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Even though I'm probably not done writing for the year (still have my![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
dw_historical fic and stockings to fill), I did the year's worth of fic meme this time last year, so it seems natural to do it again now.
For the year of 2008...
Fics Completed:
Any Moment Now (Doctor Who, unposted except on LJ)
The Waiting-Room World (Doctor Who)
Staying (Doctor Who)
You Really Should Have Specified (Doctor Who)
than are dreamt of in your philosophy (Doctor Who)
Looking Good is Serious Business (Doctor Who)
Concerning Multiverse Theory (Doctor Who)
Old Friends and Observers (Doctor Who)
Block Transfer Computations (Doctor Who)
Entirely Your Fault (Doctor Who, not posted on my Teaspoon account but I really don’t care anymore who knows I wrote it.)
Made Up Your Mind (Doctor Who)
All Manner of Surprises (Doctor Who)
Metric ton of microfic (Doctor Who, CSI, CSI: Miami, Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU)
Fics (multi-chapter) Started or Continued:
The Sixth-Date Rule (Chapter 3) (CSI: Miami)
The Memory Always Lies (Doctor Who)
An Experiment, of Sorts (Doctor Who)
Total:
16
Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?
I...didn’t really make a prediction this year. Possibly more than I expected, because I expected junior year to hand me my arse (which it still did, but never mind).
Where did you publish/archive your stories?
Fanfiction.net for new-school Who and CSI: Miami; Teaspoon for the Doctor Who fic.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2008?
I had no idea I would be this into old-school Who at the beginning of the year, given that by that point I was still intimidated by it (and I still am, don’t get me wrong). I especially had no idea I’d latch on to the Three era the way I did. So everything I’ve written for that particular corner of the Whoniverse falls under here.
What’s your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.
Probably The Waiting-Room World or Concerning Multiverse Theory.
Okay, NOW your most popular story.
Staying, I think.
Story most underappreciated by the universe?
*shrugs*
Story that could have been better?
I’m still not really satisfied with the way Old Friends and Observers ended, and I think it shows. I feel like there’s a much longer fic to be had there, and that the conversation between Lucy and the Brig ended far too abruptly and left too much unasked and unanswered. That said, I also couldn’t think of anywhere for their conversation to actually go after the point that I ended it, so...*shakes head*
Sexiest story?
Um. Probably Entirely Your Fault? It had banter. And handcuffs. And a naughty word, which is closer than any of my other fics got to legitimate sexyness. And the anons who reviewed it found it hot.
Most fun story?
Possibly All Manner of Surprises, since it was a) a study break, b) written almost entirely on impulse, and c) if not the weirdest thing I’ve written, then certainly the weirdest thing I’ve had the nerve to post. Also, possibly You Really Should Have Specified; I’m not terribly proud of it now, but I remember having a good laugh or two writing it, at least.
Not easy, but still fun: The Waiting-Room World, which was difficult to finish before my self-imposed deadline (Day O’Classic), but which forced me into a genre I’ve never been quite comfortable in (apocalyptic fic) and also forced me to make plausible characterizations based on what was, at times, twenty minutes of screen time and five lines. I really enjoyed the challenge. Also, it gave me an excuse to watch The Ark in Space a whole bunch of times.
Story with single sweetest moment?
Probably Staying, and “do you trust me with me”. I hope it was sweet, anyway. It was meant to be.
The story that made you cry?
Made Up Your Mind caused a few tears of frustration, let me tell you. :( And, while I’m slightly embarrassed to admit it, I got choked up writing the scene in An Experiment, of Sorts where the Doctor talks about Gamma Cephei alpha beta. While I was writing it, all I could think about was that how disconcerting it must be to lose something as beautiful as the whole universe – to never see it again and never get it back, when there was still so much you hadn’t seen. Like being stuck in a tiny cupboard for the rest of your life.
Hardest story to write?
Made Up Your Mind. Dammit Doctor I do not know how your whacked-out Time Lord brain works. *scowl* Though Chapter 2 of Memory has been so, so long in coming, and while I know (vaguely) what I want to write, actually writing it has been like pulling teeth for no obvious reason.
