2012 Writing Recap

[vulgarweed]

If it was just the first half of this year, it would be crushingly depressing. I was a pretty inert lump up through July, probably caused by being really hard on myself for losing motivation in my original-fic writing. When will I learn that berating myself just never, ever, ever helps.

I did write one little thing, though: Victoria's Worst-Kept Secret; Aziraphale/Crowley, lingerie kink, NC-17. That was for the Porn Battle. I tend to write well when there are challenges to motivate me, but I didn't sign up for many of those this year either. I skipped Remix and Yuletide.

But then in August, htebazytook and I started brainstorming what would become The Bone Fiddle, and we both pretty much lived in that world for nearly five months. And I remembered that yes, I can do this, and even more importantly, I love to do this.

Writing I've done in the past month:

(At least) one Good Omens piece that I am not at liberty to disclose or discuss.
A coda to "The Bone Fiddle" that I've sent to htebazytook but haven't posted yet that's almost 7,000 words of porn.

Stories up on the horizon:
Something that might be bittersweet and slashy about young Olórin and Aiwendil in Valinor, and where they wind up later.

So:
Faithful old-friend fandom: Good Omens, still, always.
Shiny new fandom smell: Sherlock
BOTH: The Hobbit/LOTR/Tolkien

Actually, Sherlock nearly qualifies as both because I've liked the ACD Sherlock Holmes stories since I was a kid, I just never participated in any of the related sub-fandoms before. That's my long-term pattern if I'm going to seriously fan-write anything: I need canon I can read for inspiration and research.

Comments

[htebazytook.livejournal.com]

I know right? I got so many unexpected feels about Dwarves and their legacies and shit from The Hobbit

Ewww I haven't seen many prissy gatekeepers, myself. When I first came into fandom I really did sound like these annoying preteen girls, since I was one, which is probably why they annoy me so much now, but listen, LOTR fandom was so tolerant of my annoying fangirl tendencies, and looking back I know if it had been a bitchy fandom it probably would've turned me off ALL fandoms, so I'm glad they were cool

Then again, me having been a Book Fan for an entire YEAR prior to the movies even coming out probably earned me some points

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

The prissy gatekeepers are mostly the Worst of Tumblr (tm), domain of self-righteous teenagers who like to make rules for how other people ought to do fandom properly.

Ten years ago, I was definitely a Tolkien canon snob, in the sense that any fic that didn't show evidence of knowing the books made me scornful. But a control freak invested in the sacredness of the canon? No. My first or second fic I ever posted was this. (Formatting's awful, I need to fix it - I c&p'd from Library of Moria).

I was...not a teenager. Nor was I in my 20s. XD I did think LOTR was kind of a bitchy fandom, but not to anyone who really devoted themselves to the story and the universe of it. More to the endless sea of swooning over Orlando Bloom/Legolas (bland actor, bland character).

[htebazytook.livejournal.com]

:::Ten years ago, I was definitely a Tolkien canon snob, in the sense that any fic that didn't show evidence of knowing the books made me scornful. But a control freak invested in the sacredness of the canon? No::::

I like to think this is how I was/am, too

Um, Legolas had some PRETTY IMPORTANT things to say, let me tell you. Remember when he read a fortune cookie to Aragorn at Parth Galen? Or the time he announced that a forest was old?? Or, my personal favorite, when he knew what a diversion was????

As a "Lijah" fan [I hate myself] I was a sworn enemy of the Orli camp. I have such strange feelings about Frodo now. It's like being attracted to a now jailbait kid that looks like the kid you had a cutesy crush on when you were also jailbait