Chatter Post!

[white_aster]

Yay and welcome! First of all, thank EVERYONE for joining the comm! We've been tickled pink by the turnout, and we hope that everyone will have an awesome time writing and reading!

In the interest of tiding us over until the bingo cards are given out on the 1st, why don't we have a good, old-fashioned introduction post! Feel free to mix and mingle, introduce yourself and your writing, talk about the weather, ask questions, or anything else that comes to mind! :D

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[white_aster]

I'll start! Hi, my name is Aster, and I am co-modding this comm/challengething along with the wonderful darthneko! We decided to start Origfic Bingo after several years of playing with various bingo challenges and having tons of fun with them. This year, though, as the bingo population seemingly exploded, we found that our original character muses were flinging ideas at us in response to the bingo prompts...and none of the bingos we could find allowed original fiction! :O

"Travesty!" we said! And, in the grand tradition of "I want to play in this sandbox, so I'll GO MAKE IT MYSELF!", we did just that. And the rest is history! :D We hope that this challenge will be a low-stress inspiration for everyone!

Personally, I hope to woo the original muses with a lot of tasty prompts in the next year. I tend to write character-driven scifi and fantasy (those mutant spacecats? Yeah, I got 'em....), so I'd expect some spacecats, some trans-dimensional gate setup teams, some mojo-magic-slinging steampunk, some fantasy-world harems, and god knows what else from me!

And again, thanks everyone so much for your enthusiasm. We have over a hundred subscribers! For my first foray into modding ANYTHING, that's pretty exciting! <3!

[whatawaytoburn]

Thank YOU for making this comm! As someone who loves bingos and has a lot of fun playing with original verses, you have made me a very happy creature.

[owlectomy]

Hello!

I'm Emily. I write professionally. This year has kind of been a bear for me writing-wise and I am on a pilgrimage to put myself back in touch with joy and playfulness and spontaneity in writing. So when this comm popped up on my network list I decided it was Fate. I'm looking forward to it!

[white_aster]

If the challenge can help you out in any way, then it'll totally be worth it. :D Good luck!

[whatawaytoburn]

So, I'm Nina and I am super excited to see this comm get moving.

I love writing fanfic but I do have plenty of original verses that I would have loved to play with in bingo challenges but never could. So getting the chance to play original bingo just leaves me pleased as punch!

As for me outside of writing, I am into various fandoms, drawing, reading, making things in various forms, mental health issues, and uhm...Other things. I have an introduction post somewhere that I may link to at one point but probably only if you ask.

As for my writing, I'm an urban fantasy girl with some slice of life stuff on the side. I've got a lot of verses (with cast lists already made, if you want to see them, just poke me) and I have a LOT of verses. Not as much s some granted but enough that I occasionally blink and stare. I love writing and challenges so I'm excited to start this.

Things you will see in my writing: Angels, zombies, vampires, werewolves, fey, creatures that have no proper name, cities, strippers, personified locations, ideas and all sorts of things, aspects of Death, various things with various powers, people that live off= of things no human could, power dynamics, BDSM, steampunk, people who time travel using graves, high deities that spend all their time in a diner, other high deities who act like children on a sugar high, people who write pron and love what they do, people who grant your desires for a monitory price, post apocalyptic girls who sing Frank Sinatra, angels of small things like coffee cups and the space under the bed, the ghosts of small boys, chosen families, troublemakers, brothels, traveler of all sizes and flavors, muses and a lot of other stuff.

I feel like there is other stuff I ought to say but my brain is going blank. *will just be in the corner bouncing and gleeing for this comm*

[white_aster]

:bounces with you: Your list of things we'll see is FASCINATING. Can't wait to see what you come up with! :D

[recessional]

Hi. I'm M, and as I was mentioning to someone else earlier today, origfic is actually my home, where fanfic is this place I'm visiting while said home is metaphorically renovated, cleaned out and made a place fit to live again - by which I mean, I've been dabbling in fanfic over the last year or so because a bout with fairly serious chronic major depression along with the Drug Roulette to deal with said combined with finishing my BA, trying to find jobs, losing my roommate and all sorts of other fun shit (not really) has sapped my ability to work on stuff I actually care about.

My original stuff tends to be either fantasy, spec-fic or space-opera type sci-fi. Most of my worlds are secondary-creation (sometimes they're secondary-creation plus "our world" stuff, just for fun), which is to say I am a paracosmist and quite involved in being so.

I write tragedies, epics, and eucatastrophic happy endings when I have them at all. I love working with archetypes and tropes and playing with what they mean, what they tell us, and what people miss when they outright reject them.