Easiest story to write?
See above re: most fun. Stuff that comes easily is usually fun. Plus, all the microfic and song-length fic I’ve been writing, while challenging in its own way, doesn’t usually provide the same level of head-desking frustration that proper fic tends to.
Most overdue story?
Chapter 4 of Sixth-Date Rule, Chapter 2 of The Memory Always Lies, and all those other various and sundry epics I keep promising to write or meaning to write but never do. *grumble*
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
-Writing for the kinkmeme. Having never dived into the wide world of pr0ns before, and with narry a sparkly clue what I was talking about, I was really more nervous about that than I should have been. And I learned that writing sex is not nearly as hard as transitioning from “leadup to sex scene” to “sex scene”.
-Participating in an exchange ficathon – specifically,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lizbee's Cliché Swap Ficathon. I’ve participated in (and by participated in I mean defaulted on) ficathons before, but never one where I wrote something specifically for someone else. I was very nervous about making my recipient happy in addition to my usual anxieties about finishing the damn thing. Which I, incidentally, haven’t. Bah. Not sure if I actually learned anything from that, other than that my beta filter is full of awesome people.
-Writing old-school Who. As I mentioned, I’m still intimidated by the Doctor Who universe – it’s very big, and very wide-ranging, and at times contradictory, and uses British spelling and idioms which don’t come naturally to me. As it is to most newcomers, I suspect, Classic Who last year was this big, scary Thing that I was never going to figure out, and characterization was so reliant on tiny scraps of knowledge from scattered serials that unless I watched every episode of every Doctor ever I was never going to be able to write for it.
Thankfully, that’s changed. I’ve learned to characterize the Classic Doctors and characters the same way I do everyone else – by observing them, by listening to them speak, by rambling about them at length in my journal (how much I meta about a character is directly proportional to how much I write them), and by checking Wikipedia or Canon Fodder if I’m unclear about a point of canon. It’s rather refreshing, actually.
- Writing (and posting) shippy old-school Who fic felt like a risk for me. When I first started writing old-school Who, I had to get over this feeling that writing shippy fic involving the Doctor was somehow wrong or improper or simply Not Done in old-school fandom. Which was stupid, since I shipped Nine/Rose really hard in New School, but…I don’t know. I was a confused little fan for a while there.
Do you have any fanfic goals for the New Year?
Several, actually:
-Finish something, dammit. Whether its one of my Miami WIPs, Memory, or An Experiment, of Sorts (which, given that there’s only one part left to do, seems most likely). I’m sick of being one of Those fic writers who never finishes her WIPs.
-Write moar slash. And femslash, while we’re talking. More to the point, write slash or femslash where there’s an actual relationship going on and/or actual sex, instead of all this UST nonsense I keep doing. And figure out if its spelled “femslash” or “femmeslash”.
-Related to the above, write proper Three/Delgado!Master that doesn’t involve weird-ass kinks. Considering how much I adore them together, it seems wrong that I’ve written so little.
- Write moar Two. More Two = good. As does more One, actually, so get on that too. And hey, learning to write, you know, the Doctors after Four couldn’t hurt.
- Write moar New Who fic! I haven’t written it in a while, and now I’ve got new characters and everything to play with.
-Write moar gen. Fandoms always need more gen.
- Read some (more) EDAs. Listen to some Big Finish Audios. Write fic for the characters therein.
- Expand my fannish and writerly horizons. Write for shows I watch but haven’t become fannish about (NCIS, Numb3rs, Horatio Hornblower, Chuck, maybe Monk and Psych too since they don’t get much fic). Continue writing fic for my older fandoms now that the Shiny New Fandom Sparkle for Doctor Who has worn off a tad. Stop worrying about who will read that [WALL-E/Iron Man/The Fall/Portal] fic and just write it.
- Relax. This is actually a general goal for next year, but it applies to fic too, so I figure it should go here.
I expect a few of you to fill this out as well, mind you, so that I have an excuse to ramble at you about your fic and witness the sekrit inner workings of your writerly mind and all that.
And now to study some more.
