Fictober 2016
Fictober 2016, such as it was, is technically over now, and guess who didn’t manage to make all the prompts:
This person.
I couldn’t have predicted the Flu.
Still, I made a fair few of them, so I thought, what the hell, let’s go over what I think of them:
Heart
This is actually the only fic so far where I’ve based it off a quirk of the phrase, most of the others I’ve taken fairly straight on. It wasn’t a very imaginative idea, where the obianidala ship a bigger tag there would be seven hundred of more or less the same fic, most of them with smut at the end.
Nonetheless I quite like how it turned out, I think it’s all more or less in character, maybe slightly more rushed than I’d have liked it ideally, but still within reason, part of the setup is that its before a bad battle. So there are excuses.
Cruel
I’m glad I wrote this, because Sith!Obi-Wan is a massive weakness of mine, but it is definitely not one of my strongest works. This is the only one of the fics I have two starts to, while I wanted to do a Sith!AU I was unsure of presicly where I wanted it to go. This turns out, in part, because I suck at writing Sith!AU. If I’d had more time I might have been able to polish it more, and it might be a little better, but what I’ve learnt from this one is: don’t. Also, I quite like writing Obianidala from their kids perspective. I might so that in the future.
Infinite
This one is entirely platonic, and post ROTJ, in force ghost form. I quite like how it turned out, but I don’t really have any strong feelings one way or the other for it. I do think I was right to keep it platonic though.
Domestic
Doing a domestic!Au for this prompt was very unoriginal, but I don’t really care. I like the utter mundane nature of the conflict in it, and I quite like the way it turned out. Partially my joke of turning the blue milk from Tatooine into blue capped milk you get in the supermarket. I like that joke.
Planetary
Aaarg! What made me think doing such a complicated AU for this was a good idea. I do remember being surprised by the fact that this turned out to not be a set piece of a ball, but that the more normal Star Wars level of violence intruded. That being said, I like the turn it took, and I think it resulted in a much better work than it would have been if I’d gone with the original plan.
Opal
This was where I started tearing my hair out at the prompts. And grouching to all my friends, mainly the grouching. I like my hair. My feelings on the fic on the other hand are distinctly meh. Were it someone elses, I would probably read it, kudos it, and then happily forget it ever existed. Was it the right choice to do a proposal fic? Probably not, but I still have no idea what else I could have done.
Righteous
Well mainly what I was surprised about in this fic was how people reacted to it. It is the odd one out in the series for a couple of reasons, namely that it was already a fic I wanted to write. I hadn’t done so, but the prompt seemed so right for it that I thought I’d give it a go. Apparently I did a good job, and I like how it turned out enough to write a sequel, so this is a pretty positive one.
Apple
See Opal. Well, not really, I like how this turned out quite a bit better, but I’m still grumbling about the prompt. That being said, there were other things I could have done, it wasn’t as limited as I made it. I like the style of comedy here, but I think it would have worked better with a longer piece, with more plot.
I am going to write the rest of the prompts, but I have work to do, so that may take November. Who knows, I might do a reflection on those once I finish writing them.
