shallowness

I posted 10 fics to Archive of Our Own this year, all longer than drabbles. I had a flurry of writing X word ficlets and Three Sentence fics. That’s one more than last year! Most were ficlets, with two passing the thousand-word mark, both of which were gen. Things happened in my life this year that had a big bearing on my writing.

There was a huge flurry in April, partly because of Easter and partly because of what was going on in The Mentalist’s final season – I wrote more The Mentalist fic than any other fandom, and I’ve never written fic in the fandom before. A minority of these fics, less than I thought, were based on prompts.

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On Saturday night, I caught up with a B99 episode: 2.22 Det. Dave Majors
( it was a good one )

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I read Robin McKinley’s Rose Daughter, a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. It’s much, much better than her Beauty, another retelling of the fairy tale which it turns out was her first novel and, I’m glad, not the first book of hers that I read. I love the writing, the fantasy setting with its own rules of magic that the reader discovers alongside Beauty (whom I should have found more annoying than I did, considering her traits). I especially liked what McKinley did with Beauty’s older sisters. Recommended if you’re in a mood for a fairy tale retelling in a fantasy setting.

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Sorry for the old fic spam on Dreamwidth (and AO3) but it occurred to me on Thursday night that now was a good time to repost old fic. (That’s old fic that’s a decade old. Yikes.) Trying to work out what I was thinking in terms of formatting, titles and archiving a decade ago was a faff initially. I revised one and did a little more to another than correct typos. I was so prolific in 2005 and steeped in Dark Angel fandom, more so than I’ve ever been in the one fandom since as both a reader and writer, but since then I’ve been more multi-fannish and even then, alongside the DA fic, there were Harry Potter ficlets. Um, I may repost more fic over the next few days (but then again, I might not. I intended to post this yesterday.)

The starry dividers are a homage to the fact that I used them in fic in 2005, or at least the fic that were longer than vignettes.

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Livejournal has been intermittent for me (I could read my friends page, but not edit this morning) and it's one step forward, one step backwards in another window. As we know now, a DDoS attack is the cause. I'll try to cross-post this, and if it doesn't work, I'll do so manually later.

The Hour episode 2 ( spoilers )

And now, I should upload a story that's been posted on DW to AO3, because I said I would.

I'm messing about with my Dreamwidth styles at the moment. I like the colouring and being able to see the tags, but the text is squeezed, so it may change again.

I am also now on AO3 - hence the icon. So far, I've imported the last three fic I've posted here, and the more I do it, the easier it becomes, although I'm nervous about making a huge mistake, as one always is with something new. I hope to get up to date by importing what is posted here and then, again here's hoping, I will be better about reposting fic here too.