Tag Archives: invisible ficathon 2014

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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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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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.

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.