end of year bizniss
Dec. 29th, 2010 02:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ifeelbetterI'm making a to-do list. I make lists--not because they're particularly useful in getting myself to do things, but because I like to pretend they're useful in getting myself to do things. The truth of the matter is, I procrastinate on procrastinating.
1. write for the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
inception_kink meme again.
2. post a perma-copy of Give Me The Number (if you can find it) because that has been waiting just the taddest bit too long, don't you think, self?
3. Figure out an effective way to host commenting challenges.
4. Write more. Write different stuff more. Write the same stuff more. Just. You know. MORE.
5. Start posting fic-recs again, maybe.
Thus endeth the to-do list.
Overall thoughts.
I have come to the conclusion that the internet is, in the memorable words of Monty Python, a silly place. Unlike Monty Python, however, I am not discouraged by this fact. I quite like it, in fact.
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
I've been a fanfic reader for most of my life--since somewhere around 11, I think--but I stopped "writing" ages ago. My sister and I used to "co-write" back when we were kids. I use the snicker quotes because what we actually did was I would type up a couple paragraphs, she would kick me off the computer, and then she'd erase everything I had written and re-write it all much more melodramatically. Then I would post it somewhere. Mind you, this was comic book and Animorphs fanfic back in the primordial days of fanfiction.net so there was a lot of searching necessary.
But then I stopped because I felt ashamed--obviously, with my half-hearted attempts at concealing this from RL, I still do-- and only came back to it because no one would watch Merlin with me except the internet. And there's no way to watch that show without joining the slash fanfiction response, IMHO. So I came back.
So did I expect to have written more than maybe a fic or two this year last January? No. And I definitely didn't know anyone would ever translate a fic of mine. But it's happened.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?
I suppose Inception was a giant surprise. I mean--not really. It's the sort of movie I was made to love, you know? And I've loved JGL most of my life---we've sort of grown up together. So, not so surprising...but still surprising. Like I said before--I wasn't writing much before Inception. And then I wrote oodles.
What's your own favorite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest?
I quite liked writing Life is something that happens when you can't get to asleep, oddly enough. I don't think I ever had written a RPF before. And I had a very specific place in mind for the look of Tom's street--my sister's flat in Oxford back in the day. I quite loved it. So a lot of that affection got wound up in the story already, leading to my Rossetti poem sneaking in (because it is so mine, it's in my heart, alright). So. Yeah. That was fuzzy loveliness to write.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
I wrote a backwards fic (Worth A Pair of Shoes) for a self-made challenge. It didn't turn out all that well--a bit disjointed, I think--but it was worth it just to try. I like to set challenges and see if I can hit them. The same sort of challenge mentality lead to Give Me The Number and my December ficlets.
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
Write more. I said before. Write more variety, with more speed, at a higher quality. Just. You know. More.
My best story of this year.
I think it's Never Catch Him Looking Up, Never Looking Down or Come On (Break Another Piece of My Heart), despite them being angsty navel-gazing pomposity.
My most popular story of this year.
I'm not quite sure but I think it's either Two Steps Towards Make Believe or Are You Working Up To Something? ... I find it hard to tell. I'm not very plugged into the community, after all. I'm more of a fringe hanger-on sort-of-thing. But someone drew fantastic artwork for the latter and someone else did for the former so they must have both done something right at some point.
Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion.
I have a real soft spot for When I Paint My Masterpiece, actually. It ends horribly but I do so love the idea of Arthur as a painter-to-be and Eames as a swarthy foreigner. My head will like that image forever, methinks.
Most fun story to write.
I giggled through You Can Be As Loud As The Hell You Want, start to finish. It was hilarious to write.
Story with the single sexiest moment.
Gosh, I am awfully unsexy. I'm a Victorianist by trade, you know, and we don't like to talk about exposed ankles. I ought to set myself a goal of writing some proper porn before the year's out. Just for the exercise.
Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story.
I started a SYTYCD Star Trek AU last summer that languishes still (I Just Dance) in limbo somewhere. I just...I don't know what that even is. Just. WTF, self. I ask you.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters.
Idle Hands started as a joke about Arthur's competency and ended up being half-silly, half something entirely more sympathetic. That changed how I felt about Arthur quite a bit.
Hardest story to write.
Finishing anything is hard. I finished Man, I Feel Like Mold just to be done with the thing. It's still a bruise on my ego, I think.
Biggest surprise.
Writing so much at all. Having people draw art of my fics. Being translated. Getting such lovely feedback from such lovely people.
Most unintentionally telling story.
Two Steps Towards Make Believe was really honest about my own insomnia, I guess. Most of the time, I'm amused by myself. When I can't sleep, though, I feel awfully maudlin about it.
In conclusion.
