working, working, working & usual brain chaparral
More 12-hour days this week; it's the end of the quarter. So I'll be seeing you guys on the weekend. Urg.
As I was lying in bed last night around 12:21, with the usual coterie of lots3856 going on in my head, I was thinking about the fic I want to write for the ginger_lust ficathon. I need to pimp the community again; must do that tonight. At any rate, I was thinking about it and had two thoughts that dashed my inspired musings to the dirt. One, in some ways it's an emulation of Josan's "Aftermath," a favorite of mine from a few years ago. Two, it's Ron going through an extended healing process, much like my own "Wash Me Throughly." As I pondered it some more, being disgusted with myself for not coming up with something more unique, I did acknowledge that even if it is Ron/Severus with Severus healing him, Josan's is very much a Severus character exploration, and mine will be from Ron's POV; plus the situation is totally different. And while I have written a story in which Ron falls for someone because he's being healed by him, "Wash Me Throughly" was pretty straightforward, and this won't be. As I've been envisioning it, it'll be rather on the dark side (for angst and psyhological pathology that isn't Ron's fault, sortof) and soaked in moral ambiguity, as inspired by the quotation I claimed, or how I interpreted it: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
So perhaps my fic idea isn't quite as tired as perhaps it seemed last night. This morning I was going a little more thinking about popularity and readership and why we write, or why I write: I write things that interest me, unless in a fic exchange when I'm given prompts or someone else's wishes. Then I'm writing to please that particular person. My stories aren't necessarily for the general readership public, if such a thing exists. My slash pairings are often uncommon: Ron/Dean, Seamus/Draco, George/Remus. I like to use exotic words. Back in grade school I won spelling bees and memorized the words in Reader's Digest's 'expand your vocabulary' section. Now I subscribe to word a day dot org. I do write my characters being sentimental at times, and occasionally romantic, but I don't write fluff. The characters tend to drink, sometimes smoke, sometimes more than that, and they think a lot. There tends to be some hot sex; most people enjoy that. I do. In the fics. ;) I'm certainly not a definitive "_______" writer of any kind: there are already lists of top writers in some of the pairings I write in which I don't appear, and there's not exactly a thriving community of Dean/Seamus/Fred threesome writers. It's okay. The people who enjoy my writing often let me know, and I'm always tremendously gratified by that.
The point of that rambling? I'm not sure. It's going to be another long day. I hope you all are doing well; I'll be cocooning this weekend and hopefully will get caught up with what's going on with you guys. And I do love the autumnal icon I made. The kanji is an artistic one for "autumn," aki, per the artist.
XOX
As I was lying in bed last night around 12:21, with the usual coterie of lots3856 going on in my head, I was thinking about the fic I want to write for the ginger_lust ficathon. I need to pimp the community again; must do that tonight. At any rate, I was thinking about it and had two thoughts that dashed my inspired musings to the dirt. One, in some ways it's an emulation of Josan's "Aftermath," a favorite of mine from a few years ago. Two, it's Ron going through an extended healing process, much like my own "Wash Me Throughly." As I pondered it some more, being disgusted with myself for not coming up with something more unique, I did acknowledge that even if it is Ron/Severus with Severus healing him, Josan's is very much a Severus character exploration, and mine will be from Ron's POV; plus the situation is totally different. And while I have written a story in which Ron falls for someone because he's being healed by him, "Wash Me Throughly" was pretty straightforward, and this won't be. As I've been envisioning it, it'll be rather on the dark side (for angst and psyhological pathology that isn't Ron's fault, sortof) and soaked in moral ambiguity, as inspired by the quotation I claimed, or how I interpreted it: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
So perhaps my fic idea isn't quite as tired as perhaps it seemed last night. This morning I was going a little more thinking about popularity and readership and why we write, or why I write: I write things that interest me, unless in a fic exchange when I'm given prompts or someone else's wishes. Then I'm writing to please that particular person. My stories aren't necessarily for the general readership public, if such a thing exists. My slash pairings are often uncommon: Ron/Dean, Seamus/Draco, George/Remus. I like to use exotic words. Back in grade school I won spelling bees and memorized the words in Reader's Digest's 'expand your vocabulary' section. Now I subscribe to word a day dot org. I do write my characters being sentimental at times, and occasionally romantic, but I don't write fluff. The characters tend to drink, sometimes smoke, sometimes more than that, and they think a lot. There tends to be some hot sex; most people enjoy that. I do. In the fics. ;) I'm certainly not a definitive "_______" writer of any kind: there are already lists of top writers in some of the pairings I write in which I don't appear, and there's not exactly a thriving community of Dean/Seamus/Fred threesome writers. It's okay. The people who enjoy my writing often let me know, and I'm always tremendously gratified by that.
The point of that rambling? I'm not sure. It's going to be another long day. I hope you all are doing well; I'll be cocooning this weekend and hopefully will get caught up with what's going on with you guys. And I do love the autumnal icon I made. The kanji is an artistic one for "autumn," aki, per the artist.
XOX