[HP] Attacked by the plot bunny from hell...

17/1/12 19:09
anyssia: (hp-harry dumby dick)
A couple of weeks ago, I had the urge to read independent!Harry fanfics. For whatever reason, good old Dumbles/Weasley!bashing interested me.

However, despite browsing FFnet's 100k+ list of fanfics, I didn't find many long (very loooong) independent!Harry fics >_<
Would you believe this, I even read Harry/Hermione fics because I couldn't find any other interesting stories. I did draw the line at Harry/Ginny (can't stand that girl, way too much hero worshiping and James/Lily VS Harry/Ginny parallel. She (JKR) had him marry a carbon copy of his mother, for Merlin's sake! O.o) and Harry/Daphne, ../Susan and such (Mary Sue, hellooo!).

So yeah, I read those fics, browsed for hours, and didn't find many attractive plots.
So of course, I had to think about my own story. Well, it was more of a "what would I like to read about, what kind of independent!Harry would I like to see", and bang! Hello Plot Bunny!

I resisted for two weeks! I'm proud of myself. Then I had a slow afternoon at work today, and my word processor was calling to me, and I just thought that I might as well write down that damned outline, just to get it out of my head.
4'000 words later, I'm barely into third year of the outline, which isn't really an outline anymore, but more of a really condensed story, and that plot bunny developed itself to near epic proportions.

As a result, I might publish a new Harry Potter WIP someday. If I do, I probably won't bother with more than a cursory beta-reading, because I don't want to invest myself in another fic like I did with Guide.

Well, we'll see ;p
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[FF7] Guide 6/WIP - some violence (Cloud_Zack_Seph)

16/8/11 22:11
anyssia: (hp-snape quill)
Title: Guide

Author: [personal profile] anyssia
Character/Pairing: Cloud, Zack, Sephiroth, Vincent. Eventually, Cloud/Zack/Seph
Fandom/Spoilers: Final Fantasy VII, Meteor Crisis.
Genre: adventure, what-if, slash
Disclaimer: not mine or I would have killed Hojo a long time ago!
Status: ch6/?, 2'700 words, 08/16/2011
Rating: some violence, G
Beta (s): [livejournal.com profile] lucime and [livejournal.com profile] jameva. All remaining mistakes are mine.

Summary: Nibelheim's reactor is due for a check-up and sixteen years old Cloud is hired to take the coming soldiers up the mountain.

Previous Chapters: Guide's Master Post. 01, 02, 03, 04, 05
Crossposted at: [livejournal.com profile] crisis_hardcore, [livejournal.com profile] ff7, [livejournal.com profile] ffvii_yaoi, FFnet


( Chapter 6 – A Voice in his Head )
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[FIC] Statistics

13/6/11 18:20
anyssia: (Default)
Holy Moly! O.O

The discussion on [community profile] writethisfanfic yesterday was about reviews and the lack thereof, if people only write for them or wrote despite not having any. We branched out to the hit counts and kudos feature of AO3 at some point and it made me want to go check my own hit counts over at FFnet.

It had been a while since I looked at it. I thought it might be a good idea to check it too, because I'm about to post the next chapter of Guide and it will help compare to know if there are still people following it ;p

So I opened my FFnet page and went O.O

Guide at FFnet is: 16,786 words long for 5 chapters.
It has 191 reviews and the visitor hits number is up to 40,698!
It's recced in 64 FFnet Communities and 394 persons faved it as 637 saved it in their author alert.

So yeah, I know the hit count isn't a real good baseline, between people who re-read the fic, those who skim over it every time they read a new chapter, those who just happen to pass through... (the first chapter has 16'500 hits (a nice round number, funny thing ;p) and the others have an average of 6'000 hits. Still, 6'000 O.O)

I guess I'll continue to use FFnet. [personal profile] anyssia is really my preferred archive and the place where the fics are the most up to date. It's more user friendly and has no advertisements, and the comment option of the journal is much more interesting/convivial than FFnet's review page. Also, I love being able to have a Master Post ^^
(and certain fics are censored at FFnet, to follow their guidelines ^^;; )

By the way, for the Guide readers, I'm happy to announce that the chapter 6 has gone back to [livejournal.com profile] lucime once again for her to check it. Another round of 'she sends it back, I rework it and send it to her again and she re-look over it', and I think we'll be good to go.
I hope, anyway. This chapter has been a real pain in my ass ;p

