Truths of writing
Mar. 7th, 2018 07:23 amI got reminded on Thursday evening that I was overdue for a fic exchange and answered blankly that I hadn't signed up for it.
Turned out I had. Thanks, Lyrica!! I promised the fic for Saturday, cobbled together a start Friday, padded it out and polished the next day, and put that puppy up on AO3, supported by lots of handholding and beta from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
othercat . This fic was not so much finished as abandoned (h/t Marianne Moore).
It currently has 125 hits and 20 kudos. I have never had a ratio this good on a fic so early in its life. Stuff I have slaved over, admiring every line, has gone down into the darkness, but this little throwaway has found love. It's in a juggernaut fandom, Homestuck, but I've written Homestuck fics before.
Everybody always says that how excited you are about a piece of writing and how excited the audience is don't necessarily correlate, but I hadn't seen it in action quite so forcefully. Need to remember this going forward.
Because otherwise people will ask in the comments, I'm linking.
round and round and round in the circle game Homestuck, John/Roxy, John/Terezi, fluff.
Turned out I had. Thanks, Lyrica!! I promised the fic for Saturday, cobbled together a start Friday, padded it out and polished the next day, and put that puppy up on AO3, supported by lots of handholding and beta from
othercat . This fic was not so much finished as abandoned (h/t Marianne Moore).It currently has 125 hits and 20 kudos. I have never had a ratio this good on a fic so early in its life. Stuff I have slaved over, admiring every line, has gone down into the darkness, but this little throwaway has found love. It's in a juggernaut fandom, Homestuck, but I've written Homestuck fics before.
Everybody always says that how excited you are about a piece of writing and how excited the audience is don't necessarily correlate, but I hadn't seen it in action quite so forcefully. Need to remember this going forward.
Because otherwise people will ask in the comments, I'm linking.
round and round and round in the circle game Homestuck, John/Roxy, John/Terezi, fluff.
Fic: "Ain't We Got Fun" -- Homestuck
Jun. 1st, 2015 11:02 amFor all two of my followers who read Homestuck... "Ain't We Got Fun" is a look at the lives of the four Beta Kids in New York State during the 1920s. Rose and Dave live in Manhattan, John and Jade in the small northernmost town of Massena. They correspond through the Spring of 1924.
This was for HorribleThing, who asked "Historical AU! I don't care what time period, as long as there are attempts at accuracy! Although I will admit a fondness for a focus on relationships between women when it comes to other time periods, so some extra attention to Rose/Jade would be lovely!" I had more fun than should be legal doing the research.
e: Whoops, forgot link!
Miss Rose Lalonde
The Dakota, Penthouse C
March 18th, 1924
Dearest Jade,
I trust this finds you, and John of course, in your usual frighteningly robust health. I also trust that you are exercising some care in just how you make use of that health. "Trust" is in fact putting it strongly; "pray" might be nearer the mark.
This was for HorribleThing, who asked "Historical AU! I don't care what time period, as long as there are attempts at accuracy! Although I will admit a fondness for a focus on relationships between women when it comes to other time periods, so some extra attention to Rose/Jade would be lovely!" I had more fun than should be legal doing the research.
e: Whoops, forgot link!
Homestuck: unoriginal theory and question
Feb. 20th, 2015 11:15 am( Spoilers up to current page )
Everybody who isn't reading Paradox Space should, because the current story, Summerteen Romance, is hilarious.
Everybody who isn't reading Paradox Space should, because the current story, Summerteen Romance, is hilarious.
So, last fall S. was superduper excited about the end of the Gigapause, which was a one-year gap during which Andrew Hussie wasn't updating the webcomic Homestuck. She was so excited that I finally had to look at the damn thing. It was a week before the end of the Gigapause, and I had a lot of time on my hands.
I inhaled the whole damn thing in a week, pretty much every minute I was awake. That's all 7000-ish (at the time) pages, many of them actually Flash movies or games.
Cut for Homestuck. You have been warned.
( nanopause )
I inhaled the whole damn thing in a week, pretty much every minute I was awake. That's all 7000-ish (at the time) pages, many of them actually Flash movies or games.
Cut for Homestuck. You have been warned.
( nanopause )
