Are there any tips to planning/plotting a longer fanfic story? By longer, I'm thinking 10-15K range. The longest I've written (Nano AU notwithstanding) is 5K for that comica_obscura story. And that was more by accident than planning. Any links or meta posts you suggest reading?

Because I'm getting frustrated. I don't want to pull out of comicsbigbang but none of my ( Read more... )

With the Snowpocalypse upon me, I've been looking through my old files (and fighting my keyboard). It's depressing seeing all the fandoms and interests collected around me. I even found a fic for a very obscure old ABC fandom "Strange World". I watched it mostly because of Peter Wingfield. As fate had it, he didn't show up until the end of the ( Read more... )

Last night was a nostalgic trip through my writing files. I was curious what had been left both unwritten and untranscribed. I wrote a lot longhand once upon a time, mostly because I had boring jobs with no Net/word processor access, so a writing notebook or some scrap of paper was the next best thing ( Read more... )

liviapenn posted awhile back the ones that got away, when you look back on your fandoms and wonder why you didn't write that pairing? Thinking about it, I realized how many fandoms I've gone through filled with fervor and passion and excitement. I plotted Jenny/Giles, when she was still Miss Calendar. "Passion" killed that momentum unfortunately, although ( Read more... )

To ponder: All dialogue stories. Do they work for you or are you left wanting more? Only work for short drabbles? Discuss amongst yourselves ( Read more... )

So I tried going over to the library for a few hours to see if a different location would give my creative muses their much needed kick in the pants. No such luck. The Bruce/Selina piece really more action and less pretentious authorship. The McKay/Cadman piece leftover from lostcityfound last battle has no point other than to make quips about their music likes ( Read more... )

confettiofstars is looking for non-fandom specific comms to ask fanfic writing advice. I'm not coming up with any ideas myself. fanficpen is for more stylistic stuff like grammar and tone and etc, right? onedeadbunny is more about getting those pesky plotbunnies cleaned out from wherever they've been hiding. canon_details is for asking those niggling questions about canon. Anyone have

Gacked from fraulein:

I saw this and thought this might a good way to recap the year. I don't really like New Year's resolutions. I wind up disappointing myself usually, so I don't even bother.

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