Fic in 2014!
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Wow, it looks pretty nuts when listed out all together, but look at all the stories I posted this year…
January
–“Ron Weasley Proves Himself Wrong” and “Oh the rising of the sun and the running of the deer” (my first-ever drabbles)
–“A Conversation That’s Not About Veela” (a Remus-and-Harry moment, for rt_morelove)
–“That Great Unseen Good Man” (a Harry-and-Teddy moment, for rt_morelove)
–“Nymphadora Tonks and the Marauder’s Box” (first co-written fic! with stereolightning, for rt_morelove)
–“Skellig, Azkaban, Albion, Éire” (Sirius and Remus during the in-between years; trying out a somewhat different style, playing with word limits for the first time)
–“Cast Your Soul to the Sea” (sequel-ish to Skellig)
February
–“Hold Tight and Almost Believe” (a character I never expected to write: Remus’ mum!)
March
–“Easter Sun” (yes, I wrote myself a fic for my own birthday)
April
–“What I Have Taken Long Before” (I’d really wanted to try out a gen version of the “lie low at Lupin’s” trope)
–“Lupercalia” (for the rt_morelove SpringFest)
May (the only month I didn’t post anything – I guess because my parents were visiting, and I was also hard at work on some original writing for a deadline)
June
–“Boys in Space” (first Remus/Sirius! first giftfic!)
–“Feels Like Home” (I don’t write nearly enough about Hermione, but here’s one)
July
–“A New World Bursting into Bloom” (Andromeda/Ted! I’d so often referenced my idea of their backstory; here I finally wrote it)
–“Already There” (given how much I write about Remus, and about Andromeda, it felt momentous to finally write a story that included both of them)
–“Go On, Try” (sequel to “Already There,” but with Ted)
August
–“On a Windswept Cliff” (the gothic romance AU! my first real Remus/Sirius, first M/M story, first AU, and a very different tone, dramatic and gothic and sexy – proud of this one)
–“Bright-Eyed and Bushy-Tailed” (Hermione! yay!)
–“Undivided” (another character I never thought I’d write: Snape. so I’m proud of this one)
September
–at long last, started posting “Be the Light in My Lantern,” the massive, multi-chapter Remus/Tonks story I’ve been working on for four years now
–“Like a Cat in the Sun” (yet another story sparked by conversations with stereolightning)
–“Dust and Soot and Silence” (Remus/Sirius; challenged myself here to be more descriptive and include all five senses, as well as writing a sex scene for the first time – proud of this one!)
October
–“Sirius Black…Six Drabbles” (improving my word choices by limiting my words)
November
–“Hangover Cures” (for the Remus/Sirius Games! really glad I dared to join this event…especially after I’d said I wasn’t going to, because I didn’t think I had any Remus/Sirius ideas)
–“Shipwreck Against Your Eyes” (second fic for the RS Games; again, pushed myself to write a different mood, and I’m proud of how it turned out)
December
–“Never Say Never Never” (fluffy Remus/Sirius (and Marauders))
–“Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Father Christmas” (my first BBC Sherlock fic!)
–“Seasons Change But We Remain” (Remus/Tonks drabbles for rt_morelove – again, being forced to limit my words, paradoxically, helps me be much more descriptive)
–“Can’t Return, We Can Only Look” (Remus/Tonks and Andromeda/Ted…so many of my favorite things in one place)
–“Counting Time in the Lunar Tide” (filling in another of the (few) bits of the R/T timeline I hadn’t written yet)
–“The Pied Piper of Privet Drive, or, How the Dursleys Came to Be Short-Listed for the All-England Best Kept Suburban Lawn Competition” (co-wrote with stereolightning again! fun!)
Things I did:
rt_morelove Stocking Filler Exchange
rt_morelove SpringFest
The Day of the Black Dog (at sirius_black)
rs_games
rt_morelove Twelfth Night Tales
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
SO MUCH MORE! Ever so much more. In so many ways.
Looking back, was your fandom involvement (modding, cheerleading, fest participation, etc.) more, less or about what you'd predicted?
SO MUCH MORE. So many more fests, so much more interaction with others. It’s been great.
What's your favorite story of the year?
Oh, gosh. Probably “On a Windswept Cliff.” It was daring and different from anything I’d done before. And of course “Be the Light in My Lantern,” because it’s been my dearest-held, ongoing project-baby for so very long now.
Least favorite story?
Huh. There’s nothing I actively dislike, but I guess any of the ones where I just did my same old thing (reflective, dialogue-driven one-shots that are all character and no action), because I’ve done that more than enough already – it’s time for something new.
