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Dec. 10th, 2018 09:55 pmIn the effort to make content. I will follow up on a post I made in tumblr detailing the empty-nest-in-my-head feeling I have now that Stone is done. It's still dragging me down.
That said today navel gazing with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
strangeallure, I think I came upon my formula for longfic. That is if I have some interesting content (to me), if I have a specific aesthetic, and if I have some talking back I mean to do at canon. That's what gets me to write more than 30K. Let's take a look.
The following are my titles, my content, my aesthetic, and the yelling I do at canon (my "meta"):
Velvet Gloves 55K court machinations, a glamorous court, balancing public and private is hard
Care and Training of an Apprentice 66K Force training under a different sect, rustic community, training of the self is training in how to feel
Ricochet 141K a hit job, gritty underworld/space ship/vents, you can't be free if you keep living the way you have
Thresholds 72k a babymoon, lush fantasy world complete with sentientdragons rancors, dealing with parenting doubts
River of Stone 92k captivity, jungle gothic, saving someone who doesn't want to be saved
My mid-form has these to some degree but I think the equation is less even and less clear. I'm not sure what the aesthetic of Flying Cage is per se, for example. I can't nail it down the way I did with the above stories because I spent so much time making sure that all my descriptions lined up in a specific way. In Ricochet everything described gets described as noir, gritty -- dirty, dark, and cramped. In Care it's sunny, cheerful, and loud. In Velvet, things are glittery and bright all the way. In Thresholds, things are colorful and sensual. In River I'm back to dark, but it's dark and wet.
That said today navel gazing with
strangeallure, I think I came upon my formula for longfic. That is if I have some interesting content (to me), if I have a specific aesthetic, and if I have some talking back I mean to do at canon. That's what gets me to write more than 30K. Let's take a look.The following are my titles, my content, my aesthetic, and the yelling I do at canon (my "meta"):
Velvet Gloves 55K court machinations, a glamorous court, balancing public and private is hard
Care and Training of an Apprentice 66K Force training under a different sect, rustic community, training of the self is training in how to feel
Ricochet 141K a hit job, gritty underworld/space ship/vents, you can't be free if you keep living the way you have
Thresholds 72k a babymoon, lush fantasy world complete with sentient
River of Stone 92k captivity, jungle gothic, saving someone who doesn't want to be saved
My mid-form has these to some degree but I think the equation is less even and less clear. I'm not sure what the aesthetic of Flying Cage is per se, for example. I can't nail it down the way I did with the above stories because I spent so much time making sure that all my descriptions lined up in a specific way. In Ricochet everything described gets described as noir, gritty -- dirty, dark, and cramped. In Care it's sunny, cheerful, and loud. In Velvet, things are glittery and bright all the way. In Thresholds, things are colorful and sensual. In River I'm back to dark, but it's dark and wet.
