Meme: Year End Writing Meme
Okay, I ran across this on the ds_noticeboard, and I sorta dismissed it. It wasn't until I actualy stopped and thought back to just how much I've actualy written this year that I kinda went "...OMG, Woah. Did I do that??"
So after realizing that I've written more fic in the last year then I have in the last four years combined, I desided that this falls into my catigory of trying to really appreshate the few really, really good things that have happend to me in this Year of Crap, and being able to actualy write again is definatly at the top of that list. (That list, for refrence, would also be my "Things I Am Thankful For" post of 11/22/'07, though writing is not, in fact, at the top, as the list is not in any particular order)
So in that sperit, I am going to do this meme and really think about each anwser. And because I have written a few items which are not yet posted, I'm including them as well, though information on them will be limited as I can't post them until I post other fics in the series first, or because they are not quite finished, and I don't wanna spoil stuff.
So: brooklinegirl's Anual End Of The Year Writing Meme
List of stories I've written in 2007: (All are SUQ unless otherwise noted)
Posted Fics & Drabbles:
And can I just take a moment here to go...fucking OMG wow. ::blinking::
And also, both "Birth Of A New Truth" and "Promace Of A Broken Truth" are almost ready for posting. Sel has already done the first round of beta on Birth, and is just waiting for a final polish on my changes, and last night I finaly got off my ass and started to go though her marks on Power. Both should be ready to go pretty soon, as soon as we both have five minutes to ourselves...if that ever happens...
My best story of this year: Okay, I think I'm gunna go with "Silence of A Broken Truth" on this one. This one by far took the longest to write, as I actualy started it a year before it was posted, imideatly after finishing "Pain Of A Broken Truth", back when I thought it was just gunna be a simple Trillogy! ::LOL:: I got stuck on this one part and I thought it had to go a certen way for the rest of the series to work. It blocked me for months, I couldn't get another word written on it or anything else, 'til suddenly I got Tenrai, and bamb, another thousand words came out, and in the same night I finished Silence, and started Power. {{hugs Tenrai}} It should probably be pointed out that about 70% of those fics up there have all been done just since July when I got Tenrai...
My favourite story of this year: Probably the RR with Sel, because it's so incredibly fun, and we have no real idea where it's going, but it's an incredible journy none the less.
Most fun story to write: The Uni-Verse Drabbles, I think. Those were...a blast, they really were. I love doing something slightly odd, even for Fandom, and I think telling a seires of fics entirly from the POV of bunch of Unicorns fits that bill pretty well. ::G:: Though Power was incredibly fun to write, too, because it all came out so easily, which was an incredible change to the entire year previous to that.
Story with the single sexiest moment: Hum...I didn't really write anything sexy this year. If you squint, I do have Sheila and Darian in bed on their wedding night at the end of Silence, but that's about it.
Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: ::snort:: Well, you all probably would consider that to be "Mr. Pointy", though even for me that's not too bad. ::LOL:: One of my un-posted fics may end up a threesome love, or it may end up with no one happy at all, which since I never write Threesom Love/OTP or fics where they're in love but no one gets what they want very offten...that's pretty bad from my POV. (and no I'm not saying which fic it is, because I don't wanna scare you guys off. ::LOL:: It really may end up totaly difrent then either of those endings, I'm really not sure, the chractors are laeving me so many questions they have yet to anwser and it just keeps getting longer and longer and...)
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Oh, Promise, definatly, hands down. When I wrote Pain Of A Broken Truth last year, I was kidna suprised at how it ended, but it fit how I saw them by the end, so it didn't shock me that much. But I left that fic with a very difinate feel for how Johnathan and Catherine were for the seires, and that contenued in Silence, too. Sheila's reactions only served to cement who her parents had become in my mind. I had no clue that Promise would change all that for me, and that who I thought would be the suprise-hero of the sereis, in fact turned out to be even wrose then I thought, and the one I thought to be just a point-to-and-end turns out to be someone I realy, really love! I was floored by that, and by the end of the fic, the chractor was a compleatly difrent, and wholy sympathetic chractor to me, and someone whom I really enjoy writing about thougout the series now. I thought they were just gunna be there to set up Sheila's growth, and instead I've now fully incorporated this person into how I shape the whole series. It compleatly changed the whole sereis, too, it actualy ended up in a difrent direction then how I thought it was a year ago because of this one chractor's personal growth.
And I really, really wish I could say more, because this series has really taken me over, and I'm so fricking proud of it, but I can't post them unless they're in order or they'll make no sence what so ever, and if I post the interludes first, you'll be spoiled for the main fics of the sereis and...ooooh, we gotta get back to the beta-board! I really, really wanna share these with you guys!