What's your favorite fandom fest/project of the year?
Favorite project: Finally sharing “Be the Light in My Lantern” with the world, after laboring away at it alone in the dark all these years.
Favorite fest: A tie between the very first rt_morelove event (which so much fun, and cheered me up greatly during a time when I was low because of work-related stuff) and the R/S Games (because I never thought I would dare to join it, and I did!)
Least favorite fandom project?
There are no least favorites, truly!
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
YES – trying out different moods; pushing myself to be more descriptive and not just write talking heads; writing M/M for the first time; writing sex scenes and sexy-themed scenes (both F/M and M/M) for the first time, even though that’s so hard for me that I honestly thought I would never do it; writing an AU, with all the attendant world-building and pondering of twists to canon; writing fics with strict word-limits to force myself to be choosier in my word choice; writing a character I find hard to sympathize with (Snape); writing in the BBC Sherlock fandom for the first time!!! (I’ve read so much Sherlock fic, but never thought I would dare to write it.)
Also – over in original writing land – finally dared to sign up for a writing class for the first time in a long time; read my work aloud to a group of strangers; shared my work with a group of writers who are friends and acquaintances (even scarier!); attempted to write an original novel (and submitted a section of it to a publisher’s open submissions call), and while I don’t think I’ll continue that particular project, it was good practice and a ton of fun and taught me a lot about what (not) to do next time.
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the new year?
Complete Part 2 of “Lantern.” Wrap up, if possible, the main fic ideas I have going (not that they ever all wrap up…) so I can turn my attention back to original writing at some point. Return to original writing at some point. Get serious about learning songwriting? And if I continue writing fic, keep using it as an opportunity to push myself in new directions, not just do the same old stuff.
My best story of the year:
Hm, how is this different from "favorite story"? I guess I'd say:
–“On a Windswept Cliff”
–“Shipwreck Against Your Eyes”
–“Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Father Christmas”
–and maybe “Skellig, Azkaban, Albion, Éire”
(Apparently I write best when I’m writing angst??)
Story most under-appreciated by the universe in my opinion:
–“Shipwreck Against Your Eyes”
–perhaps “Undivided”
Most fun story:
–“Boys in Space” – what’s not to love about Remus and Sirius in outer space?
–“Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Father Christmas” – kidlock!
Most sexy story:
–“On a Windswept Cliff” (gothic men brooding romantically on stormy clifftops!)
–“Dust and Soot and Silence” (passion and angst and grief and sex and love)
Story with the single sexiest moment:
–“Dust and Soot and Silence” (it’s the only one that has an actual sex scene, rather than just the lead-up to it!)
"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
Unfortunately, I don’t think I write anything that could be described as “wrong” by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe I should remedy that…
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
–“Undivided” – I’d never really empathized with Snape until then.
–In general, the more I write about Sirius, the more I feel from him. And Ted – with every story that even mentions Ted, I fall in love with him more! Ditto for Molly and Arthur, actually.
–“Be the Light in My Lantern” – Tonks is so different from me. I probably would never have ended up writing a single story about her if it weren’t for my enormous love of all things Remus – but I’m glad that led me to write about Tonks and come to love her in her own right, too.
Hardest story to write:
–“Be the Light in My Lantern,” hands down. It’s taken me four years, and I’m still not done!
–“Dust and Soot and Silence” – making myself write about sex was hard.
Biggest surprise:
“On a Windswept Cliff” and “Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Father Christmas” both getting such a fantastic response! Wow!
Also, someone translating a story of mine for the first time, and someone podficcing a story of mine!
List of WIPs:
–the as-yet-unrevealed super-rare-pair AU fic… It’s actually been finished for a long time, I just haven’t had time to post it, with everything else going on.
–Part 2 of “Be the Light in My Lantern” – a first draft is complete, and I’m now revising it. Then comes beta-reading, then more revising!
–another Sherlock story, this one with Molly Hooper.
–a series of three interrelated one-shots about young Dumbledore and Grindelwald…the first is already posted (“Sharp and Bright against a Golden Sky”) but the idea is for it to eventually be part one of three.