Even though I'm probably not done writing for the year (still have my
dw_historical fic and stockings to fill), I did the year's worth of fic meme this time last year, so it seems natural to do it again now.For the year of 2008...
Fics Completed:
Any Moment Now (Doctor Who, unposted except on LJ)
The Waiting-Room World (Doctor Who)
Staying (Doctor Who)
You Really Should Have Specified (Doctor Who)
than are dreamt of in your philosophy (Doctor Who)
Looking Good is Serious Business (Doctor Who)
Concerning Multiverse Theory (Doctor Who)
Old Friends and Observers (Doctor Who)
Block Transfer Computations (Doctor Who)
Entirely Your Fault (Doctor Who, not posted on my Teaspoon account but I really don’t care anymore who knows I wrote it.)
Made Up Your Mind (Doctor Who)
All Manner of Surprises (Doctor Who)
Metric ton of microfic (Doctor Who, CSI, CSI: Miami, Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU)
Fics (multi-chapter) Started or Continued:
The Sixth-Date Rule (Chapter 3) (CSI: Miami)
The Memory Always Lies (Doctor Who)
An Experiment, of Sorts (Doctor Who)
Total:
16
Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?
I...didn’t really make a prediction this year. Possibly more than I expected, because I expected junior year to hand me my arse (which it still did, but never mind).
Where did you publish/archive your stories?
Fanfiction.net for new-school Who and CSI: Miami; Teaspoon for the Doctor Who fic.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2008?
I had no idea I would be this into old-school Who at the beginning of the year, given that by that point I was still intimidated by it (and I still am, don’t get me wrong). I especially had no idea I’d latch on to the Three era the way I did. So everything I’ve written for that particular corner of the Whoniverse falls under here.
What’s your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.
Probably The Waiting-Room World or Concerning Multiverse Theory.
Okay, NOW your most popular story.
Staying, I think.
Story most underappreciated by the universe?
*shrugs*
Story that could have been better?
I’m still not really satisfied with the way Old Friends and Observers ended, and I think it shows. I feel like there’s a much longer fic to be had there, and that the conversation between Lucy and the Brig ended far too abruptly and left too much unasked and unanswered. That said, I also couldn’t think of anywhere for their conversation to actually go after the point that I ended it, so...*shakes head*
Sexiest story?
Um. Probably Entirely Your Fault? It had banter. And handcuffs. And a naughty word, which is closer than any of my other fics got to legitimate sexyness. And the anons who reviewed it found it hot.
Most fun story?
Possibly All Manner of Surprises, since it was a) a study break, b) written almost entirely on impulse, and c) if not the weirdest thing I’ve written, then certainly the weirdest thing I’ve had the nerve to post. Also, possibly You Really Should Have Specified; I’m not terribly proud of it now, but I remember having a good laugh or two writing it, at least.
Not easy, but still fun: The Waiting-Room World, which was difficult to finish before my self-imposed deadline (Day O’Classic), but which forced me into a genre I’ve never been quite comfortable in (apocalyptic fic) and also forced me to make plausible characterizations based on what was, at times, twenty minutes of screen time and five lines. I really enjoyed the challenge. Also, it gave me an excuse to watch The Ark in Space a whole bunch of times.
Story with single sweetest moment?
Probably Staying, and “do you trust me with me”. I hope it was sweet, anyway. It was meant to be.
The story that made you cry?
Made Up Your Mind caused a few tears of frustration, let me tell you. :( And, while I’m slightly embarrassed to admit it, I got choked up writing the scene in An Experiment, of Sorts where the Doctor talks about Gamma Cephei alpha beta. While I was writing it, all I could think about was that how disconcerting it must be to lose something as beautiful as the whole universe – to never see it again and never get it back, when there was still so much you hadn’t seen. Like being stuck in a tiny cupboard for the rest of your life.
Hardest story to write?
Made Up Your Mind. Dammit Doctor I do not know how your whacked-out Time Lord brain works. *scowl* Though Chapter 2 of Memory has been so, so long in coming, and while I know (vaguely) what I want to write, actually writing it has been like pulling teeth for no obvious reason.