Hardest story to write: Silence. Hands down, again, Silence was the hardest fic I've written in years. I was so sure that this one fucking detail had to happen that it blocked me for a full fucking year! I simply could not see any bloody way around it, and even Sel couldn't, either! She kept trying to give me work-around ideas, but none of them fit to me because I was so fixated on this one bloody scene. And then one day, it suddenly didn't matter. I spent all that time building up that one detail that would lay the groundwork for threads and plot lines, like, three fics down the line, that I totoaly didn't see the anwser that was right infront of me. ::shakes head:: That plotline will still have to happen, which is why I can't say what it was or who it involved, but it will be happening in a much more sublte way now, not just hitting you upside the head like I thought it would be.
Biggest Disappointment: Oh, hum...gotta think about that one...maybe the SGA Animal one, because it actualy makes sence to me. It sounds like this total Crack AU piece, but something about it just fit to me, and I think it could be a real, honest, solid piece of fanfic! It really could! If I could just find the energy to write it. I think part of why I write so much in SUQ, despite what a small fandom it is, is because I'm writting it for Selynne, and with her, and I love to show her every new word I've added. But while I'm by far more involved in the SGA fandom, I just don't have that personal connection to the other fans. My beta-reader for the McShep w/Ronon piece I did I got though sga_beta, which is a Betas-R-Us forum on LJ to help writers and betas find eachother. She's not someone I've even spoken to before I E-mailed her and asked her to take pitty on me! And she was wonderful and did so...and I haven't had the energy to finish the beta on that one either. ::sighs:: I'm definatly more dissipointed with myself then with the fics here, I definatly feel like I"m letting the fics down by not giving them my all...but... ::sighs::
Biggest Surprise: The Wife 2. ::LOL:: Hell, The Wife 1, also! The orignal fic came out of an idea I was tossing out to Sel to help her write, and the next thing I know, I'm finishing a fic of my own with it. But then I really did think it was just done, just this one-off, what if fic and it's over with. So imagine my suprise when she keeps talking, and I'm geting even more What-If ideas about her. What if she was in love with Darian, what if Sheila wasn't as obvlivious as she seems, what if there's more to the story, what if....and I can't say what else what-if without giving it away.
But anyhow, yah, smacked me right upside the head, both of those. Totatly outta nowhere and with no warning.
Most Unintentionally Telling Story: Probably Power of a Broken Truth. I find myself reacting for the chractors as I write a lot of this fic. When one chractor feels guilty, I feel guilty, when another is angry at them, I'm furious, when someone's yelling, I'M yelling though my typeing. The scene I'm working on now...I had to stop the first time I wrote it, because I was so furious at this chractor, I couldn't tell if the person yelling was still in chractor or not. I found myself reacting as if I was right there, instead of Sheila, wanting to scream and throw her magic around in terifying ways. I've had troubble getting back in to finish the scene because of it, in fact. I've gotten so wrapped up in the emotions of this fic, more then the others even, it amaizes me.
I always write with my emotions first, my words second, and I always feel what I'm writing along with my chractors, but this one is hitting me particularly hard with it's extreme highs and lows, somehow.
Though for entirly other reasons, I think Birth of a New Truth is pretting telling, too, though I can't say how or why or anything without spoiling major twists later in the seires. ::sighs::
And the others... [discussion of any fics you didn't mention in the meme, but would still like to address] Hum...not sure what to say, here. I'd really love to explain some of my thoughts on the New Truth interludes, or my emotions behind Author, Author, but I can't without spoiling them, since they're still un-posted. ::sighs:: So instead I'll take this moment to say Thank You, Thank You, THANK YOU to Selynne. My wonderful, incredible, indespencible Selynne. {{{HUGS}}} Beta reader, consirpitor, insperation, sister-in-arms, partner-in-crime, Selynne. NONE of the SUQ fics would exist without her, and even if they did, they'd be much, much crappyer. I can't even describe how much I activly disliked my first version of The Wife. Then she stepped in, gave me a few ideas in a beta, and wamb, out comes this fic that even I'm suprised by! ::LOL::
So to the best beta reader and my biggest source of insperation: THANK YOU, SELYNNE!!!
So after realizing that I've written more fic in the last year then I have in the last four years combined, I desided that this falls into my catigory of trying to really appreshate the few really, really good things that have happend to me in this Year of Crap, and being able to actualy write again is definatly at the top of that list. (That list, for refrence, would also be my "Things I Am Thankful For" post of 11/22/'07, though writing is not, in fact, at the top, as the list is not in any particular order)
So in that sperit, I am going to do this meme and really think about each anwser. And because I have written a few items which are not yet posted, I'm including them as well, though information on them will be limited as I can't post them until I post other fics in the series first, or because they are not quite finished, and I don't wanna spoil stuff.