(PS: I GIVE UP. Why does Livejournal so often change the text font and size to random other settings...and then refuse to change them back??)
nerak_rose.FIC/FANDOM MEME
Wow, it looks pretty nuts when listed out all together, but look at all the stories I posted this year…
January
–“Ron Weasley Proves Himself Wrong” and “Oh the rising of the sun and the running of the deer” (my first-ever drabbles)
–“A Conversation That’s Not About Veela” (a Remus-and-Harry moment, for rt_morelove)
–“That Great Unseen Good Man” (a Harry-and-Teddy moment, for rt_morelove)
–“Nymphadora Tonks and the Marauder’s Box” (first co-written fic! with stereolightning, for rt_morelove)
–“Skellig, Azkaban, Albion, Éire” (Sirius and Remus during the in-between years; trying out a somewhat different style, playing with word limits for the first time)
–“Cast Your Soul to the Sea” (sequel-ish to Skellig)
February
–“Hold Tight and Almost Believe” (a character I never expected to write: Remus’ mum!)
March
–“Easter Sun” (yes, I wrote myself a fic for my own birthday)
April
–“What I Have Taken Long Before” (I’d really wanted to try out a gen version of the “lie low at Lupin’s” trope)
–“Lupercalia” (for the rt_morelove SpringFest)
May (the only month I didn’t post anything – I guess because my parents were visiting, and I was also hard at work on some original writing for a deadline)
June
–“Boys in Space” (first Remus/Sirius! first giftfic!)
–“Feels Like Home” (I don’t write nearly enough about Hermione, but here’s one)
July
–“A New World Bursting into Bloom” (Andromeda/Ted! I’d so often referenced my idea of their backstory; here I finally wrote it)
–“Already There” (given how much I write about Remus, and about Andromeda, it felt momentous to finally write a story that included both of them)
–“Go On, Try” (sequel to “Already There,” but with Ted)
August
–“On a Windswept Cliff” (the gothic romance AU! my first real Remus/Sirius, first M/M story, first AU, and a very different tone, dramatic and gothic and sexy – proud of this one)
–“Bright-Eyed and Bushy-Tailed” (Hermione! yay!)
–“Undivided” (another character I never thought I’d write: Snape. so I’m proud of this one)
September
–at long last, started posting “Be the Light in My Lantern,” the massive, multi-chapter Remus/Tonks story I’ve been working on for four years now
–“Like a Cat in the Sun” (yet another story sparked by conversations with stereolightning)
–“Dust and Soot and Silence” (Remus/Sirius; challenged myself here to be more descriptive and include all five senses, as well as writing a sex scene for the first time – proud of this one!)
October
–“Sirius Black…Six Drabbles” (improving my word choices by limiting my words)
November
–“Hangover Cures” (for the Remus/Sirius Games! really glad I dared to join this event…especially after I’d said I wasn’t going to, because I didn’t think I had any Remus/Sirius ideas)
–“Shipwreck Against Your Eyes” (second fic for the RS Games; again, pushed myself to write a different mood, and I’m proud of how it turned out)
December
–“Never Say Never Never” (fluffy Remus/Sirius (and Marauders))
–“Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Father Christmas” (my first BBC Sherlock fic!)
–“Seasons Change But We Remain” (Remus/Tonks drabbles for rt_morelove – again, being forced to limit my words, paradoxically, helps me be much more descriptive)
–“Can’t Return, We Can Only Look” (Remus/Tonks and Andromeda/Ted…so many of my favorite things in one place)
–“Counting Time in the Lunar Tide” (filling in another of the (few) bits of the R/T timeline I hadn’t written yet)
–“The Pied Piper of Privet Drive, or, How the Dursleys Came to Be Short-Listed for the All-England Best Kept Suburban Lawn Competition” (co-wrote with stereolightning again! fun!)
Things I did:
rt_morelove Stocking Filler Exchange
rt_morelove SpringFest
The Day of the Black Dog (at sirius_black)
rs_games
rt_morelove Twelfth Night Tales
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
SO MUCH MORE! Ever so much more. In so many ways.
Looking back, was your fandom involvement (modding, cheerleading, fest participation, etc.) more, less or about what you'd predicted?
SO MUCH MORE. So many more fests, so much more interaction with others. It’s been great.
What's your favorite story of the year?
Oh, gosh. Probably “On a Windswept Cliff.” It was daring and different from anything I’d done before. And of course “Be the Light in My Lantern,” because it’s been my dearest-held, ongoing project-baby for so very long now.
Least favorite story?
Huh. There’s nothing I actively dislike, but I guess any of the ones where I just did my same old thing (reflective, dialogue-driven one-shots that are all character and no action), because I’ve done that more than enough already – it’s time for something new.
What's your favorite fandom fest/project of the year?
Favorite project: Finally sharing “Be the Light in My Lantern” with the world, after laboring away at it alone in the dark all these years.
Favorite fest: A tie between the very first rt_morelove event (which so much fun, and cheered me up greatly during a time when I was low because of work-related stuff) and the R/S Games (because I never thought I would dare to join it, and I did!)