Inception plumbed some unknown depths in me. I fully intend to participate more in other fandoms in the new year--I'm looking at you, H50 and Sherlock--but, man, Inception. You had me at "hello." Or. You know. "You're waiting for a train."
That should be about it.
1. write for the
inception_kink meme again. 2. post a perma-copy of Give Me The Number (if you can find it) because that has been waiting just the taddest bit too long, don't you think, self?
3. Figure out an effective way to host commenting challenges.
4. Write more. Write different stuff more. Write the same stuff more. Just. You know. MORE.
5. Start posting fic-recs again, maybe.
Thus endeth the to-do list.
Overall thoughts.
I have come to the conclusion that the internet is, in the memorable words of Monty Python, a silly place. Unlike Monty Python, however, I am not discouraged by this fact. I quite like it, in fact.
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
I've been a fanfic reader for most of my life--since somewhere around 11, I think--but I stopped "writing" ages ago. My sister and I used to "co-write" back when we were kids. I use the snicker quotes because what we actually did was I would type up a couple paragraphs, she would kick me off the computer, and then she'd erase everything I had written and re-write it all much more melodramatically. Then I would post it somewhere. Mind you, this was comic book and Animorphs fanfic back in the primordial days of fanfiction.net so there was a lot of searching necessary.
But then I stopped because I felt ashamed--obviously, with my half-hearted attempts at concealing this from RL, I still do-- and only came back to it because no one would watch Merlin with me except the internet. And there's no way to watch that show without joining the slash fanfiction response, IMHO. So I came back.
So did I expect to have written more than maybe a fic or two this year last January? No. And I definitely didn't know anyone would ever translate a fic of mine. But it's happened.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?
I suppose Inception was a giant surprise. I mean--not really. It's the sort of movie I was made to love, you know? And I've loved JGL most of my life---we've sort of grown up together. So, not so surprising...but still surprising. Like I said before--I wasn't writing much before Inception. And then I wrote oodles.
What's your own favorite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest?
I quite liked writing Life is something that happens when you can't get to asleep, oddly enough. I don't think I ever had written a RPF before. And I had a very specific place in mind for the look of Tom's street--my sister's flat in Oxford back in the day. I quite loved it. So a lot of that affection got wound up in the story already, leading to my Rossetti poem sneaking in (because it is so mine, it's in my heart, alright). So. Yeah. That was fuzzy loveliness to write.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
I wrote a backwards fic (Worth A Pair of Shoes) for a self-made challenge. It didn't turn out all that well--a bit disjointed, I think--but it was worth it just to try. I like to set challenges and see if I can hit them. The same sort of challenge mentality lead to Give Me The Number and my December ficlets.
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
Write more. I said before. Write more variety, with more speed, at a higher quality. Just. You know. More.
My best story of this year.
I think it's Never Catch Him Looking Up, Never Looking Down or Come On (Break Another Piece of My Heart), despite them being angsty navel-gazing pomposity.
My most popular story of this year.
I'm not quite sure but I think it's either Two Steps Towards Make Believe or Are You Working Up To Something? ... I find it hard to tell. I'm not very plugged into the community, after all. I'm more of a fringe hanger-on sort-of-thing. But someone drew fantastic artwork for the latter and someone else did for the former so they must have both done something right at some point.
Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion.
I have a real soft spot for When I Paint My Masterpiece, actually. It ends horribly but I do so love the idea of Arthur as a painter-to-be and Eames as a swarthy foreigner. My head will like that image forever, methinks.
Most fun story to write.
I giggled through You Can Be As Loud As The Hell You Want, start to finish. It was hilarious to write.
Story with the single sexiest moment.
Gosh, I am awfully unsexy. I'm a Victorianist by trade, you know, and we don't like to talk about exposed ankles. I ought to set myself a goal of writing some proper porn before the year's out. Just for the exercise.
Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story.
I started a SYTYCD Star Trek AU last summer that languishes still (I Just Dance) in limbo somewhere. I just...I don't know what that even is. Just. WTF, self. I ask you.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters.
Idle Hands started as a joke about Arthur's competency and ended up being half-silly, half something entirely more sympathetic. That changed how I felt about Arthur quite a bit.
Hardest story to write.
Finishing anything is hard. I finished Man, I Feel Like Mold just to be done with the thing. It's still a bruise on my ego, I think.
Biggest surprise.
Writing so much at all. Having people draw art of my fics. Being translated. Getting such lovely feedback from such lovely people.
Most unintentionally telling story.
Two Steps Towards Make Believe was really honest about my own insomnia, I guess. Most of the time, I'm amused by myself. When I can't sleep, though, I feel awfully maudlin about it.
In conclusion.
Inception plumbed some unknown depths in me. I fully intend to participate more in other fandoms in the new year--I'm looking at you, H50 and Sherlock--but, man, Inception. You had me at "hello." Or. You know. "You're waiting for a train."
That should be about it.
