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Sep. 4th, 2012 09:04 amSo my issues are acting up a little. Nothing massive, I'm not having any of my shiny shiny meltdowns, I'm just a little overly thinky about things I don't need to be thinky at all about.
Friend of mine on LJ just recently finished writing a Hunger Games AU-from-Catching Fire-on fic that's 304K+ and has hundreds of comments and kudos on AO3. And she wrote it in the space of just a couple months.
Now, first off, I'm thrilled that she could write it. It is an AMAZING fic and I love what I've read so far -- only the first chapter or two because I'm horrible at reading fic online anymore, but still.
But I'm jealous of her, of the comments and kudos and the sheer ability to write something with that kind of word count in such a short time. Not so much because of the word count specifically... well, kind of. I'd love to be able to write something with that much plot in it, that much intricacy, that much scope. But nothing I write ever comes NEAR that. I can't write long fic to save my life -- I struggle on each and every bigbang fic I write, which is the closest comparison I have in terms of longfic though bigbangs are so much shorter than her fic.
And she's an awesome person that I really like, and she's in such a financial situation that writing is like the ONLY entertainment besides internet that she can afford, so I REALLY didn't want to write this on LJ because I didn't want her to see it and get upset or hurt or anything. But I had to get it out of my system because it is frustrating the HELL out of me to be jealous of her fic and her ability to write something that long. I have much more productive things I'd like to be doing right now, man.
Friend of mine on LJ just recently finished writing a Hunger Games AU-from-Catching Fire-on fic that's 304K+ and has hundreds of comments and kudos on AO3. And she wrote it in the space of just a couple months.
Now, first off, I'm thrilled that she could write it. It is an AMAZING fic and I love what I've read so far -- only the first chapter or two because I'm horrible at reading fic online anymore, but still.
But I'm jealous of her, of the comments and kudos and the sheer ability to write something with that kind of word count in such a short time. Not so much because of the word count specifically... well, kind of. I'd love to be able to write something with that much plot in it, that much intricacy, that much scope. But nothing I write ever comes NEAR that. I can't write long fic to save my life -- I struggle on each and every bigbang fic I write, which is the closest comparison I have in terms of longfic though bigbangs are so much shorter than her fic.
And she's an awesome person that I really like, and she's in such a financial situation that writing is like the ONLY entertainment besides internet that she can afford, so I REALLY didn't want to write this on LJ because I didn't want her to see it and get upset or hurt or anything. But I had to get it out of my system because it is frustrating the HELL out of me to be jealous of her fic and her ability to write something that long. I have much more productive things I'd like to be doing right now, man.