I have too many fsking paracosms to number, really, but they'll probably all show up here; the most well-developed so far is the world of Wind of Ashes/Risen After (depending on whether it's before or after a particular catastrophic event), which ranges from high-fantasy to historical fantasy to urban fantasy to apocalyptic fantasy to post-apocalyptic fantasy, to post-post apocalyptic fantasy, to whatever you get when you're still writing stuff about the same world two thousand or so years after the apocalypse when it's only remembered via religion anymore anyway.

Second to that is probably Winter Leaving, my insanely ambitious alt-history-of-Earth, which contains some of my favourite people ever including my pirate, my artist and my artist's wife*.

I have a general label on myself as "not a safe writer"; I write about intense emotions, all over the range, and the purpose of my writing is to evoke them in my readers. This means anything from ecstatic joy and love to stuff which writing has literally triggered my own PTSD into a bad fit, and will (if anything) be edited to be more horrible on the rerun. Obviously, I try to warn for everything I can think of, but if I end the warning with " . . . . look, this is just ugly", take me at my word. *solemn* When I did a "ten things that mean you know I wrote the story", the line "I will probably kill your favourite character, or make you wish I had" featured at #3, and I got a comment-page full of agreement. (Partly, this is because death is a major theme for me, and, well, everyone dies eventually, except for one character, who is cursed to live forever, and would in many ways really rather shuffle off the goddamn mortal coil and just can't.)

My stories tend to be heavy on women being awesome, or terrifying, or both, and one of my general stated purposes is to explore all the different things a person can be and want and become, regardless of gender expectations; this leads to a lot of poking at women and women's roles, but also poking at men and men's roles. Diversity for other things (race, sexuality, class, physical/mental ability/wellness) will vary depending on the setting, but I don't so much try to be inclusive as think that a white straight ablebodied world is a lie, and so poke at it anyway.

. . . uh. I think that's everything! Feel free to ask questions.

*see following note on women: that's how she thinks of herself. She's one of my explorations. I love her like burning.

[whatawaytoburn]

Okay, not gonna lie, you sound like you write some absolutely awesome stuff and I'm absolutely thrilled to see what you come up with.

[amethystfirefly]

Hi! I'm Rachel. I'm so, so excited to be here! :D

I'm someone who really kind of dabbles at writing. I have 2 main worlds: Teladesh, which is a fantasy world with mages and castes and Lizardmen. It's my main world and I was working on it heavily for a while earlier this summer, before I hit a block. I'd really, really like to get back to exploring it, because it's really fascinating. And I can tell already that it has tons of potential, but unghhhh. My confidence issues are blocking me.

My second world is a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk world ruled by Corporations. It's got mutants and vampires and all that fun stuff. I have a NaNo from like... 2001? Something like that... that's set in this world, but I wrote it into a corner and have to deconstruct and rebuild it. And, since I can't remember jack shit about where the universe as a whole was supposed to go, I'm a bit intimidated. -laughs-

So, hi and stuff! Looking forward to meeting everyone and seeing what everyone writes!

[ex_pippin880]

Fancy seeing you here! :3

[tsuki_no_bara]

i actually signed up over on lj but everyone seems to be here, so i am here. :D

my name is cindy and when i manage to write anything, it's fairly short and contemporary, altho i also have a random post-apocalyptic 'verse for variety. i used to write a lot of fantasy and for a while i wrote vampires, and now i want to write historicals except for, you know, the history. research makes me nuts so i mostly stick with stuff i don't have to research a lot for, or i make everything up. :D

i kind of want to start over on everything - just wipe all the 'verses clean and start from scratch with new ones - so i have no idea what i'm going to end up writing for any of my potential bingo squares. it's a safe bet that there will be way more in my head than what ends up on screen.

the weather here seems to be kind of a mix of early summer and early fall. it's not raining and not 90º, so i'm ok with it. (hey, aster suggested we talk about the weather.... :D )

[white_aster]

Hi hi! Glad to see you over here! Yeah, since I don't post on LJ anymore, I guess our advertising over there was pretty much depending on word of mouth from the few LJers who still followed me. I keep thinking that I should go post to a few writing comms over there, but to be honest am a bit intimidated (I'm kind of afraid we'll get five bajillion folks, and I kind of like the idea of this being a smaller challenge, at least until I get the hang of it!) >_>

[presently]

Hi, I'm Mare.

Most of my writing has been done in a fanfic way (through actual fic and through RP writing) and, when I dropped from my RPG about two years ago, I basically stopped writing. I've attempted NaNoWriMo with original storylines/characters for about four or five years in a row and haven't gotten anywhere at all. Not even once.

So, I'm kind of hoping this will sort of push me to create characters or even just situations to write about so that maybe I can get back into writing and loving it the way I used to.

[amethystfirefly]

Dude, if you need help, hop on AIM and we can do word wars and shit. -poke- It's not like you don't have my AIM, chica. :P

[ex_pippin880]

Spring is being awesome and warm! *bounce* I can't wait for the burning and the searing of summer. It's just too odd when the sun is not a thing to fear and flee!

