Happily writing more D&DC
Sunday, August 27th, 2023 08:26 amAfter I finished my Terri and Sheila Dungeons & Dragons (Cartoon, 1983) story for this year's ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
everywoman exchange, I found that I still felt some fiction-writing momentum. To keep it going -- and not bog down in switching fandoms or starting new from scratch, which is what usually happens for me -- I tried picking up an old D&DC practice scribble that I'd dashed off for the prompt "therapist" a few years ago, and built it into a little story.
With many thanks to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
malinaldarose for the kind beta-reading, I posted it this morning:
"Presenting Concerns"
G, gen, ~1K words
When Eric makes it home from the Realm, his parents send him to therapy.
I finished the first draft of that one a few weeks ago. I have since, believe it or not -- I'm surprised and pleased -- successfully chained (like shiny-hunting in main-series Pokemon games) into another old practice D&DC scribble, this one for the prompt "one of my happiest memories," which is now all but complete (at ~2K words) and almost ready to seek beta-reading. I plan to try to keep the streak going with another such old D&DC practice scribble immediately after, though that may be the last of the D&DC likely-suspects lurking around my folders. I do have an episode-sized-plot D&DC story that I began a few years ago, hoping to gift it as a treat in an event, but didn't finish in time and left sitting. We shall see!
I accept that active D&DC readership is a tiny, tiny fandom in which half the readers are using Google Translate. It's okay. I've adored D&DC since 1983. The D&DC comics, action figures, and even Little Golden Book (I kid you not!) that came out this year -- ostensibly for the 40th anniversary, but really because of Honor Among Thieves -- all remind me how much I have always loved these characters and their story. It was my pick for my turn on Saturday mornings. It was the very best US-made cartoon adventure until Avatar: The Last Airbender came along, possibly even the best US-made adventure show of any kind in the '80s, sneaking in continuity and character development through side doors. (Watch the whole series, not just the premiere, before concluding I'm wrong. With all due respect to Mark Evainer, that's not remotely their best episode. /grin/)
everywoman exchange, I found that I still felt some fiction-writing momentum. To keep it going -- and not bog down in switching fandoms or starting new from scratch, which is what usually happens for me -- I tried picking up an old D&DC practice scribble that I'd dashed off for the prompt "therapist" a few years ago, and built it into a little story.With many thanks to
malinaldarose for the kind beta-reading, I posted it this morning:G, gen, ~1K words
When Eric makes it home from the Realm, his parents send him to therapy.
I finished the first draft of that one a few weeks ago. I have since, believe it or not -- I'm surprised and pleased -- successfully chained (like shiny-hunting in main-series Pokemon games) into another old practice D&DC scribble, this one for the prompt "one of my happiest memories," which is now all but complete (at ~2K words) and almost ready to seek beta-reading. I plan to try to keep the streak going with another such old D&DC practice scribble immediately after, though that may be the last of the D&DC likely-suspects lurking around my folders. I do have an episode-sized-plot D&DC story that I began a few years ago, hoping to gift it as a treat in an event, but didn't finish in time and left sitting. We shall see!
I accept that active D&DC readership is a tiny, tiny fandom in which half the readers are using Google Translate. It's okay. I've adored D&DC since 1983. The D&DC comics, action figures, and even Little Golden Book (I kid you not!) that came out this year -- ostensibly for the 40th anniversary, but really because of Honor Among Thieves -- all remind me how much I have always loved these characters and their story. It was my pick for my turn on Saturday mornings. It was the very best US-made cartoon adventure until Avatar: The Last Airbender came along, possibly even the best US-made adventure show of any kind in the '80s, sneaking in continuity and character development through side doors. (Watch the whole series, not just the premiere, before concluding I'm wrong. With all due respect to Mark Evainer, that's not remotely their best episode. /grin/)
