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Site Update

  • Posted on September 10, 2010 at 10:48 pm

I added two Van Helsing slash stories to my website, one that was posted to LJ in May and one that was posted just a few days ago. The first is adults only, the second is pretty tame. The stories are:

Sins of the Father–This Carl/Van Helsing slash fiction story is about 26,000 words, so it’s not a super-quick read. It was written based on a plot request by Pati, a good friend of mine. I started it a few years ago (seriously) and kept putting it aside because parts weren’t easy to write. I finished it over a year ago, and then set it aside again only to add almost another 10,000 words on before calling it finished.

Of Eyestalks, Stalking and Animal Anatomy–This one had been on my computer for several months, as it was supposed to be a belated birthday story for a friend, and ended up being sort of an early birthday story this year. It’s a sequel to a sequel. You should read The Semantics of Contracts by my friend, and my sequel to that called Semantics and Angry Poultry, before you attempt to read this story, or it won’t make any sense. This is a bit silly, and fun to write.

Marvel Crossing’s supposed to finally go live by the end of this week, which is technically now. I can’t wait to read my story! *bites nails*

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Marvel Crossing Fiction Exchange & the HappyFest!

  • Posted on August 16, 2010 at 1:07 am

I just sent my story for the Marvel Crossing fiction exchange at LiveJournal. The point, as you can probably guess, was to write a crossover between two Marvel comic book movies, or one Marvel and another non-Marvel comic book movie, if that’s what your recipient requested and you agreed to write, of course.

I love my assignment choices and actually almost ended up writing two of them, but I didn’t have time. The one I did came in at just under 5,000 words–these things only ever have to be 1,000 words, but I often feel like, given more time, I’d end up with a novella–and there still wasn’t time to put everything I wanted in.

It was big fun to write, and a great excuse to revisit the source material, one of which I’d only actually seen one time. I think the reveal is the 21st, but the mod said that she was going to post stories whenever everyone had one in the queue, so they could potentially come earlier, I guess. I can’t wait to read the story that’s been written for me!

I’m also looking forward to seeing the prompts in this year’s HappyFest. This should start tomorrow or sometime this week, as the prompt session is over. You choose a prompt and write comment-length fiction that’s actually happy. I wrote two last year and it was a fun change of pace. I wrote this Bill/Sookie fanfic based on the prompt “pie,” (especially fun and interesting since I’m not a Bill/Sookie girl–go Team ERIC) and the story Instinct based on the prompt Spock/McCoy snark. I didn’t submit any writing prompts for the HappyFest, but I hope there are at last a couple that spark an idea.

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X-Men Movieverse Ficathon

  • Posted on December 3, 2009 at 2:28 pm

Well, the Xmmficathon is over, and it was fun. I have to admit to being a little disappointed that my assigned recipient still hasn’t had anything to say after 5 days, but she hasn’t posted a story yet either and there are about 3 outstanding. So I’m hopeful to hear from her eventually.

The story is an Erik/Charles slash story without anything explicit, really, and because I love them both separately and together, I was thrilled to write it. The story is Stalemate, and I had such a great time writing I think I’ll probably write them some more.

I wrote a Logan and Scott story that’s slash if you squint sideways really, really hard. But it didn’t seem called for to do more than barely hint. It was a pinch hit that I had less than a week to do. I ended up pretty happy with this experience, too. The story is Letting Go. It’s actually set in X3, which was one of my “won’t write” conditions in the ficathon. But since the request asked for a fix of something I hated (well, ONE thing I hated) about X3, it worked out all right for me.

I also helped with a story by contributing a beginning, end and some inner stuff with Charles/Erik and Erik interacting with Mystique. I enjoyed writing those parts, and find I think I’d like to write more Mystique. The story is here.

And the story that was written for me, oh! It’s by ion_bond, who is actually the person responsible for me starting to read Charles/Erik fic in the first place.

It’s a nice fix-it fic from X3. I hated that Magneto turned his back on Mystique in that film, and in fact that was the first sign that it was going to be wrong, wrong, wrong. He wouldn’t have done that, I don’t believe.

It’s wonderful in so many ways far beyond just fixing that injustice. Did you really think that just because Mystique was depowered, she’d become a wallflower? I don’t think so. Yet the only other thing she did in the movie was roll over on Erik. Again, I don’t think so. It has an AU ending to the movie, in which the characters act like . . .themselves! Imagine that. Read this story to see how it should have happened.

Fighting Fair

So that one’s in the can now. Very much fun!  Onward to Yuletide.

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Yuletide Treasure Project 2009

  • Posted on November 11, 2009 at 2:18 pm

Tomorrow at 8pm my time is the cut-off to sign up for this year’s Yuletide Treasure project, the holiday exchange for obscure and underwritten fandom fiction.

