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Self Indulgent Rambings on my Writing
This post is me wittering on about my fic. About posting, writing, prompts, commenting, kink memes and kink bingo. Mostly Dresden Files with a pit stop for the Mentalist:
I hate posting fic. Not in a will people like this/will they comment kind of way, but in a copypasting/remember the headings/is this too long for the character limit/where do I put a chapter break/remember to link to all the chapters/have I done the cut-tag right/what the hell size font is this/oh crap tags kind of way. Essentially, it’s fiddly, and I’m a deeply lazy person with a fundamental objection to the kind of careful checking I need to do to make sure I don’t cock everything up. And sometimes I cock it up anyway :-D
I’ve been wondering if posting to the AO3 instead would solve some of this fussing (I’ve never tried it, but if it’s set up by fans specifically for the purpose of posting fic, it MUST be more user friendly). But I have a sneaking suspicion that people comment less there? (And I’m a shameless comment whore, regardless of content. Seriously, you can just be pointing out I’ve abused punctuation and I’ll light up.) I may be entirely misguided in that assumption though. But the kind of commenting I like, that can segue off topic into fannish squee about something completely irrelevant, I kind of feel I shouldn’t indulge in that there. Because it isn’t a blogging forum, it’s an archive for stories and feedback on those stories. I think. Perhaps people do use it in this way and I just haven’t hung out there enough to notice.
I shall continue in my pondering.
Ficcishness
My Redjohnloves you fic seems to actually be done on time. Which is a little, well, scary to be honest. I’m amused that I wrote for the prompt that I took one look at and thought “can’t do that”. Except I kept coming back to the idea. And poking it. And then somehow it got written.
Writing to prompts (and kinkmemes!)
It’s confirmed something about my writing that should have sunk in from my time lurking on the Mentalist kink meme where I discovered I REALLY like writing to prompts. Even (especially?) ones I might struggle with. Because the prompt is the essence of all the times I’ve spent ploughing through google and LJ and fic archives looking for a particular set up or a particular pairing, more trying to hit narrative kinks than sexual ones (though, hey, they overlap, I’m not fooling anybody :-D). And just being able to throw that particular query out there with a “pretty please” and crossed fingers, and see what you get? That’s really cool. Being the answer to another fan’s particular craving? Yeah, I really like that. I’ve always enjoyed giving people presents, even just little here’s-a-chocolate-bar things. And, frankly, it gives me the opportunity to justify things I wouldn’t always write. Instead of being honest and saying here’s something a little mad or disturbing that popped into my head, I get to say hey, here’s a prompt I filled! Which, thinking about it, may actually be a little cowardly. Hmm.
I’ve tried to envision a Dresden Files kink meme (though I doubt we’re a large enough fandom to sustain one?) and the sheer volume of possibilities kind of floored me. Because the cast is huge and the canon is cracktastic and I would request so very many badfic setups that were entirely id-indulgent.
Kink bingo (Dresden Files)
I’m not going to get a bingo, but I started with lowered expectations, figuring I just wanted to post something in the amnesty period, and I think it’ll actually be a couple of somethings. I’ve got Harry/original!Luccio for authority figures, which features no actual sex but just seems to cover the ground leading up to it. It’ll need a massive edit, because I want to re-read all the books before I commit more Dresden fic. There are some voices I’m not clear on (Luccio, Ramirez) and really, this is a ridiculous canon to be playing in after only one read through.
Harry/Marcone has half a fic written that’d fit either penance or obedience. There were bits of ideas for a genderswap for body modification, but that was threatening to blow out of proportion and has just been done really well by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lightgetsin . I was kind of using it as a vehicle for exploring issues of trust and paranoia between Harry and Marcone in an established relationship, and also include a gratuitous amount of Hendricks being BFFs with Marcone and trying to give Harry a heads up about not being an entirely shit boyfriend (It’s his birthday on Friday, Dresden). So, I might run with it, or I might pull those issues out and graft them on to a different plot, I don’t know. And, uh, if I did write epic and ridiculous plot, it’s STILL going to be set before Changes. Like Harry, I get set in my ways. I was fond of the status-quo damn it, and I didn’t find the books early enough to have my fill of playing in it. Though post-Changes has equal and different kinds of awesome awaiting me, I’m sure.
And, uh, I want to write Harry/Kincaid. For gunplay. But I keep backing away from that idea in terror. None of these would link up in such a way as to make a bingo for me, so I haven’t tried to get them down before the 31st. But yes, I think I’m going to be amusing myself in the amnesty period.
