My fic in 2021

[luzula]

Whew, what a flood of posting there is around New Year's; I'm not quite caught up. Anyway, here's what I wrote in 2021:

Flight of the Heron:
In His Father's Footsteps: Keith family backstory, 2,000 words
The Greater Happiness: Keith/Ewen, Ewen/Alison, Alison/OFC, 142,000 words
Divided Loyalties: Keith/Ewen, 50,000 words

Other fic:
Some Omitted Scenes from the Adventures and Amours of Alithea de Richelieu and Arabella de Montferan, Set Down by the Former for the Pleaſure of the Latter: The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu - Anonymous, Arabella/Alithea, 1,000 words
No Longer Sole Representative: The Left Hand of Darkness, Genly and ensemble gen, 4,000 words
A Woman of Anarres: The Dispossessed, OFC gen, 700 words

That's only six stories, but one of them is 142K, and another is 50K! So I'm pretty happy with my wordcount. : ) My favorite story among these is The Greater Happiness; it was a joy to write such a long and slowburn poly fic. ♥ And in general I've been in my Flight of the Heron happy place all year.

My two Le Guin Yuletide stories are okay, but not my best work. I do think many people would enjoy my short 18th century f/f if they tried it! I'm happy with the 18th century pastiche, and there's humor in it, too. All you need to know is that it's a canon where both women are disguised as men and traveling around Europe together.

I would also like to thank all my beta readers this year: garonne, regshoe, karanguni, chestnut_pod, and skymandr. Especially garonne, whose feedback has really kept me going. ♥

Comments

[regshoe]

That is a very impressive wordcount indeed!—and I'm very glad you're still writing so much great stuff for Flight of the Heron :)

I also recommend the 18th century f/f Mademoiselle de Richelieu fic—it's great, everyone, you should read it!

[chestnut_pod]

It's been a delight to see all the wonderful things you worked on over the course of the year!

[killclaudio]

That is an amazing wordcount, congratulations! Also, I've finally finished FotH, so I'm now clear to read fic without worrying about spoilers. \o/ I still have so much Yuletide fic I haven't read yet...

Yes!

[eileenlufkin]

I also recommend the fic.

[luzula]

Well, 500 words a day does add up! But yes, I am also still astonished at the total wordcount, and I'm glad I am not running out of ideas any time yet.

And thanks! : )

[luzula]

Awww, thanks! And I did put your Silmarillion fic on my ereader back when it came out, hopefully I can get in the right headspace to read in that fandom at some point. : )

[luzula]

Thanks! It's more than twice the wordcount of my most prolific years in due South fandom, I don't know how that happened.

Have fun reading all the fic! : D And yeah, I know that feeling about there being so much in Yuletide...my strategy is to go through and read all the <5K stuff that I'm interested in, and then put everything longer than that on my ereader.

Re: Yes!

[luzula]

Aww, thank you! : D

[jesse_the_k]

Your commitment to writing is so impressive, and in a hell-year to boot.

[luzula]

I think it's precisely because of the pandemic that I was so productive! There were other things I couldn't do...

How are you doing, by the way?

[jesse_the_k]

Huzzah for the wisdom to channel misery into action.

I'm .... noodling along, and looking forward to Spring.

[luzula]

When life gives you a pandemic, make...novels?

I'm .... noodling along, and looking forward to Spring.

"To noodle" has a surprising amount of different meanings in the OED! I shall think of you as searching for opals, or perhaps catching fish or turtles with your bare hands, or improvising jazz. : )

Ahh the infinite wonders of the OED

[jesse_the_k]

...but does it offer probability data?

And how do you access it? (I'm hoping some Socialist policy makes all the reference works available to all who live there. Am I dreaming?)

I have staff-level library privileges thanks to MyGuy retiring from our local university.

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Catching-fish-with-your-hands noodling is restricted to Southern East Coast. The inimitable linguist Arnold Zwicky ponders its origins. In addition to his linguistic interests, Zwicky analyzes gay porn.

Musicians experimenting without structure is more widely understood.

OPALS is new to me, and relevant to my interests as a jewelry crafter.

Re: Ahh the infinite wonders of the OED

[luzula]

Hee. I did think it was probable that your noodling was a little more low-energy and less specific!

I get access to the OED through borrowing a kind English friend's public library card number.