2008 Fic Roundup
It seems highly unlikely that I will do any more fic writing in the last fortnight of 2008, so I thought I'd go ahead with the annual fic roundup.
January
Eschatos (BSG, gen-ish, Adama/Roslin-ish)
March
The Sea With Its Deepness (SG-1, gen-ish, Daniel/Janet-ish; written for the danjanficathon)
April
Sense Knowledge (SG-1, Sam/Jack)
June
Cold Light of Day (BSG, Caprica/Tigh)
July
Five Alcoholic Beverages Aeryn Discovered [redacted for 'Terra Firma' spoilers] (Farscape) (it's kind of fun to have so many FS newbies on the list that I'm redacting s4 spoilers!!!)
Five Things That Happened After the Fleet Reached Earth (BSG, gen)
Ten Kisses Between Bill Adama and Laura Roslin (BSG, Adama/Roslin, shamelessly shippy)
Five Conversations Janet Fraiser and Cameron Mitchell Never Had (SG-1, gen)
November
Latter Days (BSG, gen; written for galpalficathon
My favorite story this year (of my own): Oh, very much "Eschatos"!
My best story this year: Again, "Eschatos."
Story most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: I've actually been really pleasantly surprised by the reaction to everything I've written this year. I don't feel under-appreciated in the least!
Most fun story: The various five things that I wrote in July. They were all quite low-key, and I have to confess that pretending to be an honest-to-god Adama/Roslin shipper with kissing and all that was way more fun than it should have been. Also Cam and Janet and pies. Hee!
Sexiest story: Ummm. I really didn't do any sexy this year, did I? I feel like the A/R kissing prompts really don't count as sexy, and there's really not a hint of sexy in anything else. Welcome to my life as someone who increasingly writes gen, I guess.
Hardest story to write: "Eschatos," by far.
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted? I wrote less than I ever have since I started writing fic--it seems dissertation-writing and fic-writing are not terribly compatible in my case. But I was actually a little surprised when I looked back at my fic tag because I'd forgotten about a few things I had written.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them? I don't know that I'd characterize this as a "risk," but I find I'm thinking about fic differently than I used to: as a mode of character interpretation and analysis primarily and as story secondarily. I feel like most of what I wrote this year was at least on some level an attempt to figure something out about a character, or perhaps about a relationship between characters. Probably I've always written fic in more or less this way (I'm a critic rather than a storyteller, and that's just how I'm wired), but I've been more conscious about it of late. In terms of actual narrative risks, I made some small experiments with point of view in "Latter Days" that worked better than I feared, I think, and I hope to play with that kind of thing more.
Do you have any goals for the New Year? I want to write more fic about non-romantic/-sexual relationships. (I'd use the word "gen," but I fear that has something of a connotation of "plot," which is not what I mean.) I'm particularly interested in such relationships between female characters, obviously, but not exclusively so. There are a couple of specific fics in fandoms I've never written in that I'd like to write: Susan and Delenn after "Sleeping in Light" for B5, and something about my beloved Agent Ellison for TSCC. It would be nice to write more in 2009 than I did in 2008, but given the demands of the dissertation, I'm not holding my breath.
For reference: 2007 Roundup and 2006 Roundup
January
Eschatos (BSG, gen-ish, Adama/Roslin-ish)
March
The Sea With Its Deepness (SG-1, gen-ish, Daniel/Janet-ish; written for the danjanficathon)
April
Sense Knowledge (SG-1, Sam/Jack)
June
Cold Light of Day (BSG, Caprica/Tigh)
July
Five Alcoholic Beverages Aeryn Discovered [redacted for 'Terra Firma' spoilers] (Farscape) (it's kind of fun to have so many FS newbies on the list that I'm redacting s4 spoilers!!!)
Five Things That Happened After the Fleet Reached Earth (BSG, gen)
Ten Kisses Between Bill Adama and Laura Roslin (BSG, Adama/Roslin, shamelessly shippy)
Five Conversations Janet Fraiser and Cameron Mitchell Never Had (SG-1, gen)
November
Latter Days (BSG, gen; written for galpalficathon
My favorite story this year (of my own): Oh, very much "Eschatos"!
My best story this year: Again, "Eschatos."
Story most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: I've actually been really pleasantly surprised by the reaction to everything I've written this year. I don't feel under-appreciated in the least!
Most fun story: The various five things that I wrote in July. They were all quite low-key, and I have to confess that pretending to be an honest-to-god Adama/Roslin shipper with kissing and all that was way more fun than it should have been. Also Cam and Janet and pies. Hee!
Sexiest story: Ummm. I really didn't do any sexy this year, did I? I feel like the A/R kissing prompts really don't count as sexy, and there's really not a hint of sexy in anything else. Welcome to my life as someone who increasingly writes gen, I guess.
Hardest story to write: "Eschatos," by far.
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted? I wrote less than I ever have since I started writing fic--it seems dissertation-writing and fic-writing are not terribly compatible in my case. But I was actually a little surprised when I looked back at my fic tag because I'd forgotten about a few things I had written.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them? I don't know that I'd characterize this as a "risk," but I find I'm thinking about fic differently than I used to: as a mode of character interpretation and analysis primarily and as story secondarily. I feel like most of what I wrote this year was at least on some level an attempt to figure something out about a character, or perhaps about a relationship between characters. Probably I've always written fic in more or less this way (I'm a critic rather than a storyteller, and that's just how I'm wired), but I've been more conscious about it of late. In terms of actual narrative risks, I made some small experiments with point of view in "Latter Days" that worked better than I feared, I think, and I hope to play with that kind of thing more.
Do you have any goals for the New Year? I want to write more fic about non-romantic/-sexual relationships. (I'd use the word "gen," but I fear that has something of a connotation of "plot," which is not what I mean.) I'm particularly interested in such relationships between female characters, obviously, but not exclusively so. There are a couple of specific fics in fandoms I've never written in that I'd like to write: Susan and Delenn after "Sleeping in Light" for B5, and something about my beloved Agent Ellison for TSCC. It would be nice to write more in 2009 than I did in 2008, but given the demands of the dissertation, I'm not holding my breath.
For reference: 2007 Roundup and 2006 Roundup