I hate posting fic. Not in a will people like this/will they comment kind of way, but in a copypasting/remember the headings/is this too long for the character limit/where do I put a chapter break/remember to link to all the chapters/have I done the cut-tag right/what the hell size font is this/oh crap tags kind of way. Essentially, it’s fiddly, and I’m a deeply lazy person with a fundamental objection to the kind of careful checking I need to do to make sure I don’t cock everything up. And sometimes I cock it up anyway :-D
I’ve been wondering if posting to the AO3 instead would solve some of this fussing (I’ve never tried it, but if it’s set up by fans specifically for the purpose of posting fic, it MUST be more user friendly). But I have a sneaking suspicion that people comment less there? (And I’m a shameless comment whore, regardless of content. Seriously, you can just be pointing out I’ve abused punctuation and I’ll light up.) I may be entirely misguided in that assumption though. But the kind of commenting I like, that can segue off topic into fannish squee about something completely irrelevant, I kind of feel I shouldn’t indulge in that there. Because it isn’t a blogging forum, it’s an archive for stories and feedback on those stories. I think. Perhaps people do use it in this way and I just haven’t hung out there enough to notice.
I shall continue in my pondering.
Ficcishness
My Redjohnloves you fic seems to actually be done on time. Which is a little, well, scary to be honest. I’m amused that I wrote for the prompt that I took one look at and thought “can’t do that”. Except I kept coming back to the idea. And poking it. And then somehow it got written.
Writing to prompts (and kinkmemes!)
It’s confirmed something about my writing that should have sunk in from my time lurking on the Mentalist kink meme where I discovered I REALLY like writing to prompts. Even (especially?) ones I might struggle with. Because the prompt is the essence of all the times I’ve spent ploughing through google and LJ and fic archives looking for a particular set up or a particular pairing, more trying to hit narrative kinks than sexual ones (though, hey, they overlap, I’m not fooling anybody :-D). And just being able to throw that particular query out there with a “pretty please” and crossed fingers, and see what you get? That’s really cool. Being the answer to another fan’s particular craving? Yeah, I really like that. I’ve always enjoyed giving people presents, even just little here’s-a-chocolate-bar things. And, frankly, it gives me the opportunity to justify things I wouldn’t always write. Instead of being honest and saying here’s something a little mad or disturbing that popped into my head, I get to say hey, here’s a prompt I filled! Which, thinking about it, may actually be a little cowardly. Hmm.
I’ve tried to envision a Dresden Files kink meme (though I doubt we’re a large enough fandom to sustain one?) and the sheer volume of possibilities kind of floored me. Because the cast is huge and the canon is cracktastic and I would request so very many badfic setups that were entirely id-indulgent.
Kink bingo (Dresden Files)
I’m not going to get a bingo, but I started with lowered expectations, figuring I just wanted to post something in the amnesty period, and I think it’ll actually be a couple of somethings. I’ve got Harry/original!Luccio for authority figures, which features no actual sex but just seems to cover the ground leading up to it. It’ll need a massive edit, because I want to re-read all the books before I commit more Dresden fic. There are some voices I’m not clear on (Luccio, Ramirez) and really, this is a ridiculous canon to be playing in after only one read through.
Harry/Marcone has half a fic written that’d fit either penance or obedience. There were bits of ideas for a genderswap for body modification, but that was threatening to blow out of proportion and has just been done really well by
lightgetsin . I was kind of using it as a vehicle for exploring issues of trust and paranoia between Harry and Marcone in an established relationship, and also include a gratuitous amount of Hendricks being BFFs with Marcone and trying to give Harry a heads up about not being an entirely shit boyfriend (It’s his birthday on Friday, Dresden). So, I might run with it, or I might pull those issues out and graft them on to a different plot, I don’t know. And, uh, if I did write epic and ridiculous plot, it’s STILL going to be set before Changes. Like Harry, I get set in my ways. I was fond of the status-quo damn it, and I didn’t find the books early enough to have my fill of playing in it. Though post-Changes has equal and different kinds of awesome awaiting me, I’m sure.And, uh, I want to write Harry/Kincaid. For gunplay. But I keep backing away from that idea in terror. None of these would link up in such a way as to make a bingo for me, so I haven’t tried to get them down before the 31st. But yes, I think I’m going to be amusing myself in the amnesty period.
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. I was kind of using it as a vehicle for exploring issues of trust and paranoia between Harry and Marcone in an established relationship
The actual point being OMG I want a story about this so so so bad.
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Harry's trust issues with Marcone, in this scenario...would involve not TELLING him he'd been turned into a girl, because it frells his magic up, and he's scared Marcone would either try and protect him or leap on the opportunity to achieve something in Chicago when Harry's out of the game. Except he doesn't stay out of the game, because he's Harry, and then he gets accidentally sort of abducted by Marcone who thinks Harry-as-a-girl was responsible for Harry's sudden disappearance. An idea I find far too hilarious for my own good.
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