Last Month!

[sphynxle]

Writers, this is your last full month to write on your stories.  Please remember that all rough drafts are due May 1st, 2011 at midnight your local time.

I will be making a post the last week of April to give a "where to send"; I'm going to be making an e-mail solely for this purpose :) I hope everyone is having fun. Even if we only turn out with

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[heartofoshun]

Thank you so much!!!

I don't feel almost half finished! So perhaps it will be a little longer. If I know me (and I do) it will probably not be quite as ambitious as I think I want it to be. I really am going the easy, just this side of fluffy, route--young love and heartbreak. I figure this pairing is going to be swamped with tragedy, so I will add my spin of humor and romance to it. I'm blathering now. It would be going really well if I did not have so many other commitments. I am very excited about it. And surprised to have so much support from people who do not read Harry Potter usually. I am worried about my lack of experience in the genre and doing a lot of re-reading of the canon texts, but I am at such a distance from the entire political culture of the fandom it makes me really nervous. I probably would not try it if it were not so far from the center of the fandom and therefore not in a spotlight so to speak.

Are you writing? And how is that going? I'd love to hear from someone else.

Another question, I have never done a big bang. I am not a fast and dirty writer and I cannot spew out rough drafts and then go back and re-write them. I generally write very slowly, but produce pretty polished, finished copy. So for me a draft due a month early means my final has to be finished a month early. Am I making any sense here? I wish I had that last month to continue to work on the story. But I guess there is no way around that problem. I am wracking my brain to think of how to get at least part of that month, cause I could really use it. Are there tricks that people who write like me use to accomodate the Big Bang structure?

[sphynxle]

Slow and steady is an okay way to write for some, and it sounds like you're one of them. I have a hard time spewing out rough drafts myself, but I've taught myself to do it. Too many years of NaNoWriMo. Your rough draft is due on May 1st, but you don't actually have POSTING until June 10th. So, basically, just get within 500 words of that 10K goal (even if you're not completely done with the story) by May 1st and you'll be okay. You can continue to write on your story up until the day that you post it. If it gets to your posting day and you're still having trouble, e-mail me. We'll come up with something.

Don't stress yourself out too much about the fandom or the genre; that's what beta's and friends are for. They are there to catch the little mistakes. Besides, the G/D community as a whole seems wonderfully accepting. I think you'll be okay :)

I am writing! My plot is . . . well, it's kind of hard to explain. I'll post a little snippet of my story here in a few moments. I'm about 5K into it as well. I'm always open for discussing, if you'd like. No one I know is in the G/D fandom and that makes it hard to run plots by them.