(EDIT: I just realized I had written 'Statistics' for the title in French: 'Statistiques' ^^;; It's kind of hard to see those mistakes, as the words are so alike)
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[REC] Time-travel Cloud and young Sephiroth's POV

2/6/11 20:01
anyssia: (ff7-cloud ac version)
Yep, again a rec, this time because there are never enough time-travel fics! ^^

This one is a FFVII time-travel story with a bit of a twist: it's a AC!Cloud/Young!Sephiroth \O/
The story was originally from a ficlet by the same author, for a FFVII Kink Meme Prompt: A well cared for weapon, which she re-wrote as a full story.

It's amazingly well written with an extraordinary bit about Materia use in every day appliances and a YOUNG!SEPHIROTH'S POV!!! I'm still awed over how well she writes Sephiroth's thoughts and the way she defined him. Also, the interaction between competent, strong!Cloud and young, eager to learn!Sephiroth is... mmmmh ;p
(and it's a 50'000 words story for 10 chapters and still growing, woot!)

((PS: I consider anything under 10'000 words as short, from 10'000 to 50'000 words as long and over 50'000 as epic ^^ )


Title: A SOLDIER'S Weapon
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters/Pairing: AC!Cloud/Young!Sephiroth, Cloud, Sephiroth, Hojo, Yuffie, Angeal, ...
Categories: adventure/action, time-travel, slash, a bit of chan as Sephiroth is 15 or 16
Length: work in progress and already epic (~54'000 words for the first 10 chapters)

Author: [livejournal.com profile] oniko_inuki

Summary: There is a mysterious new SOLDIER at ShinRa. Sephiroth searches for the truth about Cloud Strife, ShinRa, and himself, while being haunted by the possibilities of darker futures. AC!Cloud/Young!Sephiroth
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[WORD COUNT] May 2011

1/6/11 18:51
anyssia: (nano-wc shmurd count)
So, I totally stole this from [livejournal.com profile] askerian ;p and it will be done very quickly xD

Total word count for May: 6677 words.
Total word count for 2011: 6677 words \O/ ^^

• Complete/posted work:
none

• WIP:
a Nanaki/Cloud PWP for the [livejournal.com profile] ffvii_kink_meme

I feel a bit bad because I haven't written the last two weeks, but since it's my first words of the year, I'm still happy with the word count :)


Aaaand, teaser! ^___^
(oh, and remember, it's only the draft. Meaning, it needs to be beta-ed once or twice ;p )

( I still haven't thought of a title and I'm beginning to wonder if I shouldn't, because calling it the Nanaki/Cloud thingy all the time isn't ideal :3 )

Also, I'm on a four days week-end! \O/ Writing, catching up with my F-list, cleaning the apartment, reading some more ^^
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[REC] Cuddle Snuggle

31/5/11 21:25
anyssia: (sga-team)
This was so totally cute, I think I melted. Or at least, I went from "awwww" to "mwahahahah" to *sighs*. Felt good to read such a nice story after that bunch of dark-fics today ;p


Title: Sleeping Arrangements
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairing: John, Ronon, Teyla, Rodney, Ford.
Categories: gen, fluff
Length: Short (~2'500 words)

Author: [personal profile] sholio

Summary: For the prompt: Turns out both Ronon and Rodney are rampant sleep-cuddlers when off world. John and Teyla make them bunk together so they can cuddle each other. Ronon and Rodney are both totally okay with this.
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[REC] A SGA girl!John story

30/5/11 22:53
anyssia: (sga-mine john/rodney)
I'm not usually that big a fan of genderswitch, but this story was sweet and funny and still felt like John and Rodney.

Or at least, a plausible Rodney with a cute girl in command and a plausible girl!John becoming the commanding officer of a bunch of guys/marines/civilians.

(also, semi-sentient!Atlantis \O/)

Title: Story of a Girl
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairing: John(Joan)/Rodney, Ronon, Teyla, Carson, Elisabeth, Lorne, Radek, ...
Categories: AU, genderswitch, fluff, het sex.
Length: Long (~14,000 words)

Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] seperis

Summary: When Joanna Sheppard was six years old, she stepped into the cockpit of her very first plane and told her parents that she wanted to fly.

