So I think I wrote a lot less than last year, but more fic & ideas for/of fic actually happened? Which is to say, I am very unsatisfied with myself all around, but I actually made some stuff.

Leitmotif(s) of the year: Freedom, escape (as usual); relationships that may or may not be romance, no one is quite sure; poetry; meta-fiction; and "Well, ( Read more... )

Instead of writing up HP meta or going 'aaaaaa JLPT on Sunday don't know enough words going to fail'-too tired for any of that right now-I am going to alert you all to the existence of
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Nice things that happened today ( Read more... )

Writing fic in general beyond "this happened and then she did this and then that caused something else" is usually so hard for me, I'm always (pleasantly) surprised when I manage to come up with a really cool sentence. I shouldn't be, I suppose, because pretty phrasing is what I'm good at (plot & structure not so much) but still it's like "Oh! That ( Read more... )

I am kind of scared of my Kaleidoscope assignment. It's in a fandom that I love, for a wonderful person, and I am in the space where I am very excited and also slightly panicked. What if I can't figure out anything good to write? What if I plot out something awesome and then I write it and it turns out terrible? Above all else, WHAT IF THEY DON'T ( Read more... )

(This is exactly the sort of thing I should not be doing when I have three-and-a-half essays to write before tomorrow and a scene-bunny bouncing around in my head. Bite me.)

I feel like everyone will be able to guess my fics in anonymous writing fests now, because all they'll have to do is pick the one with the over-symbolic title.

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I just remembered that I wrote these up a while ago and forgot to post them! Oops.

21. Have you ever written a sequel to a fic you wrote, and if so, why, and if not, how do you feel about sequels?

Nope, never. I tend to write things that don't need sequels, or things that are connected but not really related, or stories that are actually one big ( Read more... )

I feel like those memes about writing always ask about titles, so here is a slightly better answer than I tend to give most of them.

I love titles! Usually. But mostly I try to title things before I write them, or at least before I get too far in, because I like titles that are really relevant to the story. And I tend to build off titles: I don't ( Read more... )

Azula, why are you so haaaaard. I love you! You're like my favorite character! But argh, so difficult to get a handle on writing-wise.

(This is not helped by my extremely spotty recollection of season two.)

Well, I know one thing for certain: when I do get my Avatar-brain in order-which may take a while-this fic is going to be really awesome. ( Read more... )

I think I am at the point where, instead of plotting out long interesting playing-with-canon fic, I just want to write things hovering on the border of original fic. Magazine articles! Reviews of plays written by canon characters! Transcripts of in-universe videos and speeches! Short stories ostensibly written by minor/original characters! The ( Read more... )