Snowflake Challenge, Days 1 and 2
Here's a shot at the snowflake challenge. At least the pieces I felt I could attempt.
Day 1
In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
1. This is kind of funny because I spent much of November posting the first loooong thing I wrote in fandom to AO3, with annotations, since it's been a decade and a half. I had a lot of fun annotating it. Does it define me as a creator? I don't know. In the sense that I'd never written anything liike it; in the sense I'd never written anything long; in the sense that I was figuring out how to do this fandom thing, this writing thing, this slash thing, this AU thing? Yeah. I think that's fair to say. Near Wild Heaven
2. This was one of the things I wrote that seemed to spring almost full-grown from my brain. That's not to say I didn't need and have a lot of help from my friends in shaping it; but the concept was one of those rare moments of synchronicity where I heard it, and it came out pretty much the way I hoped. It was one of my several entries in the post-CotW category. Likewise
3. I'm very fond of Strange Loops, and I hope to finish it someday. I enjoyed the hell out of conceptualising it (in part because everyone I ran the idea by - Fraser and Ray as biochemists - said, without exception, "Oh - I could totally see Fraser as a brilliant scientist!" and after a while I started to thing, "Wait... Ray's pretty brilliant. What about Ray?") and writing it, especially when Mark Smithbauer showed up. I'm sorry that I dropped it; I always have trouble struggling through the extreme morass of my fucking metavoice, and it was in full bore when I hit the plot points of Strange Loops (plot: never my strong point). There's not much I'd change about the writing of the first 250 pages, but the plot needs work and the footnotes need to be standardised. And I need to embrace the Smithbauer. I like writing triangles. I just need to acknowledge that and move on.
4, 5, and 6: The 6 Degrees of due South stuff I've written, including two that I wrote with Kellie Matthews and one that I've been writing on my own (another WIP, of course). It's enticing and enchanting to conceptualise ways that a Paul Gross character might meet up with a Callum Keith Rennie character. Kellie was especially brilliant at the triple crossover concept that spawned our Tales of the City/Hard Core Logo crossover, Shadows Fade. There is also a Getting Married in Buffalo Jump/Paris or Somewhere crossover we wrote together, Wide Open Space; and then my Buried on Sunday/My Life as a Dog crossover that started with a Big Bang entry, I think, Chansons de Marin, and has moved on into Une vie moins ordinaire, the WIP that got plotty on me.
7. There's some RPS I've written that I don't feel comfortable sharing, but writing it has stretched me in different ways I didn't expect.
8. I'm currently working on a post-colonial, post-imperialistic take on The Eagle that slashes Esca with the Seal Prince. Once again, so much fun to research and to write; but, once again, kind of getting plotty on me. I'm really hoping that I can power through it, because it's been such a fun challenge to write (for instance, writing sex scenes without the words that, you know, we're used to being able to use!).
Day 2
In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I always assume anyone who knows me or who's read my stuff understands my deep and abiding love for R.E.M., so I always feel weird about explaining it, but here goes. Listening to their songs almost always sends my brain spinning off into different directions, even if it's a song I've listened to for 20+ years. I can't explain it. It's something that connects with my imagination and creativity on an elemental level. If you haven't run across it, go grab (or stream or whatever it is the kids do nowadays) a copy of R.E.M.'s Out of Time. Pour yourself a glass of whatever you like. And listen to the whole thing. <3 <3 <3
Day 1
In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
1. This is kind of funny because I spent much of November posting the first loooong thing I wrote in fandom to AO3, with annotations, since it's been a decade and a half. I had a lot of fun annotating it. Does it define me as a creator? I don't know. In the sense that I'd never written anything liike it; in the sense I'd never written anything long; in the sense that I was figuring out how to do this fandom thing, this writing thing, this slash thing, this AU thing? Yeah. I think that's fair to say. Near Wild Heaven
2. This was one of the things I wrote that seemed to spring almost full-grown from my brain. That's not to say I didn't need and have a lot of help from my friends in shaping it; but the concept was one of those rare moments of synchronicity where I heard it, and it came out pretty much the way I hoped. It was one of my several entries in the post-CotW category. Likewise
3. I'm very fond of Strange Loops, and I hope to finish it someday. I enjoyed the hell out of conceptualising it (in part because everyone I ran the idea by - Fraser and Ray as biochemists - said, without exception, "Oh - I could totally see Fraser as a brilliant scientist!" and after a while I started to thing, "Wait... Ray's pretty brilliant. What about Ray?") and writing it, especially when Mark Smithbauer showed up. I'm sorry that I dropped it; I always have trouble struggling through the extreme morass of my fucking metavoice, and it was in full bore when I hit the plot points of Strange Loops (plot: never my strong point). There's not much I'd change about the writing of the first 250 pages, but the plot needs work and the footnotes need to be standardised. And I need to embrace the Smithbauer. I like writing triangles. I just need to acknowledge that and move on.
4, 5, and 6: The 6 Degrees of due South stuff I've written, including two that I wrote with Kellie Matthews and one that I've been writing on my own (another WIP, of course). It's enticing and enchanting to conceptualise ways that a Paul Gross character might meet up with a Callum Keith Rennie character. Kellie was especially brilliant at the triple crossover concept that spawned our Tales of the City/Hard Core Logo crossover, Shadows Fade. There is also a Getting Married in Buffalo Jump/Paris or Somewhere crossover we wrote together, Wide Open Space; and then my Buried on Sunday/My Life as a Dog crossover that started with a Big Bang entry, I think, Chansons de Marin, and has moved on into Une vie moins ordinaire, the WIP that got plotty on me.
7. There's some RPS I've written that I don't feel comfortable sharing, but writing it has stretched me in different ways I didn't expect.
8. I'm currently working on a post-colonial, post-imperialistic take on The Eagle that slashes Esca with the Seal Prince. Once again, so much fun to research and to write; but, once again, kind of getting plotty on me. I'm really hoping that I can power through it, because it's been such a fun challenge to write (for instance, writing sex scenes without the words that, you know, we're used to being able to use!).
Day 2
In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I always assume anyone who knows me or who's read my stuff understands my deep and abiding love for R.E.M., so I always feel weird about explaining it, but here goes. Listening to their songs almost always sends my brain spinning off into different directions, even if it's a song I've listened to for 20+ years. I can't explain it. It's something that connects with my imagination and creativity on an elemental level. If you haven't run across it, go grab (or stream or whatever it is the kids do nowadays) a copy of R.E.M.'s Out of Time. Pour yourself a glass of whatever you like. And listen to the whole thing. <3 <3 <3