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stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2019-02-28 08:00 pm
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The State of the Ficcery: February 2019
Monthly word count: 28,885
Writing: Some accomplishments this month: 1. completing a line of Fluff Bingo. 2. completing four lines of Ladies Bingo. 3. filling the final picture prompt from the Snowflake Challenge. 4. reaching 22 fandoms in the 100 fandoms challenge.
I really hope that I can make this Raffles-Sherlock Holmes crossover fic happen by the 15th. I have watched a few films [The Sting and two versions of The Thomas Crown Affair and a bit of a French film called Rififi (it was too violent against women to watch the whole thing so I just skipped to the robbery which is pretty famous for its realism)] trying to get a feel for the heist genre. But I would like it to be Clever and sometimes I puzzle and puzzle 'til my puzzler is sore wondering how that's going to happen. Twists! Turns! I have lowered my expectations as far as length. I just want something!
Reading: I have read Mary Oliver's A Poetry Handbook [I'll post about it separately but suffice to say I'll be buying own copy soon] and her book of poems American Primitive. I've just started her Rules of the Dance which is about metrical poetry, and am accruing library fines on it as we speak on it. All very good and has given me a good education in poetry and blank verse in particular.
Also, in trying to find heist material for the Raffles fic, I have fallen in love with the gentleman thief Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc. It's been a very long time since I had that 'I don't want this book to end!' feeling. He's so over-the-top and I like that. I actually like him much more than Raffles and I think I've found inspiration/structure/mood for the Molliarty fic that I'd like to do for my Molliarty readers (will start on it after the 15th, hopefully)
Also, have been reading a bit wider for the 100 fandoms. I re-read Ellis Peters' Cadfael book One Corpse Too Many for a picture prompt fill Dust. I re-read Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers to do an add-on to my filthy Lord Peter smut. I am right now reading The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett to do a Nick & Nora Charles fic (I want to do one where Asta the Schnauzer solves a mystery while Nick and Nora are drunk/hungover). I read More about Paddington by Michael Bond to do a triple drabble Blameworthy.
Listening to: I am listening to The Thin Man as well, narrated by William Dufris, he's not doing a bad job. I am listening to Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin stories by my new fave Bronson Pinchot and he's knocking it out of the park with very silly French accents which are Wrong but prove to me that I am at heart an Uncultured American because I am Laughing Out Loud (I will be doing a narrator/Dupin fic for 100 fandoms for certain). And I listened to my other fave Cumberbatch do Ngaio Marsh's Artists in Crime to do a Roderick Alleyn triple drabble Blameworthy
Personal: I had about a 10-day bout of depression, starting Valentine's Day when the boys' father did not (and still has not!) acknowledged the sonnet I wrote him. Just feeling worthless and disconnected from life and everyone in the world, all of whom, strangely, seem to be have a better time of it than I am. I am feeling better now, but of course, I binge-ate the half-stone I lost last month away. I did, however, manage to survive the building maintenance removing some trees (I have a strong self-harm trigger to the sound of chain saws and tree removal) without cutting. I thought about it A LOT but I didn't. Everyone in the household has been sick but me, and we've had snow on and off. The boys' father is scheduled to leave on the 27th so I'll have to gear up for that.
Writing: Some accomplishments this month: 1. completing a line of Fluff Bingo. 2. completing four lines of Ladies Bingo. 3. filling the final picture prompt from the Snowflake Challenge. 4. reaching 22 fandoms in the 100 fandoms challenge.
I really hope that I can make this Raffles-Sherlock Holmes crossover fic happen by the 15th. I have watched a few films [The Sting and two versions of The Thomas Crown Affair and a bit of a French film called Rififi (it was too violent against women to watch the whole thing so I just skipped to the robbery which is pretty famous for its realism)] trying to get a feel for the heist genre. But I would like it to be Clever and sometimes I puzzle and puzzle 'til my puzzler is sore wondering how that's going to happen. Twists! Turns! I have lowered my expectations as far as length. I just want something!
Reading: I have read Mary Oliver's A Poetry Handbook [I'll post about it separately but suffice to say I'll be buying own copy soon] and her book of poems American Primitive. I've just started her Rules of the Dance which is about metrical poetry, and am accruing library fines on it as we speak on it. All very good and has given me a good education in poetry and blank verse in particular.
Also, in trying to find heist material for the Raffles fic, I have fallen in love with the gentleman thief Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc. It's been a very long time since I had that 'I don't want this book to end!' feeling. He's so over-the-top and I like that. I actually like him much more than Raffles and I think I've found inspiration/structure/mood for the Molliarty fic that I'd like to do for my Molliarty readers (will start on it after the 15th, hopefully)
Also, have been reading a bit wider for the 100 fandoms. I re-read Ellis Peters' Cadfael book One Corpse Too Many for a picture prompt fill Dust. I re-read Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers to do an add-on to my filthy Lord Peter smut. I am right now reading The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett to do a Nick & Nora Charles fic (I want to do one where Asta the Schnauzer solves a mystery while Nick and Nora are drunk/hungover). I read More about Paddington by Michael Bond to do a triple drabble Blameworthy.
Listening to: I am listening to The Thin Man as well, narrated by William Dufris, he's not doing a bad job. I am listening to Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin stories by my new fave Bronson Pinchot and he's knocking it out of the park with very silly French accents which are Wrong but prove to me that I am at heart an Uncultured American because I am Laughing Out Loud (I will be doing a narrator/Dupin fic for 100 fandoms for certain). And I listened to my other fave Cumberbatch do Ngaio Marsh's Artists in Crime to do a Roderick Alleyn triple drabble Blameworthy
Personal: I had about a 10-day bout of depression, starting Valentine's Day when the boys' father did not (and still has not!) acknowledged the sonnet I wrote him. Just feeling worthless and disconnected from life and everyone in the world, all of whom, strangely, seem to be have a better time of it than I am. I am feeling better now, but of course, I binge-ate the half-stone I lost last month away. I did, however, manage to survive the building maintenance removing some trees (I have a strong self-harm trigger to the sound of chain saws and tree removal) without cutting. I thought about it A LOT but I didn't. Everyone in the household has been sick but me, and we've had snow on and off. The boys' father is scheduled to leave on the 27th so I'll have to gear up for that.
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Yes, the super thing about the challenge is that we have a long time to reach the 100 fandoms bar!
All the best for March creative and health wise.