Poll: Should Ruth write for a big bang this year? If so, which one?
This poll is in part for the wonderful anonymous person who gifted me with paid time. In all actuality, there are several paid account features I use, but the ability to create polls is the only one I ever remember is a paid account feature.
I've been thinking about writing for a big bang of some sort. I do really well with deadlines. I'm also totally wishy-washy about it right now.
First is the issue of time. On the one hand, I have this Mike/Kevin story (now over 20,000 words, and I still don't know what's going to happen) and my novel that I'm supposed to be working on. On the other hand, I keep writing other things anyway, so why not make that more structured?
Secondly is the issue of my own rebellious nature. I started reading through the rules and such for the big bangs I might write for, and even though what I want to write would fit into the rules for at least one of them, I dislike there being strict rules. (I know, I know. This is totally emotional and has no rational basis whatsoever.)
I basically have three big bangs I could write for and two stories I'm considering. The big bangs are au_bigbang, bandombigbang, and bandgirlsbang (which may or may not happen this year; they don't have a 2010 info post up yet). The stories are an actor!Gabe/director!Victoria AU that already has about 1600 words and notes for casting the other characters (au_bigbang allows WIPs that are under 3000 words if you write at least 15,000 for the challenge; the others say nothing about WIPs) and the Leighton/Vicky-T Good Girls Go Bad AU that I've been thinking about for months (this one would not fit into the rules for bandombigbang). (I also have the beginning of a girl!Gabe/Victoria d/s story, but I don't think it's going to make it over 10,000 words, if I write it, so it wouldn't work for a big bang.)
Here's your chance to influence me! The poll below has all those options neatly laid out for you to vote on.
In addition to deadlines, being responsible to someone else helps keep me on track, so the poll below also has a question about if you'd want to read along as I write. The way I've been doing this when there's more than one person reading along is to paste what I've written for the day into the Google doc before I go to bed. (I don't write straight into Google docs; I like Dark Room, which I'm actually using to write this entry.) You wouldn't be obligated to read it at any sort of regular interval, although I do occasionally pose questions that the people reading can answer or not as they feel like it.
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I've been thinking about writing for a big bang of some sort. I do really well with deadlines. I'm also totally wishy-washy about it right now.
First is the issue of time. On the one hand, I have this Mike/Kevin story (now over 20,000 words, and I still don't know what's going to happen) and my novel that I'm supposed to be working on. On the other hand, I keep writing other things anyway, so why not make that more structured?
Secondly is the issue of my own rebellious nature. I started reading through the rules and such for the big bangs I might write for, and even though what I want to write would fit into the rules for at least one of them, I dislike there being strict rules. (I know, I know. This is totally emotional and has no rational basis whatsoever.)
I basically have three big bangs I could write for and two stories I'm considering. The big bangs are au_bigbang, bandombigbang, and bandgirlsbang (which may or may not happen this year; they don't have a 2010 info post up yet). The stories are an actor!Gabe/director!Victoria AU that already has about 1600 words and notes for casting the other characters (au_bigbang allows WIPs that are under 3000 words if you write at least 15,000 for the challenge; the others say nothing about WIPs) and the Leighton/Vicky-T Good Girls Go Bad AU that I've been thinking about for months (this one would not fit into the rules for bandombigbang). (I also have the beginning of a girl!Gabe/Victoria d/s story, but I don't think it's going to make it over 10,000 words, if I write it, so it wouldn't work for a big bang.)
Here's your chance to influence me! The poll below has all those options neatly laid out for you to vote on.
In addition to deadlines, being responsible to someone else helps keep me on track, so the poll below also has a question about if you'd want to read along as I write. The way I've been doing this when there's more than one person reading along is to paste what I've written for the day into the Google doc before I go to bed. (I don't write straight into Google docs; I like Dark Room, which I'm actually using to write this entry.) You wouldn't be obligated to read it at any sort of regular interval, although I do occasionally pose questions that the people reading can answer or not as they feel like it.
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