ficathons/artathons progress

[tielan]

sga_genficathon: I seem to be having a bad case of negative words with this one. Black hole words that get sucked into the page and swallowed whole as soon as - if not even before - they're put to paper. *facepalm*

I've put that one on hold. Hopefully, I'll get it done before the next time the proper day of the week rolls around.
(I'm sorry, friendshipper! It's just not working right now. I keep starting stories and then never getting them done! I can't find the right story to tell for this!)

team_sga: Have the first paragraph of the College Housing AU. Current working title: Toilet Seats And Tampons. Have the plot for the Tattoo Parlour AU. Have possible plot for Teyla the Vampire Slayer and her Scooby Gang AU. Since I've just finished reading the new Anne Bishop book A Tangled Web, I want to write another Black Jewels AU. Or, at least, finish off the ones I already have! And then there's the Shadowkin AU, the Pinocchio AU, the Bheancoran AU, the Firefly AU, the Daughter Of The Empire AU... BAH! Shermer! I was just at the good bit, too! BAH!

Anyone got a shotgun? I got some bunnies to dispose of!

remixredux08: have the story I'm working on, need to work on the style. I want to copy my recipient's style - problem #1. I'm didactic in storytelling. She's not. I love her style, I just can't copy it.

gate_women: 0 words. And barely a plot. *facepalm*

paintedspires: I need to find template photos for the poses. I can't draw from my head - I need models from which to capture shape and shadow. Especially since I can't manage a cartoon style. I wish I could. I've sketched out a decidedly NC-17 pose in PSP, but I want a more PG one with a martial feel. Am thinking about finding people to model the poses for me...oooh. My sister's biblestudy will be in the house tomorrow night! Instant models! (Not the NC-17 ones, get your minds out of the gutter, people!)

sgabigbang: wrote the first half of the summary this evening. ROCK ON! I think I have most of the second half set up, but I'm not 100% sure. I have to decide how much of late S3 and S4 canon I'm going to incorporate - if any.

Comments

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

The problem you're having with the genficathon story is the same problem I was having with it. I ended up having to drop 99% of what I had hoped to do with the story in general just so that I could get something done. Gah.

I have about a page of my team_sga story done, and arrrrrgh. Firstly, I am writing a fantasy AU, and it occurred to me yesterday that the reason I feel kind of like I have no idea what I'm doing is because I haven't read fantasy (of the sort I'm writing, i.e. non-urban fanstasy, non-sci fi-fusion fantasy) in almost TWENTY YEARS. And then I also realized that my idea was the sort of thing that would have had to be about 50,000 words, so I'm trying to pull back significantly on the scope. More gah.

Whyyyyy do I sign up for these things. I always kerplode under pressure.

[tielan]

See, I usually come through under pressure. Except that this time, not.

*hugs you*

My problem is that I think I'm trying to do too many things at once in the story, and I just can't do them all. Mostly, I want to write something like "Two Cheeks To The Wind" but my brain is coming up blanketty blank - which is frustrating as all heck.

[mizz_destiny]

if I encourage more Black Jewels AU fics are you going to shoot me with that rifle?

[tielan]

Probably!

It's okay, you don't need to encourage it - it's encouraging itself!

[mizz_destiny]

yay!

*runs aways and hides*

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to shoot anybody for having to drop out of the ficathon, if it comes to that. *g* Sometimes life just gets in the way. At this point, though, the team category is looking so sparse for next week (like, er ... nothing, though one person has promised to have a pretty long story to me this weekend) that I'd be willing to take something really short (flashfic-length) if it's easier to do something short and fluffy (team breakfast, etc) than something long and plotty.

If you're pretty sure you're not going to be able to get a story in, though, please let me know ASAP so I can see if I can knock something together last-minute.

[tielan]

I could probably get "stuff" in, it just won't be as long as it should, or as complex as I want, and nobody will like it (including me).

Every time I try to start a story, it just collapses on me after a handful of sentences. Little voices telling me my writing is bad and my story ideas are lame and nobody wants to read my stuff anyway... *sigh*

Bad time to have a writing self-esteem crisis.

