Dizziness May Occur

A Lonely fic

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 02:31:53 GMT

Sometimes a story resonates with people and you get a lot of readers/feedback. Sometimes all you get are a few clicks and silence...

Back in 2011 for NaNoWriMo I wrote a story called "The Dragon Hunter's Daughter"

I'm fairly proud of that story. It's my first completed NaNoWriMo entry (I've finished something every year since, but it was the first.)

It's really a stand-alone story, unlike the Mega Crossover space opera I've been writing since then every year. I'd like, some day, to turn it into a real story, something people might pay for, though I suspect it might never happen at this point.

I've since repurposed parts of it into something one of the characters in my Glee/BtVS crossover series tells (not my space opera). Not sure I'll ever finish that version. It is more work than I expected to extract just parts of a story as a story within a story.

But with this whole COVID-19 thing going on, and feeling extremely pessimistic (because while I'm not OLD, I am in more than one of the high risk groups. Not sure I'll survive a bout of COVID-19.) I decided to start posting the original story to AO3. It's ostensibly a Glee fan fic with Brittany introducing the different chapters in sort of a 'campfire tale' format.

Given that it was written over 8 years ago, and needs some minor tweaking, I think it is turning out fairly well.

But, it doesn't seem to be attracting an audience (except on Twisting the Hellmouth where I am also posting it). A couple clicks on AO3, and dead silence.

Sure, most of my stories as posted on AO3 don't get much attention (probably because I don't write anything explicit (no Slash, and only femslash in a roundabout subtextual kind of way, if at all) or in one of the mega-popular fandoms. But it's slightly disappointing that this one story is being ignored. (Maybe because I have it flagged as requiring an AO3 login to read? Was feeling a trifle protective of this one story.)

We'll see how it goes when I've finished posting it - Saturday hopefully..

Curious? You can find it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23123167

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Fic Update

Sun, 01 Sep 2019 23:45:35 GMT

My main fic writing effort has been a long running series of stories for NaNoWriMo that I started in 2012 and started posting to AO3 in August 2013 - A Glee centric Space Opera - The Yucatan Job- written in 50K increments every November, and polished and posted the following year. Right now I'm finishing posting the 6th full story in the series (written in 2016) and this November I'll possibly write the 8th and final( maybe) story then post the story I wrote in 2018.

In the mean-time I've been working on some shorter things just for fun. Mostly not posted anywhere as of yet.

But I've been reading a lot of Harry Potter stories over the past six months and was inspired to start a new story.

Not thrilled with the title so that may change but here it is:

The Curse of the Protector

Basically, it's a "Female Harry Potter, raised by a Death Eater" story. Kind of. Sort of. There may be soul mate shenanigans eventually, and if I can get it to work some Bellamione (though I'm doubtful I can), and a crossover - of course. See the story tags for more.

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LJ Twisted Shorts Fic-A-Day - Complete for another year

Sun, 01 Sep 2019 23:10:18 GMT

For those who still wander over to Live Journal (for whatever reason - Stockholm Syndrome, nostalgia, etc), the annual "Twisted Shorts Fic-A-Day" is now complete, with over 200 short fics posted there during the month by 10 different authors (some regular participants, and a few newbees)

Here's the announcement link over in the Twisting the Hellmouth forums (and a link to LJ):

2019 August Fic-A-Day Challenge

Which also includes some discussion of the future of the challenge - stay on LJ? Move elsewhere? There is a Twisted Shorts community here on Dreamwidth but the challenge managers aren't using it yet.

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New Fic - Roman Holiday

Sun, 16 Jul 2017 02:33:14 GMT

And we have a new story posted at AO3 and elsewhere

Roman Holiday - a sequel to my previous Joyce Summers/Sam Carter crossover. This time it's Buffy/Stargate/Josie and the Pussycats. Part of a series.

Chapter 1 Posted for the 10th Annual International Day of Femslash (Not sure that is happening this year but I posted a story for it anyway.)

Future chapters posted as they are written. The previous story in this series took me a year to post the whole thing. Hopefully this will go a lot faster.

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Glee Fic Side Story Updated

Sat, 08 Jul 2017 21:37:30 GMT

Updated my Glee Space Opera The Yucatan Job (Well, the SG1/DwP road trip side story "A Journalist Abroad" ) - The goal is to have it all posted before NaNoWroMo 2017. Might be able to get it done.

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WHT: International Day of Femslash?

Tue, 20 Jun 2017 11:38:49 GMT

This year should be the 10th Annual International Day of Femslash - on July 16th (Or maybe the following week/Saturday)

But I haven't seen any notices on any of the usual sites and the main "co-ordinating" site for it hasn't been updated for this year. Or last year really ( last year they hosted a con but no actual mentions of the International Day of Femslash itself.)

So, what happened? Has it moved to some private, invite only location? Been sucked into the Facebook Hive Mind?

Inquiring minds want to know.

(And yes, I'm working on a story (idea only so far) to post. Something in one of my on-going Buffy crossover series. Probably. )

I'll probably do like I did last year. Post a story on assorted fan fiction sites and tag it as such.

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Fic Update

Fri, 28 Apr 2017 02:50:41 GMT

Posted another chapter in my ongoing Glee Space opera, in which our band of intrepid travelers find they've taken the wrong exit, finding themselves even further from home.

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Moved over

Sat, 15 Apr 2017 16:07:57 GMT

I've moved everything here (as of this post) over from LiveJournal (and will be deleting the original there shortly.).

So, what's now here? Fan fiction, mostly. Or links to my fan fiction posted elsewhere. Or both. I mainly write Buffy crossover fan fiction, when I write, and that is posted over at AO3, Twisting the Hellmouth, and ff.net. What you'll find here are the non-Buffy stories, mainly several Glee fics i wrote as an experiment (one unfinished).

Most of my stories include non-canon f/f pairings (though, whether they count as femslash, since I don't write sex scenes, is debatable.)

I also do NaNoWriMo every November. For the past few years it's been used to write rough drafts of my Glee space opera series "The Yucatan Job"

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