Status report
May. 9th, 2014 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainwatersparkI've been writing a truly obscene amount of fanfiction. Most of it doesn't really go anywhere, though it's just for fun anyways, but occasionally I get something that I tinker over for weeks. My sister has promised to (FINALLY) beta-read everything tomorrow on her flight home, so hopefully I'll get to post a lot of my stuff online soon!
Remember that monster of a fanfic I talked about recently? It's now 19,000 words / 57 pages and counting. Slowly but surely, I'm getting to a place where I might be (gasp) satisfied with it; I just have a few scenes to rewrite and some stuff to add in the middle. Also, it went through probably its sixth title change today, and I'm pretty confident this is the one I'll stick with. The only problem is it sorely needs beta-reading, but it might be outside the comfort zone of my trusted beta reader...
I also ended up writing a second-person (second-person? WTF???) character study, which got up to about...8000 words, I think? I just kept adding and adding to it. It mostly grew out of my frustration with some current Bucky fanfic trends.
Speaking of fanfic frustrations, I'm going to talk about one of my recent pet peeves under a cut:
There's a post-CATWS Steve/Bucky fanfic in which the Avengers try to dissuade Steve from going after Bucky...until they learn that Steve and Bucky were lovers, at which point they fully supported him.
And I was like, "Huh?"
It just felt...I dunno...demeaning of the idea of friendship? Like, I literally tried to explain my impressions of the fic to my sister as the Avengers going "But Steve, Bucky's ONLY your best friend, why would you risk so much to go after him?"
And to be clear, I'm not against the Steve/Bucky pairing. I quite literally ship Steve/Bucky every way you can imagine (OTP, Brotp, platonic, asexual romantic OTP). I just don't like throwing friendship/nonsexual relationships under the bus.
Back to what I was saying.
I dunno, sometimes I'll just be sitting around and then WHAM, a killer first line hits me from nowhere, and then once I've written that first line down I go charging off to write the rest. Strangely, if I can't think of a good first line, I can't really write a fic, no matter how great the idea is.
So yeah, that's that.
Remember that monster of a fanfic I talked about recently? It's now 19,000 words / 57 pages and counting. Slowly but surely, I'm getting to a place where I might be (gasp) satisfied with it; I just have a few scenes to rewrite and some stuff to add in the middle. Also, it went through probably its sixth title change today, and I'm pretty confident this is the one I'll stick with. The only problem is it sorely needs beta-reading, but it might be outside the comfort zone of my trusted beta reader...
I also ended up writing a second-person (second-person? WTF???) character study, which got up to about...8000 words, I think? I just kept adding and adding to it. It mostly grew out of my frustration with some current Bucky fanfic trends.
Speaking of fanfic frustrations, I'm going to talk about one of my recent pet peeves under a cut:
There's a post-CATWS Steve/Bucky fanfic in which the Avengers try to dissuade Steve from going after Bucky...until they learn that Steve and Bucky were lovers, at which point they fully supported him.
And I was like, "Huh?"
It just felt...I dunno...demeaning of the idea of friendship? Like, I literally tried to explain my impressions of the fic to my sister as the Avengers going "But Steve, Bucky's ONLY your best friend, why would you risk so much to go after him?"
And to be clear, I'm not against the Steve/Bucky pairing. I quite literally ship Steve/Bucky every way you can imagine (OTP, Brotp, platonic, asexual romantic OTP). I just don't like throwing friendship/nonsexual relationships under the bus.
Back to what I was saying.
I dunno, sometimes I'll just be sitting around and then WHAM, a killer first line hits me from nowhere, and then once I've written that first line down I go charging off to write the rest. Strangely, if I can't think of a good first line, I can't really write a fic, no matter how great the idea is.
So yeah, that's that.
