Writing blather

[graculus]

I'm quite proud of myself at the moment since I turned out about 5,000 words yesterday, which is well above what I usually manage considering I mostly write at the speed of an oncoming glacier. I blame Ezra Standish for this, though. He seems to have a clear idea of what he's up to and even scuppered the would-be romance I was lining up for him in favour of getting smitten with Chris Larabee.

Currently this story is about 13,000 words and still going strong - from my rough outline of the rest of the plot, I'd say I'm about halfway through. And then I plan to spam the relevant mailing lists with it in small sections in a shameless act of feedback gathering. ;)

Speaking of feedback, it's probably a good thing I write stuff because I want to read it and not because I want my ego stroked. Case in point: I've recently put out two long stories in different fandoms and could count the amount of feedback I've received on them on the fingers of one hand with some left over. It's annoying and dispiriting, to say the least, particularly when one of the stories was something I worked on for two years on and off. I guess fluffy bunny fic really is the way to go if you're feeling fragile and unappreciated? What a shame it's so damn tedious to write...

As the fount of all evil, aren't I supposed to have minions to fawn over me? Where are my minions, damn it?

And finally, it's a tad vexing when you tell someone you're writing an amnesia fic and their response is "sometimes the most clichéd plots are the best". Gah. I'm sure it wasn't meant as it comes across but I was under the impression that the idea of writing clichés is to try and do something new with it.

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I startled myself! :P