End of Year Writing Meme: The Depressing Edition
Original
Tiny snippet, Tiny snippet involving scorpions, Penultimate section of Tame, Tiny ghost story, More Tame, The Circle (146,000 words)
Fan
Entomology, The Long Haul, Hat Trick, Hannibal chat/not exactly fic, GWTDT snippet
Poetry
Describe the colour red without using the word, in which two images are shadows of each other, litany of what-ifs, what my mother never taught me, first great western, emotional communism, flaws in the human condition, after the final trumpet, a list of rules to adhere to, made up as i went along, atheists take great delight in the profane nature of man, outliers, first love: spring, text seven: because i don't believe in an afterlife, text four: because my hands shake, bluebeard's wife lived in the cupboard of her own devotion, miserere, St Judas, Ganymede, Epidermis, How to be Clean, The Heart Is Not A Bird, The Angel Visits Bedlam, April, Redux, Where the lodestone points, the ruin of small things, Saint Jezebel, dusk #1, B Before the Fall, A summoning ritual for the codependent, a desperate lyre, lying the world into a song, The application of mutism, How To Lit Crit Without Being A Dick, spell it the way i tell it, Botanical Suicides, Today in a public toilet near you, relentless richard, amor vincit omnia, Memento Mori, The Cosmic Edition, No, Delusions 101, isotopes of desire, Lamia's lament on becoming tame
Blogs
100 Works of Art: (Visual) Asobimasho - Medical Fun, Trevor Brown, 100 Works of Art (Visual) Saint Sebastian on the Basilica di San Sebastiano fuori le mura, Guiseppe Giorgetti, Embroidery Part 2: The finished product, 100 Works of Art: The Dying Slave, What is the Difference between an Angler Fish and a viperfish, 100 Works of Art: (Visual) Barberini Faun/Drunken Satyr, 100 Works of Art: (Visual) Self Portrait with Whip, Robert Mapplethorpe, 100 Works of Art: (Visual) The Sluggard, Frederic, Lord Leighton, Trying to use Google Analytics to make myself a better-educated person, 100 Works of Art: (Visual) Another Happy Ending, G K Blekkenhorst, 100 Works of Art: (Visual) Balancing Girl, Jamie McKelvie, 100 Works of Art: (Visual) St Sebastian, Dosso Dossi, The Science of Ignorance, An Embarrassment of Riches and Too Much Choice, Hot Maud-on-Maud Action, Ordinary Heroes: The Watts Memorial, Small Winter Delights, 100 Works of Art: (Audio) Let's Go To Bed, The Cure, 100 Works of Art: (Audio) Szamár Madár, Venetian Snares, You are your own desert, Sight, the least reliable of the senses, 100 Works of Art (Aural) Best Sunday Dress, Hole, 100 Works of Art (Aural) Crow on the Cradle, Sydney Carter, The Difference between Impassive and Apathetic, A Window In North London, 30 Things I've Learnt in 30 Years, The Profane and the Divine: Art in London, Saints Alive, Our Main Query Now Is "Why Not Self-Publish?", Upcycled Regency Gown, Editing Round One, Editing Adventures Deux, Photos from the Cutty Sark & A Trip Up the Thames, A Pigeon That Doesn't Home, Snapshots from the early stages of a book, A writing exercise disguising an epiphany, interim activity: dresses, 100 Works of Art: (Audio) Town Called Malice by the Jam, The Awkward Moment when your great ww1 hero sounds like a teenager on Tumblr, More Reports From My Favourite Book Genre, How to make Tumblr go away and stop being an annoying shithole, Immoderation and the pitfall of the superlative, Memory Palace at the V & A, Browniegeddon, Cordialgeddon, MORE ABOUT THAT STORY, New Book Cover: The Breaking of M, Exit from the Desert, An Atheist On Religion, Kitten in the bedroom, tiger in the library, More drivel about writing I'm not doing, A little kindness goes a long way, a big kindness is harder, Teamwork: Embracing my bete noire, Faschionism is live, here is me complaining about shoes, Try, try, and try shirts again, How To Not Die Of Winter (Part 1 of however many)., What Happens to This Book is Up to You, D&G Claw Their Way Into My Heart, 100 Works of Art: (Audio) We Hate The Kids, the Indelicates, NaNoWriMo 2013 The Circle, 100 Words of Art (Audio) 1812, Tchaikovsky, The unending business of finding your own way, Book release: Vessel 151-B (Short story), Kissing Carrion: slower to update than even Strangehaven, The Present Narrator: a preference out of time, My 16 Year Old Self Can Rest Easy, Expectatons Falling, Evolution of Pulp, Ways into World-Building
Jewellery
William Morris, Slings and Arrows, Batch 1, Batch 2, Batch 3, Batch 4, Batch 5, Batch 1, Batch 2, Batch 3, Bridal Choker, Jewellery Batch 2, Rose set, Gold cross charm chain., Lattice choker with fake pearls, Crossbatch, bugs and beetles, Watermelon Golgotha, Old and Green
Art
