State of the Writer

[jedibuttercup]

Star Trek XI fandom is totally spoiling me. You guys comment like crazy, and it all feels like a community, not the "mama bird facing a thousand selfish hungry chicks" feeling I get every time I update backagainharry over on the Pit of Voles. It makes me want to just keep writing more.

(Sorry, BAH fans here! I do love you, too! I expect watching HP6 to give me a boost on that one).

Anyway, so: startrekbigbang. I've not yet completed a Big Bang challenge, but in both cases that's because I went in with a vague idea, and it was 2008, the year of RL smackdown and depression. This year, I've already written over 62,000 words-- a good 150% more than in all of last year-- so ability's not an issue, and I have a solid idea. In fact, my sign-up post reads: "I dove into this fandom with the intention of writing a particular plotline, but so far have written more than twenty thousand words of short stories around that idea instead, so I figure this is the best excuse I'm going to get to finally knuckle down and write it."

---Yes. That's the "facing the media" story. Or, more properly, the "Okay, so they get back to Earth. What are some of the before-going-back-out niches that fandom hasn't thoroughly explored yet?" story.

I'm also noodling more on those reward stories I promised back in March, before I got seduced by Captain Pike. So between those two preoccupations, my regular STXI ficlet production may slow down some. But I won't stop posting shorts entirely; I am still completely in love with this universe. ♥♥
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Comments

[beege22.livejournal.com]

This is the kind of news that makes me jump up and down in joy. I've been a fan of your stuff approximately since you started writing for Firefly but your ST XI stories have really blown me away - they're fantastic. So hearing that you'll be writing something larger in the same vein is pretty good news to me.