NaNo update: the heck with this. I did a bit of good writing yesterday, but the best part (looking back) was the one where I wasn't trying to loosen up and freewrite - I'm just not immersed enough in geology that I can bubble out technobabble the way I can poetry quotations - and I've got several things I really want to work on that don't lend ( Read more... )

Okay. So there is fanbingo on Dreamwidth, which is like Kink_Bingo and Cliche_Bingo except... really, really cracky. (Rule One: CHEATING IS ENCOURAGED. Rule Two: NO DEADLINES EVER ( Read more... )

A Five Questions meme from sophia_sol! (Because I am all stuffed up in my head with this evil cold and cannot think straight. And because it is fic_rush and I am nowhere near clear-headed enough to write fic.)

If you want to join in the meme:

What are the three things that most attract you to a fandom ( Read more... )

Let's finish this off...

26. What is the oddest (or funnest) thing you've had to research for a fic?

Definitely "what is it like to ride pillion on a motorcycle". XD And yes, I did have to research it.

27. Where is your favourite place to write, and do you write by hand or on the computer?I generally write in my room (I can't write with other ( Read more... )

Is anyone else as bored of this thing as I am? I'm just too stubborn to quit, given that I actually have the energy to plow through it. *g*

21. Sequels - Have you ever written a sequel to a fic you wrote, and if so, why, and if not, how do you feel about sequels? ( answer cut for total post length )

18. Where do you get the most inspiration for your fics (aka "bunnies") from?Hard to say. Mostly from fan chatter (about other people's stories or bunnies or about canon), I think - which is why I always do better at writing in large fandoms. But occasionally I'll get inspired from a specific moment in canon, or just from something that happens to ( Read more... )

Interactive meme stolen from half my flist:

If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
- Alfred Hitchcock

When I write a story, what do my readers immediately look for?

16. Summaries - Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?Summaries (says the experienced FFnet reader) are the face a story presents to the world. They are therefore important, necessary, and difficult to come up with ( Read more... )

14. Ratings - how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you're writing is G-rated instead?In terms of rating for sexxins, I pretty much stick with G or PG. I've played around with attempts at PG-13 or light R, but they were utter fail ( Read more... )

13. Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?I'm hugely canon-nitpicky. (That would be why I started out as a beta reader, yes. Besides the having been a determined spelling-bee competitor in my grade-school days.) So in a fandom with ( Read more... )