Current writing

[luzula]

It's always nice when someone goes on a reading spree and leaves kudos on a long string of your old stories, which happened to me today. \o/

Anyway! I have finished the werewolf story and my assignment for candyheartsex. I might write some treats for the latter, but aside from that it's time for a new longfic project. Last year I made a poll for that, and I see that now I have written one of the stories on that poll (the werewolf one, which ended up at 35K), but besides that I also had new ideas and wrote three other stories in the 10K range and various shorter ones.

So what next? Some of the stories in that poll still don't have a settled plot (the Flemington crossover), or would require more research I still haven't done (the fairy tale one and the transportation one), or is too similar in tone to something I've written recently (the transportation one), or there's a snag in the plot/relationships I have yet to solve (the sedoretu one). So the Temeraire fusion it is! It ought to be fun and easy, and indeed it is proving to be so (I have 1K of it so far). I'm not even sure it will be that long--it might just end up at 10K or so, just clothing the beginning of the book in new worldbuilding. If I don't end up re-plotting the war with dragons, that is...but I don't think I will.

Meanwhile I also have various short ideas, which might end up as treats in exchanges or just as something to take a break with.

Comments

[ashelterofpages]

I need to go dig though candyheartsex and see if I feel like doing a few treats. I've not been signing up for any exchanges for a while now, but treats are always fun to do.

I'm also just always impressed with people who are good at getting longfic out. I am so much of an underwriter/short form creature it's a little ridiculously Go you for getting all the words though!

[luzula]

Yes, treats are nice! One is getting the fun of writing for an exchange without the pressure. I hope you find something that inspires you. : )

I was a short form writer for the longest time--it's just in the last couple of years that I've started writing novel-length.

[chestnut_pod]

Téméraire fusion ahoy! \o/

Have fun and good luck!

ETA: huh, it added the accents itself.

[luzula]

How strange, it didn't do that for me! And thank you. : )

[sanguinity]

It is lovely when someone goes on a kudos spree. I'm always left with the feeling that someone had a nice time yesterday, and I helped with that. :-)

Woo-hoo, Temeraire!

What is the transportation story? Oh! Is it someone being sentenced to transportation?

[luzula]

It's pretty cool that things I wrote 15 years ago are still being discovered by new people!

Is it someone being sentenced to transportation?
Yep, it's Ewen! And then Keith, posted overseas, comes across him (obviously)...

[sanguinity]

Very cool!

That makes much more sense than my initial thoughts: some incredibly nerdy thing about the comparative virtues of carriages versus ships versus riding... I wasn't at all sure how you'd make a story out of that, but I was nevertheless confident that whatever you had in mind, it'd be worth reading!

[luzula]

Ha ha, I'm flattered by your confidence! Er, I should have made the story idea more clear...

[sanguinity]

Nah, it was clear enough in context once I got myself sorted out. I was just looking at it with work-brain instead of 18th-century brain, and needed to readjust. :-)

[regshoe]

Ah, I read Temeraire at just the right time :D

This sounds like a good, fun mix of things to write—I hope it all goes well!

[luzula]

You did! : )

Yes, it's nice to have a less-ambitious project for a change.