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Invisible Ficathon Reveals

So the Invisible Ficathon reveals have finally happened!

My assignment:

Title: Knight in Rusted Armor
Fandom: Averil's Atonement by Anne Shirley
Fandom Source: Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Summary: Averil Lester had always been his. She'd been his since they were children barely out of the nursery and Maurice wasn't going to let that go just because a jellyfish duke decided to come along and steal her heart.


Treats I Wrote:

Title: From Eyes of Blue
Fandom: The Horn of Joy by Matthew Maddox
Fandom Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle

Summary: Zyll was frightened, not of her gift but of the vision it brought her.

 

Title: Annual ‘Faxfic Slam - 1918 PD
Fandom: The Havenite 'Faxes Colloquially Known as "Smutsies"
Fandom Source: Honor Harrington series by David Weber

Summary: It’s time for the 1918 PD Annual ‘Faxfic Slam in Noveau Paris! Pick a pairing and write up to the smutsie name. Remember the fun of a slam is to reply to other ‘fics and better yet to one-up them. Do us proud!

 

Title: A Different Tune
Fandom: It was a Dark and Stormy Night by Snoopy
Fandom Source: Peanuts (comics)

Summary: Sometimes Daddy can be just a wee bit overprotective.

 

Title: Poem: Twitterpated
Fandom: It was a Dark and Stormy Night by Snoopy
Fandom Source: Peanuts (comics)

Summary: Birds don’t kiss, right? But if they did…

 

Title: A Haiku Inspired by the "Kisses Rang Out"
Fandom: It was a Dark and Stormy Night by Snoopy
Fandom Source: Peanuts (comics)

Summary: A haiku inspired by Snoopy's A Dark and Stormy Night where unexplained kisses rang out at the beginning of one of the tales.

 

Title: Have Her Cake and Eat It Too
Fandom:  Averil's Atonement by Anne Shirley
Fandom Source: Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Summary: Averil bakes a cake—with mixed results.

 

Title: The Law of Sympathetic Magic
Fandom:  The Stonebender Family stories by Jubal Harshaw
Fandom Source: a Robert Heinlein story

Summary: The law of sympathetic magic is this: it cannot be undone.

 

Title: Meta: Preston of the Spaceways, a Retrospective
Fandom:  Preston of the Spaceways, Manticoran holodramas
Fandom Source: Honor Harrington series by David Weber

Summary: The idea behind Preston of the Spaceways: The Holovid was to shake up people’s expectations and make them realize we were doing something different. On Old Earth, adaptations would be called ‘The Movie’ when it was the iconic adaptation, and that’s really what we’re trying to do here: the iconic adaptation.


Gifts I Received:

Title: Linked
Author: ChokolatteJedi
Fandom:  Galaxy Quest (TV)
Fandom Source: Galaxy Quest (movie)

Summary: Tawney has some things she'd like cleared up

 

Title: What Both Will Be and Is
Author: thinkatory
Fandom:  The Horn of Joy by Matthew Maddox
Fandom Source: Kairos (O'Keefe) series by Madeleine L'Engle

Summary:

All will be well. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For the fire is roses, roses, and the sight of blue eyes can change what both will be and is. Matthew Maddox, The Horn of Joy, 1868.

Excerpts from a history of tesseracts, and those changed by them.

 

Title: On Names; or, why it rains at a hanging
Author: Raven (singlecrow)
Fandom:  Eddisian mythology
Fandom Source: Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner

Summary: Eugenides, who comes as a thief in the night.

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Just Pretend My Scribbling Is Invisible

This entry is part 79 of 103 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

March 17, 2014

Wrote 371 words on an invisible treat and didn’t finish. It was getting unwieldy. This particular attempt is attempt three at the same fandom. It’s just determined, it would seem, to give me trouble.

Wrote 198 words on an Invisible Treat, start to finish done. Then for the same prompt: a 66-word octet. And then another of 3 lines and 7 words. And another treat in 125 words, specifically because my assignment wasn’t very lighthearted as the requester might have preferred.

I brought that original treat from 371 words to 919, but I’m still not sure how much I like it. And 201 words for one more treat.

