Oh reallo--I mean to say really, I mispoke. Please continue.
1. Yet another December holiday challenge: undermistletoe if anyone is still casting around for one.
2. A meme: Five ways to tell you're reading a fic by [insert your name here].
How to tell you're reading a fic by bauble:
1. Dialogue, dialogue, dialogue. Did I mention dialogue?
2. Related to point 1: talky sex, if there is any. My characters like to bare their souls while they're baring their--yeah, you get the picture.
3. Lots of people staring and looking and glancing. Sometimes at each other, sometimes out windows.
4. The ending's considered a pretty happy one if two or less characters are dead/wish they were dead.
5. There's a poll at the end. <---by far, the easiest method.
3. One of my spn_reversebang's is finished, titled, and out to the beta. \o/
4. Drive by Arthur/Eames rec: Write your name on the dotted line. Love and romance when you're forty isn't the same as love and romance when you're twenty, but it can be beautiful all the same.
5. Second meme of the night, stolent from amazingly_me:
I think it would be fun to talk about stories, but the usual memes are like, "What happens next?" "Tell me about Character A?" What isn't so much talking about stories as it is writing more of a story. But you know how sometimes you read something and you're like, "I got ___ out of this story, I wonder if that right?" or "What on earth was ____ supposed to be?" and it's too awkward to ask the author? Now you could totally ask!
I've heard people say that writing is hard because you have to make decisions, but we never really talk about the decisions we make with stories or why we make them. We talk about plot bunnies, but not about how we actually turn them into a story.
And it seems like a lot more fun to do that than to do working.
So, if you wanted, ask me questions! Anon commenting is on, if you feel shy.
What were you trying to do [here]? Why did you decide to ____? This is what I thought about xyz, is that what you were going for? What made you write ____? And so on.
2. A meme: Five ways to tell you're reading a fic by [insert your name here].
How to tell you're reading a fic by bauble:
1. Dialogue, dialogue, dialogue. Did I mention dialogue?
2. Related to point 1: talky sex, if there is any. My characters like to bare their souls while they're baring their--yeah, you get the picture.
3. Lots of people staring and looking and glancing. Sometimes at each other, sometimes out windows.
4. The ending's considered a pretty happy one if two or less characters are dead/wish they were dead.
5. There's a poll at the end. <---by far, the easiest method.
3. One of my spn_reversebang's is finished, titled, and out to the beta. \o/
4. Drive by Arthur/Eames rec: Write your name on the dotted line. Love and romance when you're forty isn't the same as love and romance when you're twenty, but it can be beautiful all the same.
5. Second meme of the night, stolent from amazingly_me:
I think it would be fun to talk about stories, but the usual memes are like, "What happens next?" "Tell me about Character A?" What isn't so much talking about stories as it is writing more of a story. But you know how sometimes you read something and you're like, "I got ___ out of this story, I wonder if that right?" or "What on earth was ____ supposed to be?" and it's too awkward to ask the author? Now you could totally ask!
I've heard people say that writing is hard because you have to make decisions, but we never really talk about the decisions we make with stories or why we make them. We talk about plot bunnies, but not about how we actually turn them into a story.
And it seems like a lot more fun to do that than to do working.
So, if you wanted, ask me questions! Anon commenting is on, if you feel shy.
What were you trying to do [here]? Why did you decide to ____? This is what I thought about xyz, is that what you were going for? What made you write ____? And so on.