A Year in Fanfiction meme
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likecharity posted, and I thought I'd do it as well.
I posted this fanfiction to the internet in a weird order, so it'll take a bit of work to piece out what order I actually wrote them all in....
01 Rutabagas • iCarly, gen/very, very G.
02 Dragonflies • Inkheart, Dustfinger/Meggie, T-ish.
03 Through the Cracks • RPF, Dame Judi Dench/Taylor Lautner, G.
YEAH, YOU READ THAT PAIRING RIGHT. MHM.
04 Everyone Loves Dakota • RPF, gen, but with slight Daniel Craig/Eva Green, G.
05 Invisible Elephant • Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Ellen/Georgia, PG.
06 This Bed • RPF, drabble, Rachael Henley/Anne-Marie Duff, PG/T-ish.
07 Quite Legal • Ella Enchanted, Slannen/Ella, PG.
(I AM SO SICK OF PG, PEOPLE. I GOT QUITE TIRED OF IT.)
08 Out of Order • RPF, Ben Barnes/Georgie Henley, PG.
09 Three is a Magic Number • RPF, Ben Barnes/Georgie Henley, PG/T-ish??
10 Ribbons and Candle Wicks • RPF, Rachael Henley/Anne-Marie Duff, fucking G again.
11 Ten songs drabble meme • RPF, tons of pairings, T at the highest.
12 Trynna Catch Me Ridin' Dirty • RPF, Thomas Sangster/Eliza Bennett, FUCKING PG AGAIN.
13 A Job Well Done • Pride & Prejudice, Lizzy Bennet/Charlotte Lucas, R (finally).
That's right. I wrote smut. And the first smut I ever wrote was Jane Austen femslash. Hell yeah.
14 Unreasonable • Harry Potter, Ollivander/Luna Lovegood, R.
Continuing with the theme of under-appreciated pairings getting it on.... I checked, and this is the very first (and as of now, only) fanfiction in the Harry Potter fandom where Luna and Ollivander are a pairing and not just friends. To be the first to do anything in HP fandom is huge.
15 Lonely • RPF, Anna Popplewell/Georgie Henley, PG.
Overall thoughts.
I started writing fanfiction only this year, or December two-thousand nine at least, and I feel like it's helped my quality of writing in general. I've been able to pick up on my "style", so to speak, and the things that I repeat that can get annoying or take away from the story.
Another thing is that writing original stories (which I've always liked to do) can be really, really intimidating, because you're creating people. You have to build your environment and your characters from scratch, and represent them well. When you set out to write about original characters, you don't know them at all, so you have no guide to go by; you can't say, "Oh, no, s/he'd never do that. It wouldn't work," because you just don't know what your characters would or wouldn't do. But with fanfiction, you have a set of pre-formed ideas about how the characters would act, and you can either follow those, or surprise yourself and go completely against them. You know who these people are, you know the world that they live in. Knowing those things makes it a lot easier to write about them.
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
I'd never predicted that I would write fanfiction at all, really. I enjoyed reading it and that was it. So in a way, I've written more, and I've written less. I've written more than I expected at the beginning...but by the time I was halfway through the year, I expected to write tons and tons.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?
Hell, everything was unexpected. Probably Anna/Georgie, though...I wasn't really interested in Narnia fandom then, and the pairing used to creep me out quite a bit. I guess they reminded me too much of how I think of myself and my sister?? (Obviously I don't think of them that way anymore...now that Georgie isn't a little kid anymore, I'm able to ship it.)
Even though this fandom likes incest pairings, we do have morals, you guys. I wish that people from non-incest-liking fandoms wouldn't assume we were cousin-fucking nutjobs (to put it bluntly).
What's your own favorite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest?
Hmm, this is difficult. It's my first instinct to say Dragonflies, just because I'm so proud of that one, but, now that I think of it...it's definitely not my favorite.
I think I'd have to say my favorite is Invisible Elephant. I can relate to the characters, plus it is just my little special story that will always have meaning for me, I think.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
Writing risks? I'm not sure I understand the question. In terms of style, I definitely changed quite a bit (like I said). As for plot? Well, I didn't expect to write old people pr0n, ha.
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
Hmm. I tend to set myself the impossible goal of writing some fifteen-chapter monster for an underappreciated fandom, giving it an unexpected pairing, making a fanmix and icons for it, and pretty much dedicating all my effort to it and making it rock the whole fandom with a bang.
But I know that's unrealistic. You need time to do a thing like that...and even when I had more time this year (over the summer), I just wasn't interested.
My one real, honest goal: to write a multi-chapter fic (two to five chapters or so) that follows a solid plotline, one I can really get behind, and that I can feel good about and resolved about when I am done. All I write are one-shots, really, so I think this is a good goal.
From my past year of writing, what was...
My best story of this year:
Dragonflies, hands down.
My most popular story of this year:
HAHA, "POPULAR". I wish! :B No, but seriously? Probably my Ten songs drabble meme, sincelikecharity pimped that at her journal.
The unpopularity is my own fault. Whenever I would post something, I'd get too lazy to promote it, or else too meek — the fandom was small or closed-feeling, and I wasn't sure how to go about it. But in the end, I pimped all the fics that had communities/fandoms. (Except for Everyone Loves Dakota, which is my creepy little black sheep.)
Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion.
I want to say Invisible Elephant: it's from a pretty small fandom, and the only for its pairing. But that wouldn't be accurate.
Trynna Catch Me Ridin' Dirty is RPF for two incredibly obscure young actors (who used to be kid actors, and they acted together as little kids once, hence the premise...), neither of whom have any real fan following. I couldn't find one relevant community to promote it at. If anyone finds or reads it, it will be by accident. So, yeah, under-appreciated by the universe.
Most fun story to write:
Three is a Magic Number. Will Poulter screams in horror in it. Fun times.
Story with the single sexiest moment:
Unreasonable. He shifts her skirt with his teeth, for God's sake. Ngh, it's like this question was made to be given this answer.
Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
Once again, Unreasonable. LOL. It's wrong-but-sexy, I suppose? Or sexy-but-wrong. Either one.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
Hmm. It'll seem like a cop-out, but I just have to say Unreasonable again. Dean Thomas is in it, and I had never even thought about writing him before. Because of that, I really worked on his character and paid attention to what I was writing. I never had to think much about Dean before, but when I wrote about him, I felt like I understood more of his silence.
Hardest story to write:
It was probably Out of Order. In it, I imagined Georgie Henley to be about fourteen or fifteen, and yet in it, I had to write someone (Ben) having ambiguous, barely-formed feelings of attraction towards her. It was a bit of an odd experience, but since I like the ship (and when she's older, too), it was fun.
Biggest Disappointment:
This Bed. I feel like I could have done more with the couple-of-sentences drabble format, but I didn't. Eh.
Biggest Surprise:
My never-to-be-continued Judi Dench/Taylor Lautner story. It's such a What the Fuck? pairing, and it all came from a huge misunderstanding of who was kissing in this one photograph I saw...turned out to be a still from the show Primeval, and not Judi Dench or Taylor Lautner AT ALL. I don't know. Just read it.
By the way, if anyone wants to continue with this idea, do it!! I can't stress that enough. I love the bizarreness of the pairing, but I just don't give enough of a fuck to write any more to it. I would love to see someone else do it, though.
Most Unintentionally Telling Story:
Probably Invisible Elephant. I don't like any of my friends like Ellen does, but there is something similar in there: it's the teenage confusion, really.... :/
A story I want remembered:
Aah, that's difficult. I think that anything I wrote for the pairing Rachael/Anne-Marie is something I want to be remembered.
In conclusion:
I'll probably be writing more this year. The end!
likecharity posted, and I thought I'd do it as well.I posted this fanfiction to the internet in a weird order, so it'll take a bit of work to piece out what order I actually wrote them all in....
01 Rutabagas • iCarly, gen/very, very G.
02 Dragonflies • Inkheart, Dustfinger/Meggie, T-ish.
03 Through the Cracks • RPF, Dame Judi Dench/Taylor Lautner, G.
YEAH, YOU READ THAT PAIRING RIGHT. MHM.
04 Everyone Loves Dakota • RPF, gen, but with slight Daniel Craig/Eva Green, G.
05 Invisible Elephant • Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Ellen/Georgia, PG.
06 This Bed • RPF, drabble, Rachael Henley/Anne-Marie Duff, PG/T-ish.
07 Quite Legal • Ella Enchanted, Slannen/Ella, PG.
(I AM SO SICK OF PG, PEOPLE. I GOT QUITE TIRED OF IT.)
08 Out of Order • RPF, Ben Barnes/Georgie Henley, PG.
09 Three is a Magic Number • RPF, Ben Barnes/Georgie Henley, PG/T-ish??
10 Ribbons and Candle Wicks • RPF, Rachael Henley/Anne-Marie Duff, fucking G again.
11 Ten songs drabble meme • RPF, tons of pairings, T at the highest.
12 Trynna Catch Me Ridin' Dirty • RPF, Thomas Sangster/Eliza Bennett, FUCKING PG AGAIN.
13 A Job Well Done • Pride & Prejudice, Lizzy Bennet/Charlotte Lucas, R (finally).
That's right. I wrote smut. And the first smut I ever wrote was Jane Austen femslash. Hell yeah.
14 Unreasonable • Harry Potter, Ollivander/Luna Lovegood, R.
Continuing with the theme of under-appreciated pairings getting it on.... I checked, and this is the very first (and as of now, only) fanfiction in the Harry Potter fandom where Luna and Ollivander are a pairing and not just friends. To be the first to do anything in HP fandom is huge.
15 Lonely • RPF, Anna Popplewell/Georgie Henley, PG.
Overall thoughts.
I started writing fanfiction only this year, or December two-thousand nine at least, and I feel like it's helped my quality of writing in general. I've been able to pick up on my "style", so to speak, and the things that I repeat that can get annoying or take away from the story.
