Weird.

[hmpf]

Meant to go to bed, but suddenly felt like writing a tiny little bit yet. So I opened my throwaway Farscape ficlet that's been sort of hanging around since, err, 2008? And is kind of the definition of unnecessary fic, as it's just a completely run-of-the-mill bit of John angst?

So I haven't been working very hard on it, ever, because it's just not that interesting - it's just this thing that was sort of around, and occasionally I'd add a bit or subtract a bit or shift a few sentences around, idly, when I wanted to write but didn't feel like immersing myself in something more challenging/time-consuming. So I did that today again - and it's kind of almost finished now. o.O

Not *quite* finished yet. But maybe in a few days.

Couldn't this kind of "whoops, I accidentally almost finished this" thing happen to one of my main fics, for a change? *grumble*

Comments

[diotimah.livejournal.com]

Well, ficlet or fic ... John angst sounds exciting.;)

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

No, seriously, it's not exciting. I'm not sure why I'm even writing it at all - I've already said all I have to say on John angst with Normal, after all, and that one's hard (read: impossible) to top. Anything I can add on that theme feels like a pointless rehash.

It's also not me at the top of my game.

Farscape fandom must be very puzzled by my fic output...

2001: A River in Egypt: mediocre
2003: Rise and Shine: decent
2006: Normal: awesome.
2010: The Breakfast of Losers: decent
2012 (I think): Dead Man's Jacket: mediocre

It must look like I'm two different writers. :D

Come to think of it, my output in LoM follows a similar pattern:

2007: Starving on the Jump Down: decent
2008: How to Love a Madman: decent
2009: The Last Lost Generation: mediocre
2012: The Mad Doctrine: awesome

And as for Highlander...:

2000: This Is Your Time: dire
2001: Sometimes We Believe: decent
2001: Epilogue: mediocre
2002: Names: decent
2003: Endure: flawed awesomeness
2010: 68 Wives: awesome

Very large quality fluctuations in all, but at least with Highlander and LoM there's a kind of progression whereas with Farscape it's just up and down. (I do think I have one or two further awesome FS fics in me, btw - they will just take a while to produce and are currently on the back burner. I just know that they're high quality bunnies.) And I think as I keep adding to my LoM fic that will also develop and up and down pattern, rather than a steady progression, because I think the Maya fic may turn out to be just decent, rather than awesome. (The Sandman crossover should turn out awesome if I do it right, though.)

[diotimah.livejournal.com]

The MAD Doctrine, Normal and 68 WIves *are* mindblowingly awesome. And I have quite an affection for Names, which, with its mixture of mundane contemporary German student life and an exploration of Methos's Roman past and passion for archeology (btw, I'm not surprised you have him focus on periods preceding his own existence), has quite a unique atmosphere. And it's a great comment on impermanence, mutability and identity.:)

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :-) And yeah, I really like Names, too. I like all the fics I classed as "decent" here, really. They just all have a few flaws, or just aren't that interesting, thematically or structurally, you know? But I like them. (I would, of course: I wrote them. At *some* point I must have found them interesting enough to invest a lot of time in them. :D)

[diotimah.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed.;)