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aelfgyfu_mead) wrote2012-01-01 05:22 pm
aelfgyfu_mead) wrote2012-01-01 05:22 pm
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Last year in fanfic
I didn't write much fanfic in 2011. In fact, I wasn't going to do a round-up until I lost count of my friends who were doing year-end round-ups and wrote how sad they were that they hadn't done more. Ha! I can be more pathetic than any of y'all!
I went to my website, Aelfgyfu's Mead Hall, and confirmed my memory that I didn't even manage to post a single story there this past year, even though I wrote three short stories in 2011. I just have to redo a bit of the coding and hand them over to Brilliant Husband, but I can't even manage that. I wanted to redo a bit of "Doppelganger" to make sure that it will make sense to Chuck fans who don't know Stargate SG-1, but I can't seem to muster the will or the mind to do it. . . .
My year in fic consists of Tales of an Accidental Fic Writer.
My plan for 2011: write the third story in my Primeval AU; write more SG-1; dabble elsewhere.
What I actually did in 2011: I wrote two Chuck stories and one for Cabin Pressure (details below).
Seriously, Muse?
1. I don't even read Chuck fic! I have read virtually no Chuck fic whatsoever; I'm just not that interested in the show, though I think Adam Baldwin is great.
2. Cabin Pressure is a radio show. I have so far heard: two or three random episodes of series 2; one random episode of series 3; all but the last episode of series 1. That's a total of about eight half-hour episodes of a radio show. I have read some Cabin Pressure fic, and I remain perplexed by it, because for me little of it strikes the right notes. How can I write fic for something of which I know so little?
Enough introduction. Here's what I wrote this year:
Chuck and White Collar
"Wait in the Van"
About 6000 words: Neal meets a group of people who think he's someone else to whom he bears a remarkable resemblance. Humor. I'm fairly proud of this one; it verges on crack without, I hope, ever quite simply devolving into crack. I love Casey. I had fun with Peter, too. Writing Neal's perspective proved harder than I thought.
Chuck and Stargate SG-1
"Doppelgänger": Thank goodness for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sg_fignewton and her Alphabet Soup Gen Fic Days, or I'd never have committed this madness to pixels nor written any Stargate in 2011. I don't know what it is with Chuck: I never write crossovers—except with Chuck; I never play with the old "that character looks just like this character from another series (because the same actor plays him)" trope—except with Chuck (which goes along with crossovers, I suppose).
"Doppelgänger" plays on the resemblance between Colonel John Casey (Adam Baldwin) and Colonel Dave Dixon (also Adam Baldwin) as General Beckman tries to get the team to infiltrate one base on US soil about which she knows nothing, and which she suspects may be a cover for the Ring. Little does she know that there is indeed a Ring that Stargate Command wants to keep secret—or that Casey may look like Dixon, but he's not really ready for what the SGC can throw at him.
8600 words. How did that happen?
I keep wanting to revise this a bit so that Chuck fans with no knowledge of Stargate can enjoy it, but that would require work that my mind refuses to do.
Cabin Pressure
Weirdest of all, I wrote "Oxford", a 2500-word Cabin Pressure story inspired by a dream. It's a fluffy little thing, with no plot to speak of and just Douglas, Martin, and Arthur being their wonderful selves (I hope). I'm unaccountably pleased with it. It just makes me happy.
Goalsto Miss this year:
I'm not sure if it's worth posting goals for this year when I missed last year so badly, but why not?
* Write the Cam story for Fig's end-of-January Alphabet Soup that I promised. Sadly, my original idea has already been replaced by an even vaguer one. I should get right on that. Yeah.
• Write the next Primeval story in my trilogy or tetralogy. I make no promises
• Write more Stargate fic: I have ideas for:
-- A follow-up to "Continuum," believe it or not,
-- a ninth-season story centered on Daniel and involving Tok'ra (and I've been so far from this fandom lately I had to look up where to put the apostrophe; I hang my head in shame),
-- an Atlantis story set on the same planet as my "Unrelenting Past" but on a different continent, with different people (but my favorite boys, Carson and Rodney).