So: brooklinegirl's Anual End Of The Year Writing Meme
List of stories I've written in 2007: (All are SUQ unless otherwise noted)
Posted Fics & Drabbles:
- Silence Of A Broken Truth (Broken Truth #2)
- The Wife
- The RR Sel And I Are Writing: Ch. 2, 4, and 6
- Drabble: Forgotten
- Drabble: Breed
- Challange: No Longer Mister Pointy
- Drabbles: Uni-Verse Series (Six Fics): Clique, Demonstrations, Release, Interfering, Forever, and Stand
- The Wife 2 (either a contenuation or a retelling of The Wife, not sure yet where it's gunna end up, yet)
- Traditions Of A New Truth (all "interludes" in the Broken Truth seires are being called "New Truth" fics, all New Truth titles are up in the air 'til posting)
- Confessions Of A New Truth
- Birth Of A New Truth
- Promise Of A Broken Truth (Broken Truth #3)
- Power Of A Broken Truth (Broken Truth #4)
- Author, Author (an SUQ What-If fic)
- SGA Fic: McShep Fic Featuring Ronon (untitled, just have to finish beta)
- SGA Fic: AU Where They're ASPCA Rescue Animals (crack, I know, and bearly started)
And can I just take a moment here to go...fucking OMG wow. ::blinking::
And also, both "Birth Of A New Truth" and "Promace Of A Broken Truth" are almost ready for posting. Sel has already done the first round of beta on Birth, and is just waiting for a final polish on my changes, and last night I finaly got off my ass and started to go though her marks on Power. Both should be ready to go pretty soon, as soon as we both have five minutes to ourselves...if that ever happens...
My best story of this year: Okay, I think I'm gunna go with "Silence of A Broken Truth" on this one. This one by far took the longest to write, as I actualy started it a year before it was posted, imideatly after finishing "Pain Of A Broken Truth", back when I thought it was just gunna be a simple Trillogy! ::LOL:: I got stuck on this one part and I thought it had to go a certen way for the rest of the series to work. It blocked me for months, I couldn't get another word written on it or anything else, 'til suddenly I got Tenrai, and bamb, another thousand words came out, and in the same night I finished Silence, and started Power. {{hugs Tenrai}} It should probably be pointed out that about 70% of those fics up there have all been done just since July when I got Tenrai...
My favourite story of this year: Probably the RR with Sel, because it's so incredibly fun, and we have no real idea where it's going, but it's an incredible journy none the less.
Most fun story to write: The Uni-Verse Drabbles, I think. Those were...a blast, they really were. I love doing something slightly odd, even for Fandom, and I think telling a seires of fics entirly from the POV of bunch of Unicorns fits that bill pretty well. ::G:: Though Power was incredibly fun to write, too, because it all came out so easily, which was an incredible change to the entire year previous to that.
Story with the single sexiest moment: Hum...I didn't really write anything sexy this year. If you squint, I do have Sheila and Darian in bed on their wedding night at the end of Silence, but that's about it.
Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: ::snort:: Well, you all probably would consider that to be "Mr. Pointy", though even for me that's not too bad. ::LOL:: One of my un-posted fics may end up a threesome love, or it may end up with no one happy at all, which since I never write Threesom Love/OTP or fics where they're in love but no one gets what they want very offten...that's pretty bad from my POV. (and no I'm not saying which fic it is, because I don't wanna scare you guys off. ::LOL:: It really may end up totaly difrent then either of those endings, I'm really not sure, the chractors are laeving me so many questions they have yet to anwser and it just keeps getting longer and longer and...)
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Oh, Promise, definatly, hands down. When I wrote Pain Of A Broken Truth last year, I was kidna suprised at how it ended, but it fit how I saw them by the end, so it didn't shock me that much. But I left that fic with a very difinate feel for how Johnathan and Catherine were for the seires, and that contenued in Silence, too. Sheila's reactions only served to cement who her parents had become in my mind. I had no clue that Promise would change all that for me, and that who I thought would be the suprise-hero of the sereis, in fact turned out to be even wrose then I thought, and the one I thought to be just a point-to-and-end turns out to be someone I realy, really love! I was floored by that, and by the end of the fic, the chractor was a compleatly difrent, and wholy sympathetic chractor to me, and someone whom I really enjoy writing about thougout the series now. I thought they were just gunna be there to set up Sheila's growth, and instead I've now fully incorporated this person into how I shape the whole series. It compleatly changed the whole sereis, too, it actualy ended up in a difrent direction then how I thought it was a year ago because of this one chractor's personal growth.