Word Counts:

  • Fiction: 1443 words
  • Poetry: 11 lines| 73 words
  • Blog: 106 words

March 18, 2014

In 2376 words, I finally got something written for this fandom.

Word Counts:

  • Fiction: 2376 words
  • Poetry: 0 lines| 0 words
  • Blog: 11 words

March Totals

  • Fiction: 12,678 words
  • Poetry: 140 lines | 1364 words
  • Blog: 947 words

Pieces Started Not Finished (2014)

  • Fiction: Hear the Stars, novella.
  • Nonfiction/Blog: Indie Author Guide to Genre, book/blog series.
  • Poem: Untitled - You gave me a name...
  • Poem: Untitled - The way riverbeds miss the water...
  • Fiction/Fanfic: "Blank Verse," probably novella but not sure.
  • Fiction/Fanfic: “Justice,” short story.

March Completed Pieces

  1. Poem: "Open Hands," 12 lines | 63 words.
  2. Fanfic: “God Help the World,” 205 words.
  3. Poem: "Everything's Blood and All is Well," 16 lines | 97 words.
  4. Fanfic: “Perfection,” 688 words.
  5. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Assignment, 1267 words.
  6. Poem: "Wonder," 4 lines | 29 words.
  7. Prose Poem: “the bringing of light,” 485 words.
  8. Poem: “Rothnen,” 24 lines | 102 words.
  9. Poem: “This is the universe…” 12 lines | 80 words.
  10. Poem: “For Sister,” 4 lines | 36 words.
  11. Fanfic: "Demoralized," 204 words.
  12. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 198 words.
  13. Poem: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 8 lines | 66 words.
  14. Poem: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 3 lines | 7 words.
  15. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 125 words.
  16. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 201 words.
  17. Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 2376 words.
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Grindstone

This entry is part 72 of 103 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

So yesterday, I put nose to grindstone and wrote 303 words on the collaboration, then 298 words on an invisible treat, and finally, 1267 words for my invisible assignment. It's finally done and off to beta.

I wasn't able to match my collaboration word count to my fandom word count due to an emergency last night, so I'll try to match it today instead.

Word Counts:

  • Fiction: 1868 words
  • Poetry: 0 lines | 0 words
  • Blog: 63 words

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All Over the Map

This entry is part 71 of 103 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

So I started off by getting back to my betas for the Invisible Ficathon, then wrote 118 words of the mass market blog posts.

It was a type, delete day on the collaboration, then I diverted into fandom because...

I got a fandom gift for my very belated birthday (thank you, lithiumlaughter!) and it inspired 893 words of fanfic reply and a poem:

Written under, the wires crossed
The symphony begins to swell
One, two, three and red on my bones
Everything’s blood and all is well

Waltz with war and tango death
Fate is but the archer’s eye
The reverie begins to play
Everything’s blood; let arrows fly

I breathe your blood, I bleed my name
We’re lost within a sea of red
Your name is written in my bones
Everything’s blood where angels fled

Fired until we cannot break
Mark the clock for time will tell
The music clicks beneath the gun
Everything’s blood and all is well

Word Counts:

  • Fiction: 893 words
  • Poetry: 16 lines | 97 words
  • Blog: 118 words

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Well-Read in the Invisible

This entry is part 70 of 103 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

February 28, 2014

This morning, I wrote 156 words puttering in my head from last night on Lovemark the Seasons, including another in-story poem. Rachelle is well-read.

So the trade paperback of Dowse and Bleed is available on Amazon. I still have to get all the other formats up: mass market and ebook to the various retailers. :grimaces: Later. I'm saving the whole book announcement post until then.

I'd like to get some good words on collab and on my actual assignment. I keep getting bogged down in author's notes and meta. And music. It's thecatisacritic's fault. She sent me "Poison and Wine" and I looked it up online the other day and have lost so many good hours since. I can't say wasted because seriously, the creative fire! Love their work.

Having a fandom moment:

Four: The Traitor by Veronica Roth

See all of the covers here.

