January Round-up

[cjmarlowe]

Hoo-boy. Well, I think I started the year out right, as far as writing goes. I wrote 66,058 words this month, and posted 26 ficlets and stories in 4 fandoms, ranging between 900 and 6,000 words, most falling between 1500 and 2500. My two long stories for the Donors Choose auction are in their final stages (finally!) and I've got a CW RPF story almost ready to post on the 15th for j2_everafter. Plus progress on assorted other projects, including apocabigbang if I miraculously finish my first draft on time.

In a weird way, this fandom has brought me back to my fannish roots this year, too, because I'm now working on an AI8-Star Trek:Voyager fusion for orihara_kaoru, and an AI8-Highlander fusion for blackdress_adam. What next? Sentinel? X-Files?

And also, movies and books, January 2010:

Hamlet (2009) (which I quite liked, actually)
The Mummy Returns (fahrbot's fault, but I love this movie)
...yeah, I failed at movies this month. But I also watched:
X-Files - Season 1
X-Files - Season 2
and it's kind of fascinating to me to go back and watch those now and remember when all that fashion and technology was contemporary. It's weird to think what that show would be like if they made it now. Huge plot points would have to be different.

And as for books, I read:

Gordon Korman - I Want to Go Home
- This was a reread of a favourite from childhood, which I picked up on a whim at the bookstore because I didn't own a copy. I felt a little betrayed by the fact that they updated the text to include more modern references, though. I mean, that's just not necessary.

Jules Verne - Journey to the Centre of the Earth
- I read a much abridged version of this as a kid but never the whole thing, and I'm glad to have finally read it. It was kind of historically fascinating, and I found Axel a really interesting and unexpected narrator. I think I was expecting something different from the tone, so that was really compelling for me.

Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- O novel of my heart! This book is seriously like the very best of what fan fiction can be.

Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice - Promised Land
- This is one of those books that I reread when I need something familiar and satisfying. I don't think it's Connie Willis's best, but sometimes I really do want to read a romance, and when I do I want one that's not quite formula but still light and a little predictable.

I have a lot to write yet today. It's possible I'm procrastinating right now.

Comments

[cincodemaygirl.livejournal.com]

They *modernized* I Want to Go Home? I am horrified.

I like Promised Land in just the same way--not a great book, but a good comfort read.

For the record, I find your word count totally miraculous and intimidating. I think I've managed like 3000 words this whole month. *headdesk*

[cjmarlowe.livejournal.com]

I know! The first time Rudy picked up his CD player I was like, WTAF?

Right now I'm aiming for 2000 words a day, which I'd like to keep up for the whole year, but we'll have to see.