dune_drd, posts by tag: fic - LiveJournal

I have just been on a three week-long Averngers fic binge. I HAVE NO IDEA WHY AND I CANNOT STOP. I am not really into the fandom, how did this happen?? I feel like a junkie, it's eating my brain and my spare time usually reserved to book reading... so, once again, thanks for all your fic recs - think I read about all of them by now. And it finallly led to me using my AO3 account for the first time.

So here I'm sitting, trying to write that damn help_japan fic and I feel like I'm simply going through the motions... I mean, I have a plot, and some dialogue and I know where it should go, but it feels... hollow. I don't know if I'll ever get this fleshed out to be interesting, but I have also no idea what I'm doing wrong.

Help? Any ideas?

My muse somehow came back on a long car drive home. Yeah, I'm weird.

I have just written about 3000 words for my help_japan fic offer, and that's just about the main construct of a story that could turn out to be huge... and boring. I offered 1000 words and I think the plot might work out, but I'm not sure I'm quite capable of stretching a quite straightforward plot over that many words and make it still interesting... that'll be quite a challenge. I only hope my muse will stay around a while so I can at least try to work on this some more.

... to bid on me in the help_japan auction over here and here -- so, if you still have some money left, go and bid! I promise to do my best to make the winner happy :)

In other news OMG I MISSED THE MOST AWESOME TEEFURY TEE EVER *shakes fist at the universe*

Er, anyway, any artsy people up for a commission for me? I really need to get that tattoo project going, this is getting ridiculous. At least by now I (kind of) know what I want... and I'd either pay you directly, or donate for help_japan, the thread's here.

So, er, I might have signed up for help_japan... Offering fic.

Yes, I'm the same person who complained yesterday that she couldn't write anymore; I really hope some pressure gets me going again. I would've offered crafty stuff as well, but I'm simply lacking the time for that. So the only alternative was something I get around here and which the rest of the world doesn't... er, a Gingerbread Heart for example. It sounded like a good idea at the time, let's see if someone wants one ;)

I also have a request up for tattoo art should anyone of you feel especially artsy.

Insomnia does the weirdest things to me...

I would love to write for help_japan, but my brain is seriously empty. No, really. I know it's nothing new, but I just can't write fic anymore. No, I have no idea when and how that happened (work stress, maybe, but that was never an issue for me before).

Fic usually comes to me in one big, jumbled idea, I run to the PC, get it onto (digital) paper and then spent weeks fine-tuning it. I've never had such a long time without that 'Eureka!' moment. I write snippets of dialogue, but not stories. The problem is also that I have this insane idea that stories I've worked on (opposed to the ones that just 'hit me'), are never as good as that creative burst, you know?

So tell me: How do you write? Do you have a plot and construct a story around it? Do you have a scene and build everything around it? Do you sit down and decide "okay, this is going to happen."?

What do you do against writer's block?

When I first entered Doctor Who fandom in 2005, I had never written fanfic before. Well, not where people could see it, or in english. I started head over heels wso to speak and I'm not proud of the early stuff I wrote: No full grasp of english writing, no real sense of how to advance a plot or write dialogue, no great story ideas and I had never written something over 2000 words outside of school/university.

I am now making a dramatic pause where you can assure me I've gotten better since then, but I won't hold my breath, because most of my development was due to awesome betas. *squishes her betas*

Against better knowledge of my writing, I put out a Work In Progress story back then, writing from cliffhanger to cliffhanger when I felt like it. Unsurprisingly, my plot ideas dried up after the fourth chapter. I forgot completely about it and didn't transfer it to Teaspoon when I came over from fanfiction.net.

But the interweb doesn't forget, and yesterday I got a review from fanfiction.net - apparently someone read exactly that WiP, not only liking it (I can only cringe when I read it now) but hoping I'd finish it one day. And - just like that reviewer - I suddenly got curious where this thing would've gone. I would have to completely rewrite it and think up a decent plot, a decent ending, even... sounds like a project that could get me out of writer's block!

So, oh wise f-list, any ideas how I can revisit and rewrite that fic when I can't even bear to look at those 4 crappy chapters?

Somebody gave me a virtual gift on LJ, and it's doubly awesome: Firstly it has come with the note 'Thanks for making me happy with your stories' and secondly it's also a charity gift to Doctors without Borders! Mind you, I have no idea how much of that money reaches them, and I now feel bad for not being able to write for such a long time up to now, but THANK YOU anon, whoever you are!

Help me, folks. I'm going through an especially bad round of Karma - I have a deadline but nothing works, and the univere has put up an entire arsenal to keep me from getting the results my bosses and me so desperately want. I'm quite willing to try anything by now, as time's running away - send me and my colleagues positive vibes, please? We desperately need a kinder universe right about now if Christmas is to be a happy time of rest.

And a meme stolen from yamx:

Inspired by Doctor Who's "Turn Left:" Pick one of my stories and tell me a point in the tale that you'd change. Something tiny (e.g. "and then Harry told a knock knock joke instead of a light bulb joke") or big (e.g. "and then June found Koh's spine and ripped it out before he could crush her arm and steal her face") and I'll tell you how that one difference would have altered the course of the entire story.

Cosmic Joke got recced on calufrax, and while I'm all flailing arms because it's so flattering and just what my ego needed, I happened to look at my Whofic account, double-checked the dates in my journal and realised that I've not written coherent fic since June. This is beginning to scare me...