Writing stuff. Mostly.

[pensnest]

Oh boy. Yep, so DWNOGA authors are up, and I can reveal that I was lucky enough to be asked to write Trickyfish (yay!) (and added a side order of Chris/Nick, after a fashion), thank the SeSa stars... It's called Prize, and will soon be filling the Birthday prompt in my fanfic100 table. Thanks to ephemera_pop, nopseud, joyfulseeker and sola_fiamma for various kinds of beta work (and encouragement) which improved things so much from my initial draft.



General thoughts on SeSa? Good fun, a little nerve-racking, especially trying to make myself write hurt-comfort (I didn't really manage it), but I was lucky with my assignment! Overall, it's so nice to have a bunch of new stories, even if there's too much Justin and not nearly enough Lance for my taste. Ah well. Oddly, my absolute favourite stories weren't my favourite pairing. I go for the laughs, so the ones I most adored were those which made me giggle.

I am terrifically proud of myself for guessing correctly the author of my favourite story this year, The Earl of Rothinghamtonfordshire, even though I didn't tell anyone except Bun. It's total fun from start to finish. Other top favourites have to be Gratuity (fabulous characterisations plus take-charge Lance, hee), A Hell of a Yarn, JC/AJ and again, wonderfully characterised and red hot, and my favourite Trickyfish, A Girl and his Dog, really atmospheric and lovable. Oh, and special mention for Poptarts in Atlantis, because although I have never seen SGA, it was entirely fun to read. I managed to send a respectable quantity of feedback, but there remain quite a bunch of stories I enjoyed and haven't yet commented on. Eventually... I hope. Apologies to ephemera for not commenting properly on your adorable The Kebabbery, but I'd got so happily into anonymous author mode that I just couldn't manage to pretend I wasn't utterly certain this was yours!

The anonymous author idea is a big part of the fun, I think, and I wonder if anyone else has done what turloughishere did, and gone through all stories with a comment, rather than simply reccing favourites? As I commented in turloughishere's LJ, it is interesting to be able to read a story without knowing who wrote it, so that reaction is purely and simply to the story itself. Are there other challenges that do this? By and large, I'm not good at guessing authors: I had Great Big Clues for The Kebabbery and Kicks, beyond them I made one correct and two incorrect guesses...

Well. Many people seem to be doing a writing round-up for the year. Given that I have produced, um, upwards of forty stories since April, I'm not going to list them all. Most, including my one original fiction, Healing Hands, are on my website, though I think there are probably one or two small offerings on my LJ or at fic_requests which I haven't put up there. In all, that's 96,000+ words of popslash, in doses from 100 to nearly 15,000 at a time, which makes me very happy, after several years in which I wrote effectively nothing. And to think, this time last year I hadn't even heard of *Nsync.

Comments

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I loved A Girl and His Dog so much. I'm not ashamed to admit I had tears by the end, because I'm a big old sap.

And to think, this time last year I hadn't even heard of *Nsync.

The fandom sure does pull you in fast, and you arrived with such a bang too ;) I'm glad you're here, you're surely an asset.

[pensnest]

I think I snuffled a bit at that one, too. Very interesting story.

'Merchandising' was quite an entrance to make, I guess! I'm very glad to be here. *beams*

[nopseud]

And to think, this time last year I hadn't even heard of *Nsync.

Now, much too late, you realise the dangers of talking to strange women at conventions ;-)

[pensnest]

I know, I know.

I must be sure to do it again.

[rikes]

And to think, this time last year I hadn't even heard of *Nsync.

Ha! Resistance is futile.

[pensnest]

Hideous visions of sparkly boys in shiny black with mechanical extras, and Lou Perlman as the Borg Queen.

EW!!!

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

Since I didn't tell anyone this could be entirely fabricated, but I did wonder if you had written Prize! There was something about the dialogue in the beginning that sounded like you, but then I told myself that there are so many writers whose styles I don't know at all that I was probably wrong and someone else entirely had written it. You already know that I liked it very much :-)

too much Justin and not nearly enough Lance

Hear, hear! I'm so glad you are a Lance and Trickyfish writer, there are far too few of them in the fandom at the moment.

[pensnest]

Hee. And I already told you that it's extra-gratifying to receive positive feedback in the anonymous mode. It is really hard to tell who wrote what, but it's rather nice that you had at least a suspicion 'twas I.

Yeah. Want more Trickyfish. Pout.

Time to plan for Trickyfish Day, I guess.

[ephemera-pop.livejournal.com]

I loved the Earl of Rotheringhamtonfordshire too - and the annonymousness is a thing of much goodness

[pensnest]

I've not participated in any other challenges which have the anonymous element, but I'm surprised in a way that that isn't a default - all challenge responses to be read without knowing who posted them. More complicated to organise that way, I suppose.

[bard-mercutio.livejournal.com]

Prize was most excellent. Kate squeed about it to me endlessly during and after reading it, she loved it so much. I loved it when I read it, too, but I don't think anybody could love it as much as she does. :) Great story. I love it when you write the long stuff.

[pensnest]

Ah, excellent! Her feedback to me was pretty convincing too - I'm so glad! Turns out one of the very best things about doing DWNOGA is getting happy feedback from the recipient.

My stories do seem to be getting longer...