Another multifandom shortfic challenge that could be interesting: secrets.
Let me guess. We're in a hurry.
Inara ,'Serenity'
Buffista Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
amych - Apr 17, 2003 9:17:49 am PDT #3460 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Connie Neil - Apr 17, 2003 9:50:07 am PDT #3461 of 10001
brillig
What should I work on next, Ethan and Giles on their way to Hong Kong or the Scoobies on the road?
Am-Chau Yarkona - Apr 17, 2003 9:51:48 am PDT #3462 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Ethan!
Please.
P.M. Marc - Apr 17, 2003 9:59:38 am PDT #3463 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Someone tell me to not feel guilty for only writing three words in the story I'm working on yesterday, because I did write about 3000 of the one I did as a pinch hitter.
Connie Neil - Apr 17, 2003 10:00:50 am PDT #3464 of 10001
brillig
Three words were crafted from the universe that were not crafted before. Always a good thing.
Hm, my muse is feeling pedantic.
amych - Apr 17, 2003 10:02:05 am PDT #3465 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Three words is three more than I did yesterday, and pinch hitting is always good for the karma and/or soul.
askye - Apr 17, 2003 10:02:23 am PDT #3466 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
Don't feel bad. It's the 17th ---the 17th!!--for god's sake and I don't even have a freaking first draft for my flashfic.
Although I finally thought up a way to start it at lunch. Not that I wrote it down, so hopefully I can remember it. Or I'll write it up in email and send it to myself.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Apr 17, 2003 10:04:44 am PDT #3467 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Having problems, askye?
askye - Apr 17, 2003 10:08:37 am PDT #3468 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
It's not that I'm idea blocked, because I have the idea. The idea rocks. I have the whole thing (well, I wasn't sure how to start it) all written out in summary format.
Now trying to write it, I seem to have forgotten how to write. I looks like, not even passive sentences but lots of
"The door opened and then....""She walked up to him and said...."
I mean, it's all telling what's happening there's no STORY. I go and try and read and figure out "okay, you read fanfic, how do other people do it" and I look at and go "i don't know..."
Except now I have more of a beginning, and there's an actual story with description and emotions. Before I was just describing. So X goes and then Y does this and I couldn't get the motivations because...well...there were none.
I'm not idea blocked, I've just forgotten how to transform an idea into a story.
Connie Neil - Apr 17, 2003 10:09:58 am PDT #3469 of 10001
brillig
That's why I can't write anything until I start hearing the characters talk to each other and can see them moving around in my head.