Another thing is that writing original stories (which I've always liked to do) can be really, really intimidating, because you're creating people. You have to build your environment and your characters from scratch, and represent them well. When you set out to write about original characters, you don't know them at all, so you have no guide to go by; you can't say, "Oh, no, s/he'd never do that. It wouldn't work," because you just don't know what your characters would or wouldn't do. But with fanfiction, you have a set of pre-formed ideas about how the characters would act, and you can either follow those, or surprise yourself and go completely against them. You know who these people are, you know the world that they live in. Knowing those things makes it a lot easier to write about them.
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?
I'd never predicted that I would write fanfiction at all, really. I enjoyed reading it and that was it. So in a way, I've written more, and I've written less. I've written more than I expected at the beginning...but by the time I was halfway through the year, I expected to write tons and tons.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January?
Hell, everything was unexpected. Probably Anna/Georgie, though...I wasn't really interested in Narnia fandom then, and the pairing used to creep me out quite a bit. I guess they reminded me too much of how I think of myself and my sister?? (Obviously I don't think of them that way anymore...now that Georgie isn't a little kid anymore, I'm able to ship it.)
Even though this fandom likes incest pairings, we do have morals, you guys. I wish that people from non-incest-liking fandoms wouldn't assume we were cousin-fucking nutjobs (to put it bluntly).
What's your own favorite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest?
Hmm, this is difficult. It's my first instinct to say Dragonflies, just because I'm so proud of that one, but, now that I think of it...it's definitely not my favorite.
I think I'd have to say my favorite is Invisible Elephant. I can relate to the characters, plus it is just my little special story that will always have meaning for me, I think.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
Writing risks? I'm not sure I understand the question. In terms of style, I definitely changed quite a bit (like I said). As for plot? Well, I didn't expect to write old people pr0n, ha.
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
Hmm. I tend to set myself the impossible goal of writing some fifteen-chapter monster for an underappreciated fandom, giving it an unexpected pairing, making a fanmix and icons for it, and pretty much dedicating all my effort to it and making it rock the whole fandom with a bang.
But I know that's unrealistic. You need time to do a thing like that...and even when I had more time this year (over the summer), I just wasn't interested.
My one real, honest goal: to write a multi-chapter fic (two to five chapters or so) that follows a solid plotline, one I can really get behind, and that I can feel good about and resolved about when I am done. All I write are one-shots, really, so I think this is a good goal.
From my past year of writing, what was...
My best story of this year:
Dragonflies, hands down.
My most popular story of this year:
HAHA, "POPULAR". I wish! :B No, but seriously? Probably my Ten songs drabble meme, since
likecharity pimped that at her journal.The unpopularity is my own fault. Whenever I would post something, I'd get too lazy to promote it, or else too meek — the fandom was small or closed-feeling, and I wasn't sure how to go about it. But in the end, I pimped all the fics that had communities/fandoms. (Except for Everyone Loves Dakota, which is my creepy little black sheep.)
Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion.
I want to say Invisible Elephant: it's from a pretty small fandom, and the only for its pairing. But that wouldn't be accurate.
Trynna Catch Me Ridin' Dirty is RPF for two incredibly obscure young actors (who used to be kid actors, and they acted together as little kids once, hence the premise...), neither of whom have any real fan following. I couldn't find one relevant community to promote it at. If anyone finds or reads it, it will be by accident. So, yeah, under-appreciated by the universe.
Most fun story to write:
Three is a Magic Number. Will Poulter screams in horror in it. Fun times.
Story with the single sexiest moment:
Unreasonable. He shifts her skirt with his teeth, for God's sake. Ngh, it's like this question was made to be given this answer.
Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
Once again, Unreasonable. LOL. It's wrong-but-sexy, I suppose? Or sexy-but-wrong. Either one.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
Hmm. It'll seem like a cop-out, but I just have to say Unreasonable again. Dean Thomas is in it, and I had never even thought about writing him before. Because of that, I really worked on his character and paid attention to what I was writing. I never had to think much about Dean before, but when I wrote about him, I felt like I understood more of his silence.
Hardest story to write:
It was probably Out of Order. In it, I imagined Georgie Henley to be about fourteen or fifteen, and yet in it, I had to write someone (Ben) having ambiguous, barely-formed feelings of attraction towards her. It was a bit of an odd experience, but since I like the ship (and when she's older, too), it was fun.
Biggest Disappointment:
This Bed. I feel like I could have done more with the couple-of-sentences drabble format, but I didn't. Eh.
Biggest Surprise:
My never-to-be-continued Judi Dench/Taylor Lautner story. It's such a What the Fuck? pairing, and it all came from a huge misunderstanding of who was kissing in this one photograph I saw...turned out to be a still from the show Primeval, and not Judi Dench or Taylor Lautner AT ALL. I don't know. Just read it.
By the way, if anyone wants to continue with this idea, do it!! I can't stress that enough. I love the bizarreness of the pairing, but I just don't give enough of a fuck to write any more to it. I would love to see someone else do it, though.
Most Unintentionally Telling Story:
Probably Invisible Elephant. I don't like any of my friends like Ellen does, but there is something similar in there: it's the teenage confusion, really.... :/
A story I want remembered:
Aah, that's difficult. I think that anything I wrote for the pairing Rachael/Anne-Marie is something I want to be remembered.
In conclusion:
I'll probably be writing more this year. The end!