Doodle/painting for Jess, Doodlepainting thing OF Jess. Kind of., More lighting experiment paintings, Dump 1, Dump 2, Dump 3, NSFW: Enticement, Cernnunos coloured, Car, Jonah and Shirt, More Lines, Jonah, Levi, & Persephone, Persephone's Performance, Faunography, Sketchywetches, Sketchdump, Placeholder for Magicians, Skertchez, Cow head and faunboy
Publishing
The Curious Case of the Firecrotch: This Is Why We Don't Write Our Memoirs When Drunk, Wil, Science Poems, Sketchbook, A compendium of poems about Greek myths, Year of the Ghost and the Mortuary Remains, Saint Grimbald's Men, Tame, Vessel 151-B
Sewing
Prog 1, Prog 2, Prog 3, Embroidered crest, Coat, skirt, triangle to make bustle, Sheet shirt and striped leggings, Overskirt and red dress, bustle belt, Duvet shirt and breeches, Batch 1, Batch 2, TROUSERS, Swearbroidery, Sewing: Gauntlets, Embroidery: I managed to write something which doesn't contain the word "cunt", Embroidery: Pulp II, Pulp Harder, Big fat Red Riding Hood, Winter Goodies
My favourite of my own stories this year:
Original: Well given that I've only really written one story in totality this year (finishing Tame ain't count) I don't think I can say other than The Circle anyway. Which is fine, I did like it.
Fanfic: The Long Haul because that's basically all I've written. Can I actually even do this meme.
Poetry: Hard to say, really. Maybe "Emotional Communism"?
My best story this year:
Original: The Circle.
Fanfic: The Long Haul. This meme's going to get boring.
Poetry: Not sure. Probably not actually Emotional Communism. Maybe Ganymede.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
Original: It would be toffee to say "The Circle" at this point but seriously NO ONE. NOT ONE OF YOU.
Fanfic: Hat-trick. Just to be different. As people did actually read The Long Haul.
Poetry: Most of them but peculiarly some did actually get some reads.
Most fun story:
Original: I'd say Tame but it was a slog to get finished, so probably actually The Circle.
Fanfic: Hat-trick.
Most sexy story:
Original: I don't think any of them were sexy.
Fanfic: Ditto.
Story with single sexiest moment:
Original: I guess the Circle because there were some? Possibly? It wasn't really sexy.
Fanfic: The Long Haul for the moment of knee-touching at the ballet.
Hardest story to write:
Original: Urgh. Tame, I guess, because I wanted to be done with it.
Fanfic: Well I actually started a bunch of stories and never made it very far into them, so you can read into that what you want. Previously I would at least have kept going, but I feel like there's no point, really, and I don't feel confident in the character voices, and no one is remotely enthusiastic, and I don't really CARE very much for the fandoms.
Poetry: Dunno a lot of them were pretty awkward.
“Holy crap, that's wrong even for you” fic:
Original: Nothing. I have written nothing.
Fanfic: See above.
Fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
Original: With anything you end up having a different idea of the characters by the end than you did at the beginning. The Circle certainly gave me enough room to do that. Which I can't talk about, as none of you have finished reading it yet.
Fanfic: None. I had a clear idea of the characters at the start.
Biggest disappointment:
Original: The Circle! I mean, I liked writing it and I liked where it was going. I just wish anyone else had.
Fanfic: Inability to get started, finish, or care about, most fics.
Poetry: Everything just came out flat.
Biggest surprise:
Original: Tame getting finished at all. I'd given it up for dead.
Fanfic: Where the fuck did The Long Haul even come from.
Poetry: That I kept writing it? I think the surprise good reception of isotypes of desire POSSIBLY as I didn't think it was very good but Tumblr has nothing even approaching taste.
Most telling story:
Original: All of them forever. If you go looking for the author you'll find them.
Fanfic: I guess the Long Haul since it's about socially shit people trying to fit a D/S relationship around their lives.
Poetry: A repeat of last year but: all of them, poetry is where feelings go to throw up.
What's next?
Original: Gonna start putting more research reading and plotting energy into Hooked to the Silver Screen for earlier in this year, dunno about what I'm going to do for NaNo, I have files and files full of plot outlines and concepts for novels and short stories alike waiting for me to stop hating everything I commit to words.
Fanfic: Fuck fandom and fuck fanfic and fuck ever bothering with that shit again.
Poetry: Keep on keeping on, I guess, until I have enough to put out another book.
Other: Plug on with the blog, throw things at publishers, loathe myself, withdraw from the internet, keep wishing for an early grave.
