2007 fannish writing meme!

[schmerica]

There's still a week and a half before the end of the year, so I could write more! Who knows! But even if I do, who wants to post anything while half your friends list is away from their computers and the other half are gorging themselves on yuletide, right?

List of stories I've written in 2007:

Swans mate for life. Slings + Arrows, Geoffrey/Ellen backstory.
Love in the Bushes (Like There Was No Tomorrow). Twitch City, Planets of the Cats AU, gennish het.
On Strike. Due South, Frannie/Thatcher femslash, very short.
How To Be Classy, and Other Sucker's Games. RPF. Katherine Heigl/Callum Keith Rennie.
An Itch You Can't Scratch. RPF. Bob Bryar/Frank Iero.
you're my teenage queen. RPF. Pete Wentz/Mikey Way, underage AU.
Snapshot. RPF. Pete Wentz/Mikey Way/Alicia Simmons.
Moving to Hong Kong on Business. RPF. Pete Wentz/Mikey, secret marriage AU.
Honest and Whole. RPF. Brendon Urie/Ellen Page.
Want to Go Back to the Tilt-a-Whirl. RPF. Joe Trohman/Pete Wentz.

There are several other pieces of writing I didn't post as full stories, but still think are worthwhile:
There are some mornings when the sky looks like a road (Due South, Fraser/Kowalski, deathfic)
Could you invent a world for me? (Due South, Fraser/Kowalski, babyfic)
In which Pete is persuasive and Mikey goes along (RPF, Pete Wentz/Mikey Way)
In which the Summer of Like was magical (RPF, Pete Wentz/Mikey Way/Alicia Simmons)
In which Pete is the blowjob fairy (RPF, Pete Wentz/Mikey Way, Pete Wentz/Patrick Stump, Joe Trohman/Pete Wentz, Pete Wentz/Ryan Ross)
In which a wedding is planned but not carried out (RPF, Joe Trohman/Pete Wentz)
In which Pete turns into a girl and there is a surprising lack of lesbian sex (RPF, Pete Wentz/Mikey Way/Alicia Simmons)
In which Gerard has always been a girl and Bob is in love with her, part 1 and part 2 (RPF, Gerard Way/Bob Bryar, always-a-girl AU)

Overall Thoughts:

Oh my LORD, I wrote a lot more than I thought I did this year. It's kind of hilarious how much of that writing has just been the last month and a half, though. I seem to go through the same cycle in every major fandom I have, though, where for the first few months I just can't write fast enough to get it all down. I enjoy it while it lasts, because once it goes away I go back to being pretty slow. Right now, I have lots and lots and lots I want to say about the boys in bands, and I can't wait to write more about them.


My best story of this year:

Probably Honest and Whole. I am really taken aback by just how well that turned out, considering it started out as just a random cracky idea.

My favourite story of this year:

LOVE IN THE BUSHES. I poured my heart and soul into that story! And, um, I realize for a lot of you 5500 words is nothing? But for me, that is epic. Also it is a PLANET OF THE CATS AU. And Twitch City fic! Twitch City is hard yet incredibly rewarding! I don't know, I just still love everything about it. Even the stupid bits.

Story of mine most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:

Ahahaha, I love this question because there's no way to answer without sounding like a dick! Actually, the thing about getting into bandom is that the feedback rates here are INSANE; I feel spoiled like a really spoiled thing, it's awesome. I have to admit that I am a total loser and keep going to delicious and looking to see who has saved Want to Go Back to the Tilt-a-Whirl and not actually commented on it, and think up reasons why people secretly hate me. Because apparently I am insane.

Most fun story to write:

Hmmmm, I would have to say you're my teenage queen, just because -- lovesongwriter had mentioned the idea, and I giggled and went to bed, and then I had that moment where your brain won't stop working, and you realize you're actually writing this, and it all comes out in one glorious rush, and it's just awesome. I hadn't had one of those moments in a really long time! It also helps that I find that entire story hilarious, still.

Story with the single sexiest moment:

Um, that would have be Snapshot. Yes. Just ... yes. I feel like I should say something about the sexiest moment in one of my stories being some moment when lots of ust finally pays off with people finally kissing, or touching lips, or resting heads on shoulders, or something like that. But, no, I have to go with Alicia stroking her husband's cheek while he sucks cock.

Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:

This one is hard! I think I've been pretty fluffy this year. I mean, jeez, there's not even any incest on that list. I don't know, I killed off Ray Kowalski, I made Hope into a terrorist bomber, I made Pete and Mikey get a divorce. Whatever.

Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:

DEFINITELY Honest and Whole. It was somewhere in the middle of writing that story that I actually fell really, really hard for Brendon Urie and his stupid precious fucking face.

