writing on
Happy New Year, people!
Now that DSSS authors/vidders/artists have been revealed, I can lay claim to Thirty Years of Snow, the Caroline/Robert story. I was seriously freaked out about this fic, so I want to offer many, many thanks where they are due: ignazwisdom for a comment that made me think the story I wanted to write would be okay, yukihada for asking the right questions about the first draft despite still not knowing dS, and most especially visionshadows and catwalksalone for stepping in at the last minute and assuaging my insecurities and providing more guidance. You guys don't know how grateful I am.
When I've joked about having year-long writer's block... I wasn't joking as much as exaggerating. This year's stories were few, short, and grouped at the beginning of the year.
Due South
Tangible Memory F/V
Slow and Steady Ray K & Sam Franklin, post-Stella
Secret Lives F/V
and Full Contact Sport F/K
Movie Popcorn F/K/V
And the aforementioned Thirty Years of Snow Caroline/Robert
C6D
Oh! And I forgot -- Arbor Day Cards from Ellen (Slings & Arrows) and Buddy (Wilby Wonderful)
Psych
Boys Don't Make Passes... mild S/L
Black Books
Eiswein Bernard
Saiyuki
But at the end of the day Hakkai/Gojyo
... and twelve music ficlets for More Joy Day here, covering a range of pairings in due South, some Psych and one Blades of Glory. Because I ♥ Iggy.
So here is where I answer the meme questions, except I really don't have that much to work with this year. Um. So.
My favourite story of this year: Eiswein.
Most fun story to write: It's a close tie between Eiswein and the More Joy Day ficlets.
Hardest story to write/Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Thirty Years of Snow.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: I'm going to qualify this first. Any lack of appreciation is entirely my own fault. It's not the best story I've written by a long shot, so I did not post a link to it in any appropriate comms, and because I'm not entirely happy with it, I played disappearing-reappearing post with it, meaning the few people on my flist who care about the fandom would easily have missed it. But still -- I have to go with But at the end of the day.
I really wrote far, far less than I expected to this year. And the writing slump struck both fannish and nonfannish writing. It's not that I didn't write; I just ... lost my confidence? I think? For months now, I've disliked pretty much everything I've written -- even as I'm writing it. I think Thirty Years of Snow may have broken through that. As much as I was flailing about it beforehand, I don't hate it. Which is nice.
It doesn't help that my computer is in the main room of the house and now that I've got a office job, I never get the room to myself -- so what writing did happen, happened in notebooks. And never got transcribed, because, well, that whole hating-my-own-writing thing. This, by the way, is the main reason I ordered a laptop.
Anyway, that was my 2008 writing angst. In 2009, I'm going to try to put in my 1000 words a day and see if it won't help simply to write more.
Now that DSSS authors/vidders/artists have been revealed, I can lay claim to Thirty Years of Snow, the Caroline/Robert story. I was seriously freaked out about this fic, so I want to offer many, many thanks where they are due: ignazwisdom for a comment that made me think the story I wanted to write would be okay, yukihada for asking the right questions about the first draft despite still not knowing dS, and most especially visionshadows and catwalksalone for stepping in at the last minute and assuaging my insecurities and providing more guidance. You guys don't know how grateful I am.
When I've joked about having year-long writer's block... I wasn't joking as much as exaggerating. This year's stories were few, short, and grouped at the beginning of the year.
Due South
Tangible Memory F/V
Slow and Steady Ray K & Sam Franklin, post-Stella
Secret Lives F/V
and Full Contact Sport F/K
Movie Popcorn F/K/V
And the aforementioned Thirty Years of Snow Caroline/Robert
C6D
Oh! And I forgot -- Arbor Day Cards from Ellen (Slings & Arrows) and Buddy (Wilby Wonderful)
Psych
Boys Don't Make Passes... mild S/L
Black Books
Eiswein Bernard
Saiyuki
But at the end of the day Hakkai/Gojyo
... and twelve music ficlets for More Joy Day here, covering a range of pairings in due South, some Psych and one Blades of Glory. Because I ♥ Iggy.
So here is where I answer the meme questions, except I really don't have that much to work with this year. Um. So.
My favourite story of this year: Eiswein.
Most fun story to write: It's a close tie between Eiswein and the More Joy Day ficlets.
Hardest story to write/Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Thirty Years of Snow.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: I'm going to qualify this first. Any lack of appreciation is entirely my own fault. It's not the best story I've written by a long shot, so I did not post a link to it in any appropriate comms, and because I'm not entirely happy with it, I played disappearing-reappearing post with it, meaning the few people on my flist who care about the fandom would easily have missed it. But still -- I have to go with But at the end of the day.
I really wrote far, far less than I expected to this year. And the writing slump struck both fannish and nonfannish writing. It's not that I didn't write; I just ... lost my confidence? I think? For months now, I've disliked pretty much everything I've written -- even as I'm writing it. I think Thirty Years of Snow may have broken through that. As much as I was flailing about it beforehand, I don't hate it. Which is nice.
It doesn't help that my computer is in the main room of the house and now that I've got a office job, I never get the room to myself -- so what writing did happen, happened in notebooks. And never got transcribed, because, well, that whole hating-my-own-writing thing. This, by the way, is the main reason I ordered a laptop.
Anyway, that was my 2008 writing angst. In 2009, I'm going to try to put in my 1000 words a day and see if it won't help simply to write more.