March 1, 2014

Sabbath and unexpected late-night family time. Wrote a poem in my head and didn't get it written down, just memorized.

March 2, 2014

I owe y'all an end of the month post and challenge check-in. Tomorrow! Today, I helped my aunt move and still need to plunk in 2 hours on packing my own things, plus got back my beta for invisible treats (which resulted in 6 words worth of edits, wow), plus submitted the edited cover for the mass market of Dowse and Bleed. Oh, and finally wrote down that poem.

I owe a bunch of collaboration material. I owe my Invisible assignment. I owe posts about indie community and fandom. I owe a lot of stuff, 'kay?

I have also been failing miserably at the 7-sentence challenge so went back last night and wrote 257 words on, unexpectedly, a very late fandom gift separate from challenges.

Word Counts:

  • Fiction: 419 words
  • Poetry: 16 lines | 99 words
  • Blog: 270 words

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Trusting the Process

This entry is part 69 of 103 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

February 25, 2014

So collaboration and Invisible fics. Let's get cracking.

I think we can best sum up the 25th as an exercise in type, delete, repeat.

February 26, 2014

I added the snippet of my collaborator's to the song "Dust to Dust" by The Civil Wars and finally got somewhere, 819 words, with writing this collaboration. Yay.

Been researching for my Ficathon pieces and located a beta for my not-sure-if-I-like-it treat I did, which I edited and added 60 words to yesterday on the 25th.

February 27, 2014

Out sick. Wrote 213 words in "Remembrance" when I realized what it is I was missing in this Vardin story due to a post by P. C. Wrede.

Ordered the copies of Dowse and Bleed for my betas/readers, though I did nothing else toward launching the book. I sent off a couple long collaboration emails, slept a lot, dreaded making dinner for the family (my night), and watched The Civil Wars videos. Note: "The One That Got Away" is my new Rachelle/Justus theme song. She's the most asexual character I've ever written. She really, really IS a take it or leave it person.

Speak of the girl, she just handed me 198 words of Lovemark the Seasons and an approach to the story that I can live with. I'm going to start writing like a fangirl when it serves me. Sometimes, I forget I have a literary bent and what that means. As I've been digging into metafic and invisible fandoms and all the sort of possibilities of fiction, including a deep look at experimental and Nabakov's poem and reference novel, I realized that I am not limited by a pre-existing format or structure, unless I choose to be. As long as the final story works, go for it. I'm going to play with Lovemark. I knew when I started it that the work was experimental, so I'm going to finally really let go of my safety net and let it be experimental.

Speaking of which, I realized I haven't been trusting the process of collaboration either. I've been something of a control freak. Go figure. Not my usual thing except as it relates to something that's mine, but this is mine, just it's also someone else's. I needed to take a long look at my own strengths as a writer and my own weaknesses and cede controlling interest on the parts where I am weak. I hate writing those parts anyway, so it was past time to focus again on the parts I love and let my collaborator really shine where she's strong.

Spent five minutes setting up a Kingdoms and Thorn tumblr. Will fill in some stuff soon, but I realized it'll be a good dumping ground for stuff that's not just series bible stuff and also a great way to handle questions.

Word Counts:

  • Fiction: 1280 words
  • Poetry: 0 lines | 0 words
  • Blog: 580 words

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A Hopelessly Rambly Post: You’ve Been Warned…

This entry is part 68 of 103 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

What does it say that I spend so much time on my author’s notes for this piece? Meta, invisible fiction, creating the environment of a genre whole out of cloth and the culture that reads and writes it, metas it and reviews it, in the same way that I came out of fandom, people, and it’s something I can’t get away from and am slowly coming to the point where I can say I’ve stopped trying. I read, I write, I fangirl, and it gives me a very different view of how to engage with or engage in or speculate about literary culture.

I’m starting to really find myself examining this issue of literary culture in a way I sort of ignored before as unimportant in the same way I found engaging with the issue of race was unimportant for me though I am, in fact, multiracial with a unique culture that has come from the precise and rich melting pot of my family and family life. These things are easy to ignore because they hide around the edges.

