Fandom new year survey
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cesperanza: the fandom new year survey.
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
Less, alas. In 2001 I wrote roughly a story a month. In 2002 I wrote one snippet, three shacks, and eight stories -- and of those eight, four were under 12K, hardly more than snippets.
On the other hand, The Teeth of the Hydra was 140K and covered Ray's life from age 11 to the present. And I'm currently working on a Harry/Draco story that's of similarly epic proportions.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2002?
I wouldn't have expected to write Snape/Draco, since I mostly don't read it.
What's your favorite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest.
In Harry Potter, of course, I'm happiest with The Familiar.
Looking back at my Due South stories, I'm surprised to find that I don't like 2002's DS as well as I like 2001's. Hallow and Juncture are low-ambition PWPs, Left aims slightly higher (and was fun because it's Ray/Ray) but is still a PWP, and I don't yet have enough distance on "The Teeth of the Hydra" to feel anything for it except relief that it's finally finished. But I was very fond of Housekeeping.
Did you take any writing risks this year? (See above for unexpected pairings, etc.) What did you learn from them?
"The Teeth of the Hydra" was a major writing risk -- the back-and-forth of the flashback and contemporary stories, the wide range of time covered, writing Ray and Stella as children ... not to mention the sheer size of the thing. What did I learn from that? That I need to write a damned outline instead of just leaping in and trying to keep two decades straight in my head.
I suppose entering HP fandom was a risk, too. It presents lots of interesting new challenges -- taking characters who are kids and extrapolating what kind of adults they could become, for instance, and handling the war. Also, I'm finding it surprisingly tricky to write characters when I can't hear them speaking. (I can't consider the movies definitive when it comes to character voices, partly because I have some issues with the writing and the casting, and partly because even if I've heard Harry and Draco at twelve, that doesn't help me when I need to hear them at twenty-four.)
And I've never before written in a fandom where the canon source was still alive. ("Due South" and "The Sentinel" were both already canceled by the time I started writing.) So I've never before felt this pressure to finish a story before a new book came out and made a lot of my thinking irrelevant.
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
My biggest fanfic challenge of the year may be to become bifictional -- to keep two fandoms alive at the same time, which is something I've never been able to do before. [Res sadly pokes a couple of half-written Sentinel stories that will never see the light of day.]
In terms of profic, I'm going to write a romance novel in 2003. Yes, really. Since I don't have a job any more, I have no excuse not to.
cesperanza: the fandom new year survey. Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
Less, alas. In 2001 I wrote roughly a story a month. In 2002 I wrote one snippet, three shacks, and eight stories -- and of those eight, four were under 12K, hardly more than snippets.
On the other hand, The Teeth of the Hydra was 140K and covered Ray's life from age 11 to the present. And I'm currently working on a Harry/Draco story that's of similarly epic proportions.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2002?
I wouldn't have expected to write Snape/Draco, since I mostly don't read it.
What's your favorite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest.
In Harry Potter, of course, I'm happiest with The Familiar.
Looking back at my Due South stories, I'm surprised to find that I don't like 2002's DS as well as I like 2001's. Hallow and Juncture are low-ambition PWPs, Left aims slightly higher (and was fun because it's Ray/Ray) but is still a PWP, and I don't yet have enough distance on "The Teeth of the Hydra" to feel anything for it except relief that it's finally finished. But I was very fond of Housekeeping.
Did you take any writing risks this year? (See above for unexpected pairings, etc.) What did you learn from them?
"The Teeth of the Hydra" was a major writing risk -- the back-and-forth of the flashback and contemporary stories, the wide range of time covered, writing Ray and Stella as children ... not to mention the sheer size of the thing. What did I learn from that? That I need to write a damned outline instead of just leaping in and trying to keep two decades straight in my head.
I suppose entering HP fandom was a risk, too. It presents lots of interesting new challenges -- taking characters who are kids and extrapolating what kind of adults they could become, for instance, and handling the war. Also, I'm finding it surprisingly tricky to write characters when I can't hear them speaking. (I can't consider the movies definitive when it comes to character voices, partly because I have some issues with the writing and the casting, and partly because even if I've heard Harry and Draco at twelve, that doesn't help me when I need to hear them at twenty-four.)
And I've never before written in a fandom where the canon source was still alive. ("Due South" and "The Sentinel" were both already canceled by the time I started writing.) So I've never before felt this pressure to finish a story before a new book came out and made a lot of my thinking irrelevant.
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
My biggest fanfic challenge of the year may be to become bifictional -- to keep two fandoms alive at the same time, which is something I've never been able to do before. [Res sadly pokes a couple of half-written Sentinel stories that will never see the light of day.]
In terms of profic, I'm going to write a romance novel in 2003. Yes, really. Since I don't have a job any more, I have no excuse not to.