"Women don't go into combat," Major Sheppard said with a frown, eyes flickering to his wife, leaning casually against the seat.

Captain Sheppard just grinned and reached down, guiding her daughter's hands. "Joan will fly planes that haven't been invented yet." Leaning down, her mother's voice hummed low and gentle against her ear. "All you have to do is want it."
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[MISC] Not much this week. From my side, anyway.

29/5/11 20:38
anyssia: (ff7-nanaki)
Spent my day going through 100+ posts because I almost didn't look at my f-list this week.

I really, really need to keep up to date, like, daily >.<

Also, I finally managed to make it to the sex part of the Nanaki/Cloud PWP and it's being a total bitch -_-' I only managed to write 500 words this week. But I don't want to force myself, because I know that if I do I'll mess it up totally T_T
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[REC] Highlander/Stargate SG1 crossover

22/5/11 18:39
anyssia: (misc-screw canon)
For whatever reason, I decided that today I wanted to merely sit and read. And to read SG1 crossovers. Of course, the easiest way to get new fanfics is still Fanfiction.net and can I tell you, there are way, way too many horrible fics there.
The good point being that, for every 10 tabs I opened with SG1 crossovers, at least four were closed because I couldn't even bear to read the end of the first chapter.

That said, I have found one of the most mind blowing SG1/Highlander crossover ever. The plot is well rounded, the story line totally unexpected, it doesn't create Mary Sues nor push away the original characters,... Honestly, I've spent hours glued to my screen and holding my breath, as I couldn't wait to know how it was going to turn out.

Title: A Square Peg in a Round Hole
Fandom: crossover Stargate SG1/Highlander
Characters/Pairing: no pairing. Jack O'Neill, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, Teal'c, General Hammond, Jack-Mini Me, Methos, Duncan MacLeod, Joe Dawson, Cassandra, ...
Categories: action, adventure
Length: Epic (~44,000 words)

Author on LJ: http://marbleglove.livejournal.com/
Website: n/a

Summary: or Junior Year of High School, Revised, A Clones Tale. Highlander-Stargate X-Over. Methos was just spending a year as a highschool teacher; Jake O'Neil was just trying to be someone other than Jack O'Neill; neither are simple individuals.
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[CHALL] [community profile] writethisfanfic's June WIP challenge

21/5/11 16:57
anyssia: (ff7-nanaki)
A few weeks ago I discovered [community profile] writethisfanfic, a community to help people stay motivated and to keep writing. A bit like a year round Nanowrimo community, except that there aren't any word count set requirement.
Instead, every month the mod ask you what you are challenging yourself to. Then, there is a daily post asking you how it's going, if you're sticking to your own chall, and various questions to get people to talk/comment to each others ;p Also, there are writing sessions/sprints organized almost weekly.

I wasn't sure about it (and I caught the chall mid-May), but it's really great! Nobody forces you to write like in Nanowrimo, no pressure, no nagging. But the posts do remind you that, 'yes, stop procrastinating, your fic isn't going to write itself' xD So it's a win-win situation for me. The community stays alive with the posts and comments, and I can't ignore my fanfics.

I wrote 6'000 words this month thanks to that community! (all for the Nanaki/Cloud fic. It was my challenge: to finish the one-shot. I'm not done yet, but I still have a week and the thing is growing longer than I anticipated ;p)


Anyway, that was the presentation part. Now for June's WIP challenge:

Level of challenge: not sure. either I already finished my current one-shot, then I'll try to get at least two chapters of Guide ready (and that to finally proofread that last chapter! It's about ready to be posted and I still haven't even opened the file T.T) or the one-shot isn't done so I'll finish it (and the last chapter of Guide, damn it, Anyssia!)

Fandom(s) involved: Final Fantasy VII of course ;p

What you're looking for from the challenge: Motivation and something to keep me on track. If I don't check the posts daily, I "forget" about writing or I postpone it and never get anything done.

What you could offer other participants yourself: encouragements, someone to bitch to, about how your story is doing everything it wants to and not what you want it to do ;p I can give advice on plot ideas but not grammar 'coz English isn't my mother tongue ^^

How people should contact you: DW pm is good or you can comment here ^__^

Time zone: France, so UTC/GMT +2 hours.
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