And I really, really wish I could say more, because this series has really taken me over, and I'm so fricking proud of it, but I can't post them unless they're in order or they'll make no sence what so ever, and if I post the interludes first, you'll be spoiled for the main fics of the sereis and...ooooh, we gotta get back to the beta-board! I really, really wanna share these with you guys!
Hardest story to write: Silence. Hands down, again, Silence was the hardest fic I've written in years. I was so sure that this one fucking detail had to happen that it blocked me for a full fucking year! I simply could not see any bloody way around it, and even Sel couldn't, either! She kept trying to give me work-around ideas, but none of them fit to me because I was so fixated on this one bloody scene. And then one day, it suddenly didn't matter. I spent all that time building up that one detail that would lay the groundwork for threads and plot lines, like, three fics down the line, that I totoaly didn't see the anwser that was right infront of me. ::shakes head:: That plotline will still have to happen, which is why I can't say what it was or who it involved, but it will be happening in a much more sublte way now, not just hitting you upside the head like I thought it would be.
Biggest Disappointment: Oh, hum...gotta think about that one...maybe the SGA Animal one, because it actualy makes sence to me. It sounds like this total Crack AU piece, but something about it just fit to me, and I think it could be a real, honest, solid piece of fanfic! It really could! If I could just find the energy to write it. I think part of why I write so much in SUQ, despite what a small fandom it is, is because I'm writting it for Selynne, and with her, and I love to show her every new word I've added. But while I'm by far more involved in the SGA fandom, I just don't have that personal connection to the other fans. My beta-reader for the McShep w/Ronon piece I did I got though sga_beta, which is a Betas-R-Us forum on LJ to help writers and betas find eachother. She's not someone I've even spoken to before I E-mailed her and asked her to take pitty on me! And she was wonderful and did so...and I haven't had the energy to finish the beta on that one either. ::sighs:: I'm definatly more dissipointed with myself then with the fics here, I definatly feel like I"m letting the fics down by not giving them my all...but... ::sighs::
Biggest Surprise: The Wife 2. ::LOL:: Hell, The Wife 1, also! The orignal fic came out of an idea I was tossing out to Sel to help her write, and the next thing I know, I'm finishing a fic of my own with it. But then I really did think it was just done, just this one-off, what if fic and it's over with. So imagine my suprise when she keeps talking, and I'm geting even more What-If ideas about her. What if she was in love with Darian, what if Sheila wasn't as obvlivious as she seems, what if there's more to the story, what if....and I can't say what else what-if without giving it away.
But anyhow, yah, smacked me right upside the head, both of those. Totatly outta nowhere and with no warning.
Most Unintentionally Telling Story: Probably Power of a Broken Truth. I find myself reacting for the chractors as I write a lot of this fic. When one chractor feels guilty, I feel guilty, when another is angry at them, I'm furious, when someone's yelling, I'M yelling though my typeing. The scene I'm working on now...I had to stop the first time I wrote it, because I was so furious at this chractor, I couldn't tell if the person yelling was still in chractor or not. I found myself reacting as if I was right there, instead of Sheila, wanting to scream and throw her magic around in terifying ways. I've had troubble getting back in to finish the scene because of it, in fact. I've gotten so wrapped up in the emotions of this fic, more then the others even, it amaizes me.
I always write with my emotions first, my words second, and I always feel what I'm writing along with my chractors, but this one is hitting me particularly hard with it's extreme highs and lows, somehow.
Though for entirly other reasons, I think Birth of a New Truth is pretting telling, too, though I can't say how or why or anything without spoiling major twists later in the seires. ::sighs::
And the others... [discussion of any fics you didn't mention in the meme, but would still like to address] Hum...not sure what to say, here. I'd really love to explain some of my thoughts on the New Truth interludes, or my emotions behind Author, Author, but I can't without spoiling them, since they're still un-posted. ::sighs:: So instead I'll take this moment to say Thank You, Thank You, THANK YOU to Selynne. My wonderful, incredible, indespencible Selynne. {{{HUGS}}} Beta reader, consirpitor, insperation, sister-in-arms, partner-in-crime, Selynne. NONE of the SUQ fics would exist without her, and even if they did, they'd be much, much crappyer. I can't even describe how much I activly disliked my first version of The Wife. Then she stepped in, gave me a few ideas in a beta, and wamb, out comes this fic that even I'm suprised by! ::LOL::
So to the best beta reader and my biggest source of insperation: THANK YOU, SELYNNE!!!