Hardest story to write:

Want to Go Back to the Tilt-a-Whirl was incredibly difficult for me to get started, but once I got to a certain point through it, it got much easier. Love in the Bushes was like pulling teeth, so it was only love of the concept and "but this comes next and it will be AWESOME" that got me through it. (That, and fox1013's enthusiasm.

Biggest Disappointment:

I'm not really disappointed with any of the stories I finished this year; all my disappointments are in the things I didn't write. Having to drop out of the midsummer and ds angst ficathons was the worst, and I still feel awful about them both. That's why I'm not allowed to sign up for challenges any more.

Biggest Surprise:

How To Be Classy! I've said for a really, really long time that I didn't think I could ever write RPF, because I have canon issues and freak out when I can't know every single thing there is to know. Those issues have kept from writing anything in a bunch of other fandoms, and I don't know what changed halfway through this year, but I'm glad it did.

Most Unintentionally Telling Story:

Hmmm, you know, I think this one might have to be Moving to Hong Kong on Business. The feedback for that story was really interested, because I think it says a lot that something that evokes feelings and sympathy in other people basically just makes me laugh, you know? I crack myself up, but I'm glad other emotions come through, too. Even if I am a bad person.

Comments

[harriet-vane.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that I am a total loser and keep going to delicious and looking to see who has saved Want to Go Back to the Tilt-a-Whirl and not actually commented on it, and think up reasons why people secretly hate me. Because apparently I am insane.

hahaha, 190-something people have friended my fic journal, and sometimes I stare at it and think "Why do barely a quarter of them leave comments? DO THEY HATE ME?????" And then I remember that like, half the time *I* don't leave feedback, either, and go do something else.

I said it before, but, again; I *really* liked Honest and Whole.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, I know, totally. That is the point where I say to myself, "Self," I say, "Self, why don't you go take a breath of fresh air or something, okay?"

[minervacat.livejournal.com]

i have that story saved on delicious and i haven't commented, because i read it when i was drunk last night and i couldn't actually operate my keyboard! but i love it! and love you! and love joe troh! ♥

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

i love you TOO, min! And joe troh! And alcohol! *twirls*

[murklins.livejournal.com]

It's not that we hate you, we bookmarkers-who-do-not-comment! I can't speak for everyone, but for me it's just that I spend so much effort in making the bookmark that I cannot *also* leave a comment. Sometimes it takes me 10 or 15 minutes to write a decent summary and pick the perfect quote and get it all to fit in 255 chars. Since my bookmarks help both me and other people who read them, and the author can *potentially* use them to see that I have read and liked their story -- well, bookmarking has a higher ROR. It robs the author, I know, but that's the way it's been working out. I am planning a poll about this! Because I want to know how many people I'm making cry bitter tears.

I will say now that I loved your Ellen Page story. I haven't bookmarked it yet (backlog, argh!) but when I do, I probably won't leave feedback because I'm already having trouble thinking of what my bookmark summary will be. Some are harder than others!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

That actually makes perfect sense! Which, uh, I would realize if I wasn't crazy. I'm one of the people who comments on most stuff that I read, but 90% of that might just be something like "I really liked this" because, yes, thought is hard. I have a lot of troubling bookmarking, which is why I currently have a 75+ story backlog saved to go into my delicious later, which ... I usually don't even include comments, just a small quote, so I can only imagine how much work you go to!

(And thank you so much, about the Ellen story! I think that counts as feedback itself, actually.)

[murklins.livejournal.com]

It's so easy to be crazy about this kind of thing. I am always vanity searching myself on Delicious, and I don't even write fic. Just be glad people are bookmarking things you've written! It's much more depressing to search for yourself and see that no one cares about you. :)

(Watch for my bookmark -- maybe it will be more insightful! But probably not. I am going to have to mass bookmark soon and that always drains my creativity. I'm *good* at keeping up with my bookmarks and I still have a 75+ backlog.)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

That's really true! Bandom, along with giving a ton of comments, also is really heavy into delicious, which is awesome, because it's so easy to track.

[brooklinegirl.livejournal.com]

RPF. Katherine Heigl/Callum Keith Rennie.

love, love, LOVE. that story rocked my world, and I think I have read it probably ten or twelve times since you posted. SO MUCH LOVE.

and I just said to Miss P that, despite not having interest in bandslash, I kind of have soft feelings for it, just b/c it brought so many of my friends back to writing. I know you have been having a tough time writing for a WHILE now, and anything that brings you this much joy and creativity is a wonderful thing. (Even if it does need to take a bath and wash its hair.) So, YAY for you - LOOK at all you wrote this year, baby! \o/ *arms up*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Awww, honey! You are so gracious. I know how annoying it is when all your friends are getting into something you don't care about (*cough*sga*cough*), so it's kind of wonderful that you have do soft feelings! It really is making me happy. (Actually, the only thing that I regret about it is all you guys who don't love it having to dredge through my journal. I try to be interesting sometimes!)

*HUGS YOU A LOT*