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[analineblue]

So I recently finished reading a book of short stories by an author I discovered really randomly - I basically picked up the book on a table at a bookstore because the title (This Cake Is for the Party) intrigued me, and ended up buying the book, and really enjoying it

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[seabroth]

i've looked at quite a few of prompt lj's but i usually like one prompt out of 300 it feels like... they always feel like really obvious or cliché prompts, so i never ended up doing any. it's not that i'm ever actually out of ideas, since i get a lot when i rewatch episodes, but i never have motivation enough to write...

i joke around a lot "hey this happened at that time" but i never actually go to write it. although in the past i really would have written it. sighh...

the other thing is, i don't have anyone i regularly talk to who is a fanfiction writer. i've been trying to make SF friends and adding them to skype and so on but none of them are actually making any fanwork - seems like even the ones who do draw or write aren't actually drawing or writing for SF. i'm even in a skype chat group for SF but the conversation only lasts for two minutes when it's about SF, and no one ever brings anything up or... anything, people only keep talking if it's about completely unrelated stuff (like schoolwork or "i have pet bunnies").

but what helps me most is to have a friend who is also regularly writing things and we can chat a bit on how we're doing as we write. i just used to have nights where i stayed up late writing with a friend and chatting in comment threads and stuff about how it was going.... oh, the days when everyone was active on livejournal...

although what also helps me write more is just "keeping my interest", as in chatting or roleplaying or re-reading canon or something, i've been a bit infected by tumblr and now it's like "i just want to be entertained, then wait for more entertainment"... i've been thinking of quitting tumblr but it's difficult when it seems like everyone is on there and the only way to get people to read anything you write is to use it. people even refuse to make livejournal accounts on the grounds of "the initial registration is too confusing", can you believe that... sighhh... even though the community is so much nicer here, the messaging system actually works, and so on...

[analineblue]

I think SF is a tricky fandom for fanworks. I can't speak for other writers, but I know I definitely have a hard time keeping up with all the crazy, ridiculous things the series has thrown at us, just in terms of having a framework to write in that makes any kind of sense? XD;;

Sometimes I think it may just be me - I'm really not into the whole tokusatsu genre, so I find a lot of the really crazy things that have happened hard to relate to, and therefore...hard to write about. And IDK, I wonder if that has something to do with why more people aren't writing? Sometimes I just get so overwhelmed with whatever crazy thing has just happened in the episode that it makes it hard to focus on what I really love about the series, which is the characters... At least that's been my main roadblock. *nod* And I wonder, just in terms of how low the hit counts and all of that are for the fics that are being posted, if a lot of people just aren't reading or seeking out fic for the same reasons? It's a bit of a mystery to me, really. O_o

But yeah, I definitely miss the old days of LJ, where people and communities were active, and everything wasn't relegated to tumblr. I haven't really been able to 100% embrace tumblr because it just feels so impersonal to me. I keep telling myself I need to check it more, for SF related things, especially artwork, since I just haven't seen a lot of what's out there, but I admit I'm really behind. XD;;