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End of year fanfic meme for the Discworld Year of the Spinning Mouse (Roundworld year 2015)
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Well, it's better than last year's...
List of completed fics:
Drabbles:
The Ubiquitous Assassin (TTR, drabble)
On My Way (TTR/Sesame Street, double drabble)
Defining Features (Grimm, two words shy of double drabble)
Longer fic:
The All-Consuming Fir (Doctor Who/Sherlock)
Discworld's Finest (Discworld/DC Comics)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlebeasts (massive multiplayer crossover)
Total number: 6
Character breakdown: No character appeared in more than one fic.
Best/worst title?
Oh, me and titles. I'm very pleased with "The All-Consuming Fir", because I think it nicely fits with existing entries on Dr Watson's blog, like "The Speckled Blonde" and "The Geek Interpeter".
I was never entirely happy with "On My Way" (I wanted to call it "The Doctor at the End of This Fic", but it didn't quite work, and I decided the gag was already more than sufficiently telegraphed.)
Best/worst summary?
All my summaries seem to be "This is a fic about this thing happening". I think I tend to figure there's no point in getting overly clever with them; the audience should be clearly warned what they're in for.
Best/worst first line?
I'm quite pleased with the opening line of "League of Extraordinary Gentlebeasts":
"At the mouth of Father Thames, where the sewage system designed by Joseph Bazalgette decides that it may rejoin the river without inconveniencing Londoners, two mice were looking out of an outflow pipe."
It has a nice pastiche Victoriana feel to it that I only maintained sporadically for the rest of the story.
"Defining Features" doesn't even have an opening line, it just launches straight into fantheory disguised as conversation.
Best/worst last line?
I quite like "Discworld's Finest" ending with "The Dark One is." Even if you don't get the DC Comics reference, it's still pretty chiling, right? And it's a blatant sequel hook, which I need to spur me into writing "Justice League of Sto".
"All Consuming Fir" just kind of stops when I, er, when John[1] runs out of things to say, although I think it's saved to some extent by the comments section.
[1]First rule of writing first person: if in doubt, blame the narrator.
Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?
After writing exacty no fics at all in 2014, I'd given up on trying to predict anything.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year?
A Grimm fic, even a double-drabble in which two characters discuss my headcanon, would have seemed surprising. I don't think I'd have predicted a Sesame Street fic, but if you told me, I'd probably have said "Yeah, that sounds like something I'd do."
What's your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.
Good question. I'm really pleased I finally finished "Discworld's Finest", and I think it came out very well.
Okay, NOW your most popular story.
I think that's got to be "All-Consuming Fir". It was the first (and so far only) story I posted on Teaspoon, and I was delighted and relieved that people there seemed to like it. It got good comments on here as well.
Story most underappreciated by the universe?
I'm honestly surprised "League of Extraordinary Gentlebeasts" didn't get more attention.pedanther liked it, and so did one reviewer on fanfiction.net, but it was the sort of competely insane idea I'd have expected my LJ friends to be all over.
Story that could have been better?
I do wonder if maybe I could have made "Defining Features" less of a talking-heads thing.
Sexiest story?
As always, nope.
Saddest story?
As not exactly always, but often, nope.
Most fun?
I think "League" is the one in which "I am actually going to do this completely absurd thing purely because it's fun" comes through the most.
Story with single sweetest moment?
Hmm. Not sure. There's that bit in the Midnight Folk section of "League", where the MF characters discuss staying to protect Kay, and Rikki compares it to his protection of the boy in the bungalow, maybe.
Hardest story to write?
I had real trouble with the third chapter of "Discworld's Finest", as you might be able to tell from the fact it took me ten years. Always know vaguely where your story is going before you start; don't think if you keep typing you'll get there eventually. It got to the point where I refused to believe I'd actually finished it, and stared at it blankly trying to work out where it was supposed to go next...
Easiest/most fun story to write?
Both "League" and "Fir" were incredibly easy to write (since someone else had already done the storyline for me) and huge fun in having the characters interact. I think "Fir" counts as somewhat easier, since it required less research. (And it turned out I'd lost my copies of both The Midnight Folk and Roland Rat: Biography of a Living Legend.) On the other hand, the research ("I need to read Masefield again! And The Jungle Book!") was also a lot of fun.
Did any stories shift your perceptions of the characters?
Not really. "Defining Features" was written because I'd developed a different perception of the character...
Most overdue story?
Of the ones I finished, obviously "Discworld's Finest", as noted above. The Legendary Lost Storytime! of 10,000 BC remains on the burner.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
Don't think "Well, I like that idea, but it's completely absurd so I'll leave it". Maybe everyone else will like it too, maybe most people will just ignore it.
What are your fic writing goals for next year?
