musings before work
So, I get one fic challenge off my plate (Ladies of Camelot challenge pwned! Woot!) and what do I do?
Well, sign up for another, of course. *headdesk*
I requested a prompt at femgenficathon. I didn't want to let that one pass me by this year. What with the characters I write in RP and everything, I usually write boys and I guess I assumed for a while that boys were the most comfortable for me to write (apart from Hermione, who I'm very comfortable with). But as I try more characters/pairings in HP as well as different fandoms, I find myself wanting to write the girls more. Which, yay, because I do love writing boys, but I love stories about women best of all.
They give four months to write a minimum of 1000 words, so I'm not overly worried about being able to get it done. But it's multifandom -- so I have to decide whether to write an HP fic or a Merlin fic for it. On the one hand, lots of girls to choose from for HP, but on the other, Gwen and/or Morgana gen, or Nimueh gen, needs to happen more. We'll see what talks, I guess. Or maybe I'll do a poll.
Anyway, go sign up! You pick a number from the list randomly, and the mod assigns you a quote as your prompt, from some notable woman in history. My prompt:
By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air; it is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of "I am afraid," we say, "I don't want to," or "I don't know how," or "I can't." -- Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005), American radical feminist and author.
Well, sign up for another, of course. *headdesk*
I requested a prompt at femgenficathon. I didn't want to let that one pass me by this year. What with the characters I write in RP and everything, I usually write boys and I guess I assumed for a while that boys were the most comfortable for me to write (apart from Hermione, who I'm very comfortable with). But as I try more characters/pairings in HP as well as different fandoms, I find myself wanting to write the girls more. Which, yay, because I do love writing boys, but I love stories about women best of all.
They give four months to write a minimum of 1000 words, so I'm not overly worried about being able to get it done. But it's multifandom -- so I have to decide whether to write an HP fic or a Merlin fic for it. On the one hand, lots of girls to choose from for HP, but on the other, Gwen and/or Morgana gen, or Nimueh gen, needs to happen more. We'll see what talks, I guess. Or maybe I'll do a poll.
Anyway, go sign up! You pick a number from the list randomly, and the mod assigns you a quote as your prompt, from some notable woman in history. My prompt:
By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air; it is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of "I am afraid," we say, "I don't want to," or "I don't know how," or "I can't." -- Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005), American radical feminist and author.