Soooo that Fanfic Friday thing … because I decided to do that on Wednesday this week doesn’t count right? *cringes*
#one day maybe I’ll master this doing things thing#today is kinda that day as I have hoovered the whole house but that doesn’t help in the writing completion stakes /sigh
@rumple-belle, @ripperblackstaff, @mariequitecontrarie, @theoneandonlylittlebird and @sarashouldbestudying THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for your thoughtful responses to my ‘should I create a writing sideblog or not?’ post.
The unanimous consensus was that I shouldn’t and as that’s less for me to worry about, I’m going to go with that! 🙂
So how am I going to go about this?
Well first off I’ve added a link to my writing posts (thanks to Sara for the idea). It just forwards to the ‘Sam talks writing’ tag at the moment but I’m contemplating creating a masterlist of writing related stuff. There’s the Once word crawl, plus some pep talks, and there will be more come November when NaNo season starts again. I might even have some cool tips to share from my degree, who knows 🙂
Second I’m planning on implementing “Fanfic Fridays” because I cast my mind back to summer 2016. I had this WIP (The War Within) and pretty much without fail I updated every Tuesday. I recall making myself sit and write because I. Couldn’t. Miss. Posting. Day.
Now this could fail epicly like every other self-imposed deadline in the last couple of years OR it could be the exact structure I need to get back on the horse and do the thing. Thus far my instructions to myself have been project based (e.g. finish X by Y) but what I’m going with this time is “finish anything so long as it’s by Friday”. Only time will tell whether that helps.
Thirdly! Thirdly? I’m going to go back to doing monthly roundups. I stopped doing them out of embarrassment but I think they help, especially with the ‘and next month I will…’ that I tacked on the bottom. I think I actually said in those posts ‘I can’t hit a target that I can’t see’ so maybe it’s time to start actually making those targets again.
Fourthly (this is getting silly now *rolls eyes at self*) I have made a WIP page listing everything that is currently on my list and what the status is.
Finally! In addition to the ‘Sam talks writing’ tag which I’ll dump everything in, I’ll also use extra tags like #myrumbellefic or #mygarcyfic to differentiate between the fandoms because I do have some things that aren’t Rumbelle that I want to write. That way if I’m blathering on about a fanfic for a show you don’t like you can blacklist.
Let’s see how this goes and if you guys have a suggestion of anything writing related you’d like to see from me (besides poor PLL being updated of course) then let me know 🙂
The thing that I love the most about having lots of story ideas … is the fizzing potential. I read over the list and it’s like hugging a warm drink, these are mine and they sound awesome.
The thing that I hate the most about having lots of story ideas … is the complete indecision about what to work on which often leads to me working on nothing, feeling like I’ll never get anything finished as the mountain is just too big and that all the shiny potential disappears the second I attempt to put words on a page.
Can’t live with it BUT definitely can’t live without it. #hookedforlife
thanks for the ask! Should have trusted you to go angst hehe *hugs*
13. Has a fic ever made you cry?
Oh yeah, several, though usually it’s just blinking back tears. The only fic I can think of which actually made me sob, like full on uncontrollable crying, was a Harry Potter fanfic called Family Night. I have never forgotten it and I have actually read it more than once. If I ever need to cry, it does the job every single time. I’m not sure what gets me about it but I just bawl.
Wait a minute! I forgot @worryinglyinnocent‘s Value for a second. Ok I take it back – that one! Bloody that one! I was probably trying to block it from my mind because that hurt, that really hurt.
14. What tropes/elements/scenarios get you the worst?
Get me? What like make me cry? Or upset me? I don’t know. I have trouble with angst in general to be honest because I think I over-empathise and I get really bad anxiety. I’ve had to stop reading more than one fic because it was making me feel really sick.
This is really making me think. I suppose it’s when the character can’t see a way out, so it’s like there’s no light. I need to know it’s going to be ok. I need to be able to see how it can be fixed, or at least feel reassured that it will be fixed. I don’t mean fixed fixed necessarily, but just that even if they are still having to deal with stuff that they CAN deal with it. I’m not sure that makes sense.
I’m a bit of a wimp to be honest. It’s like with sci-fi, I like mine a bit cheesy, saving the world and cracking jokes at the same time. Sure it can get a bit dark but it’s not doom and gloom.
