I'm completely biased, of course, both as I'm helping to mod it and because I only write gen (and a pinch of R/S) and so I sign up for gen challenges whenever I find them, but...
...have you thought about curling up with a cup of coffee and reading through other sign-up posts and seeing how that leaves you? I know that I use that sometimes as a decider: if there are some cool prompts I'm more likely to sign up.
Actually, if there were prompts -- as opposed to "oh, I'd like something about !" I'd have been happier about signing up, especially if you could grab one that gave you an idea. That was the way omniocular did it (although it seems to have faded away as comms do D:), and I used to like that.
I used to like that too -- although we did have the option of doing prompts and I wasn't really able to think of any offhand, which means my lack of them is really my own fault...
Yeah, perhaps prompts wasn't the right word. But sometimes reading through sign-ups is a good springboard for ideas.
On the springtime_gen side I know a couple of people have said 'I'd like a detailed prompt to work from rather than an Anything Goes'; do you think that's a constructive modification we could make to the sign up post for next year perhaps?
And I agree with you about omniocular. I know the mods are really busy at the moment, but I miss it too. Even though I hardly ever managed to write for it. (My hypocrisy. Let me show you it.)
I'm plodding my way through Book 3 of the Twilight saga at the moment. Flora Poste would do them all the world of good. Such really remarkable lack of common sense.
Oh yes, Flora would whip them into shape in no time: Edward would be off to Hollywood, which he would take by storm due to his brooding beauuuteefullness (though I wonder how the lighting directors would deal with the sparkles); Bella would change her name to Tracy or Linda and become an elementary school PE teacher and marry one of her father's deputies.
Do you know, I think I prefer your version to mine! I confess the idea of sending Edward to Hollywood never crossed my mind - but it's lovely. I was thinking of packing him off to preach with Cousin Amos - he's gloomy and penitential enough for it.
I'm doing springtime_gen for the first time this year, mainly because the last HP fic I wrote was for Holidaygen 2007 -- since then it's apparently been all Shakespeare, all the time, which is mildly frightening. So, please do, if you're feeling up to it!
Selfishly, I'd love to see you sign up, but I also understand the worry about taking on too much at busy times.
I like lazy_neutrino's suggestion of looking through the other sign-ups (um, I may have been stalking the sign-up post myself, but it looks like I'm not the only one).
Anyway, I've signed up, but you probably knew that from my recent posts! Hmm, as for my previous experiences: the first year I think did a bad job with my story (I was a lot less experienced as a writer and very nervous about who I was writing for) - but I also wrote a pinch hit that I'm still pretty pleased with. In 2007, I wrote what I still think may be one of my best pieces of writing about a character nobody had thought twice about at that point - Aberforth Dumbledore. It's now canon-shafted, but that's OK.
Since the original post I've decided that I shouldn't do this one - there may be time or there may not, and it's not fair on me or anyone else if there isn't the time. Dammit.
Aberforth-fic can only be good news. There isn't nearly enough of it around, either.
You would like Cold Comfort Farm a lot. It's about a sensible young woman who is suddenly left with minimal income, and decides to go and stay with her relatives in Suffolk, who are straight from the pages of one of those overwrought novels about the fecundity of nature and and all throbbing emotion. She sorts them out in very short order - and I really think the Forks crowd could do with something similar. Though I might have Flora (the sensible young woman) get eaten in the end, because there's something rather dreary about the way she gets everything sorted out and made normal...
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...have you thought about curling up with a cup of coffee and reading through other sign-up posts and seeing how that leaves you? I know that I use that sometimes as a decider: if there are some cool prompts I'm more likely to sign up.
(And either way you may get some ideas.)
*a trying-to-be-balanced neutrino*
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On the springtime_gen side I know a couple of people have said 'I'd like a detailed prompt to work from rather than an Anything Goes'; do you think that's a constructive modification we could make to the sign up post for next year perhaps?
And I agree with you about omniocular. I know the mods are really busy at the moment, but I miss it too. Even though I hardly ever managed to write for it. (My hypocrisy. Let me show you it.)
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If you only write one thing, I vote for this (both early and often!). The comedy potential is absolutely golden.
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*runs*
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(and on the whole I think I'll probably wuss out of doing Springtime Gen. It's a pity, but I just don't think the timing would work for me)
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I like lazy_neutrino's suggestion of looking through the other sign-ups (um, I may have been stalking the sign-up post myself, but it looks like I'm not the only one).
Anyway, I've signed up, but you probably knew that from my recent posts! Hmm, as for my previous experiences: the first year I think did a bad job with my story (I was a lot less experienced as a writer and very nervous about who I was writing for) - but I also wrote a pinch hit that I'm still pretty pleased with. In 2007, I wrote what I still think may be one of my best pieces of writing about a character nobody had thought twice about at that point - Aberforth Dumbledore. It's now canon-shafted, but that's OK.
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Aberforth-fic can only be good news. There isn't nearly enough of it around, either.
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I'm also dithering on springtime_gen. Can't decide, and it's getting too close. I think I'll volunteer to pinch-hit instead.
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