Tiny snippet, Tiny snippet involving scorpions, Penultimate section of Tame, Tiny ghost story, More Tame, The Circle (146,000 words)
Fan
Entomology, The Long Haul, Hat Trick, Hannibal chat/not exactly fic, GWTDT snippet
Poetry
Describe the colour red without using the word, in which two images are shadows of each other, litany of what-ifs, what my mother never taught me, first great western, emotional communism, flaws in the human condition, after the final trumpet, a list of rules to adhere to, made up as i went along, atheists take great delight in the profane nature of man, outliers, first love: spring, text seven: because i don't believe in an afterlife, text four: because my hands shake, bluebeard's wife lived in the cupboard of her own devotion, miserere, St Judas, Ganymede, Epidermis, How to be Clean, The Heart Is Not A Bird, The Angel Visits Bedlam, April, Redux, Where the lodestone points, the ruin of small things, Saint Jezebel, dusk #1, B Before the Fall, A summoning ritual for the codependent, a desperate lyre, lying the world into a song, The application of mutism, How To Lit Crit Without Being A Dick, spell it the way i tell it, Botanical Suicides, Today in a public toilet near you, relentless richard, amor vincit omnia, Memento Mori, The Cosmic Edition, No, Delusions 101, isotopes of desire, Lamia's lament on becoming tame
Blogs
100 Works of Art: (Visual) Asobimasho - Medical Fun, Trevor Brown, 100 Works of Art (Visual) Saint Sebastian on the Basilica di San Sebastiano fuori le mura, Guiseppe Giorgetti, Embroidery Part 2: The finished product, 100 Works of Art: The Dying Slave, What is the Difference between an Angler Fish and a viperfish, 100 Works of Art: (Visual) Barberini Faun/Drunken Satyr, 100 Works of Art: (Visual) Self Portrait with Whip, Robert Mapplethorpe, 100 Works of Art: (Visual) The Sluggard, Frederic, Lord Leighton, Trying to use Google Analytics to make myself a better-educated person, 100 Works of Art: (Visual) Another Happy Ending, G K Blekkenhorst, 100 Works of Art: (Visual) Balancing Girl, Jamie McKelvie, 100 Works of Art: (Visual) St Sebastian, Dosso Dossi, The Science of Ignorance, An Embarrassment of Riches and Too Much Choice, Hot Maud-on-Maud Action, Ordinary Heroes: The Watts Memorial, Small Winter Delights, 100 Works of Art: (Audio) Let's Go To Bed, The Cure, 100 Works of Art: (Audio) Szamár Madár, Venetian Snares, You are your own desert, Sight, the least reliable of the senses, 100 Works of Art (Aural) Best Sunday Dress, Hole, 100 Works of Art (Aural) Crow on the Cradle, Sydney Carter, The Difference between Impassive and Apathetic, A Window In North London, 30 Things I've Learnt in 30 Years, The Profane and the Divine: Art in London, Saints Alive, Our Main Query Now Is "Why Not Self-Publish?", Upcycled Regency Gown, Editing Round One, Editing Adventures Deux, Photos from the Cutty Sark & A Trip Up the Thames, A Pigeon That Doesn't Home, Snapshots from the early stages of a book, A writing exercise disguising an epiphany, interim activity: dresses, 100 Works of Art: (Audio) Town Called Malice by the Jam, The Awkward Moment when your great ww1 hero sounds like a teenager on Tumblr, More Reports From My Favourite Book Genre, How to make Tumblr go away and stop being an annoying shithole, Immoderation and the pitfall of the superlative, Memory Palace at the V & A, Browniegeddon, Cordialgeddon, MORE ABOUT THAT STORY, New Book Cover: The Breaking of M, Exit from the Desert, An Atheist On Religion, Kitten in the bedroom, tiger in the library, More drivel about writing I'm not doing, A little kindness goes a long way, a big kindness is harder, Teamwork: Embracing my bete noire, Faschionism is live, here is me complaining about shoes, Try, try, and try shirts again, How To Not Die Of Winter (Part 1 of however many)., What Happens to This Book is Up to You, D&G Claw Their Way Into My Heart, 100 Works of Art: (Audio) We Hate The Kids, the Indelicates, NaNoWriMo 2013 The Circle, 100 Words of Art (Audio) 1812, Tchaikovsky, The unending business of finding your own way, Book release: Vessel 151-B (Short story), Kissing Carrion: slower to update than even Strangehaven, The Present Narrator: a preference out of time, My 16 Year Old Self Can Rest Easy, Expectatons Falling, Evolution of Pulp, Ways into World-Building
Jewellery
William Morris, Slings and Arrows, Batch 1, Batch 2, Batch 3, Batch 4, Batch 5, Batch 1, Batch 2, Batch 3, Bridal Choker, Jewellery Batch 2, Rose set, Gold cross charm chain., Lattice choker with fake pearls, Crossbatch, bugs and beetles, Watermelon Golgotha, Old and Green
Art