15. Do you mind when characters cry?
I want to hug them – metaphorically at least. I don’t do hugging in real life, I’m very much don’t touch me, but I’m forever going “somebody give them a hug” when characters cry. I like to make it better I guess. I suppose whether I mind them crying depends on the circumstances. If it’s fake-crying to manipulate someone then I hate that! Otherwise sometimes people just need to cry, it’s a release and hopefully the character feels better for it.
16. How do you feel about character death in fic?
Hate it. Won’t read it.
Well you know what I mean. I won’t ever read the characters I love dying, but side characters? one’s I don’t like to fill the plot? Sure. I don’t think of that as character death though.
17. Any characters who you can’t stand to see in pain?
Anyone I like? No seriously I have a very low threshold for angst. I like to fix things and make characters happy. Temporary pain is ok I guess? But I’ve never been down with the whole ‘hurts so good’ thing.
Also by temporary and happy, I don’t mean some kind of fake unicorn world. Some hurts don’t go away but it’s about being able to cope I guess. So even if life is still a struggle sometimes for the character, they are in a good place and have people that care about them. There are no such thing as happy endings but I like characters to have a good life.
18. Favorite angst fic?
None of the above.
I know, I’m sorry, but favourite and angst really don’t go together. Plus I’m not 100% sure what constitutes an angst fic. I tend to think of it as ‘break them and then fix them’ but I have trouble reading that kind of sustained misery even if the ending is happy.
I’m going to say All of Me I think by @mariequitecontrarie because that has some very angsty moments but it’s mixed in with a lot of love and support. It’s like up and down, rather than just down down down. It’s a journey, with bright spots and dark spots, it’s not unrelenting but it’s real. It’s very good.
#in which sam is a major wimp
thank you so much for the ask! 🙂
1) Do you like crossovers, and if so, which is your favorite?
I do and I don’t. Sometimes they are extremely good fun but reading them is a bit hit and miss. I suppose it’s about how we all have our own pictures of characters in our heads, and crossovers imo are more prone than most fics in making the characters act weird.
My favourite type of ‘crossover’ are fusions. Where they aren’t crossovers as such because the characters from the two universes don’t usually meet, it’s putting one set of characters into another universe.
2) Which your favorite multi-chapter fic that you’ve written?
Ooof now you are asking. Although it would be a lot harder if some of the verses weren’t made up of multiple oneshots. I suppose it’s between Conspiracy Afloat and Fall All Over Again and the reason is probably the same for both – potential. Although that is in different ways.
Fall All Over Again could have two different kinds of prequels, or a sequel and I have the plot points for it. I’ll never write it but that doesn’t matter, just knowing the edges are fuzzy is enough to make me love it. Plus I liked what I did with Lacey, in that I really hammered home the ‘we are both’ thing, and I do love Lacey, she is such fun to write.
Conspiracy Afloat was rushed imo and should have been novel length. It could be expanded a fair bit and maybe one day I will.
Doing some brainstorming and just wrote this:
“Now I’m thinking this is too small and simple,
why? What is wrong with small and simple you fool.”
Me all over tbh
I just found 6 pages of fic I have absolutely no memory of writing…
When will my writing discipline return?
So many things I want to write and can I focus and write them? Nooooo. Seriously where are the jumper cables to kickstart my brain?
– I wanted to write a part three for In Your Arms for this months Monthly Rumbelling. I planned it but haven’t got beyond that.
– There’s Painting Layers of Love of course
– There’s my original writing
– There are so many others and not all Rumbelle
Like I was watching The Librarians 4×04, the silver screen and it suddenly clicked what first attracted Eve to Flynn. My first thought was “fic it” as that is ALWAYS my first thought. Once upon a time (no pun intended) that would have been my first action too /headdesk
The trailer for the Spy Who Dumped Me came on the TV and I still think that my initial reading of the promo poster as gay would have been so awesome. I wanna write it. Will I? *laughs* I wish!
Sorry I know this is whiny. I’m just fed up with myself. Life happens. I really need to stop letting that be an excuse 🙁
This is so weird.
Like is telepathy a thing? If I think about something, does it somehow make other people notice it?
You anon have perfect timing, you are right on the money – there WILL be more In Your Arms, this month in fact!
I don’t want to spoil the fic but I think I can safely say that a) all your questions will be answered and b) there will be a happy ending – when do I not? 🙂
Note to self: When excitedly chatting about fics with people in messengers, make sure to copy the notes to your computer or you. will. never. find. them. again.
or
I suppose I could take the view that anything I’ve forgotten wasn’t that good in the first place except it never feels like that. Recreating something always feels secondbest to the original.