June of Doom & Gloom - Week 4 discussion and etc. post

[huinare]

Welcome to week 4 (challenge details here yadda yadda)! We still have a week until July 1st, so we're not off the hook yet. I'm excited that finished stories have appeared on the scene!
Discussion in comments, if so desired. Woes, gloating, links to your stories? Optional discussion topic for all: Are there ways in which your writing has changed since around this time last year--in terms of writing style, themes, plot devices, characters, or whatever else? Go!

Comments

[tehta.livejournal.com]

I have a link to share! Because I did finish a thing.

Title: Cliffhanger
Summary: Climbing partners get very accustomed to saving each other's lives. The habit can prove hard to break, as Findekáno and Maitimo discover.
Location: AO3.
Warnings: It starts out fluffy, but does not end that way.


As for your question... it sounds apt, since the three parts of this story were written in 2006, 2013, and 2014 respectively, and they are clearly different. However, I do not think the differences are due to their dates of origin: tragically, I am so old that my writing has pretty much stabilized. (I know there is more I could learn and develop, of course, but it does not seem to be happening...)

[chaotic-binky.livejournal.com]

I have posted my story - Dying for Love, in which Nàmo reflects on the selfless nature of love and the pain it can bring.

Here it is on my LJ: http://chaotic-binky.livejournal.com/833336.html

On A03: http://archiveofourown.org/works/1841212

On Faerie: http://efiction.esteliel.de/viewstory.php?sid=1317

Enjoy :)

[huinare.livejournal.com]

I posted the first chapter to my story, The Birds of the Temple Garden. I'm extremely glad to finally be writing again. This is the story I've been wanting to write for a year, but I had no idea how to go about it and was finding myself intimidated and unenthused.

Chapter 1 here: "The Incurious," in which Mairon deals with that inept acolyte.

So far this is really mild by my standards--creepy, but not grisly. It may reach a certain grisliness at some point because, well, I am what I am, but I'll warn on individual chapters in that event.

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Now maybe I should answer the discussion question, because so far I've answered zero of my own discussion questions this month (don't tell!). I actually appear to have shot myself in the foot with that question, because, aside from a few efforts I don't think worth counting, I haven't written since December 2012.

But comparing then to now, I -think- (and we'll see how my story bears this out) I have less of a desire to be wrenching and shocking, and more of a desire to add a sort of dark poesy and melancholia to stuff, make the terrible beautiful or whatever.

[independence1776]

I'll probably post mine tomorrow or Friday. I'm trying to decide if it should go in my ficlet collection (it turned out shorter than I wanted) or as a standalone.

Maybe? At least, I'm making a deliberate effort to include more description because I'm fairly terrible at it otherwise. I'm also learning how to deal with leaving a story for longer periods of time than a few days and then returning to work on it, which is new. I normally write straight through when I start something, so it's a bit of a challenge.

[pandemonium-213.livejournal.com]

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Not yet posted. In progress. Plenty of Doom and Gloom (for me).

[zdenka]

No new progress for me this week. I've been frantically working on an exchange fic (which is done now, at least). It was suitably doomy and gloomy, at my recipient's request, but not in Tolkien fandom. It's looking like I won't have a full-length story finished this month, which doesn't really surprise me -- but it's still been helpful in terms of restarting things that had been stalled.

My writing has changed over time, but I don't think there's a significant different between last year and now. It's a little hard to tell because (except with exchange stories) I don't just sit down and write something start to finish -- I'll work on it in fits and starts over months or years. The things I'm finishing now may well be things I started a year ago!

[ladybrooke]

Well, on the bright side, I know what I'm going to write.

Now I just need to do that. :P Which means working up the energy and enough alone time...I can and will do this though.

I'm not sure how it's changed, but I know that I look at things I wrote last year and cringe and want to rewrite.

[hhimring]

Well, you already know about this (and thank you so much for your comments!), but for the sake of tidiness here is the link:
http://hhimring.livejournal.com/#post-hhimring-92650
(Maedhros and the Palantir, not otherwise archived yet)

The main change since last summer, I guess, is that I began to experiment with writing drabbles to Tolkien Weekly prompts about subjects or characters that I otherwise hesitated to tackle. Only the Palantir story doesn't particularly illustrate this--except perhaps the "subjects or characters I hesitate to tackle" part!

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

All done. Just under the wire too.

It's not quite what I planned though; during last minute edits, well... never mind. Maybe... someday I'll redo it.

Still, I hope you like.

Erm, I should say also that I am in US Central time (GMT +6) and it's just after 11 pm. Ooops.

It's at my lj.