Hi! This is my (queenitsy's) writing journal. If you are looking for anything about me and my life, or general fannish squeeing, that's probably where you want to be. This is where I post fic. It's also where I post about writing, both fanfic and original stuff. A lot of it is very self-indulgent and pretentious. I only really write about the original stuff under friendslock -- the only stuff that's friendslocked -- but I will friend back anyone who friends this journal.

In ascending order:

-Work article: 800 words
-AV review/Nerdblog entry: 1,100 words (review is unfinished)
-Princess Protection Program review/recap: 2,600 words
-HSMBB: 4,700 words

TOTAL: 9,200 words

That's the best I've done in ages. Yay, me!

My HSMBB is now a bit upwards of 7k, btw. And I think about halfway done.

Tart: 300 words
The Novel: 350 words
Random C/R: 1,000 words
Other C/R: 2,750

TOTAL: 4,400

Original fiction fail this week. But I may have hit on something with HSMBB. Or not. It's not really plotted and I already know what I've got has to be edited down because they keep repeating themselves, but whatevs. We'll see if I get bored with it.

( snippet of non-BB fic thingie. this would eventually be smut. )

Hmm. Okay. So I've decided to toss out the 10,000 words I'd written on my HSMBB, because I hated it. Love the concept, detested my execution, and it wasn't working out to be small, fix-in-the-edits things. It just wasn't working at all. So moving right along.

Now what do I write? I've got, off the top of my head, four ideas in various states of plotting: the Cinderella fic (super shmultizy, 99% plotted), the future fic (about 80% plotted), the baseball AU (not quite what it sounds like, and about 50 - 60% plotted), or the Evans family reunion fic (also 50 - 60% plotted)? Or something else entirely...?

The issue with all of these, and the now-abandoned one I was working on, is that the reason they are mentally outlined but not written is because I love tossing around wacky ideas and situations and dialogue, but there are very few things I like enough to spend the time with to actually write. If these four were more compelling, then I'd probably have already bothered to write them. (This is also why there are so many abandoned fics on my hard drive, and why I don't post WIPs unless the rough draft is done, so I know I'll have the attention span to finish them.)

So that makes me think that I should go with a new idea entirely. But I don't have a new idea at the moment. Decisions, decisions. Hmmmmmm.

I don't know. Maybe I'll scrap my entire HSMBB and write something else. I have plenty of other workable ideas, and I detest every single word I've written.

This week...

- The Novel: 800 words
- Tart: 1000 words (almost half of which were deleted...)
- HSMBB: 800 words (all of which *will* be deleted, sigh)
- Tweenage post: 900 words on SK (not counting anything cowritten with Jess today!)

TOTAL: 3,700

Hm, well, not as much as I'd have liked, but I was pretty freaking busy AND, more importantly, all the stuff I wrote on the novel was actually good, which I have been striving for. It's nice to have at least some writing I won't be deleting. This week, I'd really like to finish the Tart chapter, while I'm concentrating on boybands elsewhere anyway. Beyond that, we'll see.

The Novel: 600 words
Fun New Project: 2,100 words
HSM Big Bang: 2,600 words
Off the Clock: 1,500 words
TOTAL: 6,700

Do I really have to go back to work next week?

(Actually, I could have been way more productive, but at least I feel things vaguely resembling creative juices flowing for the first time in awhile, which is nice.)

Status list of stuff I'm working on now:

( HSM Big Bang )

( Fun New Project )

( The Novel )

Title: Off the Clock
Pairing: Chad/Ryan (at least, heavily implied...)
Rating: G-ish
Warnings: None
Note: I revised this one in July, to clean up some screwy tense issues. IDEK what happened originally.
Summary: Fulton's job isn't easy, and it never ends.

Technically speaking, Thomas Fulton's job title was General Manager of Lava Springs. In reality, for the eight years since the Evans family purchased Lava Springs and inherited Fulton as the manager, he had two jobs. He ran the club's day-to-day business, and he kept the Evans twins happy.
( Read more... )

This week:

- Slight work on Fun New Project: 500 words
- Very slight work on Tart: 300 words
- HSM AU: 1,600 words

TOTAL: 2,400 words

I've been really unproductive lately, clearly. It's for a variety of reasons, but I'd really like to snap out of it. I'm on vacation this week, so hopefully that'll help.

That thing where I was going to write more this week, uh, didn't happen. I was super busy with reading (first two books I had to finish before bookathon, then, on the weekend when I usually do the bulk of my writing, well... Bookathon).

What I did manage was about 1,000 words of fic -- right, because with HSMbigbang happening, what I need is another semi-epic AU. Whatever, it'll be awesome, once I figure out what actually happens. It's a good bunny; it'll grow big and strong.

And at AV, the various bookathon reviews totaled about 1,700 words.

So that's 2,700 total. SIGH. Better next week...maybe?

Title: Disco Ducky
Rating: G-ish
Dedicaton: This was hastily written just for ienablu. Happy birthday, you!
Notes: Technically, this fic is before any actual relationship between Chad and Ryan...
Summary: Chad and Ryan joke around backstage during a rehearsal, and Ryan revels in the power of being a choreographer.

Ryan was totally oblivious to the fact that Chad was standing next to him, until Chad murmured, "Don't tell anyone this, ever, but your sister is completely right."

