Almost de-lurked

[edithmorningstar]

Yuletide fic - finally - written, edited, and posted to Ao3. Whew, because this is my first year and I was terrified of simply not being able to write to command on deadline, and my assignment turned out to be a little trickier for me than I'd been thinking when I offered for it. But it's done, and I'm fairly sure it doesn't suck, so hurrah. Now maybe I'll even try writing a treat or a madness fic or something, once I have time and now that the pressure's off. I like the idea of writing some more rare-fandom fic one-offs.

Non-fannish life has been a bit full lately, which is why I haven't shown up much recently. I imagine there's a lot of catching up for me to do, so if I'm suddenly leaving you 10 comments in a row, you'll know why.

I had a week where Supernatural fic ate my brain, which is entirely the fault of rivkat's journal banner, otherwise known as the thing that finally made me realize Jensen Ackles actually is kinda hot. Still having trouble on the Jared Padalecki, but I can see how he could appeal to other people. I think I'm mostly done with that random fic gorge, and I still don't have any plans to actually watch the show. But yeah, Jensen Ackles is hot, at least when candle-lit and sprawling.

My copy of Cryoburn is slowly making its way through my local friends, so there's been a lot of offline discussion especially of the (spoiler). And on a local friend's rec, plus the appearance of a short story in the anthology that's got "Winterfair Gifts," I picked up Catherine Asaro's Primary Inversion to read while I'm traveling this week. I should really make a post where I tally up all the sf/f books people have recced me, or I've recced or given to other people, this past year.

Really, though, life has mainly been the obligations I can't put off from livelihood and volunteer commitment related pursuits, and I've missed hanging out here, and I owe tons of comments including on fic I read but was too tired to feedback over the past couple weeks, so I'm looking forward to feeling officially on vacation in a few days.

Comments

[schemingreader]

Good golly, you wrote that one fast!

[edithmorningstar]

Well, I had been thinking about it and rolling it around in my head for a good while. It took a while for me to decide whether to set the fic during or after canon, and to decide on a basic emotional plotline. Then once that's set, which is all before I start typing anything, it's a lot easier to sit down and just write and make up the storyline-plot as I go.

I do well with deadlines, and with fics I can prepare for but then essentially write in one sitting. My challenge now is working on longer fics and applying my one-sitting mojo to scenes within a longer fic. I've got one longer fic I've been working on where I can't entirely tell if some of the sections actually each want to be their own fic, and maybe don't hang together as well as I want them to, thematically. For that one I've decided to keep plowing ahead and decide on the thematic fit after I've got more written. But that's a new form for me. Even in my writing classes back when, we never had story assignments longer than 15 pages, so pushing it longer is really totally new.