May 2014 ficlist

[donutsweeper]

Daily Lessons- Southland, John is a training officer, rated G, 100 words (fan_flashworks)
The World Again, a Step to the Left- Sherlock (BBC), Moriarty was back and destroying everything and everyone who got between him and a certain artefact, one that John was desperately trying to get to Sherlock. When Moriarty found him John thought it might be the end, that he was going to die. When Moriarty shot him he was sure of it. But then John woke up in a world that wasn't his own, where Moriarty was dead but everyone else was alive and he wasn't sure how he got there or how to get back, or even if he wanted to, rated G, 38712 words (Currently only on AO3)
Signed with a Step and a Beat of a Wing- Captain America 2, Sam's footing took a bit of time to find, rated G, 706 words (fan_flashworks)
The Elegant Dance- Avengers, There were many ways to touch, this was by far her favorite, rated R, 100 words (fan_flashworks)
The Aftereffects When Alone in the Dark (The Not Okay Remix), Teen Wolf, The nogistune may be gone, but its influence isn't, rated G, 1023 words (remixers_lounge)

2 drabbles, 1 ficlet, 1 full length fics for 5 stories and *boggles* 40641 words *boggles some more*

Something you're proud of: Holy cow I finished fic-o-doom! I actually wrote a 38k story! And it was a casefic! Me, the person who *never* writes long managed to write something almost 2x longer than either of the bigbangs I wrote (in '08 and '09) and almost 3x as long as the next longest story (14k in '12) and thanks to it and my yuletide output and general writing it means I've already written and posted more words this year than any year since 2009.
Something you're surprised by: I managed a fairly explicit het drabble.
Something to do better: Can't say there's much I can think of to put here this month, other than to actually get the ficlist out closer to the beginning of the month from now on.
Something you notice about your work: Hmmm, sometimes I get lost in research to a ridiculous extent. At one point I had 24 tabs about the Amber Room open and 7 books out from the library even though I knew few people would read a 30k+ word gen casefic and it was unlikely those who did would really care about the uberspecifics of an artefact that didn't exist that was supposedly vaguely related to the Amber Room.

Comments

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, sometimes I get lost in research to a ridiculous extent. At one point I had 24 tabs about the Amber Room open and 7 books out from the library even though I knew few people would read a 30k+ word gen casefic and it was unlikely those who did would really care about the uberspecifics of an artefact that didn't exist that was supposedly vaguely related to the Amber Room.

Dude, I hear that. I put a stupid amount of research into head injuries and aphasia for Lost for Words, and I didn't include even half of what I learned. I spent sometimes hours trying to find appropriate names for daemons when I just probably just pick something pretty and run with it. My only conclusion is that I enjoy researching. I love learning new things, it's one of my favourite things in life. But the sad part is, no one notices a well-researched story because it's seamless. It's only when someone hasn't done their research that people pick up on it, not when we do.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oh, daemon names, yep, did that too.

And that's very true, incorrect or detail lacking fic does stand out. And, I do enjoy the research and love learning things. :)

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

God, daemons everything! That's a big black hole of research to fall into. I spend half an hour finding animals for characters who don't even appear on screen.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Same here! And then if couples would have companionable daemons or not and if fanon ideas of daemon species and job types should be followed or the ones from the books or just go with stuff I think would work best..... so many things to think about!

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

I know! And what do you do when you encounter a modern concept not available in the HDM books, and have to figure out how to handle that with daemons involved. Or things that weren't covered, like whether or not daemons talk to each other or just to their humans. It's fun, but a lot of work.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! Building AUs in general can be so much work but so much fun.

[geekslave.livejournal.com]

That's a great output for the month! Congrats!

I do a lot of research too when I'm writing. I sometimes get so bogged down in research and then I don't even end up writing the story, or I spend more time on the research than the actual story.

Stacey

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I've done that too. :)

And thank you! :D