Fic: The Unlikely Traitor
Jun. 27th, 2013 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerAnd the last chapter of The Unlikely Traitor is up! I figured it would be about 14,000 words and it is, quoth AO3, 14,617, so I am calling that a win. It is the longest story I have written that was any good!
And I think it is pretty good, even if the structure is a little lopsided. I always think the structure in my longer pieces is lopsided. In this case, it's because the denouement takes up...um...the last three chapters of the fic or so. Everyone has a lot of issues to work out! It did not quite occur to me how traumatizing this plot was going to be for all the characters.
But lopsided or not, this has been an absolute blast to write! I don't have any immediate plans for more Samavia stories (though someday, I may write "Samavia gets invaded and Marco and the Rat end up in the dungeon and possibly escape?"). But I am super-excited by the idea of writing more long fic in general!
I already have two planned: the Eagle of the Ninth OT3 (though actually I don't quite have an outline for that. Must brainstorm. I have discovered that if I go into a long story without an outline, it almost inevitably grinds to a halt) and also a Borgias fic, where Lucrezia saves Cesare from his vampire lover who lives in the catacombs of Rome.
(And yes, that fic is designed entirely around awesome visuals. Cross-dressing Lucrezia with sword! Pallid Cesare, unconscious on a wine-red bed, dressed all in black! A vampire gliding from the shadowy catacombs!)
I am not sure how these plans for writing longer stories will dovetail with hc_bingo, but I daresay it will all work out.
And I think it is pretty good, even if the structure is a little lopsided. I always think the structure in my longer pieces is lopsided. In this case, it's because the denouement takes up...um...the last three chapters of the fic or so. Everyone has a lot of issues to work out! It did not quite occur to me how traumatizing this plot was going to be for all the characters.
But lopsided or not, this has been an absolute blast to write! I don't have any immediate plans for more Samavia stories (though someday, I may write "Samavia gets invaded and Marco and the Rat end up in the dungeon and possibly escape?"). But I am super-excited by the idea of writing more long fic in general!
I already have two planned: the Eagle of the Ninth OT3 (though actually I don't quite have an outline for that. Must brainstorm. I have discovered that if I go into a long story without an outline, it almost inevitably grinds to a halt) and also a Borgias fic, where Lucrezia saves Cesare from his vampire lover who lives in the catacombs of Rome.
(And yes, that fic is designed entirely around awesome visuals. Cross-dressing Lucrezia with sword! Pallid Cesare, unconscious on a wine-red bed, dressed all in black! A vampire gliding from the shadowy catacombs!)
I am not sure how these plans for writing longer stories will dovetail with hc_bingo, but I daresay it will all work out.
