Obligatory New Year's post

[ivyfic]

Happy New Year, y'all! Instead of doing a real meme, I'm making up my own.

Year in Review
New fandoms in 2006 (in chronological order by date of addiction)
Hard Core Logo
Horatio Hornblower
King Arthur (movie)
I can't put SGA on this list, but 2006 saw the viewing of far too many movies and TV shows starring David Hewlett or Joe Flanigan, so I'm including SGA 6 degrees fandom
Sentinel
Highlander (OK, yes, I saw it before, but didn't read the fic till last year)
Supernatural

New things in fannish life in 2006
-First time attending a fan-run slash con (yay con.txt!). It was a blast and I met many cool people -- thanks to sydni_64 for making me go!
-First story over 10,000 words (Third Day, Constantine)
-First utter failure to do a challenge I promised to do (well, everything can't be positive)... sorry mensa_au
-And, well, maybe this isn't a first, but I hung out in person with many new people in fandom, leading to much loud squealing about inappropriate topics in public places

Fannish resolutions for 2007
1) Finish the G&%D*@$ King Arthur AU. For those of you still out there hoping that someday there'll be an update to that story I posted in May -- yes, I'm still working on it. It is not going well, as my writing group will attest. But someday it will be done! And posted! I promise! I have the plot all planned out but argh. A few weeks ago I realized that I've been working on this story for as long as trakkie has known me. Which is...pathetic. And leads me to...
2) I will not post WIPs. No more. From now on, stories will be complete and spit-polished before showing up on lj. Posting in parts leads to madness.
3) I will not graft a novel-length plot onto a cracked out plot bunny. Seriously, next time I launch on a sixty-page story with an idea that should only be ten pages, somebody kick me.

And that's all the navel-gazing I can handle at a time.

Comments

[sasha-b.livejournal.com]

I have not forgotten about your Hellblazer fic. I will read it, I promise.

And I shall look forward to the rest of the KA fic - *bats eyelashes*

Have a good new year, hon!

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

No worries. Bat your eyelashes all you want. Maybe if you do, Arthur will stop being insufferable and let me finish the damn story. I don't know what it is with that man, his logic makes no sense.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

It is not going well, as my writing group will attest.
It's not that bad. Honest. Well, ok, it's not deathless prose, but for a deliberately angsty fanfic, it's going just fine. And believe me, you're not the only one repeatedly rewriting scenes. I've got one story I'd really meant to bring in right after the wedding, only it just keeps sucking...

Seriously, next time I launch on a sixty-page story with an idea that should only be ten pages, somebody kick me.
I've tried. Honey, it doesn't take. Remember the part with me telling you over and over and over that you weren't allowed to start that Supernatural story, and then the part where you started the damn thing anyway?

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Remember the part with me telling you over and over and over that you weren't allowed to start that Supernatural story, and then the part where you started the damn thing anyway?

But that doesn't count! Cause I'm really only writing part I. Really. And it's sort of, um, already over ten pages long.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Sigh.