Open Thread: Oracle Hotline

[mithen]

--How many fics have you written in each relationship category?

M/M (289)
Gen (96)
F/M (36)
Multi (10)
F/F (9)
Other (3)

Oh, more multi even than F/F? T_T I've posted two F/F stories in the last month, but before then it had been a four-year drought. This intersected with last week's response makes clear that what I tend to write is "gen slash"--romantic non-explicit M/M, basically.

I'm at one of those places this week where I'm working on three different stories and all of them are basically at the same point of development, which means I feel equally far from finished with all of them and it's kind of discouraging! By next week I should have two or three completed stories all at once, though, which is potentially nice. I hope things are moving along well for you!

Comments

[me_ya_ri]

Man, that's a hard one. I always write queer relationships, or change them somehow (on my one matriarchal world it's mostly het but the relationships work very differently because of the dynamics of the world itself). In novels I tend towards M/M for some reason. In short fiction I tend to go for F/F most of the time. Not sure why. But I have a fair amount of nonbinary romances, a Trans romance and an aromantic romance which is not, actually, a contradiction in terms. One of my favorites, that one.

My writing has slowed WAY down. Work got very busy to the point that I feel overwhelmed. I'm teaching an auditing class next week and the week after (3.5 hours per day) and it's eaten my brain and my time. Everything else, work and writing, has slid because of it.

Which sucks because I really want to finish the current romance novel. And publish that fantasy novel I wrote a while back with the nonbinary characters and time travel of old souls back into their young lives. I won't get either finished this week but hopefully I can plow through some real progress on both this weekend so that next week is a success.

Good luck on your three stories! Lately I've been focusing on just one story at a time and finding it easier to cope with so you feel very brave with three at once. Have a good week!

[mithen]

I don't even WANT to write three stories at once, to be honest! But I want to make sure to keep my Clark/Bruce hand in, and at the same time I can't bear not to write my wrestling OTP, and then I want to make sure to write some other pairings because--well, I was okay with being a mono shipper with Clark/Bruce, but somehow I don't want to be known as "only writes this one pairing" in wrestling, so I'm trying to make sure I write other things regularly fairly often. Thus...three stories.

I think that's really interesting about how novels attract M/M and shorter stories tend to be F/F! No idea why either, but it's fascinating. Maybe something about short stories being more compressed and intense?

I'm really hoping work chills out a bit for you and you can get some satisfying writing in!