Comments | brutti_ma_buoni: Temporarily ficced out

brutti_ma_buoni

Temporarily ficced out

Jan 28, 2013 19:22

I've had one of those intensive working days when you really don't get much time to think or breathe. I seem to be having a lot of those lately. Also still feeling a bit bleurghy for no good reason. I'm out of ficlet ideas, temporarily, no doubt. A couple of nice recs for my stuff today have linked to things I'm glad to have written, and reminded ( Read more... )

meme

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brunettepet January 28 2013, 19:48:05 UTC

I've written about 300+ stories in under 5 years. Um, wow, I knew you were prolific but that's amazing!

brutti_ma_buoni January 28 2013, 20:38:04 UTC

Heh. 286 BtVS fics on AO3, and a bunch of others listed in other fandoms, but I'm mostly discounting the 70-odd AtS because so much AtS I write is tagged as BtVS. So it's probably well under 350, plus a few new ones not uploaded yet. June 2008 is when I first did a drabble. And, I think, several other drabbles followed smartly... I'm not sure all my little ones are captured on AO3, but it seems fair enough as an estimate.

A few are very long, like Green Card, but mostly they are under 2000 words. So it's not quite so vast as it may appear. I'm about to hit 500k words on AO3, probably at my next upload.

shapinglight January 28 2013, 20:27:29 UTC

Interesting. I hardly ever do memes. Maybe I should make an exception for this one?

Except I feel I've long since blurted out the answer to all these questions.

brutti_ma_buoni January 28 2013, 20:43:05 UTC

It's quite a nice one to reflect on, especially as I've picked up some new friends via memes lately.

slaymesoftly January 28 2013, 20:49:04 UTC

*makes a mental note to not shorten it to Brutti anymore!*

Hee - my argument against getting an LJ for years was "but I have a web site, I don't need another one!".

brutti_ma_buoni January 28 2013, 20:56:46 UTC

Heh. I don't actually mind brutti, you know? Just... it doesn't quite work as a nickname.

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brutti_ma_buoni January 28 2013, 20:58:30 UTC

Hee! You're welcome just as you are.

And yeah, I've seen many a kerfuffle from the outside. Not fun.

lost_spook January 28 2013, 21:06:27 UTC

Oh, interesting. I think there are quite a few answers of mine that'd be similar if I did this. :-)

Although my period of having no friends... I wish I hadn't posted. I sort of posted and talked to myself and hoped the friending thing would happen somehow. Thankfully it did, and I think it was only a few months - I knew people from Teaspoon, the DW archive - but I do keep thinking I should go back and hide those first entries. :lol:

Anyway, congrats on all the fic. And hope you feel less tired soon.

brutti_ma_buoni January 28 2013, 21:16:24 UTC

Good! We are compatible, evidently.

I did some bibbling posts too, hoping to be detected as a fascinating person (and one or two TMI subsequently which got unscreened when I exported my journal to DW. Which wasn't great). But then I shut up for ages. I had no confidence at all that anyone would be interested in my comments; it wasn't till I started writing and realised every 'Really liked this!' comment genuinely cheered me that I actually got how LJ could work. Baby steps; I helped to beta for rahirah for a bit before that, which was probably the first real confidence boosting.

lost_spook January 29 2013, 20:11:06 UTC

Good! We are compatible, evidently.

Yes, and thank goodness. Just think, otherwise I'd have to flounce off, have a one-sided LJ war and then defriend you or something. ;-)

I think I'd already got the commentng thing - I came to LJ from the frustration of a fic archive not really being the best place to have interesting conversations about fic and fannish stuff with nice people. Lj, however, is.