Out with the old, in with the new
Dec. 31st, 2013 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yuuagoSo, somehow in the last two days I've managed to pound out 2k of Link Between Worlds fic. This is not normal. Usually I'm doing awesome if I can manage to write 500 words of Hetalia fic in that amount of time. I write pretty slowly on average. So this much, for a fandom and characters that I have no experience with, is just ??? how the heck did that happen.
Not that I'm complaining! I'm just really surprised at myself. This doesn't usually happen. I think part of the reason I managed it is because Link is a silent protagonist in the game, so I can pretty much do anything I want with his voice as long as I keep it reasonable. So far the most difficult part has been... everything else. This story is a combination of action/horror with a side of friendship, and the action/horror part is super hard. There's no shortness of creepiness in A Link Between Worlds (and in Legend of Zelda in general) but geeze, how on earth do people write scary stuff?! It's so hard! Not to mention that action scenes never have been my forte. But I'm trying, at least.
Maybe I should read some horror novels to see if I can get any inspiration there - as far as technique and, hmm, creating atmosphere. :D I'm sure I have a few scattered around on the to-read list....
Anyway. It's New Years Eve, isn't it? To be honest, I'm kind of glad to leave 2013 behind. It really sucked in a lot of ways, and I am just plain done with it. On the upside, some good things happened too. Wrote some things I'm satisfied with, read some good books, went on an awesome vacation, started a new position at work and I like it so much better than the previous... and hell, let's add re-discovering an old fandom to the list, even if that happened at the tail-end of the year.
So, it wasn't all bad. But I am realllllly ready to be done and start a new calendar year. So, hopefully the next one will be... better. I'm going to do my best to make it so, I really am! But Chance always plays a part in how things turn out, so there really isn't any way to predict how things will go.
Not that I'm complaining! I'm just really surprised at myself. This doesn't usually happen. I think part of the reason I managed it is because Link is a silent protagonist in the game, so I can pretty much do anything I want with his voice as long as I keep it reasonable. So far the most difficult part has been... everything else. This story is a combination of action/horror with a side of friendship, and the action/horror part is super hard. There's no shortness of creepiness in A Link Between Worlds (and in Legend of Zelda in general) but geeze, how on earth do people write scary stuff?! It's so hard! Not to mention that action scenes never have been my forte. But I'm trying, at least.
Maybe I should read some horror novels to see if I can get any inspiration there - as far as technique and, hmm, creating atmosphere. :D I'm sure I have a few scattered around on the to-read list....
Anyway. It's New Years Eve, isn't it? To be honest, I'm kind of glad to leave 2013 behind. It really sucked in a lot of ways, and I am just plain done with it. On the upside, some good things happened too. Wrote some things I'm satisfied with, read some good books, went on an awesome vacation, started a new position at work and I like it so much better than the previous... and hell, let's add re-discovering an old fandom to the list, even if that happened at the tail-end of the year.
So, it wasn't all bad. But I am realllllly ready to be done and start a new calendar year. So, hopefully the next one will be... better. I'm going to do my best to make it so, I really am! But Chance always plays a part in how things turn out, so there really isn't any way to predict how things will go.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.