But the more I write, the more I want to open these things up, the more I want to play with that literary culture and that social mesh and how that works for my characters and how it informs them and the themes I was already digging into with their lives. It interests me, though it was only a surface interest before. It interests me very much.

I got hooked on Save the Last Dance 2 last night, and this is what I bumped into, this concept of the cultural history of hip-hop music and dance and then of ballet and these words: I am here. It’s a genre making a statement that resonates and matters, that comes out even from the mouths and moves of the ignorant. It means something.

I’m still not that interested in engaging with my “own” genre: I write SFF for one reason only, it allows me to do anything I want to. Plus, less research. History and travel have never been my thing. I am interested, however, in culture and engaging with that in my SFF. This genre I love has a long history of doing just that, so I don’t feel all that out of touch by not caring even a lick about what others have been saying in genre. I talk to literature, but mostly classics and poetry. More than that, I talk to ideas and movements and religious questions and my own questions about identity and culture and family and relationships, etc.

Speaking of time, that was 258 words of author’s notes. :headdesk: I’ve got serious writer’s block just now, so I hoped that would loosen something up. Yeah. It didn't.

I'm not counting any fiction words since I deleted them all.

Word Counts:

  • Fiction: 0 words
  • Poetry: 0 lines | 0 words
  • Blog: 568 words

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I've Created a Monster...

This entry is part 65 of 103 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

So I wrote a 2391-word treat for the ficathon. I hadn’t intended to do that. At all. :headdesk: I promised myself whatever I wrote on the ficathon, I’d match on the collaboration, so here goes.

In the hour and a half before 12:07, maybe 12:09, I forget which, I wrote 2304 words on the collaboration. The time of night showed. :shudders:

On a side note, the Invisible Ficathon has really brought back to my mind how much it matters to show the fictional literary and popular culture in a story if your characters are well-read. It makes me want to develop my own 'invisible canons.' It makes me want to remember to add in books and authors and shows and cultural touch points that 'everybody' knows. It makes me think.

Publishing gave me another cover headache. I emailed Createspace and told them to give me a hard figure for what size with bleed a cover for this trim size should be. I'm tired of it constantly shaving things just slightly wrong.

Word Counts:

  • Fiction: 4695 words
  • Poetry: 0 lines | 0 words
  • Blog: 171 words

February Totals

  • Fiction: 10,325 words
  • Poetry: 73 lines | 451 words
  • Blog: 3416 words

Pieces Started Not Finished

  • Fiction: Hear the Stars, novella.
  • Nonfiction/Blog: Indie Author Guide to Genre, book/blog series.
  • Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat.

Completed Pieces

  • Fanfic: “Wholeness of Self,” 783 words.
  • Poem: "Tell Me," 8 lines | 37 words.
  • Poem: "Mother," 8 lines | 22 words.
  • Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 269 words.
  • Poem: "Native," 31 lines| 232 words.
  • Poem: "Moderation," 6 lines| 20 words.
  • Poem: "I Should Think," 20 lines| 140 words.
  • Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 2391 words.
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Picking Myself Up. Sort of.

This entry is part 57 of 103 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

Picking myself up. A bit. I got a gift sent and an end of January scribble post done. I haven’t finished my end of January reading post just yet. Signed up for the Invisible Ficathon, but still have to write my letter/prompts for it.

I didn’t actually decide to write a fanfic, but I did write a fanfic, so. Started on Tracing Trouble at 2569 words. We’re getting somewhere. Ended at 2857.

Finished my letter/prompts.

Accidentally wrote another 879 words. A poem snippet came to me and it opened a story I'm not supposed to be writing right now! But then, I have been wanting to work on something truly still in the abyss, without considering the parameters. I have a theory about plot and my thinking process, but I'll share more about that later. Updating word counts.

Word Counts:

  • Fiction: 1950 words
  • Blog: 1079 words

February Totals

Pieces Started

  • Fanfic: "Wholeness of Self," one-shot.
  • Fiction: Hear the Stars, novella.

Completed Pieces

  • Fanfic: “Wholeness of Self,” 783 words.
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