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2006 - My Year In Fic
A little late, I know, but...
I began 2006 by posting the final chapter of my long-running Sentinel WIP Wild Justice. Now that was a real acheivement for me! Wild Justice was my first ever Sentinel fic (the first I started, anyway) and it was an intensely personal story for me. It took soooooo long to finish but I'm really happy with the way the story turned out in the end.
In February I began posting Bacchanalia. This was a fun one to write - a Sentinel AU in which Blair is a high class hooker helping Jim track down a mob boss. The story was inspired by my secret santa prompt and was really just an excuse to write Blair in skintight black rubber! (Yummy!) But I managed to squeeze a plot in there, too.
In March I finished Bacchanalia and resumed posting the second story in my Sentinel Predator series Perspectives which I finished in April. I started posting Protector the third and final story in the series, at the end of May. That trilogy took so much out of me it's weird to think about it now. But it turned out really well. I know not everyone likes my version of Jim in that trilogy, but hey, I'm happy with it. And I've got no need to go that dark again!
Also in May I discovered Supernatural and boy oh boy did I get sucked in! In a way I regretted watching it at first, because I wasn't prepared to fall head-over-heels in love the way I did and it really screwed with my ability to write in other fandoms...these being with Protector still unfinished. But I haven't felt this kind of fannish love since Hercules. And I'm quite sure that, like HTLJ, SPN is gonna break my heart if it doesn't get cancelled first. But for now...
So in June I posted Family Values, my first Supernatural slash. I hadn't expected to get into an incest pairing...I've got nothing against fictional incest (I grew up on a diet of Heinlein - it tends to open the mind a wee bit) but in other fandoms where the main slash pairing is brother/brother I've never been able to see it. Sam and Dean, though...(and John/Dean and hell, any combo you like, really) yeah. This I can see. My first slash in any new fandom tends to be a "first time" story - I kind of need to explain to myself how two people got together before I can move on and start working on more detailed plots. Hence this one. And I continued posting chapters of Protector.
In July the summer heatwave slowed down my fic writing, largely because my PC is in the hottest room in the house and there's just a limit to how long I can type when dying of heatstroke. But I did post my second Supernatural story, Broken, which set the scene in my head for the Sentinel/Supernatural crossover I started working on after Protector.
In August I took a break from fic, or planned to, but SPN took me over again and I posted the first version of Not Exactly The Bradys. This was an odd one because while in my head it was a slash fic my choice of POV character (a teenage Sam) made the end result very much gen. You have to really squint hard to pick up the subtext. I found this somewhat unsatisfying and, prompted by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
phantomas I decided to revisit the story. I turned it into a perspectives story, with three chapters - the same event told from three different points of view. This allowed me to make the slash explicit and (I think) rounded off the story nicely. I posted the new version of Not Exactly The Bradys at the beginning of September.
October was a great fic month. I posted the final chapter of Protector, finishing my trilogy, and posted the whole of Cry Wolf, my Sentinel/Supernatural crossover. Having written three fics of a very dark version of Jim Ellison, Cry Wolf let me explore a dark side of Blair...though dark in a very different way. And I posted Thin Ice, an odd little John/Dean fic...perhaps not my best work, but one of those stories that just won't let go until I've written it down.
In November I posted Faith and Consequence in response to the SPN picture challenge hosted bymarishna. I also wrote What Are Friends For? for the Sentinel Secret Santa. And this was my final fic of 2006.
So that's ten stories written (or rather, finished) in one year. Of those, four are long, multi-chaptered stories. Not bad.
I began 2006 by posting the final chapter of my long-running Sentinel WIP Wild Justice. Now that was a real acheivement for me! Wild Justice was my first ever Sentinel fic (the first I started, anyway) and it was an intensely personal story for me. It took soooooo long to finish but I'm really happy with the way the story turned out in the end.
In February I began posting Bacchanalia. This was a fun one to write - a Sentinel AU in which Blair is a high class hooker helping Jim track down a mob boss. The story was inspired by my secret santa prompt and was really just an excuse to write Blair in skintight black rubber! (Yummy!) But I managed to squeeze a plot in there, too.
In March I finished Bacchanalia and resumed posting the second story in my Sentinel Predator series Perspectives which I finished in April. I started posting Protector the third and final story in the series, at the end of May. That trilogy took so much out of me it's weird to think about it now. But it turned out really well. I know not everyone likes my version of Jim in that trilogy, but hey, I'm happy with it. And I've got no need to go that dark again!
Also in May I discovered Supernatural and boy oh boy did I get sucked in! In a way I regretted watching it at first, because I wasn't prepared to fall head-over-heels in love the way I did and it really screwed with my ability to write in other fandoms...these being with Protector still unfinished. But I haven't felt this kind of fannish love since Hercules. And I'm quite sure that, like HTLJ, SPN is gonna break my heart if it doesn't get cancelled first. But for now...
So in June I posted Family Values, my first Supernatural slash. I hadn't expected to get into an incest pairing...I've got nothing against fictional incest (I grew up on a diet of Heinlein - it tends to open the mind a wee bit) but in other fandoms where the main slash pairing is brother/brother I've never been able to see it. Sam and Dean, though...(and John/Dean and hell, any combo you like, really) yeah. This I can see. My first slash in any new fandom tends to be a "first time" story - I kind of need to explain to myself how two people got together before I can move on and start working on more detailed plots. Hence this one. And I continued posting chapters of Protector.
In July the summer heatwave slowed down my fic writing, largely because my PC is in the hottest room in the house and there's just a limit to how long I can type when dying of heatstroke. But I did post my second Supernatural story, Broken, which set the scene in my head for the Sentinel/Supernatural crossover I started working on after Protector.
In August I took a break from fic, or planned to, but SPN took me over again and I posted the first version of Not Exactly The Bradys. This was an odd one because while in my head it was a slash fic my choice of POV character (a teenage Sam) made the end result very much gen. You have to really squint hard to pick up the subtext. I found this somewhat unsatisfying and, prompted by
phantomas I decided to revisit the story. I turned it into a perspectives story, with three chapters - the same event told from three different points of view. This allowed me to make the slash explicit and (I think) rounded off the story nicely. I posted the new version of Not Exactly The Bradys at the beginning of September.October was a great fic month. I posted the final chapter of Protector, finishing my trilogy, and posted the whole of Cry Wolf, my Sentinel/Supernatural crossover. Having written three fics of a very dark version of Jim Ellison, Cry Wolf let me explore a dark side of Blair...though dark in a very different way. And I posted Thin Ice, an odd little John/Dean fic...perhaps not my best work, but one of those stories that just won't let go until I've written it down.
In November I posted Faith and Consequence in response to the SPN picture challenge hosted by
marishna. I also wrote What Are Friends For? for the Sentinel Secret Santa. And this was my final fic of 2006.So that's ten stories written (or rather, finished) in one year. Of those, four are long, multi-chaptered stories. Not bad.
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I should have said that in the above post, actually. I don't write *for* the feedback, but it certainly helps keep me writing.
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Thanks again for reading!