Reading Challenge and General Update on Writing
Last year was a really bad year for reading. Usually I read a lot of books. Last year, I managed six. And tbh I didn’t read much more fanfiction either. My thesis ate my life and the amount of books and articles I had to read for my theses drained all my reading energy. TV shows and movies it was. But no more!
This year I’m going to do one of the many reading challenges floating around on the internet. I’m doing this one because alycat shoved it at me and said let’s do this.
I have a few books I want to read anyway that fit some of the criteria, for others I’ll happily take recommendations (especially one with a protagonist with my name. Since I’m doing this with fandom friends on a fandom platform, I’m looking for protagonists called Ash and while there are many males ones out there I’d like to read one with a woman I think.)
Is anyone else doing a reading challenge? Would you like to talk about it, chat about the books, write reviews, discuss, that sort of thing? Let me know what you think, fellow readers!
Since the new year has just started and I’m also starting a new part of my life (kind of, anyway) I thought I’d also do an update on my fannish year since people expressed interest in lj posts last year. (This is what you get… ;))
I’m working on my rbb that I’m doing with amberdreams who is seriously so amazing. Once again, I’Ve been so lucky with my rbb artist (it’s the third time, so I should probably quit after this round, just to be safe.) We’ve come up with a fun plot for her wonderful archaeologist dic in space prompt with a very fun and satisfying ending (you’ll see ;)) and our posting date is Feb 15th.
There’s also one more auction fic I really need to finish for my endlessly patient bidder and after finally settling on bodyguard Jensen with diplomatic brat Jared I think I’ll finally make it.
I also have one last prompt from tumblr to finish, which seriously grew legs (the prompt was iceskating, the first chapter already has 8k, though I must disappoint everyone who’s enjoying YOI because it’s not at all like that, there are, in fact, no ice skaters in this story at all, even though there will be ice skating!) Since it’s been so long and the fic is turning so long, I’ve been pondering posting it as a WIP or maybe saving it for bigbang. I somehow don’t doubt I could push this past 20k. Thoughts?
Bigbang in general I’m torn about. I’ll sign up but I don’t know how my work situation will be in spring, so I have no idea if I can make it this year or not. I really want to, but I’ll have to see. If there’s springfling, which I hope there is, I’m in and I’d definitely be up for a new round of masquerade. I haven’t written dirty-bad-wrong things in a while….
I’m also of course still working on the Underneath-verse. However, Jared has decided to demand more POV and tell his own story, so that’s taking a while. I’d also love to re-edit the original story. There are still typos and wrong grammar and awkward phrasing in there, that I’d like to get rid of, but I also want to adjust some scenes, especially since I got to know my characters much better during the writing of all the timestamps. I won’t change anything major, or the plot, but there’ll be some minor changes. I’m very tempted to change the location,since the crime world I made up is much closer to Boston for example than to Chicago I think. The boy’s families will also feature more important roles and since they’re not public figures like the Js and their wives, I want to change their names and turn them into original characters. Now that they’re such big characters… idk, I’d feel better if they were more original characters, if that makes sense. Not everyone I told about re-editing so far was excited about it, but I really think it’s for the better. In any case, I’ll give enough notice when I plan to update the version, so that everybody who wants the original one has enough time to download it. I’ll also explain in detail what and why I changed it and I hope that’ll be okay for everyone who enjoys the verse. I know it’s my most popular story and it was my very first one, my fandom baby so to speak, so it’s very close to my heart and I want to make it the best version I can. I hope that will work for you guys!
Anyway, belated happy new year!
This year I’m going to do one of the many reading challenges floating around on the internet. I’m doing this one because alycat shoved it at me and said let’s do this.
I have a few books I want to read anyway that fit some of the criteria, for others I’ll happily take recommendations (especially one with a protagonist with my name. Since I’m doing this with fandom friends on a fandom platform, I’m looking for protagonists called Ash and while there are many males ones out there I’d like to read one with a woman I think.)
Is anyone else doing a reading challenge? Would you like to talk about it, chat about the books, write reviews, discuss, that sort of thing? Let me know what you think, fellow readers!
Since the new year has just started and I’m also starting a new part of my life (kind of, anyway) I thought I’d also do an update on my fannish year since people expressed interest in lj posts last year. (This is what you get… ;))
I’m working on my rbb that I’m doing with amberdreams who is seriously so amazing. Once again, I’Ve been so lucky with my rbb artist (it’s the third time, so I should probably quit after this round, just to be safe.) We’ve come up with a fun plot for her wonderful archaeologist dic in space prompt with a very fun and satisfying ending (you’ll see ;)) and our posting date is Feb 15th.
There’s also one more auction fic I really need to finish for my endlessly patient bidder and after finally settling on bodyguard Jensen with diplomatic brat Jared I think I’ll finally make it.
I also have one last prompt from tumblr to finish, which seriously grew legs (the prompt was iceskating, the first chapter already has 8k, though I must disappoint everyone who’s enjoying YOI because it’s not at all like that, there are, in fact, no ice skaters in this story at all, even though there will be ice skating!) Since it’s been so long and the fic is turning so long, I’ve been pondering posting it as a WIP or maybe saving it for bigbang. I somehow don’t doubt I could push this past 20k. Thoughts?
Bigbang in general I’m torn about. I’ll sign up but I don’t know how my work situation will be in spring, so I have no idea if I can make it this year or not. I really want to, but I’ll have to see. If there’s springfling, which I hope there is, I’m in and I’d definitely be up for a new round of masquerade. I haven’t written dirty-bad-wrong things in a while….
I’m also of course still working on the Underneath-verse. However, Jared has decided to demand more POV and tell his own story, so that’s taking a while. I’d also love to re-edit the original story. There are still typos and wrong grammar and awkward phrasing in there, that I’d like to get rid of, but I also want to adjust some scenes, especially since I got to know my characters much better during the writing of all the timestamps. I won’t change anything major, or the plot, but there’ll be some minor changes. I’m very tempted to change the location,since the crime world I made up is much closer to Boston for example than to Chicago I think. The boy’s families will also feature more important roles and since they’re not public figures like the Js and their wives, I want to change their names and turn them into original characters. Now that they’re such big characters… idk, I’d feel better if they were more original characters, if that makes sense. Not everyone I told about re-editing so far was excited about it, but I really think it’s for the better. In any case, I’ll give enough notice when I plan to update the version, so that everybody who wants the original one has enough time to download it. I’ll also explain in detail what and why I changed it and I hope that’ll be okay for everyone who enjoys the verse. I know it’s my most popular story and it was my very first one, my fandom baby so to speak, so it’s very close to my heart and I want to make it the best version I can. I hope that will work for you guys!
Anyway, belated happy new year!