Mary Sues, Anons, and So Forth
OK. Next couple of weeks will be busy as all-get-out and then I'm going out of town for the holidays, so I went ahead and made my fe_contest contribution tonight. Um, I'm really not sure what to say about a story that references Poochie: The Movie, other than to say that FE12 takes my brain to deeply-screwed up places. Also, I think Mary Sue and Gary Stu ended up being more likable than the canon characters in this one, which is sad but indicative of my subconscious feelings re: FE12. But I did feel like I needed some mindbleach after writing it.
I was originally going with a Magvel theme-- the Eirika/Saleh!kid one-- but the tone of that totally didn't work. The idea of it was too Sue-ish for a serious 'fic, and the execution of it was too serious to be any fun. The idea will probably haunt me, but once I got the brainwave for the FE12 one (which actually is a parodic twist on a serious 'fic I was toying with last year), the FE8 one was left in the dust.
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I find it hilarious that the genfic meme has by FAR the most activity of the new writing memes at emblanon . It's good, though-- I kinda like that Karel 'n' Renault one that's going on.
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Attention Archanea/Valencia fans-- those prompts aren't gonna fill themselves, anons. I see lots of requests and 1 and 2/3 'fics in that meme.
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Maybe I'm having a mental block, but how exactly does this "FE Fest" comm work? I read the instructions a couple of times and I still don't understand the process. But then again, part of the reason I decided to play in fe_contest was because it had the easiest rules of any writing comm I'd seen in years-- here is prompt, here is word limit, here is deadline. On fe_fest I kind of got bogged down in all the pairing guidelines. Where do prompts go? Who fills them? And stuff.
I was originally going with a Magvel theme-- the Eirika/Saleh!kid one-- but the tone of that totally didn't work. The idea of it was too Sue-ish for a serious 'fic, and the execution of it was too serious to be any fun. The idea will probably haunt me, but once I got the brainwave for the FE12 one (which actually is a parodic twist on a serious 'fic I was toying with last year), the FE8 one was left in the dust.
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I find it hilarious that the genfic meme has by FAR the most activity of the new writing memes at emblanon . It's good, though-- I kinda like that Karel 'n' Renault one that's going on.
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Attention Archanea/Valencia fans-- those prompts aren't gonna fill themselves, anons. I see lots of requests and 1 and 2/3 'fics in that meme.
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Maybe I'm having a mental block, but how exactly does this "FE Fest" comm work? I read the instructions a couple of times and I still don't understand the process. But then again, part of the reason I decided to play in fe_contest was because it had the easiest rules of any writing comm I'd seen in years-- here is prompt, here is word limit, here is deadline. On fe_fest I kind of got bogged down in all the pairing guidelines. Where do prompts go? Who fills them? And stuff.