A brief looking back on fic writing in 2015

I have managed to put a little something in all my friends stockings, unless I have managed to miss that there is a stocking.

I look forward to the Yuletide reveal more and more. I’m sure there will be a lot of good stuff to read. <-lj-cut>I’ve deleted one of my treats, though. Not because I don’t like it, but because I more and more felt it needed more work.Then I heard back from my beta who said essentially the same with some very valid points. So I will re-work it because I think it’s good enough to deserve that. I doubt I will make the treat deadline now, but I can always drop the treat-ee when it fic is finished and say it was meant for them.

Looking back on 2015 I realise I have finished 36 fics this year, as well as adding a chapter on a WIP and re-written 3 old fics. That’s not a bad record. Most of these are one-shots, though, but still. I have, however, a growing feeling of being a bit too rushed when I write. I get an idea and I want it out, and then I re-read a bit later and just feels it would have benefitted so much if I had paced myself. Like Professor Keller which even if I think is one of the best things I have ever written, and I still think it’s getting much better now when I’, re-writing it. I don’t do New Year's resolutions, but I think I will try to spend a bit more time on polishing my writing.

I really feel I have evolved writing-wise this year. When I last wrote fic regularly it was mainly as self-therapy and they certainly have a thematic sameness over them. But that is ten years ago and even if I never stopped writing completely, this is the first time since then I have written something every day. And I have branched out, writing lighter and funnier things than I have ever been able to do before. I don’t need to finish a fic/chapter every week, perhaps I would benefit to set the pace slower.

However, I am a bit sad that I let the ball drop completely for DD. First writing and then reading too- I have a lot to read up on! I really like the community and I want to participate again.

What I did in 2015 that I had never done before, was to join in several gift exchanges and remixes and I really enjoyed doing that. I will definitely doing more of that kind of fic writing.

Speaking of which, there is, as I understand it, a new multifandom gift exchange called Chocolate Box. Nominations are up on AO3 until December 29.

The First Passion, and the Last

Title: The First Passion, and the Last
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Humor
Word Count: 1140 words
Characters: The Twelfth Doctor, River Song, Missy
Pairings: The Twelfth Doctor/River Song, Missy/River Song
Warnings: None apart from a little innuendo.
Summary: The Doctor gets a proposal. One he had never imagined he would recieve.
AN: Written for merryghoul in the Public Call - Doctor Who fic exchange 2015 at AO3. Thanks to lost_spook for beta-reading.

I always felt one of the reasons the Doctor is attracted to River is because she's a lot like the Master, only not evil. And the logical route, for me at least, would be that River would probably be attracted to the Master because s/he's a lot like the Doctor, but without the inhibitions.

The title comes from a quote from Samuel Johnson; Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Can be read as a standalone but is part of my A Little Less Than Kin-series. In that case this story comes after Passing Ships for River Song and after Dead Girls Like Us for Missy. Timey-wimey stuff, you know.

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