Writing stuff. Mostly.
Jan. 1st, 2006 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pensnestOh 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 ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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 toephemera 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 whatturloughishere 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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.
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.