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[skygiants]

This afternoon I head off to Boston and then to Quebec for a long weekend of traveling, awesome people and joy! I have no idea how much internet capability/time for internet I will have before I come back Monday night, but my suspicion is not very much at all, so if there is anything you especially wish for me to see while I am gone you can drop me a link here.

In the meantime, as I try to pretend I am being productive at work until then: a writing meme! I have a lot of problems with the fic I am writing now (not least the fact that I still kind of feel GREAT SHAME for writing it at all) but there are definitely a few things I really like about it and that make me happy to think about. Which, I mean, is why we do creative enterprises, yes? It is a pleasant feeling.

So guys, if you are currently working on a creative project - whether it's a piece of fic or a novel or a painting or a comic or a massive RP plot or dance choreography or whatever - tell me something you really like about it! It will make me happy to read, and hopefully it will get you even more excited for working on it too. :D

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[silveraspen]

So guys, if you are currently working on a creative project - whether it's a piece of fic or a novel or a painting or a comic or a massive RP plot or dance choreography or whatever - tell me something you really like about it!

My favorite thing about my newest creative project is that I was invited to collaborate with a published writer. Even if this endeavor doesn't go anywhere at all, which is the most likely outcome, I am delighted by it!

I'm still waiting to wake up and find out that this is a dream. :)

[skygiants]

Oh DUDE, that is totally awesome!

I will keep my fingers crossed that it ends up going where you want it to - that you will be in a position where you can tell us more one of these days, because whatever it is sounds fascinating. :D

[silveraspen]

Thank you!

And yes, as soon as it is to some stage where I can actually give something that resembles detail, I will.

[skygiants]

I will look forward to it! :D

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

I spent like three straight hours writing a fic yesterday and another 45 minutes this morning, I was v. pleased with myself :D Apparently it is easy and fun to write when pretty much all you are writing is dialogue! (I already knew this, but it's still nice.) I haven't checked the wordcount yet, but I think by the time it is done it will be of respectable length. (Read: maybe 4000 words, idk. That's totally respectable.) So this makes me happy.

[skygiants]

Three straight hours is MAD IMPRESSIVE. (Dialogue is so much more fun and easy to write than description! Especially when it is people shouting at each other. I love writing people shouting at each other, it is way too much fun.) Also 4000 words is an extremely respectable length for a fic.

I am telling myself that I will be inspired by your example and get in something like that many hours of writing on the bus, but that is probably a lie and I will most likely end up sleeping. All the same, it is something to aspire to!

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

There is not a lot of shouting in the fic, as that would probably result in someone getting pissy and killing a few thousand people, but if that were not the case there would probably be quite a bit of shouting. There's thinly-veiled derision, though!

You write on the bus? Egads, I am impressed. Too many people around for my tastes, and also my laptop would keep slipping off my lap. Unless you are writing longhand, in which case I am extra impressed, as my handwriting would quickly deteriorate into nothingness.

[skygiants]

Thinly-veiled derision is fun too! Generally anything with characters being bitchy at each other, really.

Oh, definitely not longhand (I cannot really write longhand at all these days - I just keep pining for the 'delete' key) - on the laptop, and yeah, the positioning can definitely be awkward. On the other hand, it's many hours in a confined space with limited distractions, and lack of distractions is good for making me write and not go faffling procrastinatorily all over the internet!

[ethelflaed.livejournal.com]

All of my cast! They are all really fun characters to write and to think about, and I would like to hang out with them and trade favorite books and perhaps apologize for the part where all of them die.

[skygiants]

Loving your cast is a great feeling! That's one of the best parts of writing, really, is when it's like getitng lots of time to spend to hang out with fun people in your head.

Although if you were to have the opportunity to actually hang out with them, I might advise not bringing up the part where they all die - it could put a damper on the mood.

[elspeth-vimes.livejournal.com]

Ooh, have fun!


Well...I am working on these (http://re-formed.livejournal.com/19103.html) two (http://cost-benefit.livejournal.com/2155.html) prompt tables for characters I rp who happen to be from the same canon. I only really happy with one of the things I've done so far, but I'm getting more ideas and am hoping to get better with them!

...Though I'm going to have to do some basic research on guns. Damn.

[skygiants]

Thank you!

Ooooh, awesome. I tried one of those for an RP character once, and . . . failed miserably, but you I suspect will do much better! And it is awesome to have the excuse to write all the little snippets about the character that do not quite make it into RP. (I see what you did there, with the John le Carre references . . . *giggling*)


. . . . well, all knowledge is useful! Um, as long as you do not come to the attention of the government while performing it.

