So many fests to choose from (and angst over!)
1) Promting is open at hp_friendship! Even if you don't want to claim a prompt, I really hope that you'll go leave one...or five, as that's the maximum the fest allows. Y'all know how much I love my Harry Potter genfic, so I'm hoping for a wide range of prompts to choose from.
2) Claiming is open at queer_fest, and I snagged a shiny prompt: Rather than having the whole coming out speech, Percy just decides to dance with Oliver at Ginny's wedding. Molly is hurt that he didn't tell her before. I have yet to actually finish a story for this fest, though I have tried every year. Hopefully the third time will be the charm. I think the Harry Potter prompts are the bestest out of all my fandoms, but there are some nice ones for Sherlock too, and some interesting ones for Star Trek as well.
3) I am angsting over springtime_gen because I'm focusing on just one of the characters my recipient requested. On the other hand, I've included several plot elements and themes she asked for - almost all of them, in fact. What matters to you most when you're receiving a story -- the characters or the plot/themes? If you got a story that was only about one character you asked for, would you be disappointed even if it had lots of other things that you requested?
4) Contemplating remix. I have narrowed my recipient's rather extensive repetoire down to one clear favorite, plus a back up in case that story doesn't work for some reason. I know that I want to change the POV, but musesfool's post about remixing has me thinking about what else I should do. I think she's right - sometimes changing the POV really doesn't change enough. I really like the idea of reframing the story as a flashback, or adding flashbacks to the original story, but I'm concerned about accomplishing that in the time I have to work with.
5) Perhaps I should write a story that's not for a fest. You know, so I could post it whenever it was finished instead of sitting on it for weeks or occasionally months.
2) Claiming is open at queer_fest, and I snagged a shiny prompt: Rather than having the whole coming out speech, Percy just decides to dance with Oliver at Ginny's wedding. Molly is hurt that he didn't tell her before. I have yet to actually finish a story for this fest, though I have tried every year. Hopefully the third time will be the charm. I think the Harry Potter prompts are the bestest out of all my fandoms, but there are some nice ones for Sherlock too, and some interesting ones for Star Trek as well.
3) I am angsting over springtime_gen because I'm focusing on just one of the characters my recipient requested. On the other hand, I've included several plot elements and themes she asked for - almost all of them, in fact. What matters to you most when you're receiving a story -- the characters or the plot/themes? If you got a story that was only about one character you asked for, would you be disappointed even if it had lots of other things that you requested?
4) Contemplating remix. I have narrowed my recipient's rather extensive repetoire down to one clear favorite, plus a back up in case that story doesn't work for some reason. I know that I want to change the POV, but musesfool's post about remixing has me thinking about what else I should do. I think she's right - sometimes changing the POV really doesn't change enough. I really like the idea of reframing the story as a flashback, or adding flashbacks to the original story, but I'm concerned about accomplishing that in the time I have to work with.
5) Perhaps I should write a story that's not for a fest. You know, so I could post it whenever it was finished instead of sitting on it for weeks or occasionally months.