letter to the Great Outdoors, and how it's fucking scary and amazing and shit. I blame your perpetually-open window for this. Or, as he more succinctly put it elsewhere, the more of your dS fic I read the more convinced I am that you are kind of in love with the idea of big naturey spaces without many people. GO TO CANADA, YOU FREAK. Yep.Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
MORE. Absolute bucketloads more. With the exception of February, I posted at least one fic every month of the year. I don't think I've done that before ever.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?
I suppose I might have predicted writing due South fic in January, because I was watching the show and enamored by then. I didn't know I'd be writing any sex scenes, though, because although I think I've been comfortable trying to write them for a few years now, my main fandom before dS was Doctor Who, wherein my OTP mostly has alien sex inside each other's heads. I didn't think I'd write any Battlestar Galactica fic, because I'd seen hardly any BSG this time last year and wasn't remotely fannish about it. I'm astonished that I returned briefly to Harry Potter fic. The whole year has been a surprise!
Did you take any writing risks this year?
Hmm. This year is definitely the first year I've sat down specifically to write porn without any plot value in. I do feel like in the latter half of the year my writing stalled a little, though; I need to do something new and challenging to jump-start it.
What did you learn from them?
Well, I learned that I do not squeak and get embarrassed at the idea of writing porn.
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
See above re: doing something new and challenging to jump-start my writing, because I don't feel like my writing's become significantly better since the naming of things. I do specifically want to write a Doctor/Master fic after I've seen the last special, because I want to bookend my fannish time with Ten and because it's at least a little possible that it'll be the jump-start I'm talking about. I also have the scary and ambitious project of the due South s2 AU, which has a rough-draft deadline of April. At some point I need to finish my accidental post-series Dark is Rising novella. Perhaps that deadline can be Midsummer, because that seems appropriate. These next few months will be exciting.
And once I'm done with undergrad, I aim to actually work on a non-fanfic novel-in-progress or two; I'm probably deluding myself in thinking that I'll have any more time once I have (a) job(s) instead of classes, but a girl can dream.
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Yeah, you need to get on that Ray/Ray fic. :D
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