Smackdown, Sci-fi Big Bang, and Real Life
Mar. 9th, 2010 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peroxidepirateOk, so fail on getting my last round of Smackdown fic archived before the current round started. I wrote 2 pieces for Alanna, and 17 each for Buri and Raoul (though some of those were OT3 fics that could have been posted for either), for a round total of about 7200 words. For now they're all in the Smackdown archives, somewhere.
Raoul and Alanna are advancing to the next round, and I really don't know where I'm going to throw my weight when it comes to it. I still love Buri best, and though she's out, I could always keep writing OT3 fics and posting them for Raoul. But if I decide to write for Alanna, my One Small Change universe gives me a nearly infinite number of ideas.
This round is Sabine v. Vania and Owen v. Dom. I'm writing for Sabine again: I have the start of an awesome idea, and I could go a lot of places with it. (For some reason, Sabine is the only competitor for whom I've written on paper first, rather than starting out typing. I've done this both rounds, now. Weird.) Right now I think I'm going to write for Owen, too, but we'll see. Real Life (more on that in a minute) might keep me from being able to come up with more than one overarching story at a time. Either way, my goal is to hit 4000 words for this round.
The unexpected thing is that, though I'm still all about the writing part of this, I'm starting to burn out on analyzing, guessing at outcomes, and planning a strategy. I sense that I'm not the only one feeling this way. It's also getting harder to guess what's going to happen, in part because we're coming up to the point where it's hard to make decisions about who to support when all the remaining competitorsexcept Dom are so awesome.
In other news, I haven't decided if I'm still doing the Firefly big bang I've been planning. I think it would be really, really good practice for me as a writer to buckle down and write 25,000+ words as one story. And being me, I think I need an outside force of some kind to make me actually do it -- a comm or a competition or something. And out of my fandoms, Firefly is the one that needs more good fic the most, in part because I still lament its cancellation so much, therefore I should write for Firefly.
But since I've immersed myself so much in Tamora Pierce fandom, lately, I'm not sure I want to walk away (or even step back) from that in order to work on something else. And a big bang is, well, big. If it's going to work, I have to be 100% sure I want to do it.
PierceFic Big Bang, anyone?
Although, I don't know that there are any Tortall or Emelan stories I want to spend 25,000 words telling. And it might do me good to write something in a differnet canon. Anyway, sign-ups go until the end of the month, so I have a little time to think about it.
Finally, Real Life. Work is settling down, insomuch as I have a management team I can actually count on (knock on wood) and everything else kind of follows from that. It's like I'm Captain Picard: I tell my kitchen supervisors, "Make it so," and they make it so. It's fantastic! If I can make it through St. Patrick's Day next week (beer & breakfast, starting at 7 a.m, which means I start work at 5:00, so I'm not even sleeping the night before) and come up with a theme for April food specials, things will be really be looking up.
But spring is coming, the dogs need exercise, the husky dictated -- via massive shedding -- that we had to do spring cleaning last weekend, and the house is a mess. In short, fandom is more fun, but Real Life needs me.
Plus, if I was really a good friend, I'd start a garden to make my roommate, BookGeekGal, happy: she LOVES gardening, but her health is getting worse, and until/unless she gets on disability, she can't always manage any commitments except work. Unfortunately, I suck at gardening. I don't give a shit about plants until they produce something you can eat, and I usually kill them long before that. Plus, my work schedule is so unpredictable and crappy, I'm not sure I can commit to something that has to happen during daylight hours. So as much as I love her, I'm not sure this garden thing is something I can do. Sigh.
This is pretty disjointed, and maybe should be broken up into like 3 separate entries, but I don't have it in me right now. It's been a long couple of days, I'm getting over a really nasty chest cold, and I'm kinda zonked now. But, you know, still optimistic, somehow.
Raoul and Alanna are advancing to the next round, and I really don't know where I'm going to throw my weight when it comes to it. I still love Buri best, and though she's out, I could always keep writing OT3 fics and posting them for Raoul. But if I decide to write for Alanna, my One Small Change universe gives me a nearly infinite number of ideas.
This round is Sabine v. Vania and Owen v. Dom. I'm writing for Sabine again: I have the start of an awesome idea, and I could go a lot of places with it. (For some reason, Sabine is the only competitor for whom I've written on paper first, rather than starting out typing. I've done this both rounds, now. Weird.) Right now I think I'm going to write for Owen, too, but we'll see. Real Life (more on that in a minute) might keep me from being able to come up with more than one overarching story at a time. Either way, my goal is to hit 4000 words for this round.
The unexpected thing is that, though I'm still all about the writing part of this, I'm starting to burn out on analyzing, guessing at outcomes, and planning a strategy. I sense that I'm not the only one feeling this way. It's also getting harder to guess what's going to happen, in part because we're coming up to the point where it's hard to make decisions about who to support when all the remaining competitors
In other news, I haven't decided if I'm still doing the Firefly big bang I've been planning. I think it would be really, really good practice for me as a writer to buckle down and write 25,000+ words as one story. And being me, I think I need an outside force of some kind to make me actually do it -- a comm or a competition or something. And out of my fandoms, Firefly is the one that needs more good fic the most, in part because I still lament its cancellation so much, therefore I should write for Firefly.
But since I've immersed myself so much in Tamora Pierce fandom, lately, I'm not sure I want to walk away (or even step back) from that in order to work on something else. And a big bang is, well, big. If it's going to work, I have to be 100% sure I want to do it.
PierceFic Big Bang, anyone?
Although, I don't know that there are any Tortall or Emelan stories I want to spend 25,000 words telling. And it might do me good to write something in a differnet canon. Anyway, sign-ups go until the end of the month, so I have a little time to think about it.
Finally, Real Life. Work is settling down, insomuch as I have a management team I can actually count on (knock on wood) and everything else kind of follows from that. It's like I'm Captain Picard: I tell my kitchen supervisors, "Make it so," and they make it so. It's fantastic! If I can make it through St. Patrick's Day next week (beer & breakfast, starting at 7 a.m, which means I start work at 5:00, so I'm not even sleeping the night before) and come up with a theme for April food specials, things will be really be looking up.
But spring is coming, the dogs need exercise, the husky dictated -- via massive shedding -- that we had to do spring cleaning last weekend, and the house is a mess. In short, fandom is more fun, but Real Life needs me.
Plus, if I was really a good friend, I'd start a garden to make my roommate, BookGeekGal, happy: she LOVES gardening, but her health is getting worse, and until/unless she gets on disability, she can't always manage any commitments except work. Unfortunately, I suck at gardening. I don't give a shit about plants until they produce something you can eat, and I usually kill them long before that. Plus, my work schedule is so unpredictable and crappy, I'm not sure I can commit to something that has to happen during daylight hours. So as much as I love her, I'm not sure this garden thing is something I can do. Sigh.
This is pretty disjointed, and maybe should be broken up into like 3 separate entries, but I don't have it in me right now. It's been a long couple of days, I'm getting over a really nasty chest cold, and I'm kinda zonked now. But, you know, still optimistic, somehow.