Doodle/painting for Jess, Doodlepainting thing OF Jess. Kind of., More lighting experiment paintings, Dump 1, Dump 2, Dump 3, NSFW: Enticement, Cernnunos coloured, Car, Jonah and Shirt, More Lines, Jonah, Levi, & Persephone, Persephone's Performance, Faunography, Sketchywetches, Sketchdump, Placeholder for Magicians, Skertchez, Cow head and faunboy
Publishing
The Curious Case of the Firecrotch: This Is Why We Don't Write Our Memoirs When Drunk, Wil, Science Poems, Sketchbook, A compendium of poems about Greek myths, Year of the Ghost and the Mortuary Remains, Saint Grimbald's Men, Tame, Vessel 151-B
Sewing
Prog 1, Prog 2, Prog 3, Embroidered crest, Coat, skirt, triangle to make bustle, Sheet shirt and striped leggings, Overskirt and red dress, bustle belt, Duvet shirt and breeches, Batch 1, Batch 2, TROUSERS, Swearbroidery, Sewing: Gauntlets, Embroidery: I managed to write something which doesn't contain the word "cunt", Embroidery: Pulp II, Pulp Harder, Big fat Red Riding Hood, Winter Goodies
My favourite of my own stories this year:
Original: Well given that I've only really written one story in totality this year (finishing Tame ain't count) I don't think I can say other than The Circle anyway. Which is fine, I did like it.
Fanfic: The Long Haul because that's basically all I've written. Can I actually even do this meme.
Poetry: Hard to say, really. Maybe "Emotional Communism"?
My best story this year:
Original: The Circle.
Fanfic: The Long Haul. This meme's going to get boring.
Poetry: Not sure. Probably not actually Emotional Communism. Maybe Ganymede.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
Original: It would be toffee to say "The Circle" at this point but seriously NO ONE. NOT ONE OF YOU.
Fanfic: Hat-trick. Just to be different. As people did actually read The Long Haul.
Poetry: Most of them but peculiarly some did actually get some reads.
Most fun story:
Original: I'd say Tame but it was a slog to get finished, so probably actually The Circle.
Fanfic: Hat-trick.
Most sexy story:
Original: I don't think any of them were sexy.
Fanfic: Ditto.
Story with single sexiest moment:
Original: I guess the Circle because there were some? Possibly? It wasn't really sexy.
Fanfic: The Long Haul for the moment of knee-touching at the ballet.
Hardest story to write:
Original: Urgh. Tame, I guess, because I wanted to be done with it.
Fanfic: Well I actually started a bunch of stories and never made it very far into them, so you can read into that what you want. Previously I would at least have kept going, but I feel like there's no point, really, and I don't feel confident in the character voices, and no one is remotely enthusiastic, and I don't really CARE very much for the fandoms.
Poetry: Dunno a lot of them were pretty awkward.
“Holy crap, that's wrong even for you” fic:
Original: Nothing. I have written nothing.
Fanfic: See above.
Fic that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
Original: With anything you end up having a different idea of the characters by the end than you did at the beginning. The Circle certainly gave me enough room to do that. Which I can't talk about, as none of you have finished reading it yet.
Fanfic: None. I had a clear idea of the characters at the start.
Biggest disappointment:
Original: The Circle! I mean, I liked writing it and I liked where it was going. I just wish anyone else had.
Fanfic: Inability to get started, finish, or care about, most fics.
Poetry: Everything just came out flat.
Biggest surprise:
Original: Tame getting finished at all. I'd given it up for dead.
Fanfic: Where the fuck did The Long Haul even come from.
Poetry: That I kept writing it? I think the surprise good reception of isotypes of desire POSSIBLY as I didn't think it was very good but Tumblr has nothing even approaching taste.
Most telling story:
Original: All of them forever. If you go looking for the author you'll find them.
Fanfic: I guess the Long Haul since it's about socially shit people trying to fit a D/S relationship around their lives.
Poetry: A repeat of last year but: all of them, poetry is where feelings go to throw up.
What's next?
Original: Gonna start putting more research reading and plotting energy into Hooked to the Silver Screen for earlier in this year, dunno about what I'm going to do for NaNo, I have files and files full of plot outlines and concepts for novels and short stories alike waiting for me to stop hating everything I commit to words.
Fanfic: Fuck fandom and fuck fanfic and fuck ever bothering with that shit again.
Poetry: Keep on keeping on, I guess, until I have enough to put out another book.
Other: Plug on with the blog, throw things at publishers, loathe myself, withdraw from the internet, keep wishing for an early grave.