Random Fandom Insert - Wildfire
Nov. 7th, 2015 12:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
While I was working on Alter the Ending, I stumbled onto the Wildfire TV series again. (Seriously, what is my deal with dead fandoms? This is the second one revolving around 2008, the year the show ended. El Internado Seasons 3 to 7 took place in 2008. I started writing Dark Angel fanfic in 2008. I graduated from college in 2008. Clearly, I have a subconscious problem.) After watching the show all over again, I wrote a random post-series fic for the show, The Shortest Distance, that was supposed to be a 'one-shot.' Now that I'm typing it up, it's actually longer than I realized... I'm somehow up to a third chapter now, and that's the midpoint! When I wrote it, it was just a free flow into a notebook that I had, which ran a couple of pages because I thought it would be one chapter. I blame the long commute, but this is a good thing / bad thing situation - it's good because this is shows that I've got the stride to build an entire novel again, but it's bad because it takes a lot of time to work on. It just needs to be edited and posted, then I'll have more of Alter the Ending typed and also another few one/two-shots for El Internado (Ivan and Julia's wedding, Noiret's funeral, Christmas post-finale, another S4 'Roque finds out about Ivan and Julia' fic, and a fic about between S4 and S5 about how Ivan and Julia began dating, summer scenes), then it's lights out on the fandom. Okay, I'm looking at that list, and I'm not sure how I wrote that much... Or how in the world I can edit all of that in a timely manner...
Everything for these fics was pre-written, unlike Dark Angel's series, which I eventually fell behind with over time. Managing a long running series rather than one-shots is definitely different and more difficult because of the momentum that has to be maintained. El Internado fics came about by a sheer fluke, and I had no idea that I'd write so much for the fandom. It's especially ironic because the show isn't in English, not all of fans are Spanish (the show was big in several international markets around the world) and no one reviews. Sometimes I don't know if that means that I'm a good writer or not. I thought it would be a waste for these stories to never have anyone read them, so I'm excited that at least I can imagine that someone else in the wide world is deriving some amusement from them.
Everything for these fics was pre-written, unlike Dark Angel's series, which I eventually fell behind with over time. Managing a long running series rather than one-shots is definitely different and more difficult because of the momentum that has to be maintained. El Internado fics came about by a sheer fluke, and I had no idea that I'd write so much for the fandom. It's especially ironic because the show isn't in English, not all of fans are Spanish (the show was big in several international markets around the world) and no one reviews. Sometimes I don't know if that means that I'm a good writer or not. I thought it would be a waste for these stories to never have anyone read them, so I'm excited that at least I can imagine that someone else in the wide world is deriving some amusement from them.