The State of the Ficcery: June 2019

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Word Count: 20,916

Writing: A decent month. I met my monthly word count goal.

9 fills for the Corsets & Lemons kink meme. It absorbed most of my muse this month.

7 fandoms added to my 100 fandoms (total: 57)

finished 4th place in the GYWO Yahtezee

discovered two new poets (Kay Ryan and C. P. Cavafy) by posting poems for Pride

But there is a lot ahead!



I am working on “The Ballad of Temeraire,” a poem based on the first book in Naomi Novik’s dragon series.

I signed up for story works Harlequin Big Bang (which will be a treat for my BBC Sherlock Molliarty readers) and Choose Your Own Adventure challenge (“Relic’s Song” aka Bertie & Jeeves in Egypt). And there’s my Edwardian Sussex garden fic. And my polar horror fic for Hallowe’en. And the killer quilt if I can squeeze it in. So lots of big-ish fic (for me, at least) There’s July Watson’s Woes, of course.

Personal: A decent month from the neck up, too. No cutting--despite all the anxiety about the state of the world and my new volunteer responsibilities. So that’s good. School ended for Minor so now it’s keeping him & Minisculus entertained until August when Minor has two week-long day camps (soccer & nature). School doesn’t start back until the first week of September here. So it’s board games and crafts and workbook and going to the apartment pool and going to the library and going for ice cream and sno cones. And it’s getting hot (it was 101 F/38 C) yesterday.

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Wow, that's an impressive number of fills for Corsets & Lemons! And you're doing well with 100 fandoms (once I've written my Joseph drabble I'll be at 60, but yours are all new works this year).

I shall be cheering you on with all your continued writing - as well as accompanying you with some. Very interested to read your Ballad of Temeraire.

38C is far too hot - we reached about 33C yesterday which was too much.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I know. I wasn't planning to fill that many but I got on a 19th century roll and just kept going! I think I mentioned I tried to write a Gen drabble for every fill (that's where the new fandoms came from). Of the drabbles, here are the ones you may be keen to read (which aren't the 2 that are on 100 words; the Alice in Wonderland one and the Polidori's Vampyre one are too dark for you, I think).

094. Treasure Island [book, Stevenson, 1883]. Trinket. 300. Gen.

039. The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1911] Wellbeing. 200. Gen.

I listened to the first book (with the excellent Simon Vance as narrator) and got a copy at the library so I am doing what I did with The Haunting of Hill House and doing a stanza for every chapter. I am up to chapter 4 so far. I started yesterday.

FYI, we have a holiday this week (Thursday) and the boys' father will be home Tuesday (to watch the World Cup) and Wednesday is his usual work-from-home day. So on impulse at the library I got all 3 Hobbit films and may have a film festival for myself. I shall be thinking of your Bagginshield!

Yes, I was dripping yesterday by the time I got back to the car.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you for the links - I do like those two drabbles.

Enjoy the Bagginshield!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

The boys made it as far as the trolls. I shall have to watch the rest on my own.

[ancientreader]

I have been getting massages because they help with some aspects of the chronic pain issues you know about, and yesterday it was so hot I apologized to the massage therapist for my sweatiness on arrival. BLEAGH.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yesterday was very hot. I was dripping by the time I returned to the car.

I think it's fabulous you're getting massages to help ease your pain. Massage therapy is one career I've thought about whenever I return to the work world. I have not very articulate ideas about the value of healing touch.

[scfrankles]

The Choose Your Own Adventure challenge sounds particularly intriguing. And good luck on keeping the younger Okapis entertained! ^__^

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes, I don't know how it will go but I thought it seemed worth a try. I liked those books as a kid.

Yes, it is tough! They are rough on the furnishings!

[debriswoman]

A productive month for you. All the best with child wrangling over the summer:-)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes, it's been a solid month.

Thank you! So far so good!