Fic and I

[lettered]

I wrote an HP story for reversathon, a cya fest which is now posting. That will probably be the last HP story I write for quite some time. I always felt that with Harry/Draco I kept wanting to say something, and somehow I didn't quite know what it was I wanted to say, or how I wanted to say it. I laid that feeling to rest with The Pure and Simple Truth, which is by far my favorite HP story I've written.

I have three novel/novella H/D stories that I'd still like to write some day, partly just because they're stories I'd really like to read. However, I have absolutely no inspiration to write them and can't see myself writing them any time soon. I had to drop out of Glompfest because I couldn't get it together, and I would have dropped out of Reversathon, except that exchange was so very specific it seemed way more douchey to drop out of than Glompfest.

I also had a really excellent idea for career fest, but it didn't match any of the prompts. (Which rather surprised me, because it's a very general idea; I guess the prompts were very specific!) I have to say I was tempted by hd_holidays, mostly because that fest seems to be a guarantee that people will read you. I mean. Which I guess is a douchey, self-involved reason to want to do it, but I've had better responses in that fest than I've ever really gotten for any other stories I've done.

Anywhoodle, I'm trying to restrict myself to writing exactly two things: my Avengers series, Responsible Science, and an original thing I started in 2009 that I still think would make a good novel. In some respects, this makes me sort of sad, because I also have lots and lots of ideas for longish, rather meta (since my porn just tends to be that way) very porny stories that are Tony/Pepper, Tony/Bruce, Bruce/Steve, Bruce/Natasha, Bruce/Tony/Steve (god, it's just so obvious where my interests lie) and Steve/everyone, but I'm going to make myself not write them and see how that goes.

The part I'm excited about is that for the Avengers series, I have ideas for like, another 10 stories, and basic plot outlines for the next four. I'm writing the current one, and I really can't tell how long it will be. I honestly hoped for 30,000, but I'm really afraid it's going to do something awful like push 90,000, and I'm terrified of getting bored of it or it feeling like work when I already like it so much. Especially since the next three stories after that are really exciting and I really want to write them.

So anyway, if you were following this journal for H/D or HP then you'll probably be outta luck for a while, and I'm totally alright with defriending. If you were following it hoping for a The Dark Knight Rises review, which, let's face it, none of you were, here it is: Abed's two minute monologue in that Halloween ep of Community was 20 times better.

Comments

[synecdochic]

i would read you writing bruce for forever and ever, or at least however long you want :)

[stultiloquentia]

an original thing I started in 2009

Persephone?

[lettered]

Awww thanks! Right now it feels like I'll be writing it forever. I assume it'll pass. ;o)

[lettered]

yup. Good memory, you. I still think it's a really good idea, and occasionally I go back to it. I wish I could just suck it up and do it.

[stultiloquentia]

It's an awesome idea. I was really excited about it when you first described it to me. That was during one of my bouts of music obsession, so I even made a Persephone-themed playlist.