[elspeth-vimes.livejournal.com]

I think about these characters way too much. >.> Though I'm going to have to get pretty creative with some prompt interpretation to make them possible, I suspect. But yes, it is actually making me think even more closely about Bourne's evolution in canon and about what Pam's backstory is! ...It will also allow for Bourne/Marie fluff. (I could not help myself. :P)

...That warning is so appropriate given these characters that I cracked up.

[skygiants]

Nothing wrong with that! Lots of backstory and character thoughts make for excellent RP. . . . and actually now I am sort of tempted to do a prompt-table for one of mine, just to have fun playing with all the backstory/future-story bits I have somewhere in my head.

I am just saying! *HELPFUL*

[elspeth-vimes.livejournal.com]

I also think the "20 things you didn't know about [character]" is a good way to nail down character thoughts and backstory. But it does not allow for futurestory or dialogue, and is thus not as flexible and fun as prompts.

It had to be said! *you are very helpful!*

[skygiants]

It's still definitely a fun game to play, though. Also, a great excuse to come up with ridiculous middle names for your characters when you get stuck for 20. >.>

I do try. *serene*

[elspeth-vimes.livejournal.com]

*...is going to have to come up with ridiculous middle names for characters now*

And you succeed so well.

[aberration]

I... have recently only wrote a very short fic for varadia, and rewritten what I lost of an old OOM. Apparently I'm in more of a reading-mode right now. But I am pretty happy with how I wrote X-23... though for what this was, I should probably be able to do that by now.

[skygiants]

Hey, writing someone else's RP characters is hard. Writing X-23 is especially hard! I can't do it at all, so I find it mad impressive that you can.

(Though I can't write Elle either, and I am still mad impressed at how well you do that too, so!)

[aberration]

Well, Lynne will really have to be the judge of it, but I think it's more that I can get her down in terms of Elle-X interaction. I definitely wouldn't be able to write X if she were interacting with anyone else.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I need to work on a creative project. I don't have any open right now, except my dissertation, and I think that's a problem I ought to fix.

[skygiants]

The dissertation is pretty important! And is not to be blamed for stealing a great deal of your brain. But it is definitely nice to have something fun and non-scholarly to work on between-times.

[agonistes]

There is a mental image I keep dreaming about that's totally dorky, but it's the kind of thing that would look really neat painted plain -- in acrylic on pressboard that you'd get from Home Depot, I mean. The point of it isn't that it would look sweepingly haunting, it's that it's simple, faintly surreal, and makes me happy.

But I want to practice it a lot before I take that step. So that is what I am working on, in pencil, on 8 1/2x11 paper. Over and over and over, until I don't feel like anything with paint is bound for failure.

If this actually comes out, it is the kind of thing that I will pay lots to frame and hang. If it comes out.

[skygiants]

Oh, that is awesome!

(Also, I admire so, so much your dedication in getting it right. For serious.)

Someday I hope I will get to see it.

[bcgphoenix]

If I can get it to coalesce properly -- and that is still a ways and many drafts away, but -- my big creative project is going to end up being an odd sort of love story disguised as an equally odd crime/detective story. For some reason, I find that very neat.

[skygiants]

As an objective observer, I can say with confidence that it is, in fact, very neat! :D

Odd sorts of love stories (and odd sorts of crime/detective stories, for that matter) are the best kind.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I am pleased with all of my brand new characters who have erupted into my eyaific. Someone mentioned in the feedback meme that sometimes my ideas overtake my characters and I DO NOT THINK I AM MAKING THAT MISTAKE HERE, largely because the characters are so talkative.

[skygiants]

Shiny new characters are awesome! Especially when they have intriguing personalities and a lot to say.

[jothra]

WHY have you left right after I finished Mind of My Mind?!

I need to shriek at someone about it.

[skygiants]

Ahhh! I'm sorry Jo, I want to shriek at you about it too! Shriek in a comment and I will shriek back when I can?

[jothra]

Biggest shriek:

AHHHHHHHHHHHH THAT WAS SO CREEPY

Also, damn. She has such a talent for populating a book with such unlikeable characters, and yet I can't stop reading to find out what happens.

Mary was pretty much just as creepy as Doro at the end, she just had less practice at it.

[skygiants]

OH MAN I know! And, like. They're all so rational in their creepiness and horrible ethics. And. Man.

(I think maybe the scariest part was Karl's girlfriend, and how there is this whole big deal at the beginning about how she's the one he cares about and so forth, and then by the end . . .)