I still have most of those 500 prompts. And the Storytime. But really my main goal is just to write stuff.
lost_spookWell, it's better than last year's...
List of completed fics:
Drabbles:
The Ubiquitous Assassin (TTR, drabble)
On My Way (TTR/Sesame Street, double drabble)
Defining Features (Grimm, two words shy of double drabble)
Longer fic:
The All-Consuming Fir (Doctor Who/Sherlock)
Discworld's Finest (Discworld/DC Comics)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlebeasts (massive multiplayer crossover)
Total number: 6
Character breakdown: No character appeared in more than one fic.
Best/worst title?
Oh, me and titles. I'm very pleased with "The All-Consuming Fir", because I think it nicely fits with existing entries on Dr Watson's blog, like "The Speckled Blonde" and "The Geek Interpeter".
I was never entirely happy with "On My Way" (I wanted to call it "The Doctor at the End of This Fic", but it didn't quite work, and I decided the gag was already more than sufficiently telegraphed.)
Best/worst summary?
All my summaries seem to be "This is a fic about this thing happening". I think I tend to figure there's no point in getting overly clever with them; the audience should be clearly warned what they're in for.
Best/worst first line?
I'm quite pleased with the opening line of "League of Extraordinary Gentlebeasts":
"At the mouth of Father Thames, where the sewage system designed by Joseph Bazalgette decides that it may rejoin the river without inconveniencing Londoners, two mice were looking out of an outflow pipe."
It has a nice pastiche Victoriana feel to it that I only maintained sporadically for the rest of the story.
"Defining Features" doesn't even have an opening line, it just launches straight into fantheory disguised as conversation.
Best/worst last line?
I quite like "Discworld's Finest" ending with "The Dark One is." Even if you don't get the DC Comics reference, it's still pretty chiling, right? And it's a blatant sequel hook, which I need to spur me into writing "Justice League of Sto".
"All Consuming Fir" just kind of stops when I, er, when John[1] runs out of things to say, although I think it's saved to some extent by the comments section.
[1]First rule of writing first person: if in doubt, blame the narrator.
Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?
After writing exacty no fics at all in 2014, I'd given up on trying to predict anything.
What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year?
A Grimm fic, even a double-drabble in which two characters discuss my headcanon, would have seemed surprising. I don't think I'd have predicted a Sesame Street fic, but if you told me, I'd probably have said "Yeah, that sounds like something I'd do."
What's your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.
Good question. I'm really pleased I finally finished "Discworld's Finest", and I think it came out very well.
Okay, NOW your most popular story.
I think that's got to be "All-Consuming Fir". It was the first (and so far only) story I posted on Teaspoon, and I was delighted and relieved that people there seemed to like it. It got good comments on here as well.
Story most underappreciated by the universe?
I'm honestly surprised "League of Extraordinary Gentlebeasts" didn't get more attention.
pedanther liked it, and so did one reviewer on fanfiction.net, but it was the sort of competely insane idea I'd have expected my LJ friends to be all over.Story that could have been better?
I do wonder if maybe I could have made "Defining Features" less of a talking-heads thing.
Sexiest story?
As always, nope.
Saddest story?
As not exactly always, but often, nope.
Most fun?
I think "League" is the one in which "I am actually going to do this completely absurd thing purely because it's fun" comes through the most.
Story with single sweetest moment?
Hmm. Not sure. There's that bit in the Midnight Folk section of "League", where the MF characters discuss staying to protect Kay, and Rikki compares it to his protection of the boy in the bungalow, maybe.
Hardest story to write?
I had real trouble with the third chapter of "Discworld's Finest", as you might be able to tell from the fact it took me ten years. Always know vaguely where your story is going before you start; don't think if you keep typing you'll get there eventually. It got to the point where I refused to believe I'd actually finished it, and stared at it blankly trying to work out where it was supposed to go next...
Easiest/most fun story to write?
Both "League" and "Fir" were incredibly easy to write (since someone else had already done the storyline for me) and huge fun in having the characters interact. I think "Fir" counts as somewhat easier, since it required less research. (And it turned out I'd lost my copies of both The Midnight Folk and Roland Rat: Biography of a Living Legend.) On the other hand, the research ("I need to read Masefield again! And The Jungle Book!") was also a lot of fun.
Did any stories shift your perceptions of the characters?
Not really. "Defining Features" was written because I'd developed a different perception of the character...
Most overdue story?
Of the ones I finished, obviously "Discworld's Finest", as noted above. The Legendary Lost Storytime! of 10,000 BC remains on the burner.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
Don't think "Well, I like that idea, but it's completely absurd so I'll leave it". Maybe everyone else will like it too, maybe most people will just ignore it.
What are your fic writing goals for next year?
I still have most of those 500 prompts. And the Storytime. But really my main goal is just to write stuff.