Writing Meme (catching up)
Dec. 22nd, 2014 05:00 pmI did make a habit of doing this round-up every year, but don't seem to have done one in 2013, probably because I wrote so little. The popslash writing season properly starts with SeSa, though, so this is a good time to cover the last couple of years' worth.
My SeSa story in 2012 was It's cool, it's hot, it's a relationship, it's not, AJ and JC and misunderstandings, in which AJ moves in with JC without JC noticing, and JC breaks up with AJ without JC noticing. I am rather fond of Oblivious!JC.
I… don't seem to have written anything else in 2013, which scares me.
Strictly speaking, I did wake up my writing muscles in the autumn, when I had to get a rough draft of my Dragon Big Bang done, but more of that later.
December 2013 saw me actually creating two MTYG stories, clear my eyes, with JC dithering about whether he wanted Nick or Lance, and We're doin' this tonight, or maybe in the morning, a sorta pinch-hit which I wrote in a day, mostly because the boys were so obliging as to tell me most of it themselves—it's set at the VMAs.
In 2014, it occurred to me that I might expand the epilogue to clear my eyes, which led to take a second just to breathe, which is essentially 6,000 words of porn and 300 or so of introspection. Well, it makes a change!
That turned into the August challenge, for which I wrote the porny sequel to my other 2013 MTYG story, After Pancakes. Really, JoeC is the most adorable pairing, of which there should be much, much more than there is.
Someone commented to me at some point that she approved of my commitment to threesomes. Quite.
The other major effort, which spanned both years anyway, was Dragon Country, my Dragon Big Bang story. I had written most of it when we went off to Australia in February, but thanks to the miracle of the internet was able to get it beta'd by the lovely![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brandywine28 and ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
chalcopyrite despite being away, and it was revealed on 15th March, just after we got back home. I'm getting good mileage out of the Dragon Big Bang challenge, but then, dragon challenges are necessarily good, right?
There was, also, and most scarily, the lava lamp story re-told in blank verse. O Lance! Where did you put the lava lamp? Yes. Well.
In total, almost 60,000 words, more than half of which were in Dragon Country, my longest story to date (unless you count the Bouquet universe as one story, which I don't) at more than 36,000 words. I'm not sure the effort:feedback ratio really works for me, though, as I got all of six comments on those 36,000 words, between my journal and AO3. I suppose that's what happens when a fandom (arguably two fandoms) fades away, and let's face it, pop fandom has been fading away since at least 2011, and there isn't a whole lot of activity in Glambert fandom any more. Alas for the days of the Glamnation Tour!
Well, my SeSa stuff is now done for this year, and there is another Dragon Challenge in the spring for which I have put in a fair bit of groundwork already, so my writing muscles have not completely atrophied, I'm happy to say.
My SeSa story in 2012 was It's cool, it's hot, it's a relationship, it's not, AJ and JC and misunderstandings, in which AJ moves in with JC without JC noticing, and JC breaks up with AJ without JC noticing. I am rather fond of Oblivious!JC.
I… don't seem to have written anything else in 2013, which scares me.
Strictly speaking, I did wake up my writing muscles in the autumn, when I had to get a rough draft of my Dragon Big Bang done, but more of that later.
December 2013 saw me actually creating two MTYG stories, clear my eyes, with JC dithering about whether he wanted Nick or Lance, and We're doin' this tonight, or maybe in the morning, a sorta pinch-hit which I wrote in a day, mostly because the boys were so obliging as to tell me most of it themselves—it's set at the VMAs.
In 2014, it occurred to me that I might expand the epilogue to clear my eyes, which led to take a second just to breathe, which is essentially 6,000 words of porn and 300 or so of introspection. Well, it makes a change!
That turned into the August challenge, for which I wrote the porny sequel to my other 2013 MTYG story, After Pancakes. Really, JoeC is the most adorable pairing, of which there should be much, much more than there is.
Someone commented to me at some point that she approved of my commitment to threesomes. Quite.
The other major effort, which spanned both years anyway, was Dragon Country, my Dragon Big Bang story. I had written most of it when we went off to Australia in February, but thanks to the miracle of the internet was able to get it beta'd by the lovely
brandywine28 and chalcopyrite despite being away, and it was revealed on 15th March, just after we got back home. I'm getting good mileage out of the Dragon Big Bang challenge, but then, dragon challenges are necessarily good, right?There was, also, and most scarily, the lava lamp story re-told in blank verse. O Lance! Where did you put the lava lamp? Yes. Well.
In total, almost 60,000 words, more than half of which were in Dragon Country, my longest story to date (unless you count the Bouquet universe as one story, which I don't) at more than 36,000 words. I'm not sure the effort:feedback ratio really works for me, though, as I got all of six comments on those 36,000 words, between my journal and AO3. I suppose that's what happens when a fandom (arguably two fandoms) fades away, and let's face it, pop fandom has been fading away since at least 2011, and there isn't a whole lot of activity in Glambert fandom any more. Alas for the days of the Glamnation Tour!
Well, my SeSa stuff is now done for this year, and there is another Dragon Challenge in the spring for which I have put in a fair bit of groundwork already, so my writing muscles have not completely atrophied, I'm happy to say.