Evil Wrapped in a Fangirl Disguise

Let's procrastinate!

Pick one of my fics, and I'll give you three details that didn't make it into the fic. Background canon, deleted scenes, or a look into the future. My choice, but if you have a specific question you can ask it in your request.

Masterlist is here.

Come on, you know you want to.

- Porn Battle XI is open for prompts on LJ and on DW! FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR. I've been going through, seeing if I can't get some ideas already.

blindfold_spn is also still open for prompt fills.

Four weeks of porn. Fun times!

- I wasn't planning on watching the US Being Human, but then perfumaniac was watching it so I figured, hey, might as well. I was pleasantly surprised. Prefer the original, but I think this has some nice potential.

- Don't think I mentioned this, but finally got to see Kick-Ass the other night. Watched it with my parents. Mom thought it was really good. Dad liked it but was less enthusiastic about it. It was really hard to tell if he was enjoying it or not while we were watching it, but he did stay for the whole thing (and stayed awake) so that was a pretty good sign. They both recommended it to my brother the next morning.

Meanwhile, The King's Speech is playing in, well, not the local theater, but at least one that's only an hour away. We're tentatively planning on seeing it next weekend. I am excited!

I love writing, and I love talking about writing. I thought this looked interesting.

Snagged from trobadora.

I think it would be fun to talk about stories, but the usual memes are like, "What happens next?" "Tell me about Character A?" What isn't so much talking about stories as it is writing more of a story. But you know how sometimes you read something and you're like, "I got ___ out of this story, I wonder if that right?" or "What on earth was ____ supposed to be?" and it's too awkward to ask the author? Now you could totally ask!

I've heard people say that writing is hard because you have to make decisions, but we never really talk about the decisions we make with stories or why we make them. We talk about plot bunnies, but not about how we actually turn them into a story.

And it seems like a lot more fun to do that than to do working.

So, if you wanted, ask me questions! Anon commenting is (always) on, if you feel shy. Or ask your flist to ask you questions.

What were you trying to do [here]? Why did you decide to ____? This is what I thought about xyz, is that what you were going for? What made you write ____? And so on.


Or, y'know, feel free to ask me what happens next on a fic, or why Character A did this instead of that, or anything fic or writing related at all. If you have a question, ask!

Do you ever get partway through a fic and realize that somewhere along the line, you stopped writing the fic you thought you were? Do you keep going with the flow, letting it take you where it will? Or do you go back and try to find your original thread again?

I don't know if I have one disjointed fic, one fic that will work out, or two different stories all together.


Dear Dean & Cas,

I love you guys, but really. Can't you just...go with the original plan? Quit improvising.

Thanks,
Me


I am slightly bored at work. Because I am so damn efficient. Curses.

Let me illustrate.

"I do not need to eat, Dean."

Castiel is not human, but an angel. He does not need to consume food, but Dean may be able to convince him it is a fun thing to try.

"I do not need to eat Dean."

Castiel is not human, but a zombie. He does not need to consume Dean, but later when he is feeling peckish he may eat Dean's brains.

I'm just sayin'.

Does the Universal Technical Institute realize they share an acronym with urinary tract infections?

How unfortunate for them.

Question brought to you by the commercial that just ran before Annie Lennox's cover of "Whiter Shade of Pale" on YouTube. (I forgot how much I love her voice.)


Meanwhile, I have fic giving me massive anxiety. I hate that.

Sorry for the post spam, but I had to get that fic posted before I could do the end of the year fic meme.

Fic, ficlets, and drabbles included, I wrote and posted 42 (life, the universe, and EVERYTHING clearly) fics in 4 fandoms this year: 21 SPN, 13 NCIS, 5 Merlin, and 3 Due South. (I'm counting "Not Dudley Do-Right" as NCIS since it's Tony's POV.)

And 60 newspaper articles.

Last year I wrote 16 fics. To go from 16 to 42 is just...crazy. I don't know. sdrohc_ratiug says it's due to the goal I made at the beginning of last year: write a little every day. You do that and you're bound to end up with something finished.

Perhaps most amazingly, I managed to complete something over 5000 words. I have never done that before! Outside of classes or school projects. (I really should get a wordcount on my play...)

This year has been very strange for me, writing-wise. Strange in a good way. I don't know quite how to describe how I feel about it without sounding a bit looney toons. But I love where I am right now, creatively. (Except for that fic that just refuses to work. Bleh.)

Anyway. ( Fic round-up, organized by fandom )

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( Writing Meme 2009 )


Also, I think it's fun to note that at least one Supernatural fic began life as Without a Trace fic (Time to Spare) while another was meant for Due South (Busted). I'm not really writing those now though, but each one either had a particular scene I still wanted to use (WaT) or an almost complete fic (DS). I was very happy to be able to use both.

I don't really make resolutions for the new year, but last January 1 I decided that I would try to write a little something every day for a month. If I made it through that month, I'd do the same thing the month after and so on.

I thought if I just looked at it as months, it would be less scary and seem less of a chore and more of a manageable goal.

Now, it didn't always have to be writing that turned into anything. A lot of it didn't, though some of it is now making a reappearance and becoming newer, better things. I have notebooks filled with ideas and plot bunnies to work with now.

And I just realized that, omg, it is DECEMBER and as long as I make it through this month, I will have actually stuck to and done right by a resolution.

This makes me really stupidly happy.

You know you're writing too much porn when you giggle at "erected" while watching My Fair Wedding with David Tutera.

Or possibly you just know that internally you are a twelve year old boy.

Except not, because that would be weird. Especially with the writing porn part. Anyway.

Has anyone else seen My Fair Wedding? I enjoy it a lot. And I really like David Tutera. He's very blunt and honest with the brides, but not in a way that is cruel or off-putting. I like that even though he'll be like "OMGWTF??" during the original meeting with the brides, he just gently moves their weddings toward something better. And he doesn't come off as condescending. Sometimes improvement people come off as..."My taste level is HERE and your's is all the way down there. Don't argue with me."

And I LOVE IT when he makes them cry because they were previously making their own centerpieces out of things they bought at the 99 Cent Store and now it's Swarovski Crystals and Tiffany. It's a beautiful thing.

Okay, so the NCIS fic is not going so well at the moment. I just cannot seem to get Tony's voice right. I was wondering if it was maybe because I usually go for Tim's POV, but looking at what I've got on LJ, I'm about even when it comes to their POVs. So I dunno.

But it's very frustrating. And discouraging.

So I'm going to go look at old prompts from the porn battles and maybe try something quick and totally unrelated. I may have just had some inspiration from an old drabble, too.

How about you, flist? Anybody want to help a girl out? Prompt me?