#new year new fic new goals

[turanga4]

2022 Roundup

Thanks for the open tag, @sliebman10--I like how this one has a mix of things one did, things one is doing, and things one WISHES to do next year.

Post the top 5 works you're most proud of that you released in 2022 (not necessarily your most popular),

your top 4 current WIPs that you're excited to release in the new year,

your top 3 biggest improvements in your writing over the past year,

your top 2 resolutions (ways you wish to improve your writing/blog) for the new year,

and your number 1 favorite line you've written this year!

Five pieces I am proud of feels like a lot: imma do three.

Accidental Magic This one came so seamlessly to me, once I scrapped all my initial plans to do a more conventional love story for the contest prompt, "pivot." I'm proud because it was a chance for me to trust my instincts, and also to reach out to other writers for advice and thought partnership--I leaned heavily on a brilliant meta from @ashesandhackles and I felt so very brash even asking for permission to do that, but she met me with such amazing kindness and sincere interest in my craft.

Mysteries This one kicked my arse. I drafted and struggled and despaired and tried again, and if @evesaintyves hadn't been there to talk me off the ledge seven different times, it would never have made it to publication. I am proud, because I didn't give up, and now, it's a thing I feel good about sharing.

Visit Proud of my last piece, because it shows I'm still creating stuff, and also because I used it to try a very new thing--second person pov. I'm proud of the fact that I am always learning and stretching: it's first and foremost a credit to the people who are so generous with their support, inspiration, and encouragement, but it is also a credit, I think, to me.

2. FOUR current WIPs? Nah.

I'm working on one thing for a festival, so must be Way Secret. I am also working on a story centering Neville after the War--my conceit is weaving together his relationship with himself and his parents with the Muggle concept of using principles of improv comedy to work with dementia patients. I only have the title (Yes And) and a couple hundred words, but I'm looking forward to crafting it fully next year.

3. Biggest Improvements this year? Everything? I just started fan fic writing this year, and I started out ROUGH. I think craft-wise, I've gained the most in my ability to use point of view, and in my use of actions and descriptions to gird my dialogue: I used to pretty much just drop the characters in the middle of a conversation and not do anything other than the 'script' to help the reader understand time, place, or mood. Metacognitively, I've gained confidence, although I still have further to go with this--a willingness to see what I'm doing as both worth doing for myself and worth sharing with others.

4. Two Resolutions I shall break the 3000 words mark, and I shall learn how to Plot, which is something that I genuinely have not needed to fuck with until now.

5. One Favorite Line: From Accidental Magic, a summary of sorts of Harry's arc as he moves from what he needed to be around the Dursleys towards who he is meant to be:

He hides cake under the floorboards and buries love in a place deep enough within himself that for years it sparks out hot and feral, beyond conscious volition, an accidental magic that he has to learn to tame.

It has been such a joy to have found fan fic and the lovely, lovely humans I am blessed to know within this special space. I wish you all a creative and wondrous new year!

[turanga4]

Hi! What about no. 2 or 5 for the fic writing goal ask ?

Thanks!

Thanks so much for the lovely lovely ask(s)!

List is here.

2 a genre I would like to write: Hmm. It might be neat to try my hand at comedy again--I've only done one piece that fits that label, and it was a blast.

5 a pov I wish to try: Excellent question. I have been chipping steadily away at different povs ever sense I had the terrible realization that there WAS pov: in my lil baby turanga initial days, I genuinely thought everything that wasn't "I" or "you" was just third person omniscient and thus not tied to any character. I've done Snape, Sprout, Golden Trio, Dumbles, Lupin, McGonagall, what have you. I am now in the beta stages of the POV I have wanted to try for a bit but not been sure how to--second person. I currently have no interest whatsoever in trying first person, which probably means I'll do first person on a whim next month. Thinking about it, actually, I think pretty much the only one I might wish to do that I haven't fully is Sirius--brb gonna dust off the thing I abandoned six months ago because I didn't want people thinking it was Hermione slash (she's actually yelling at him. He rather deserves it.)

Happy happy new year--may your fan fic and other dreams all come true this year!

[turanga4]

Asking you 1 and 8 for the 2023 writing tag :)

Awwww thanks friend!

Writing Tag with questions here. (Bonus points for anyone who asks me number 3)

1: A ship I want to write: I don't honestly set out thinking in terms of romantic pairings, although Hinnyfest was fluffy and fun. I might try to do a Hermione/Ron piece from Ron's POV, as a way of attempting to understand that character better.

8: A friend I'd like to collaborate with: I've been already so incredibly blessed by such opportunities in the ways that I think I'd most enjoy them, starting, in fact, with YOUR beta-ing my comp fics. I don't personally think that a joint writing thing would work well for me: I'd give in to my tendency to switch towards the other person's voice. It's been just spectacular for me to talk about ideas with discord friends, and oh wow oh wow oh wow I've even been lucky enough to have some of my absolute gods and heroes actually taking a LOOK at what I've written and helping me learn and do more. If I'm able to continue doing any of that...that's an absolute gift and much more than enough.

May the year to come bring YOU much happiness--in writing and in life!

[turanga4]

7 for the writing goals

Thanks so much for the ask!

A resource I wish to use: I am always and forever so blessed to use the Three Broomsticks resource that we both know and love. It might be fun to try that thing that everyone was using to make the pretty pretty moodboards and such--@pebblysand, what's it called? canva? canvas? cannabinoid? Also thinking I could do a Masterclass in order to actually learn how to write without dragging all my mentors through the weeds with me.