Least favorite fandom project?
There are no least favorites, truly!
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
YES – trying out different moods; pushing myself to be more descriptive and not just write talking heads; writing M/M for the first time; writing sex scenes and sexy-themed scenes (both F/M and M/M) for the first time, even though that’s so hard for me that I honestly thought I would never do it; writing an AU, with all the attendant world-building and pondering of twists to canon; writing fics with strict word-limits to force myself to be choosier in my word choice; writing a character I find hard to sympathize with (Snape); writing in the BBC Sherlock fandom for the first time!!! (I’ve read so much Sherlock fic, but never thought I would dare to write it.)
Also – over in original writing land – finally dared to sign up for a writing class for the first time in a long time; read my work aloud to a group of strangers; shared my work with a group of writers who are friends and acquaintances (even scarier!); attempted to write an original novel (and submitted a section of it to a publisher’s open submissions call), and while I don’t think I’ll continue that particular project, it was good practice and a ton of fun and taught me a lot about what (not) to do next time.
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the new year?
Complete Part 2 of “Lantern.” Wrap up, if possible, the main fic ideas I have going (not that they ever all wrap up…) so I can turn my attention back to original writing at some point. Return to original writing at some point. Get serious about learning songwriting? And if I continue writing fic, keep using it as an opportunity to push myself in new directions, not just do the same old stuff.
My best story of the year:
Hm, how is this different from "favorite story"? I guess I'd say:
–“On a Windswept Cliff”
–“Shipwreck Against Your Eyes”
–“Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Father Christmas”
–and maybe “Skellig, Azkaban, Albion, Éire”
(Apparently I write best when I’m writing angst??)
Story most under-appreciated by the universe in my opinion:
–“Shipwreck Against Your Eyes”
–perhaps “Undivided”
Most fun story:
–“Boys in Space” – what’s not to love about Remus and Sirius in outer space?
–“Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Father Christmas” – kidlock!
Most sexy story:
–“On a Windswept Cliff” (gothic men brooding romantically on stormy clifftops!)
–“Dust and Soot and Silence” (passion and angst and grief and sex and love)
Story with the single sexiest moment:
–“Dust and Soot and Silence” (it’s the only one that has an actual sex scene, rather than just the lead-up to it!)
"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
Unfortunately, I don’t think I write anything that could be described as “wrong” by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe I should remedy that…
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
–“Undivided” – I’d never really empathized with Snape until then.
–In general, the more I write about Sirius, the more I feel from him. And Ted – with every story that even mentions Ted, I fall in love with him more! Ditto for Molly and Arthur, actually.
–“Be the Light in My Lantern” – Tonks is so different from me. I probably would never have ended up writing a single story about her if it weren’t for my enormous love of all things Remus – but I’m glad that led me to write about Tonks and come to love her in her own right, too.
Hardest story to write:
–“Be the Light in My Lantern,” hands down. It’s taken me four years, and I’m still not done!
–“Dust and Soot and Silence” – making myself write about sex was hard.
Biggest surprise:
“On a Windswept Cliff” and “Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Father Christmas” both getting such a fantastic response! Wow!
Also, someone translating a story of mine for the first time, and someone podficcing a story of mine!
List of WIPs:
–the as-yet-unrevealed super-rare-pair AU fic… It’s actually been finished for a long time, I just haven’t had time to post it, with everything else going on.
–Part 2 of “Be the Light in My Lantern” – a first draft is complete, and I’m now revising it. Then comes beta-reading, then more revising!
–another Sherlock story, this one with Molly Hooper.
–a series of three interrelated one-shots about young Dumbledore and Grindelwald…the first is already posted (“Sharp and Bright against a Golden Sky”) but the idea is for it to eventually be part one of three.
(PS: I GIVE UP. Why does Livejournal so often change the text font and size to random other settings...and then refuse to change them back??)
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Date: 2015-01-18 11:24 am (UTC)And yes, I've experienced the same thing when it comes to hits on AO3 - Marauder era fluff often seems to do well there (and Tumblr).
Sorry to hear that you signed up for writing classes that weren't really classes.
I've been thinking about trying it some time, but yeah, it's rather scary.
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Date: 2015-01-18 05:44 pm (UTC)Well, the writing class was billed as a "workshop" (as in, present work and get feedback, rather than learning in a class format) from the start, so I went in knowing what it would be like. And it was still hugely valuable, because it got me working on a novel! And got me over that hump of fear, so that now doing it again doesn't seem scary. :-)