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rsadelle

A Post of Small, Update-like Comments

Jan 30, 2011 09:11

LifeWork became ridiculously busy the day after MLK day, and looks to be that way for the foreseeable future. I hadn't realized how much I was depending on work downtime to stay caught up on my internet life. In the meantime, I have been reading very compelling books and foolishly staying up late to do so, with the end result that I'm very tired ( Read more... )

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inlovewithnight January 30 2011, 17:31:33 UTC

The way I read the BBB rules was that you couldn't talk about your fic explicitly in the official BBB chatter comm. They don't care what you do in your own journal.

rsadelle February 1 2011, 15:44:52 UTC

I kind of got the sense that the rule was limited to that only because that was the only place they could control it. (My real position is that no one knows who I am, so they won't know who the hell is writing this story anyway.)

inlovewithnight February 1 2011, 15:46:01 UTC

Well, yeah, but really, they don't care what anyone does in their own journals. They can't. They have lives and better things to do than police all the writers in Big Bang. :)

rsadelle February 1 2011, 20:54:37 UTC

I did mention it in the bands post too.

I think my biggest misgiving is that I have no idea if I can finish this story for the deadline. I've been working on it for seven months, and it's 35,000 words, and they haven't even gotten any evidence they can use against Gabe. I guess I could up my daily word count and maybe make it, or make it for wave two.

idahophoenix January 30 2011, 18:57:08 UTC

Re communication. So which mode of communication works better for you--comments across the social media that you're on, or just e-mail?

rsadelle February 1 2011, 20:49:41 UTC

There isn't just one answer! It all depends. Things that are private should stay with email or Twitter direct messages (if they're short). I really like public fannish conversation (people commenting on LJ entries, conversation on Twitter) because other people have an opportunity to read it too or join in - but there's also a place for email-based fannish conversation (especially with things people aren't willing to say publicly). I read/butt into a lot of conversations in other people's LJs, and I know at least one of the people who follows both inlovewithnight and me on Twitter likes watching us plot bunny back and forth.

mayqueen517 January 31 2011, 20:23:58 UTC

I signed up for BBB. And am going to sign up for SLB. THIS MAKES ME FEEL REALLY CRAZY.

I've been trying to work out an actual story about girl!Sean in my head. It's not going well. Girl!Sean is difficult to conceptualize, much less write.

What about it do you find difficult? I have an easier time conceptualizing Girl!Tom, for some reason. But I've got such a clear image in my head of her, I think that's why it's so easy. I don't have many thoughts about Girl!Sean actually.

Also, all the Empires kink fic forever. (I have this whole theory about Tomrad really being into being claimed and marked and belonging that I can never quite get written.)

rsadelle February 1 2011, 20:53:09 UTC

EGADS. That's a lot of banging. (Any and all puns intended.)

I don't know! I just can't see Sean as a girl. One of my friends said it's because he would be the weirdest girl ever, and maybe that's it. I, too, find girl!Tom totally easy to conceptualize/write.

Mmmm, kink. Everything I've been writing in my head recently has Sean subbing, except the werewolf story, which is a whole other animal of kink. (This is probably at least in part because what one of my friends said she liked about two of my early Empires snippets was that they were about people taking care of Sean.)

mayqueen517 February 1 2011, 23:49:07 UTC

I keep telling myself, "Christina, you wrote 18K for BGBB last year...YOU CAN DO 20K WITH TWO FICS. COME ON." (ahahaa, now I've got bang stuck in my head. \o ( ... )

rsadelle February 4 2011, 04:31:31 UTC

You can totally do it!

It's less the physical than the personality. (Physically, I don't think Sean would be that angular. He's a little soft for that.) I just can't get a handle on Sean as a girl. I think he comes across as very masculine in a really interesting way - like, I don't get a manly man vibe from him, but I'm just having a hard time seeing him as a girl.

Oh, the werewolf thing is this whole other *hands* thing that is complicated by being het, so he's all possessive about girl!Tom, but I'm also trying to make him feminist-minded so he thinks she should have her own life too.

Yessss. Empires taking care of each other is the best thing.

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