I almost painted my nails, too, but since I'd just have to take the polish off tomorrow, I didn't
Mmmm, I'm all mellow and warm after an extra-scrubby shower. I've mentioned my love of exfoliation before, I'm sure. I have the day off and I'm doing nothing and it's awesome. All I needed to do today before seven o'clock was shower and pincurl my hair. Done! And then all I have to do is get dressed and go to a party. My biggest decision will be whether to put my hair into victory rolls or a pompadour. It's a tough one, I know.
And now I want to talk about bandomstuffsit. I'm not going to tell you whether the fic I wrote has been posted or not, don't worry. I want to talk about how awesome stuffitmod is. I don't know who the mods are, don't know how many of them there are, I just know they're amazing. They organized this giant thing so well, are right on top of any issues, it's fantastic. So thanks, mystery mods!
And I will talk a little bit about writing my story. It was hard, you guys. The very nature of an exchange like this means that you're very likely not going to get a request that perfectly matches what you want to write, and mine totally didn't. I was frustrated at first, reading through it, like, "I can't write any of these pairings! I can't write any of these prompts! OMG I'm going to die!" But then I took a deep breath and got over myself and started to write.
I started something like seventeen different stories while trying to write my stuffsit, and they all sucked really, really bad. And there was this story kind of wriggling around in the back of my brain but just the idea of it was out of what I thought my comfort zone was, so I kept saying, "Nope, not that one, not going to pay attention to or write that one!" I kept trying to force things, kept trying to stick exactly to what my recipient wanted, which was why the first stories all sucked.
Finally I gave in and wrote the story in the back of my brain even though it didn't exactly match what my recipient wanted. It was close, though. It was like an oblique rhyme. I wrote the story very selfishly, which is actually how I write everything. I write the stories I want to read, you know? I never write to please anybody else. I want people to be pleased, but if I don't write for me, first, I can't write much at all; I definitely can't write anything worth reading if I'm not in love with the story I'm telling.
Now, I do think about other people when I'm writing. When I wrote my Catholic!Frank Artist!Gerard Not!Fic I thought a lot about octette and nikki_shame (aka Bananas) because they're the two people I associate most with cooking the way Frank cooks (the way Frank just looks through cabinets and throws ingredients together like magic is 100% Bananas). And Gabe in that story came mostly from me telling octette about how I never got to read the Gabe in my head and I how I always wanted him to be X, Y, and Z. So then I wrote it so, you know, always selfish! *grin*
Actually, I'm always thinking about other people when I write. I threw a lot of lines into Nicest Thing because I wanted to make Bananas laugh, and there are scenes in my stuffsit that I wrote thinking about isweedan and hermette, though I think only one of them will even read it. And I'm not teling you which one or why! Mwa ha ha!
Okay, I have a rogue pincurl I need to wrangle back into place. My plan is to take lots of pictures tonight, so I'll post them if I actually do. And hopefully I can put up another picspam soon because I didn't do one at the end of November or all of December, even though I'd planned to. Will it be Spencer or Mikey? Or Spencer and Mikey? Oooh, hey, does Spencer/Mikey exist? I kind of want all the Spencer/Mikey and Spencer/Mikey/Patrick in the entire world right now. Somebody write that for me, okay?
And now I want to talk about bandomstuffsit. I'm not going to tell you whether the fic I wrote has been posted or not, don't worry. I want to talk about how awesome stuffitmod is. I don't know who the mods are, don't know how many of them there are, I just know they're amazing. They organized this giant thing so well, are right on top of any issues, it's fantastic. So thanks, mystery mods!
And I will talk a little bit about writing my story. It was hard, you guys. The very nature of an exchange like this means that you're very likely not going to get a request that perfectly matches what you want to write, and mine totally didn't. I was frustrated at first, reading through it, like, "I can't write any of these pairings! I can't write any of these prompts! OMG I'm going to die!" But then I took a deep breath and got over myself and started to write.
I started something like seventeen different stories while trying to write my stuffsit, and they all sucked really, really bad. And there was this story kind of wriggling around in the back of my brain but just the idea of it was out of what I thought my comfort zone was, so I kept saying, "Nope, not that one, not going to pay attention to or write that one!" I kept trying to force things, kept trying to stick exactly to what my recipient wanted, which was why the first stories all sucked.
Finally I gave in and wrote the story in the back of my brain even though it didn't exactly match what my recipient wanted. It was close, though. It was like an oblique rhyme. I wrote the story very selfishly, which is actually how I write everything. I write the stories I want to read, you know? I never write to please anybody else. I want people to be pleased, but if I don't write for me, first, I can't write much at all; I definitely can't write anything worth reading if I'm not in love with the story I'm telling.
Now, I do think about other people when I'm writing. When I wrote my Catholic!Frank Artist!Gerard Not!Fic I thought a lot about octette and nikki_shame (aka Bananas) because they're the two people I associate most with cooking the way Frank cooks (the way Frank just looks through cabinets and throws ingredients together like magic is 100% Bananas). And Gabe in that story came mostly from me telling octette about how I never got to read the Gabe in my head and I how I always wanted him to be X, Y, and Z. So then I wrote it so, you know, always selfish! *grin*
Actually, I'm always thinking about other people when I write. I threw a lot of lines into Nicest Thing because I wanted to make Bananas laugh, and there are scenes in my stuffsit that I wrote thinking about isweedan and hermette, though I think only one of them will even read it. And I'm not teling you which one or why! Mwa ha ha!
Okay, I have a rogue pincurl I need to wrangle back into place. My plan is to take lots of pictures tonight, so I'll post them if I actually do. And hopefully I can put up another picspam soon because I didn't do one at the end of November or all of December, even though I'd planned to. Will it be Spencer or Mikey? Or Spencer and Mikey? Oooh, hey, does Spencer/Mikey exist? I kind of want all the Spencer/Mikey and Spencer/Mikey/Patrick in the entire world right now. Somebody write that for me, okay?