That was enough to get Ryan's attention. He'd been listening to Troy and Gabriella rehearsing Just Wanna Be With You around the piano, trying to envision it so he could really begin choreographing, so he'd been pretty focused. The fact that he hadn't turned to greet Chad was proof enough of that -- not that he'd admit it, but he still got a bit of a thrill every time Chad talked to him, and he pretty much always knew when Chad was in a room, let alone near him.( Read more... )

You know what's weird? I thought I wrote a lot more this week than I actually did. Huh.

- Big Bang: 2,300 words
- The Novel: 600 words
- AV review: 600 words (not yet posted)
- Ridiculous Crossover: 800 words
Total: 4,300 words

The ridiculous crossover, by the way, is HSM and -- for the few people who know what this -- Suzanne Brockmann's Troubleshooters series.

And if you don't know what that means, go pick up a copy of Hot Target immediately. You'll be glad you did; don't let the hot pink cover deter you. (It features an out and proud FBI agent! And a closeted, alcoholic movie star! A totally kick ass chick! A hot Navy SEAL! And a gay WWII veteran! You know you want to read this.)

Hopefully, more words next week, I guess.

My HSM Big Bang is currently 5,547 words long.

Do I even need to say it is not even close to half finished?

My super rough guestimate is that it'll end up in the 15-20k range. We'll see. Heh.

I wasn't very productive this week; all I managed all week was about 2,300 words for my hsmbigbang fic. I have no idea what happened, but I shall strive to be more productive next week.

My big bang fic, though, for the record? Will give people spontaneous tooth decay. You've been forewarned.

I was digging through my random fic folder looking for something or other (I don't even remember what) and found some random fics I've given up on, some of which I'd forgotten had ever existed. Mostly they were terrible, or just didn't work for some reason, but I found a few enjoyable scenes. Here, have random snippets of Chad and Ryan with little to no context!

From something labeled "Evil Evans.doc" which I think was an alternate beginning to Ryan's Three Rules before I was totally clear on where that fic was going: ( In which Chad is easily flustered, and Ryan comes out )

This one is technically finished, but I really hated it; I was going to rewrite it at some point, but lost interest. Basically, for various reasons, the boys are denying one another sex and waiting to see who breaks down first.

( Sharpay is the best part of the fic, actually. )

This one... IDEK. I remember I had planned something about various rumors going around the school, and it was going to end with smut, but have zero idea how it was supposed to get from point A to point B. But I enjoy ( this conversation, )

And I know I've mentioned this one before, because it was the first Chad/Ryan fic I wrote, but I didn't post it because it was seriously lacking in the "having a plot" category. The following (R-rated!) takes place the night after Chad accidentally walks in on Ryan getting head from a Lava Springs masseur. ( A kink, I has one. )

And then, near the end, things are awkward for various reasons, and Troy obliviously invites Ryan to come play basketball, and Ryan immediately accidentally injures Chad, because that's just how he rolls.( Read more... )

Okay. Done now, methinks. (There is a reason I have a "self indulgent" tag.)

I just mistyped "Chad's frat" as "Chad's fart." Frankly, I'm surprised it's the first time I've made that typo.

Carry on.

Less productive this week:

- Novel: 500 words (but chapter 1 finished!)
- Misc fic: 1,100
- Meme for tweendom_anon: 3, 100

Total: 4,700

Maybe better this week. I'm getting geared up for hsmbigbang; I basically know what I'm going to write, but I need to put together a real outline, because right now it's a sketchy plot and a lot of individual scenes in my head, and I need it to gel a bit more. I'm pretty psyched, though, the seeds of this have been in my brain since February, I just needed an excuse to write another long one.

I'd like to work on the novel and Tart this week mostly, though.

Ehrm, this is the anon fic I wrote; it's long and het and Zeke/Sharpay. If you're interested. I might clean it up into actual fic someday. Maybe. Is it weird that I find writing het sex from a male POV infinitely more weird than writing gay sex?

- The Novel: 750 words
- Anon meme: 1,200 words
- Fratverse #1: 2,700 words
- Fratverse #2: 1,000 words
- Other: 1,800 words
TOTAL: 7,450 words

Neither of those fratverse fics are actually the one I posted earlier. I wrote it in January, decided I hated it and that it was unsalvageable, and let it languish on my hard drive. In an attempt to get back into the 'verse, I dug it out and realized I liked bits of it, so I cleaned up (mostly edited out) the rest, and voila, instant fic.

The two I actually worked on were the next big arch (tentatively titled "Scenes from a Summer" because I am uncreative) and a random snippet from an OC's POV that popped into my head. As that may never see the internet in finished form, ( Have a snippet. (Chad's sophomore year; very lazy with formatting) )

Title: Something New
Pairing: Referenced Chad/OC, Sharpay/OC
Rating: PG
Warnings: Sexist frat boys. Gratuitous Chad abuse.
Summary: Chad gets hazed and comes out. Sharpay meets a boy.
[Frat!verse prequel type thing: "Did you know he introduced me and Matt? By accident, of course, I would not have been talking to Chad Danforth intentionally."]

Chad had always figured outraged women only actually slapped men across the face in movies. He hadn't really thought about it or anything, but he'd never even seen Sharpay Evans unleash a real slap on anyone, and she was by far the most dramatic (and easily outraged) person he'd ever met. ( So it came as something of a shock when Melinda's palm cracked against his cheek. )