Fannish Friday

[phantomtomato]

Happy Friday!

Writing this week went well. Partly, I must be conscious in telling myself that—the longer I have this hobby, the more I come to recognize the continual adjustment of expectations inherent in it. This week I wrote around two thousand words of fic, and in my journal, a few thousand more words of planning notes for various fics. This is not what my writing used to look like. It used to be more straightforwardly words on the page, which would all eventually get published ±revisions.

But I have tentatively finished the Tibby/Cecil fic. I’ve only just written the ending, and I need to reread and edit that, and also reread and edit the whole thing. Writing for Good Literature has that effect on me. I mean, I’d reread anything before posting at least once, to catch typos at a minimum, but I put more pressure on myself to pick through my phrasing and themes when the original novel was thoughtful in that way. Perhaps I need to write some PWP to loosen back up a bit!

I put in my RMSE slate, though I need to write prompts for the new fandoms and consider whether to add one or two more requests. This is a tagset where I could easily max out both my offer and request slots! Truly amazing selection of ships, and I’m not even the nominator for all of them. :D I can tell I will have a fun time revisiting the signups page over the coming week.

Comments

[regshoe]

Yay for writing, and for a finished draft of the Tibby/Cecil fic :D

It sounds like you've gone somewhat the opposite way to me in writing process—I used to write very extensive planning notes and outlines and now do much less.

Good Literature can definitely be intimidating, feeling like you have to sort of live up to the greatness of the original—I tend to feel that more at the stage of planning the story and starting to write, I think, but I know what you mean about careful editing too.

*goes curiously to look at what people are requesting for RMSE*

[phantomtomato]

Yeah, my writing process is coming down to time—I can spend 15 minutes of downtime during my workday journaling about my writing ideas, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable actually writing fic in that context. It was quarantine times when I started writing fanfic, and then I had a sabbatical after that, and the past two years of normal work commitments have forced me to realize just how much time/effort I was putting into fic writing! Now that I can’t do it, the balance has shifted to lower-effort planning and journaling.

Fic for Good Literature doesn’t have to be any quality in particular, but understanding things intellectually versus emotionally are separate skills!

Enjoy the RMSE requests! 💖

[vriddy]

the longer I have this hobby, the more I come to recognize the continual adjustment of expectations inherent in it.

This is very much a relatable comment. And a constant process, I suppose! Glad to hear the writing week was good, and good luck with the RMSE sign-up :)