lexr86

Haha, we'll see how good my resolution re not posting until it's all written goes! On the plus side, I have a few shorter stories (3-6 chapters) that I can write & post while I'm working away at the next long-fic, so I reckon that'll help.

No buffer as of yesterday's posted chapter & I'm halfway through the next chapter so I think I won't be posting for a couple of weeks. Gonna grab a couple of hours tomorrow to finish the WIP chapter & maybe start (or at least plan) the next one.

Getting close to the end of this story & I think I might be unconsciously dragging it out because once I'm done with it, I have no excuse not to move onto other ones. I have a couple of big life changes coming my way over the next few months & while taking a little time off from planning to write is definitely the break I need, right now the thought of starting a new story feels a little like another project I just don't have the bandwidth for. Need to keep reminding myself that the plan for future stories is no posting any of it until it's all finished!

I had a chat with another author in the broader Star Trek fandom after reading their OC/OC fic & based on how that got received, I'm not getting my hopes up. I'll still write it though (& probably post it regardless). And it will have some canon characters as secondary characters (& it'll be set on the Enterprise) so it won't be completely unknown to fans.

Love that your 99% OC story got so big! 😁 There's hope for OC-centric stories yet. Pity about the unfriendly community atmosphere though - like, you don't like the premise, don't read it. No need to give grief to the authors about it. 🤷‍♀️

Ohhh... You had me at fixit of PR:U. That was a mess.

Also the JW one. Loved the vibe of the first film & then it just became churn (now with added dinosaurs!). 😢

Yeah, I can kinda balance it out if it's a one-shot or short multi-chapter story competing with a long-fic. But 2 long-fics (& in the same series)? Lord, give me strength!

I have a series (2 stories at the mo) that's very fluffy slice of life romantic. Early this year, shortly after starting the 2nd story, I came up with a bonkers idea for the 3rd story. AU/multiverse, paranormal weirdness from the fandom that I just ignore in my series up til now, dragging bits from the original 2 stories & reusing the characters (& angsting the crap out of one of them).

And it has been killlling me that I had to finish the 2nd story before I could start on the 3rd. At one point I had to comfort-write a couple of chapters just to break writer's block on story 2. I reckon I've got less than half a dozen chapters of story 2 to go & then I am launching myself bodily at story 3. 😅

😂 I was starting to think the lack of responses was the answer in itself to my question (i.e. no-one likes OC-centric or OC/OC pairings).

I totally get the love for OC-centric stories so long as there's a core character in the mix, as I tend to be there myself, but I do think I'd have to stretch myself to take a chance on OC/OC with no canon characters in the main pairing or group. That said, the fandom I want to write it in (Star Trek TNG-adjacent) has no characters that work for my idea & really has none I'm interested in writing as core characters. So I guess I might just be writing this one for myself if other people aren't willing to take a chance (& I can't blame them because I know exactly where they're coming from). 🤷‍♀️

I like a well rounded, realistic character, as I do with my protagonists to be fair. No 2-dimensional mustache-twirling "I'm just evil 'cos I'm evil" unless there's a real good reason behind it or it's hella fun (think Andrew Scott's Moriarty). I don't need them to think they're doing good by being in opposition to the protagonist but I want them to at least be a sufficiently well written character that I could believe that they'd have an opinion on the matter & ideally feel some little bit of conflict over it like a real person would.

I need to get back into happy rabbit-hole mode. The last one I went on was trying to figure out the length of time a side character would go to jail for a specific crime in a specific US state in the 1970s/80s. And then I didn't even bother mentioning it in my story.

I find trying to maintain a posting schedule has kind of killed my ability to deep-dive on research as my buffer of chapters has fallen away. Yet another reason I'm never going to start posting a multi-chapter fic before I finish it again!

I'm starting to understand the affectionate hellsite attitude. Although I feel like I'm in the honeymoon phase with Tumblr right now & this comment is going to bite me in the ass in a month's time when it turns out it's an actual hellsite.

😂 So long as it's a better Hellsite than Twitter, I'd be happy. The only thing I'm wondering about it is whether it will suit me as I don't do original or fan art - all my creative stuff is writing. I guess I'll see how it goes.

Odd re not being able to see a bunch of accounts. Sounds like a weird glitch!

I've been chatting with another writer in comments on their fic & they mentioned Tumblr a few times & I'm half contemplating joining it to see what the fandom is like there. Don't know if I want to get that deep into discussion of it though or just use it to advertise that my fics exist further afield than AO3.