Anghraine

I normally keep my various personas somewhat separate (mainly: Anghraine + my original fic writing persona + the academic identity). But one of the sf/f magazines I follow on my Twitter original fic account just tweeted out an article for the magazine on fanfiction’s effect on editing, for an unexpected crossing of the thought streams. It was cool, so I looked at the author—and I’ve met her before! In person! It was at an academic conference, under my actual name.

I mean! She attended a panel I was on, asked questions, and gave us all her business card! This was well before she wrote this article, and it’s not like I know her just because we briefly interacted once (she was an editor at Tor lol), but still, the world can be unexpectedly small.

Tagged: #someone i met through my rl self writing about something mostly of interest to my fandom self #coming to my attention through my original fic writing self... weird

steinbecks said:

oooh can you link??

primeideal said:

love it when that happens!

yavieriel said:

Pls link! I’m very curious what that article says

[ETA 5/1/2024: I think I forgot to respond at the time, but I was talking about Diana M. Pho's article in Uncanny here.]

I reblogged this and added:

Well … parts of them are and I sort of make the rest work in my head. Anyway!

primeideal responded to this post:

tbh i’m only doing short stories but i cannot believe it is worth it to get involved in SF/F twitter. nooooo.

I replied:

I’m much more of a novelist than a short story writer, and it’s like … ugh, fine. But the hellscape of SF/F Twitter is half the reason I neglect my account tbh (so it only has … like, 30 followers, lol).

colorwheels14 said (on Jan 15th):

I know other professors who are on twitter for academic presence and reasons… I am not. Because there is no way I’m interacting with strangers on twitter.

alishatheninth said (on Jan 18th):

Just tell us what it is when it’s out so we can buy it, please!

I replied:

Aww, thanks!

I don’t think most people are interested tbh, which is fine (my “Anghraine” self has always been mainly for fandom), but I’m a little leery about explicitly connecting my pro and fannish identities. I’m not putting a lot of effort into the separation, just trying to avoid having one lead directly to the other. So I probably won’t say directly. I might broadly hint, though :)

I know I should build up a Twitter presence™ for my serious business author account, but also … I don’t want to.

(This is clearly flawless reasoning at all times!)

#in fairness part of it is because #i'm on the fence about whether my novel is ya or not #the characters are young (12-16) and it's in first person so that's very ... present #though they get older over the course of the series #but most people have thought the style is not very ya-ish #so idek if it's worthwhile to dip my toe into the boiling sulfur lake that is ya twitter #regardless i haven't even checked my account in like three months #anghraine babbles #emphasis on 'babbles' #tbh i'll probably just stick around on tumblr until it collapses into a white dwarf and then drag myself by my fingernails to twitter

[ETA 4/10/2024: lol, a more innocent time when it seemed assured that Twitter's heyday would outlast Tumblr! And while I have many objections to Tumblr's current management, Twitter is assuredly worse and more unusable in every way, sometimes to the point of horror and sometimes to the point of outright comedy. I actually had started using Twitter actively on my writing account, as it happens, but I refused to continue after the Elon purchase.]

Another day, another fit of jealousy at people who can draw their faves/OCs. Imagining moments and scenes as a writer is cool but … not the same as seeing things.

#i know this is what commissions are for but i can't really justify spending fifty dollars or more just for inspiration #i just see gorgeous art by people of their own ocs which is fine ... just wish i could do it #probably wouldn't get much writing done though

[ETA 3/26/2024: I absolutely did later justify spending over $50 on a commission, though from a personal friend! And I've been lucky enough to receive art as gifts, too, so I don't really have the right to complain. I do anyway >_>]

2020 fic writing post!

2020 was not my most productive year, but apart from the general state of 2020, I had a lot to do for my PhD and sleeping problems, so … /shrug. Anyway, this year—

- I got inspired by my “eh” feelings about TROS to outline a big chunk of my f!Luke series, and after (I think) four years of no updates, wrote some eighteen and a half chapters on The Jedi and the Sith Lord in something like six weeks. It’s now 67k.

- I updated my very niche Guild Wars 2 fic, pro patria, a kind of fragmented AU in which the “Missing Sister” option to say that the PC/Deborah are proud Ascalonians has a major effect on the PC’s character and story. I got Althea through a bunch of Ebonhawke/Fields of Ruin stuff, which was 50% of the motivation for writing it at all. It’s now at 89k.

- I finally finished the gift of men, the Eldarion/Faramir-and-Éowyn’s-daughter fic that has been rolling around my brain/Google Drive for years. It’s only a little over 1k, but I was really glad to get it finished and posted.

- I was overpowered with Ascalon/fuck the Searing feelings while playing the original Guild Wars and wrote a fic about the Prophecies PC’s last day (creatively called the last day) before the Searing. It’s also just over 1k and almost nobody read it, but it was really for me, so that’s okay.

- I updated tolerably well acquainted, my canon-compliant book-only P&P fic about how Elizabeth falls in love with Darcy from Pemberley onwards. Lydia just ran off with Wickham and Elizabeth reunited with Jane; I wrote about half of another chapter, but didn’t finish it. The fic as a whole is now 27k, which is kind of astounding to me tbh.

- I’d always thought of my Éowyn-meets-f!Faramir fic, we also are daughters of the great, as a one-shot, but got inspired by their canon scenes to take it further … and then got waylaid by Merry feelings? I don’t know. I also wrote about half of another chapter of this one before exams struck, so that’s partly done. I’d really like to get to the hair mingling scene! Someday. It’s 4800 words.

- I haven’t posted much of it (just this) or named it, but I started a fic about Darcy’s family (canonical and head-canonical) reacting to his engagement to Elizabeth/Elizabeth herself. It’s part of the tolerably well acquainted continuity, I think, and a kind of fun experiment with different voices. It’s 1500 words so far.

- I started a fic about Faramir’s birth and early childhood, but it stalled partway through dealing with tiny Faramir’s first dream of Númenor. I might get back to it someday. It’s 1300 words.

- I also brainstormed a Star Wars/Dungeons and Dragons fusion where Anakin is an aasimar (as are Luke and Leia), but the composite setting drifted far enough from either that it became an original fic in a universe powered by the blessings/curses of the gods. It follows a sorceress of the god of the Void who takes on the care of a troubled demigoddess. I wrote a ton of background material, but only 1200 words of actual fic.

- After only cutting things out and fixing the gaps for years, I wrote two full chapters of my original fantasy novel; I’ve decided to take out a big chunk of one of them, but even so, it’s very satisfying, and (after a lot of cuts) brought the whole thing to 72k.

And I think that’s everything!

I reblogged a post from madseance about not so much having plot as affection for the characters.

Tagged: #this is eighty-five percent of the original fic #/sigh #also plenty of my fanfics lol

jubaah replied to this post:

( For a hot sec I thought this was about the other original story….! )

I replied:

tbh that story cannibalizes all kinds of names and relationships from my Darcy-Fitzwilliam headcanons!

idk about you all, but I really appreciate that all songs ever written are about a) my ships or b) my OCs

Tagged: #context: i was using the rowing machine (which i hate) and putting on a fave playlist to make it tolerable and it was like #oh hey! korvira! #*song switches* #isn't that originally from sesame street? but yeah anyway it's totally [aggressive co-protag of original novel]