yuletide reveals and general writing 2013

[silverflight8]

I wrote two fics this year and received two. I defaulted and didn't think I'd get any, so I couldn't believe my luck. You should read my gift fics, if you're in the Old Kingdom fandom! I have two adventure/exploration fics for Lirael and the Disreputable Dog, as they go exploring in the great Clayr library: After Hours by the_antichris and Discoveries to Share by Sheeana.

I wrote A Sea Change (2,868 words) for Phantom (rosabelle) which is fork-in-the-road AU for Jehanne/Moirin, and which I think is pretty unsurprising (I felt extremely not-anon during the entire exchange). I JUST THINK THAT JEHANNE SHOULDN'T HAVE DIED. They are so gorgeous together. Yeah. Not over it. Never over it.

I think Jehanne is really quite perceptive when it comes to people. I wonder if this is why Daniel loved her so much. I want to write something pre-Kiss about Jehanne and Daniel and Raphael, actually.

I also wrote Traveller's Lodging (620 words) for kaesa (kaesa) for Madness. I got to this point and then went "oh no but how do I keep going". I have to think of some way of reorganizing things so I can keep going!

Conclusion: more research is in order. Also as I was writing this I was researching early medieval Europe which is a very different thing and it was all...14th century! Focus on England! Oh noes!

I would like to say right now that I HATE TITLES. I shall start a Society for the Abrogation of Titles. Or Titles Anonymous, for writers suffering from the terribleness of trying to pick a title. For A Sea Change all I could think of was a pun (and I'm so sorry--but hey I used title case! It was even more pretentious before!) and as for kaesa's, I literally ran out of time and had to slap the most terribad title on. Yeah, about that...

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This year I wrote and finished 4 fic: two in Kushiel's Legacy, one in Old Kingdom, and one in Time Traveller's Guide to 14th Century England. Of all the fics I wrote, I think I liked the Old Kingdom one best (By breakwater and river), because I got to write action and I love adventure/action/case/mission kinds of novels and stories best. AO3 says that 2013's output is 9447 words, which is an increase of almost precisely 200% (2.003815...) over 2012. The majority was in By breakwater and river, which is 4K.

In other writing, I have few hard numbers because I'm really bad at recording stuff in spreadsheets. I did not finish Nanowrimo for the first time ever, but I did start on an unmentionable project, and finally wrote treats for yuletide, so overall, still happy! I blame the craziness of this year. You know what I still have to finish? That Mavros/Amarante fic. It's still sitting at 11K with zero progress since December 2012 *facepalm* I need a kick in the pants.

Comments

[kmo]

A Sea Change was lovely- and I didn't know it was you at all! Just because so many people seem to come out of the woodwork for Yuletide and you seemed like you had a lot on your plate. It was a fantastic fic- you really have a handle on the Naamah trilogy characters and write them very well.

haha, can i also join your Titlephobics Anonymous group? 'Cause I could not think of a title for that Imriel/Maslin fic to save my life. I changed it about 5 times before I posted it. now most times for me- it's actually easier.

i've been a bit busy lately but i definitely want to read your gift fics! and i would read the shit out of your 11k Mavros/Amarante story :D

[silverflight8]

Aw, thanks! It's true about yuletide--though this year I think a lot of people appeared in the exchange instead! :P I don't think I've ever met the person who wrote the drabble in Madness though!

FOREVER HEARTS ABOUT JEHANNE/MOIRIN

We need a society. Help help, I'm suffering from titling woes! And the worst of it is you have to write a title, and there's a deadline, and everything sounds stupid! Bleh. I was talking to someone who actually keeps a spreadsheet of titles because she kept accidentally using the same ones! "Vralian Resolutions" sounds perfectly fine though to me :)

I managed to score two adventure/exploration stories and I'm still a bit giddy because I love seeing the Clayr library! (I still think that library is the coolest. Also dangerous, but whatever :D)

I should really work on that fic. It's more of "Amarante's year of service" with, er, extra emphasis on Mavros. But so far it's more of Amarante/Sidonie and Amarante/OFC and Sidonie/Imriel shenanigans than anything else D:

[pipisafoat]

ME TOO TITLES. the number of times I have emailed someone and said "give me a title without knowing at all even what i am writing!" AND THEN USING IT. I think I have a handful of really well titled fics, but mostly I have fics that just have some words slapped on there. (and some with no words on there. [untitled comment fic] or a variation thereupon is probably my most used title!)

[silverflight8]

TITLES SUCK

I wish we could be like composers. "Nocture in E Major" is a perfectly fine title there. "Prose about spaceships" should be perfectly fine too. HMPH.