I Have Written

[dmarley]

I have the flu. It's meme time.

This one was gakked from nimori, who did it for Harry Potter fandom, but since I happened to have recently totted up a few stats for coreopsis, I thought this would be fun to apply to all my fan writing and see what happened.

*s are for categories I added.

I have written....

Completed fics, *published: 25
*Completed fics, unpublished: 23
Published WIPs: 0
Unpublished WIPs: 393
Drabbles: 0
Total: 441

Of that total...

Het/Slash/Gen: 21/376/44
Most frequent main pairing:
*Published--Mike Logan/Ben Stone (Law & Order)
*Unpublished--Archie Goodwin/Saul Panzer (Nero Wolfe)
*Number of Fandoms: 44
*Number of Crossovers: 41
Oddest pairing: Well, nothing nearly as odd as Voldemort/Pikachu.... I guess I'd have to say the oddest was pairing Nasir from Robin of Sherwood with a (grown-up) Trixie Belden.
Debut fic: "Louder Than Words" (Law & Order, Mike Logan/Ben Stone)

Squick checklist! I have written...

BDSM: Yes
Bestiality: No
Bloodplay: No
Breathplay: No
Chan: Yes
Character death: Yes
Incest: No
Mary Sue: Yes
Moresome (four or more people): Yes
Mpreg: Yes
Necrophilia: No
Non-con/rape: Yes
Scat: No
Threesome: Yes
Water sports: No

Now, to put this in a bit of perspective, those stats represent almost twenty years of fan writing, even my youthful ventures which include 17 Mary Sues. If there is a higher power they will all spontaneously combust upon my death.

I'm a little disturbed by all the unfinished stories. Some of the ideas--okay, a lot of the ideas--are crap, but there are some good stories I have bits of that I've never finished. I had this four or five story arc planned for Due South and Twin Peaks, of which "Cold Heart" is the third story. I'd love to complete that. Then there are at least seven Stargate stories that I think would be good if I could just get off my hiney and spew the words onto the page. But, sadly, that's just not the way it works. It's a really good thing my fan fiction is a hobby, 'cause I don't think I could ever make it as a paid writer. I'd never actually produce anything. :)

Comments

[coreopsis.livejournal.com]

*Unpublished--Archie Goodwin/Saul Panzer (Nero Wolfe)
Archie! Saul! Love! Is there any chance of these moving into the published category--or at least in the 'I let C. read them category' any time soon? *g*

[coreopsis.livejournal.com]

Oh and I forgot to say that I hope you feel better really soon. And that Boo doesn't get it too.

[dmarley.livejournal.com]

I wish. Actually, the sad truth is that most of the ideas fall into the "crap" category. Or, at least the "unacceptable distance from canon" category. (Like the Highlander crossover, the details of which are too shameful even to mention.) There is that one story that I think I mentioned, like, two years ago, the one based on the TV series where Saul and Archie have a chat about Archie getting shot in the arm. There's also a long, complicated thing involving a (deceased) OMC that would be like piloting a rusty barge between the ice floes of cliche. I need to pull out the tapes and watch the show again. That always inspires me. :)

Re: the flu

I'm actually feeling somewhat better. I think it's a) a brief flu and b) a mild case. Or possibly c) a nasty allergy attack. Boo seems to be fine, but I spent last night with all three babies, and I'm just hoping I wasn't contagious. I think another snootful of Theraflu and a good night's sleep will fix me up.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

I guess I'd have to say the oddest was pairing Nasir from Robin of Sherwood with a (grown-up) Trixie Belden.

Bwaa?

*looks at you in startled awe*

[dmarley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah. :) I was young(er), and taking a semester off from college. The MS is like two inches thick. I called it (and still do call it) The Monster. As I recall, I integrated the TB world into the RoS world by making all the RoS characters be in mystical hibernation for a few hundred years before they emerged into the 20th century, and then went with the conceit that Dan Mangan was actually Robin. Er.

Definitely one of the "Please, oh, please let this story burst into flames before any other human eyes see it" ones. It's one of the reasons that I'm really, really glad the internet didn't exist (well, that it wasn't popularly accessible) back then. If it had, I might have actually posted that thing and subsequently had to change my identity for the rest of my fannish career in humiliation.

Live and learn. :)

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

But, but...you don't understand.

Now I want to read it! :P

[dmarley.livejournal.com]

Back from DragonCon at last, and catching up. :)

Now I want to read it! :P

LOL! Unfortunately, it's all hardcopy, and about half is illegibly handwritten. If it were in some kind of electronic format that didn't require any actual work on my part to send, I'd seriously consider letting you read it, because it's so ridiculous. As it is, I'm afraid that it will simply have to rest in obscurity. :)