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

*winces* Yeah. I know that feeling, too!

One thing I've noticed about my own writing is that the longer I work in one fandom, the more pressure I put on myself -- I slowly seem to go from writing whatever strikes my fancy, just for the hell of it, to feeling as if I have a reputation to maintain and each story must be better than the last. Getting back in touch with that "just for the hell of it" feeling is what makes writing fun for me, but it's hard to do. (This is what tends to torpedo my original fic, too -- the pressure I put on myself to make it "about something" rather than just being for fun.)

Anyway, I do hope you're able to get something in, because you write beautifully and I *do* think that whatever you write would be a benefit to the ficathon.

[tielan]

(This is what tends to torpedo my original fic, too -- the pressure I put on myself to make it "about something" rather than just being for fun.)

Definitely yes. This happens to me, too.

[tielan]

Just to let you know, I will have something for you. It may not be as good as I want, but you will have it - hopefully by Tuesday night for this week's sub, but in time for the final week of posting for certain. I promise.

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

The problem you're having with the genficathon story is the same problem I was having with it. I ended up having to drop 99% of what I had hoped to do with the story in general just so that I could get something done. Gah.

I have about a page of my team_sga story done, and arrrrrgh. Firstly, I am writing a fantasy AU, and it occurred to me yesterday that the reason I feel kind of like I have no idea what I'm doing is because I haven't read fantasy (of the sort I'm writing, i.e. non-urban fanstasy, non-sci fi-fusion fantasy) in almost TWENTY YEARS. And then I also realized that my idea was the sort of thing that would have had to be about 50,000 words, so I'm trying to pull back significantly on the scope. More gah.

Whyyyyy do I sign up for these things. I always kerplode under pressure.

[tielan]

See, I usually come through under pressure. Except that this time, not.

*hugs you*

My problem is that I think I'm trying to do too many things at once in the story, and I just can't do them all. Mostly, I want to write something like "Two Cheeks To The Wind" but my brain is coming up blanketty blank - which is frustrating as all heck.

[mizz_destiny]

if I encourage more Black Jewels AU fics are you going to shoot me with that rifle?

[tielan]

Probably!

It's okay, you don't need to encourage it - it's encouraging itself!

[mizz_destiny]

yay!

*runs aways and hides*

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to shoot anybody for having to drop out of the ficathon, if it comes to that. *g* Sometimes life just gets in the way. At this point, though, the team category is looking so sparse for next week (like, er ... nothing, though one person has promised to have a pretty long story to me this weekend) that I'd be willing to take something really short (flashfic-length) if it's easier to do something short and fluffy (team breakfast, etc) than something long and plotty.

If you're pretty sure you're not going to be able to get a story in, though, please let me know ASAP so I can see if I can knock something together last-minute.

[tielan]

I could probably get "stuff" in, it just won't be as long as it should, or as complex as I want, and nobody will like it (including me).

Every time I try to start a story, it just collapses on me after a handful of sentences. Little voices telling me my writing is bad and my story ideas are lame and nobody wants to read my stuff anyway... *sigh*

Bad time to have a writing self-esteem crisis.

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

*winces* Yeah. I know that feeling, too!

One thing I've noticed about my own writing is that the longer I work in one fandom, the more pressure I put on myself -- I slowly seem to go from writing whatever strikes my fancy, just for the hell of it, to feeling as if I have a reputation to maintain and each story must be better than the last. Getting back in touch with that "just for the hell of it" feeling is what makes writing fun for me, but it's hard to do. (This is what tends to torpedo my original fic, too -- the pressure I put on myself to make it "about something" rather than just being for fun.)

Anyway, I do hope you're able to get something in, because you write beautifully and I *do* think that whatever you write would be a benefit to the ficathon.

[tielan]

(This is what tends to torpedo my original fic, too -- the pressure I put on myself to make it "about something" rather than just being for fun.)

Definitely yes. This happens to me, too.

[tielan]

Just to let you know, I will have something for you. It may not be as good as I want, but you will have it - hopefully by Tuesday night for this week's sub, but in time for the final week of posting for certain. I promise.