Writing Meta: I'm So Doomed
Ya miss me? I had a couple of months of back-to-back major deadlines so I didn't do much else. I felt sort of sad because I had only four WsIP. I do plan to get back to them, but I'm also doing a commentfic for Inalasahl's 10th Anniversary U-Day Ficathon:
Come Join In!
I don't know if I'm going to do Yuletide, but I will definitely be nominating:
* Magic Mike
* Cabin in the Woods
* Odyssey 5
I am very strongly tempted to start an "EOY Anarchy" challenge, where you can request ANY FUCKING THING you want and don't think you'll get elsewhere, and then if people like the prompt they'll just write something for it.
Cut from here on down for length and spoilers.
Several times I've had the experience of posting an idea that, even by my standards, is wacky. The first post is "hahaha, big joke" but then the idea gains more and more traction.
Where the Doom comes in is that it seems that the weirder the idea and the smaller the number of people who stand even the vaguest chance of giving a whoop, the more tied to canon the story is.
Back in the day when I was writing a lot of B7 fics, when there was a fandom too large to fit into my living room, the detailed canon content of a lot of my stories was pretty much "Um. There are these two guys. They're on a spaceship. They argue a lot."
And now I'm writing a Magic Mike/The Unusuals crossover, which is fairly tightly tied to canon events for both of them. (Since The Unusuals was a TV series, albeit one that ended with great abruptness, there's a lot MORE Unusuals canon than Magic Mike canon.)
At the moment I refuse to watch the entire White Collar back catalogue just to write one story, but even brief online research has revealed some interesting facts. Such that I am now able to write not only the end of that Firefly xover but the summary:
After a brief brush with being a hero, Mal wakes up to find himself married to a grifter with a lot of names. Except, this one has black hair and blue eyes. Eventually, a daring rescue must be carried out...by Simon, Inara, and Kaylee. Ai-ya, this is an upsetting development.
This one also has a lot more plot than usual, which means that the amount of work to structure the damn thing is pretty much inversely proportional to the size of the potential audience. Possibly inverse *squares.*
When it's finished, I'm going to follow my usual practice of posting it to Ao3 and linking here, but I wish I could leave the pairings as a Sekrit Surprise. I mean, it's not like Agatha Christie had to tag her mysteries so the bookstore could file them under Dunnit: Butler, Dunnit: Detective, Dunnit: Conspiracy and so forth.
I don't know if I'm going to do Yuletide, but I will definitely be nominating:
* Magic Mike
* Cabin in the Woods
* Odyssey 5
I am very strongly tempted to start an "EOY Anarchy" challenge, where you can request ANY FUCKING THING you want and don't think you'll get elsewhere, and then if people like the prompt they'll just write something for it.
Cut from here on down for length and spoilers.
Several times I've had the experience of posting an idea that, even by my standards, is wacky. The first post is "hahaha, big joke" but then the idea gains more and more traction.
Where the Doom comes in is that it seems that the weirder the idea and the smaller the number of people who stand even the vaguest chance of giving a whoop, the more tied to canon the story is.
Back in the day when I was writing a lot of B7 fics, when there was a fandom too large to fit into my living room, the detailed canon content of a lot of my stories was pretty much "Um. There are these two guys. They're on a spaceship. They argue a lot."
And now I'm writing a Magic Mike/The Unusuals crossover, which is fairly tightly tied to canon events for both of them. (Since The Unusuals was a TV series, albeit one that ended with great abruptness, there's a lot MORE Unusuals canon than Magic Mike canon.)
At the moment I refuse to watch the entire White Collar back catalogue just to write one story, but even brief online research has revealed some interesting facts. Such that I am now able to write not only the end of that Firefly xover but the summary:
After a brief brush with being a hero, Mal wakes up to find himself married to a grifter with a lot of names. Except, this one has black hair and blue eyes. Eventually, a daring rescue must be carried out...by Simon, Inara, and Kaylee. Ai-ya, this is an upsetting development.
This one also has a lot more plot than usual, which means that the amount of work to structure the damn thing is pretty much inversely proportional to the size of the potential audience. Possibly inverse *squares.*
When it's finished, I'm going to follow my usual practice of posting it to Ao3 and linking here, but I wish I could leave the pairings as a Sekrit Surprise. I mean, it's not like Agatha Christie had to tag her mysteries so the bookstore could file them under Dunnit: Butler, Dunnit: Detective, Dunnit: Conspiracy and so forth.