my year in writing
2/12/04 23:50![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schmericaAccomplished tonight: outlining of my ds_seekritsanta. YAY for steps in the right directions.
Of course, then I got distracted and started poking at my site and analyzing my year in writing.
Since January 1st, 2004, I have posted 21 stories in two fandoms (four Firefly and seventeen due South). This writing has included:
+ category: m/m slash, f/f slash, het and gen
+ person: 1st person, 2nd person, and 3rd person
+ tense: present tense and past tense
+ genre: AU, non-con, kidfic, deathfic, post-apocalypse, angst, schmoop, PWP, epistolary, and various experiments in format.
+ pairings: Inara/Zoe, Inara/Kaylee, River/Mal, Fraser/Kowalski, Fraser/Victoria, Kowalski/Stella, Kowalski/Frannie, Fraser/OFC.
Conclusions reached from this:
So if 2002 was my year of Smallville, and 2003 was my year of multi-fandom whoring, then 2004 is definitely my year of due South. It's eaten my brain in the best way, and that means I've been writing a lot and that it's pretty much all in that fandom. The same thing happened in Smallville, but I think my writing in dS is more interesting in a lot of ways -- I mean, I think I'm a better writer than I was two years ago, but I also think, looking at the list above, it's clear I'm a lot more willing to explore and try new things in due South. To a certain extent, I think maybe a lot of what I was doing in Smallville was constantly refining the characters, trying over and over to find the perfect story for them. In due South, that's not what's interesting me; I love these characters, but I love them any way I see them, and I want to see them in as many ways as possible. I had one Clark and one Lex, but I have many Rays and many Frasers, and it's amazingly fun to find them, to see what I can do, how I see them, what they can take, who they are.
Also, Firefly is pretty, and is still the best background, no-pressure fandom on the side I know. Mmmm, femslash.
(dS needs more femslash. Hmm. Dear self, return to this thought in a month after you've finished seekritsanta and yuletide and Fox's birthday, okay?)
Of course, then I got distracted and started poking at my site and analyzing my year in writing.
Since January 1st, 2004, I have posted 21 stories in two fandoms (four Firefly and seventeen due South). This writing has included:
+ category: m/m slash, f/f slash, het and gen
+ person: 1st person, 2nd person, and 3rd person
+ tense: present tense and past tense
+ genre: AU, non-con, kidfic, deathfic, post-apocalypse, angst, schmoop, PWP, epistolary, and various experiments in format.
+ pairings: Inara/Zoe, Inara/Kaylee, River/Mal, Fraser/Kowalski, Fraser/Victoria, Kowalski/Stella, Kowalski/Frannie, Fraser/OFC.
Conclusions reached from this:
So if 2002 was my year of Smallville, and 2003 was my year of multi-fandom whoring, then 2004 is definitely my year of due South. It's eaten my brain in the best way, and that means I've been writing a lot and that it's pretty much all in that fandom. The same thing happened in Smallville, but I think my writing in dS is more interesting in a lot of ways -- I mean, I think I'm a better writer than I was two years ago, but I also think, looking at the list above, it's clear I'm a lot more willing to explore and try new things in due South. To a certain extent, I think maybe a lot of what I was doing in Smallville was constantly refining the characters, trying over and over to find the perfect story for them. In due South, that's not what's interesting me; I love these characters, but I love them any way I see them, and I want to see them in as many ways as possible. I had one Clark and one Lex, but I have many Rays and many Frasers, and it's amazingly fun to find them, to see what I can do, how I see them, what they can take, who they are.
Also, Firefly is pretty, and is still the best background, no-pressure fandom on the side I know. Mmmm, femslash.
(dS needs more femslash. Hmm. Dear self, return to this thought in a month after you've finished seekritsanta and yuletide and Fox's birthday, okay?)