I so enjoyed it last year. I’ve been looking forward to it all year. I thought about skipping it because I may end up really pressed for time right before Christmas, but I’d be too disappointed if I skipped it and then had time.

The hardest part is trying to figure out exactly what to request. I got a wonderful Lawrence of Arabia story last year (and a treat, a 300 story, too!). I think I may request Lawrence again, because there’s not nearly enough written in it. 300 is gone this year–I missed the nominations somehow, and it maybe have been disqualified for not being obscure enough, anyway. Stranger things have happened.

All I know is that between now and 8pm tomorrow night–and it’s not wise to wait until the last minute in case the database keeps breaking down–I need to sign up if I’m going to do it. I actually started making a list of fandoms I could write something in, and got tired after this many:

Allo Allo
Are You Being Served?
American Gothic
Appaloosa
Arrested Development
Constantine
John Dies at the End
Seachange
Someone Like You
District 9
Dexter
Galaxy Quest
Equilibrium
Forever Knight
Futurama
Ghost Town
Glee
Modern Famiy
Zombieland
Hot FUzz
Shawn of the Dead
The Road to El Dorado
Doctor Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog
True Blood
In Treatment
Tropic Thunder
King of the Hill
Kolchak
Life on Mars US
Blades of Glory
Public Enemies
Bolt (which I just saw last night)

There are more, but I got tired of looking at the list.  I could offer them all (I just checked my email–I offered 17 last year) but I’d rather choose a handful that I’d be most excited about if I got it as my yuletide assignment. If I see a request in one of the others that really inspires, there are always treats or NYR stories. I love the challenge of writing something I’ve not done before.

The problem I have is that while I’m thinking about the characters I’d be willing to write, I end up with bunnies and scenarios, and then I just want to write the story. And when I think about the stories I’d like to get, I end up thinking about them and wanting to just go ahead and write them.

Now to figure out 3 requests! I think I’ll use at least 2 of my requests from last year. The other 2 fandoms aren’t on the list this year so I have to come up a one new one. So exciting!

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Why I Write Fan Fiction

  • Posted on September 11, 2009 at 7:03 am

The simple answer is because it’s fun. But it’s more complicated than that. I write about the characters who seemed to me to need to live beyond whatever media they first inhabited.

I started out writing Star Trek fan fiction when I was around 9, I guess. I wish I still had those furiously penned things so I could laugh and reminisce. I only remember that they focused on my favorites: Spock, Kirk and McCoy. And boy oh boy were they dramatic. I was the Queen of Dramatic Openings and Dire Circumstances for All if Kirk could Not Once Again Pull the SUPER Dramatic Solution out of His Ass.

I remember one that I particularly liked involved Kirk and Spock on the bridge. The turbolift whooshed open (and I’m pretty sure I used the word whooshed), Doctor McCoy stepped out and opened his mouth to no doubt make a smart-ass remark about something, when he immediately collapsed in agonizing pain. He was going to die, and everyone knew it. They didn’t know why, because of course I had no clue. But they had to save him and time was running out–Dundundun DUUUUNNNNNNN.

I wrote those stories because I’d watched every episode of Star Trek long before reaching that age (apparently Dad indoctrinated me very early by holding me on his lap while he watched them semi-obsessively) and it just wasn’t enough. Those characters were too big for that short-lived series. I wanted them to live again. Then the Star Trek novels appeared under the Timescape label, and I clutched The Entropy Effect from the small grocery store next door to my not-yet-developed chest and thought, OH MY GOD YAY OTHER PEOPLE ARE DOING THIS, TOO.

Well, modern’ net lingo has crept in. This was almost 30 years ago–I probably actually thought something like GEE WHILLICKERS OTHER PEOPLE ARE DOING THIS, DANG THAT’S SUPER SWELL!

Once I got online in the late 1990s, while still a die-hard Star Trek fan, I was at the time quite taken with a show called Forever Knight. The Internet not only introduced me to Star Trek fanfic of every stripe, but a pretty active FK community of writers and readers and general appreciation of the actors and the show. I again thought excited thoughts in capital letters and devoured what I found, and soon began writing fan fiction again. I paused now and then, but have written fairly steadily since then, mostly in Forever Knight, and then about 6 years later I discovered Van Helsing and found Carl and Gabriel didn’t really fit into a small little movie. Just Carl’s weapons alone needed more room than that.

I’ve only dabbled in a few other fandoms, but when an idea strikes or a character seems like he wants to break free, at least in my head, I let him go.  He might not do or say things that everybody likes, and in fact might be playing for an audience of one, but since the whole reason I write fan fiction is to get the characters to act out the stories I think they belong in, that’s all right with me.

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