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shallowness) wrote2023-01-03 12:11 pm
shallowness) wrote2023-01-03 12:11 pm
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2022 in fic writing
Happy new year! This will be a shorter post that in past years. I only posted the one fic in 2022: The name on his lips Sanditon. (Spoilers for episode 2.1). Sidney Parker/Charlotte Heywood, Sidney Parker/Eliza Campion, OFC. Second person POV. 673 words. Universal. Summary: A servant is not paid to notice everything, but of course you do.
There’s not much point in going through the questions, that’s the only fic I could refer to in my answers. I was relieved and delighted to write it, although having watched all of season 2, where we got further details about what Sidney was doing in Antigua, it did occur to me that if I’d waited to post it, some details might have changed, but it wasn’t so jossed that I would go back and edit it. It was, after all, my response to the opening episode of the second series.
It made me even more attentive to the servants in Sanditon throughout the second series. It got quite a strong reaction from Sidney/Charlotte shippers, which made me feel a bit guilty as canon rolled on and I accepted Sidney’s death and started shipping Charlotte and Colbourne.
I hoped there would be more fic in 2022. I hadn’t posted anything since May 2021, and hadn’t written much until ‘The name on his lips’. Sanditon continued to inspire, I had a handful of WIPs in train by the time the series ended, and I had thought a couple of them were close to completion and thus posting if I only had the time and a fair wind in my sails. As I said at in the equivalent post at the start of 2022: ‘I’m not one for writing goals at the moment.’ Most things are more difficult for me these days than they were in 2019 and before, including fic writing. I don’t want to get into it too much, but over the Christmas holiday I returned to one of those Sanditon WIPs, and found there were a lot more issues with the story than I was expecting. It turned out that that was because I hadn’t been as diligent about saving copies of the last draft as I should have. I have since reconciled the two drafts, but there’s still a little more than polishing to do with that fic. (I haven’t dared look at any of the others.) What was true in 2022 remains true now: not enough time because there are so many things to do and so many of them take longer than they used to.
Nothing else has inspired more than a few ideas.
Anyway, the main reason I still did this post, other than habit, was that I allow myself to reread all the feedback I got over the year as I’m doing it. The last couple of comments talked about rereading my fic, which gave me a lovely glowy feeling. This is a tradition I can heartily recommend.
There’s not much point in going through the questions, that’s the only fic I could refer to in my answers. I was relieved and delighted to write it, although having watched all of season 2, where we got further details about what Sidney was doing in Antigua, it did occur to me that if I’d waited to post it, some details might have changed, but it wasn’t so jossed that I would go back and edit it. It was, after all, my response to the opening episode of the second series.
It made me even more attentive to the servants in Sanditon throughout the second series. It got quite a strong reaction from Sidney/Charlotte shippers, which made me feel a bit guilty as canon rolled on and I accepted Sidney’s death and started shipping Charlotte and Colbourne.
I hoped there would be more fic in 2022. I hadn’t posted anything since May 2021, and hadn’t written much until ‘The name on his lips’. Sanditon continued to inspire, I had a handful of WIPs in train by the time the series ended, and I had thought a couple of them were close to completion and thus posting if I only had the time and a fair wind in my sails. As I said at in the equivalent post at the start of 2022: ‘I’m not one for writing goals at the moment.’ Most things are more difficult for me these days than they were in 2019 and before, including fic writing. I don’t want to get into it too much, but over the Christmas holiday I returned to one of those Sanditon WIPs, and found there were a lot more issues with the story than I was expecting. It turned out that that was because I hadn’t been as diligent about saving copies of the last draft as I should have. I have since reconciled the two drafts, but there’s still a little more than polishing to do with that fic. (I haven’t dared look at any of the others.) What was true in 2022 remains true now: not enough time because there are so many things to do and so many of them take longer than they used to.
Nothing else has inspired more than a few ideas.
Anyway, the main reason I still did this post, other than habit, was that I allow myself to reread all the feedback I got over the year as I’m doing it. The last couple of comments talked about rereading my fic, which gave me a lovely glowy feeling. This is a tradition I can heartily recommend.