I'd even sorta kinda like to write some Sherlock, given how much I love the show, how much I've read—and how many times I've thought, "I shouldn't have read this story. I can surely write better", only to find that I can't actually write anything. I applaud you Sherlockians who can write good fic in that fandom. I love John and Sherlock and Lestrade (yes, in that order) and would like to write, but inspiration has been absent.
So that's my year in fic-writing.
I went to my website, Aelfgyfu's Mead Hall, and confirmed my memory that I didn't even manage to post a single story there this past year, even though I wrote three short stories in 2011. I just have to redo a bit of the coding and hand them over to Brilliant Husband, but I can't even manage that. I wanted to redo a bit of "Doppelganger" to make sure that it will make sense to Chuck fans who don't know Stargate SG-1, but I can't seem to muster the will or the mind to do it. . . .
My year in fic consists of Tales of an Accidental Fic Writer.
My plan for 2011: write the third story in my Primeval AU; write more SG-1; dabble elsewhere.
What I actually did in 2011: I wrote two Chuck stories and one for Cabin Pressure (details below).
Seriously, Muse?
1. I don't even read Chuck fic! I have read virtually no Chuck fic whatsoever; I'm just not that interested in the show, though I think Adam Baldwin is great.
2. Cabin Pressure is a radio show. I have so far heard: two or three random episodes of series 2; one random episode of series 3; all but the last episode of series 1. That's a total of about eight half-hour episodes of a radio show. I have read some Cabin Pressure fic, and I remain perplexed by it, because for me little of it strikes the right notes. How can I write fic for something of which I know so little?
Enough introduction. Here's what I wrote this year:
Chuck and White Collar
"Wait in the Van"
About 6000 words: Neal meets a group of people who think he's someone else to whom he bears a remarkable resemblance. Humor. I'm fairly proud of this one; it verges on crack without, I hope, ever quite simply devolving into crack. I love Casey. I had fun with Peter, too. Writing Neal's perspective proved harder than I thought.
Chuck and Stargate SG-1
"Doppelgänger": Thank goodness for
sg_fignewton and her Alphabet Soup Gen Fic Days, or I'd never have committed this madness to pixels nor written any Stargate in 2011. I don't know what it is with Chuck: I never write crossovers—except with Chuck; I never play with the old "that character looks just like this character from another series (because the same actor plays him)" trope—except with Chuck (which goes along with crossovers, I suppose). "Doppelgänger" plays on the resemblance between Colonel John Casey (Adam Baldwin) and Colonel Dave Dixon (also Adam Baldwin) as General Beckman tries to get the team to infiltrate one base on US soil about which she knows nothing, and which she suspects may be a cover for the Ring. Little does she know that there is indeed a Ring that Stargate Command wants to keep secret—or that Casey may look like Dixon, but he's not really ready for what the SGC can throw at him.
8600 words. How did that happen?
I keep wanting to revise this a bit so that Chuck fans with no knowledge of Stargate can enjoy it, but that would require work that my mind refuses to do.
Cabin Pressure
Weirdest of all, I wrote "Oxford", a 2500-word Cabin Pressure story inspired by a dream. It's a fluffy little thing, with no plot to speak of and just Douglas, Martin, and Arthur being their wonderful selves (I hope). I'm unaccountably pleased with it. It just makes me happy.
Goals
I'm not sure if it's worth posting goals for this year when I missed last year so badly, but why not?
* Write the Cam story for Fig's end-of-January Alphabet Soup that I promised. Sadly, my original idea has already been replaced by an even vaguer one. I should get right on that. Yeah.
• Write the next Primeval story in my trilogy or tetralogy. I make no promises
• Write more Stargate fic: I have ideas for:
-- A follow-up to "Continuum," believe it or not,
-- a ninth-season story centered on Daniel and involving Tok'ra (and I've been so far from this fandom lately I had to look up where to put the apostrophe; I hang my head in shame),
-- an Atlantis story set on the same planet as my "Unrelenting Past" but on a different continent, with different people (but my favorite boys, Carson and Rodney).
I'd even sorta kinda like to write some Sherlock, given how much I love the show, how much I've read—and how many times I've thought, "I shouldn't have read this story. I can surely write better", only to find that I can't actually write anything. I applaud you Sherlockians who can write good fic in that fandom. I love John and Sherlock and Lestrade (yes, in that order) and would like to write, but inspiration has been absent.
So that's my year in fic-writing.