December Daily: Exog

[resonant]

Before beginning, a story. The kidlet says to me, "I need help finding a fanfiction. I've been looking all day long. It was Harry/Draco, and it involved a snake that was a gift from Draco's father."

I said, "Well, I'll be surprised if my first guess turns out to be correct, but ... Lustre? Julad and Calico?"

Yep! That was the one!


julad asks: What was publishing Exog like for you? The good, the not so good, the unexpected.

I think the best thing was that Amanda Jean, my editor, turned out to be of the fannish persuasion! The editing process was great, partly because she found some small ways to make the story flow better, and partly because it was a validation of the whole beta process; it turned out that the manuscript was quite clean.

The fact that the story was written so long ago troubled me; I would love to have a lively writing life happening right now, but I so very much don't, and here's this publication sitting there ... it feels a little like getting invited to a masquerade and dressing up as something you could be and have been (and, lord willing, will be again) but currently are not.

I have to admit, I was hoping it would earn more than a week's groceries cost. But considering that it required almost no new labor, what little money I got from it feels like money for nearly nothing.



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3. mific: Do you enjoy Christmas more, or less, now the kidlet's older?
4. armadillo1976: Dec 4. From the perspective of a parent of a big(ish) kid, what do you remember most/best from the time your kid was 1-2?
(Asking as a mom of a 1.5 year old, terrified that she is going to forget all the love and beauty and mess of these times...)
5. grammarwoman: what's a go-to comfort meal for you?
6. cesperanza: What three things do you find unexpectedly sexy?
7. jesse_the_k: What's a garment that's well-loved by fandom, to the point of fanonization, that you really don't care for. Examples might be Fraser's hat; Ronon's gun; Sherlock's coat...
8. monanotlisa: What's the hardest thing to write for you, and how do you get around it and yet write it?
9. china_shop: Thoughts about writing original fic vs writing fanfic, whether it's different processes, different feelings (or the same process, and the same feelings), or whatever.
10. julad: What was publishing Exog like for you? The good, the not so good, the unexpected.
11. reginagiraffe: what was the best birthday present you ever got? (You can supply your own definition of "best".)
12. james: Is there a tv show or movie that you would pay a billion dollars to get either a re-working of an episode or a sequel to? (It might not cost that much. Millions.) Because sometimes fanfic isn't enough, you just need to see it on-screen.
13. mific: If you had to give up one of your 5 senses (you know, to save Atlantis or Benton Fraser's life, or suchlike), which would it be and why?
14. james: Which (if any) Harry Potter book is the best totally on its own, with no meta or context or fanfic to bolster it up?
15. james: Who is the most obscure composer, band, or individual musician that you adore?
16. zulu: best vacation/break you ever had?
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18. kass: What do you enjoy most about parenting a kidlet of this age?
19. kass: what fannish character is bringing you the most joy right now?
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27. muccamukk: Moments in canon that still emotionally resonate with you, many years later.
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Comments

[princessofgeeks]

That was a great fic. Hilarious that you are to the point of discussing fanfic with your kid.

[sapote]

My dad always wanted to write published works, and he's only really able to work on it now that we're out of the house and he's retired. I'm just saying, things will look different at a different point in life.

[julad]

yay, yay, thanks for answering! and how bizarre that the kidlet was looking for Lustre! I'm, like, a member of the kidlet fandom. The circle is complete.

I get how you feel about the masquerade, to the extent that I get the feeling of, I *used* to write, and there *used* to be some indication that I was good at it. :\ Sometimes life simply ceases to be arranged such that you have the opportunities. But I hope life arranges itself, or you get the choice of how to arrange it, so that you can have your lively writing life back. :D

[jesse_the_k]

I just finished Exog and it's so great!

I do hope the day comes when you have time to pour out your sfnal ideas, as I'm sitting here hoping to catch some.