Comments | vilakins: Fun ficathon

vilakins

Fun ficathon

Feb 22, 2010 18:58

I've signed up for the "ficathon walks into a bar", which looks like a lot of fun. It's being run both on Dreamwidth (where I'm signed up for it because I can get to DW easily) and on LJ, and it doesn't matter where you sign up, but you have to do it in the next couple of days.

You only have to write a minimum of 500 words. Anyone else? :-)

writing

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van February 22 2010, 06:20:30 UTC

Hmmm, that looks fun, but I'm not sure I could come up with four other fandoms in addition to the one I'm starting with where I'd be willing to write any character from it. I shall ponder it. It's nice to know there's no penalty if I never finish, but I'd feel guilty about it!

vilakins February 22 2010, 06:23:53 UTC

I managed to write Vila and the Red Dwarf crew in a bar with Avon once, so I'm willing to give this one a go. I just hope I don't end up with some obscure character I'll have to research.

Space pub!

van February 22 2010, 06:27:09 UTC

It's clever you picked spacey-themed settings. I was considering using a Monty Python character as my walk-in, but while Doctor Who wouldn't be hard to write to that, Blake's 7 would be. And I can't pick Vila as my walk-in character if I want to include Monty Python since it's RPF.

I may try anyway and just see if whatever is selected inspires anything. You never know! Have you gotten your assignment yet, or are you still waiting?

vilakins February 22 2010, 06:35:55 UTC

The person running it assigns the second character once the sign-ups are closed. You have to make those two the focus, but you're free to add other characters.

And frankly I'd mix up anyone and not bother explaining how they got there. I didn't pick all space shows, but I suppose you get an element of time-travel with Lost. I went for series with characters I thought I had a fair chance of being able to write, and I do tend to like SF. :-)

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pet_lunatic February 22 2010, 10:32:44 UTC

Sounds highly entertaining! :D

vilakins February 22 2010, 19:59:45 UTC

Do it! It will be fun!

astrogirl2 February 22 2010, 14:48:53 UTC

Oh, what the heck. I think I'm going to do it. :)

vilakins February 22 2010, 20:00:11 UTC

YAY! Who's going to be your walk-in character? Stark? The Doctor?

astrogirl2 February 22 2010, 20:33:58 UTC

I ended up settling on Crichton, just because he's always fun in a crossover, and I haven't written him nearly enough.

vilakins February 23 2010, 06:35:35 UTC

Oh yes, Crichton would be fun!

entropy_house February 22 2010, 16:14:24 UTC

I gave in. :^) I hope I manage to do it.

vilakins February 22 2010, 20:00:46 UTC

Excellent. It's a short enough minimum to be fairly easy. :-)

entropy_house February 22 2010, 21:05:04 UTC

That was what finally swayed me. I figure 500 words has GOT to be doable, even if I get assigned a second character that I have to research.