About fic

[paranoidangel]

I've been meaning to write (most of) this post since November.

After not having written for ages I signed up for both TARDIS Festivities and Star Trek Holidays wondering if that was a good idea. At least the former has a short wordcount and the latter has a long time to write.

And then someone defaulted on TARDIS Festivities and the prompts were ones that I really hoped someone would write. And I quite fancied that someone to be me. Except that I wasn't sure if I could write and wanted to get at least the first draft done for my assignment before picking up a pinch hit. Or in other words, I made my life stressful unnecessarily. I did end up doing both and it was fine.

And then someone defaulted close to the deadline and it turned out that two people wanted to write something before they picked it up. In the meantime I thought I couldn't write it. But then watched some clips, followed by some episodes and realised I could.

That's the thing I like about the ficathon. Because I'm running it and can see everything I'll just happily fill in a hole, which means sometimes writing things I don't normally (or haven't ever). And I end up enjoying it. And then continue to play things safe in other ficathons.

After the stress I wasn't at all sure I wanted to run it again this year. But then someone thanked me for running it and suddenly it all felt worth it. Unless something changes, I shouldn't be looking for a new job or doing any morris admin this autumn, so I ought to have time to run it again.

I also quite fancy the idea of reviving DW Remix. I miss the Remix ficathon and I want to read and write some remixes. If I did it it would be relatively soon so it's done before I get busy in May/June and before it gets hot (if it's too hot to do anything I don't want to have to do anything). But it wouldn't be a gift exchange. That way people who are happy to be remixed, but don't have time/inclination/whatever to write one can take part. As can people who don't want to/haven't written enough can just write a remix. And there's far less organisation required, which is a win all round.

I did end up writing my Star Trek Holidays fic after TARDIS Festivities was over. By then things had quietened down and I'd got my post-Covid jab/cold/Norovirus being ill out of the way. And managed to write a Yuletide treat too. I'm just not interested in enough small fandoms to sign up for Yuletide - as evidenced by me reading everything I was interested in in the collection in an evening.

Mirrored from my blog.

Comments

[liadt]

Yay for fic success!

A good comment can make all the difference I find:)

Taking the pressure off remix sounds good. I don't do exchanges as I find them too stressful and because my Muse is dead;p

[paranoidangel]

I like exchanges for the deadlines, but sometimes writing for someone else is hard. I really like the UC type ones where you get that deadline but write whatever you want.

[thisbluespirit]

I'm being rubbish at exchanges lately and would be unlikely to take part myself, but I am sad at the lack of Remixes too. I hope it works out!

Well done on running/taking part in all those despite all the busyness and stress. <3

[paranoidangel]

Thank you.