2025 Writing Log, Part One
Jan. 5th, 2025 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynling- I wrote the first chapter of “What Dreams May Come,” a Legend of Zelda AU based on a hypothetical bad ending of Breath of the Wild in which Link fails to defeat Calamity Ganon. This story is set in a vaguely eighteenth-century future in which Hyrule has become nothing more than an uninhabited region covered in dense forest, and (I hope) it’s got strong Bloodborne vibes.
- I also wrote the story’s penultimate chapter, which is about rawdog fucking. I’m always too tired to have the characters go at it by the time I get to the end of a story, so I thought it would be best to go ahead and get this scene out of the way early.
- I wrote and edited a short listicle titled “Five Japanese Games Set in Fantasy America” and sent it to my editor at Sidequest. I know this is frowned upon in serious literary circles, but I love writing listicles. I love reading them too! What can I say, I’m a sucker for well-curated groupings of themes and motifs.
- I started work on my next listicle, “Ten Beautiful Sewer Levels in Video Games,” and by “started work” I mean “I scribbled an unannotated list of games in a notebook.” This piece is going to take some time to put together, and I’ll probably post rough drafts of the entries here on Dreamwidth (under friends lock) as I go along.
- I finished and edited my review of the horror comic anthology The Skin You’re In and sent it off to my editor at Women Write About Comics.
- The latest indie comics recommendation post is up on Women Write About Comics (here). I wrote about the recent graphic novels Ditching Saskia and The Gulf.
- The latest book recommendations post is up on Women Write About Comics (here). I wrote a bit about the essay collection Gathering Moss, which came out twenty years ago but still feels fresh and relevant.
- I’m still broke and tired from 2024, so I didn’t do anything special to celebrate the new year, but at the last second I made a cute graphic for the Year of the Snake. It’s on Tumblr (here).
I love snakes, and 2025 is the year of the wood snake, which feels especially auspicious. Here’s to lots of fresh growth and regeneration in the new year. 🌿
- I also wrote the story’s penultimate chapter, which is about rawdog fucking. I’m always too tired to have the characters go at it by the time I get to the end of a story, so I thought it would be best to go ahead and get this scene out of the way early.
- I wrote and edited a short listicle titled “Five Japanese Games Set in Fantasy America” and sent it to my editor at Sidequest. I know this is frowned upon in serious literary circles, but I love writing listicles. I love reading them too! What can I say, I’m a sucker for well-curated groupings of themes and motifs.
- I started work on my next listicle, “Ten Beautiful Sewer Levels in Video Games,” and by “started work” I mean “I scribbled an unannotated list of games in a notebook.” This piece is going to take some time to put together, and I’ll probably post rough drafts of the entries here on Dreamwidth (under friends lock) as I go along.
- I finished and edited my review of the horror comic anthology The Skin You’re In and sent it off to my editor at Women Write About Comics.
- The latest indie comics recommendation post is up on Women Write About Comics (here). I wrote about the recent graphic novels Ditching Saskia and The Gulf.
- The latest book recommendations post is up on Women Write About Comics (here). I wrote a bit about the essay collection Gathering Moss, which came out twenty years ago but still feels fresh and relevant.
- I’m still broke and tired from 2024, so I didn’t do anything special to celebrate the new year, but at the last second I made a cute graphic for the Year of the Snake. It’s on Tumblr (here).
I love snakes, and 2025 is the year of the wood snake, which feels especially auspicious. Here’s to lots of fresh growth and regeneration in the new year. 🌿
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Date: 2025-01-05 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-06 01:24 pm (UTC)I also think "beautiful" is in the eye of the beholder, so I'm going to need to switch out that word with something more specific. Like, I think the Kakariko Village Well in Ocarina of Time is "beautiful," but I understand I might be a little out of the ordinary in this regard.
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Date: 2025-01-13 10:19 pm (UTC)I hear you on the "too tired to write the fucking by the end." Good way to solve the problem!
Congrats on all you've accomplished already.
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Date: 2025-01-17 02:22 pm (UTC)This is maybe cheating a little, but I've been considering taking down some of my older and unnoticed work on AO3 and refashioning it into stories that might hopefully appeal to a broader fandom audience. I used to write a fair amount of smut simply because it amused me to do so, and it's a shame to see it languish in obscurity.
I mean, it's not plagiarism if it's your own work, right? 🤔
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Date: 2025-01-21 05:13 pm (UTC)