This year I signed up for the house_bigbang. I don't know why. You should probably take my insanity as wrote--it'll save a lot of time ;-) I've got my rough draft done (yay me), I've got one beta and now I'd like to find a second beta. So I'm asking you kind people if any of you is crazy enough to volunteer.

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Is there such a thing? Usually writers are looking for inspiration/cheerleading/a kick in the pants. I don't want that. I need to STOP writing. Not completely--I don't want to quit writing everything--I just want to stop one particular fic. So is there a (temporary) 12 step program for writers?

The situation is this--a few years ago, my  mind became ( Read more... )

WIPs. I don't get it. Why are there so many of them? Is it a fandom-generational (old timers vs newbies) thing? Is it fandom (as in one fandom does, one doesn't) thing? Is it even possibly a lj thing vs a yahoo group/archive thing? I really want to understand because it's messing with my fic reading enjoyment. I don't read WIPs which means that in ( Read more... )

Seems like writing for fun should be, well, pure fun and not part fun, part work. It doesn't work that way for me, tho ( Read more... )