Easiest story to write?
See above re: most fun. Stuff that comes easily is usually fun. Plus, all the microfic and song-length fic I’ve been writing, while challenging in its own way, doesn’t usually provide the same level of head-desking frustration that proper fic tends to.
Most overdue story?
Chapter 4 of Sixth-Date Rule, Chapter 2 of The Memory Always Lies, and all those other various and sundry epics I keep promising to write or meaning to write but never do. *grumble*
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
-Writing for the kinkmeme. Having never dived into the wide world of pr0ns before, and with narry a sparkly clue what I was talking about, I was really more nervous about that than I should have been. And I learned that writing sex is not nearly as hard as transitioning from “leadup to sex scene” to “sex scene”.
-Participating in an exchange ficathon – specifically,
lizbee's Cliché Swap Ficathon. I’ve participated in (and by participated in I mean defaulted on) ficathons before, but never one where I wrote something specifically for someone else. I was very nervous about making my recipient happy in addition to my usual anxieties about finishing the damn thing. Which I, incidentally, haven’t. Bah. Not sure if I actually learned anything from that, other than that my beta filter is full of awesome people.-Writing old-school Who. As I mentioned, I’m still intimidated by the Doctor Who universe – it’s very big, and very wide-ranging, and at times contradictory, and uses British spelling and idioms which don’t come naturally to me. As it is to most newcomers, I suspect, Classic Who last year was this big, scary Thing that I was never going to figure out, and characterization was so reliant on tiny scraps of knowledge from scattered serials that unless I watched every episode of every Doctor ever I was never going to be able to write for it.
Thankfully, that’s changed. I’ve learned to characterize the Classic Doctors and characters the same way I do everyone else – by observing them, by listening to them speak, by rambling about them at length in my journal (how much I meta about a character is directly proportional to how much I write them), and by checking Wikipedia or Canon Fodder if I’m unclear about a point of canon. It’s rather refreshing, actually.
- Writing (and posting) shippy old-school Who fic felt like a risk for me. When I first started writing old-school Who, I had to get over this feeling that writing shippy fic involving the Doctor was somehow wrong or improper or simply Not Done in old-school fandom. Which was stupid, since I shipped Nine/Rose really hard in New School, but…I don’t know. I was a confused little fan for a while there.
Do you have any fanfic goals for the New Year?
Several, actually:
-Finish something, dammit. Whether its one of my Miami WIPs, Memory, or An Experiment, of Sorts (which, given that there’s only one part left to do, seems most likely). I’m sick of being one of Those fic writers who never finishes her WIPs.
-Write moar slash. And femslash, while we’re talking. More to the point, write slash or femslash where there’s an actual relationship going on and/or actual sex, instead of all this UST nonsense I keep doing. And figure out if its spelled “femslash” or “femmeslash”.
-Related to the above, write proper Three/Delgado!Master that doesn’t involve weird-ass kinks. Considering how much I adore them together, it seems wrong that I’ve written so little.
- Write moar Two. More Two = good. As does more One, actually, so get on that too. And hey, learning to write, you know, the Doctors after Four couldn’t hurt.
- Write moar New Who fic! I haven’t written it in a while, and now I’ve got new characters and everything to play with.
-Write moar gen. Fandoms always need more gen.
- Read some (more) EDAs. Listen to some Big Finish Audios. Write fic for the characters therein.
- Expand my fannish and writerly horizons. Write for shows I watch but haven’t become fannish about (NCIS, Numb3rs, Horatio Hornblower, Chuck, maybe Monk and Psych too since they don’t get much fic). Continue writing fic for my older fandoms now that the Shiny New Fandom Sparkle for Doctor Who has worn off a tad. Stop worrying about who will read that [WALL-E/Iron Man/The Fall/Portal] fic and just write it.
- Relax. This is actually a general goal for next year, but it applies to fic too, so I figure it should go here.
I expect a few of you to fill this out as well, mind you, so that I have an excuse to ramble at you about your fic and witness the sekrit inner workings of your writerly mind and all that.
And now to study some more.
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