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graculusIt's pretty horrifying to look back and think I started posting fanfic in 1999 (very shortly after joining fandom back in the days of mailing lists) and it's now 2015. Initially, it was all very much fuelled by reading fic and thinking 'pfft, I could do better than that', not realising a) what getting started on that road would be like, and b) that sometimes I could and sometimes I couldn't!
I wrote my way into and then out of one fandom completely, with my fic writing for it not surviving the end of the show in question. I have still never seen the show finale of Stargate SG-1 or indeed the movies that followed it (where there two?). Denial, not just a river in Egypt.
Meanwhile, I still love Man from UNCLE and got the chance to enthuse about it all over again at Nine Worlds in preparation for seeing the new movie. After the debacle that was the so-called Wild Wild West movie (of which we do not speak!) I was fully aware of all the ways in which an UNCLE movie could be horribly awfully wrong and bad. I'm glad to say that, while not perfect, the new movie is not any of those things. I hope it's been successful enough for the studio to consider a sequel, but it's not clear if that's been the case or not.
Still, fanfic.
Two years ago I was writing a Man from UNCLE fic and basically wrote myself into a corner about 21,000 words in and then stopped. I should never have posted the damn thing on AO3 till it was finished and then nobody would ever have known! Instead, I thought 'oh, let's post these two WiP I'm writing and maybe that'll make me finish them' and I was very wrong. I'd had periods where I didn't write before but this felt different, like the very existence of those two stories was an excuse my brain was making for not writing very much else. I managed to get a couple of little things done subsequently, but those stories just loomed over me, laughing mockingly.
The truth is, I'm a procrastinator. If procrastinating was writing, I'd be the most productive person you'd ever met. So things like 750 words are probably really good for me - you commit to writing a minimum of 750 words a day and you get badges for a streak. So far, so good - I'm on a 5-day roll and have been writing Man from UNCLE movie fanfic. Hopefully, I'm also going to be able to use this method to break my existing WiP and get them finished, so they can't laugh and point at me any more!
And there will be fic. Possibly some original stuff too, but no promises. And no more posting WiP online, I have learned my lesson! :P
I wrote my way into and then out of one fandom completely, with my fic writing for it not surviving the end of the show in question. I have still never seen the show finale of Stargate SG-1 or indeed the movies that followed it (where there two?). Denial, not just a river in Egypt.
Meanwhile, I still love Man from UNCLE and got the chance to enthuse about it all over again at Nine Worlds in preparation for seeing the new movie. After the debacle that was the so-called Wild Wild West movie (of which we do not speak!) I was fully aware of all the ways in which an UNCLE movie could be horribly awfully wrong and bad. I'm glad to say that, while not perfect, the new movie is not any of those things. I hope it's been successful enough for the studio to consider a sequel, but it's not clear if that's been the case or not.
Still, fanfic.
Two years ago I was writing a Man from UNCLE fic and basically wrote myself into a corner about 21,000 words in and then stopped. I should never have posted the damn thing on AO3 till it was finished and then nobody would ever have known! Instead, I thought 'oh, let's post these two WiP I'm writing and maybe that'll make me finish them' and I was very wrong. I'd had periods where I didn't write before but this felt different, like the very existence of those two stories was an excuse my brain was making for not writing very much else. I managed to get a couple of little things done subsequently, but those stories just loomed over me, laughing mockingly.
The truth is, I'm a procrastinator. If procrastinating was writing, I'd be the most productive person you'd ever met. So things like 750 words are probably really good for me - you commit to writing a minimum of 750 words a day and you get badges for a streak. So far, so good - I'm on a 5-day roll and have been writing Man from UNCLE movie fanfic. Hopefully, I'm also going to be able to use this method to break my existing WiP and get them finished, so they can't laugh and point at me any more!
And there will be fic. Possibly some original stuff too, but no promises. And no more posting WiP online, I have learned my lesson! :P
