Radial Symmetry

[diurnal_lee]

To help modulate the post-NaNoWriMo blues I've experienced each December, I signed up for two writing challenges. I got my assignment for the first--a BtVS gift exchange--today, and it is so wide open that I feel sort of floundery about it. Which is maybe a little hypocritical considering how stifled I feel when given too narrow a set of criteria

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[lazigyrl]

thoughtful posting

That would be something I am incapable of doing. Good luck with both the challenges though.

I take care of my blues doing the Yuletide rare fandom exchange and this year is a doozy because I don't even have an idea and it's T minus 17 days to last day to upload. I just the characters running randomly through my head panicking over the lack of story - it's actually a good fandom for that, now that I think about it.

[diurnal_lee]

I'm actually really impressed that you signed on again this year, after all the freaking out last year's fic caused you.

[njc2007]

The human brain is always looking for (or making) patterns. Symmetry is a one of the more pleasing patterns.

[diurnal_lee]

Is it pleasing because there's a sense of--comfort, safety, accomplishment?--in knowing what to expect?

[njc2007]

I think you hit that nail squarely on the head.