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. I unfortunately can only write original fiction, and even more unfortunately writing and I have not been on friendly terms these last few years so I have not been doing much at all. I'm trying to deal with the reasons for this, but it's been agonisingly slow-going. I am hoping this comm will help me speed up getting back into a good thing with writing!

I mostly do fantastical stories, and love designing magic systems. I want to write about women being awesome, aromantics being awesome, nakama groups being awesome, researchers and adventurers and scam artists and homebrew mages and jugglers and parents and storytellers and engineers and unexpected heroes and ancient beings of hatred being awesome, redemption being awesome instead of death, secondary worlds with stories and myths that don't have to be true or vital to the plot, strange cities, powers and magics that have costs and limitations, people who will do anything and people who won't, landscapes that are Australian-based, cultures that are Asian-based, actions and revenges that have consequences, weird things, great things, not-so-great things...

I should probably stop that list before it gets so long that I fear it!

[whatawaytoburn]

Personally I would not mind that list going on. It is an awesome list. It is a fantastic list, it is a list I can't wait to see explored.

[dragonscrawl]

I'm Argent. Given my tendency to not write fanfiction, this will be my first bingo challenge.

Writing wise, I think I'm likely to take on one of three sets of characters. The first is a setting that was originally steampunk inspired but has veered away somewhat, with a main cast of six characters. I came up with this one for NaNo last year, but I haven't explored it or the stories of the main cast as much as I would like yet. The other two are more modern fantasy, with one involving vampires and the other involving psychics. The latter I've just come back to after several years, while the former I also developed in preparation for a NaNo (only to demote it to a short story). On the other hand, I might be inspired to write in a new setting, as I have tendencies to do that. Either way, I'll tend toward the fantasy end of speculative fiction.

[white_aster]

Naoto! <3!

Your worlds sound like tons of fun! Bingos are great for exploratory stuff, so good luck! :D

[sterling]

I'm Sterling, and I'm both an original fic and fanfic author. I run a few communities dedicated to drabbles (which I consider an excellent writing utility) and my fandoms (which mainly consist of Final Fantasy games at the moment, specifically VII and XVIII). I'm a huge fan of the Turks of FF7.

As far as original fic goes, the best way to summarize what I write is to say it's speculative fiction. My personal favorite subdivisions are post-apocalyptic, dystopian, and fantasy worlds (with emphasis on steampunk), with an occasional foray into the horror genre.

I probably won't publicly post my work, but it's fun to be participating nonetheless!

[white_aster]

Heh, you saying "subdivisions" makes me want a comic now about all the spec fic's living in the suburbs, with each of them having a subdivision. Urban fantasy complaining about fantasy's dragons being parked on their side of the street, fantasy complaining that dystopian's permanent cloud of doom is messing with their property values, etc etc. :D

Not posting publically is fine! Good luck!

[silenus]

Hi there. This account actually belongs to two people, glitterstim and zomnomnoms. We write professionally under a joint pseudonym and will be handling each of the pieces as a team. Our last novel was published in January of this year, and we've been rather blocked since then. We're hoping that this challenge will eventually result in us handing in another manuscript to our editor. Even if it doesn't, we should still have a blast, so it's all good!

So far we've written more erotica than anything else, most of it with a speculative bent. This time around we're aiming for dark fantasy with strong romantic overtones. We spent today hammering out the world we want to play in and designing the story's feature creature. Consider us stoked.

[white_aster]

Oh man, I will be so tickled if something that comes out of this actually gets published! :D I hope that you find something that inspires!

[parhelion]

Hi. I'm Parhelion. Writing is a hobby that suddenly took off on me a decade back, dragging me across a lot of odd terrain on the way to becoming a sometimes fan, sometimes original writer.

My fandoms are pretty obscure; when it comes to the original stuff, I mostly write single-gender historical romances with the occasional fantasy thrown in for variety. My published stories and novels are also pretty obscure, come to think on it, but at least they keep me away from more ingenious forms of mischief.

After finishing off a long year and a short novel, I wanted to write a few bits and pieces just for fun. I was delighted to see this community go live since I've had very good luck and a lot of enjoyment joining Yuletide and other fandom challenges and exchanges.

[white_aster]

Bingoes are WONDERFUL for the quick and fun! I hope that you find all the inspiration you can handle! :D

[mercredigirl]

Hello! I’m mercredigirl, though you can call me whatever is convenient, within reason. :)

I’m sixteen, Straits Chinese, ND and queer; and so my stories tend to reflect a certain feminist, postcolonial bent, whether in my original fiction or my fanfic. I’m signing up for a GRK card, because I tend to write gen, and I am rubbish at writing porn – so, hey, why not practise? Expect literary/realist fiction or SFF.

*is so excited!*

[white_aster]

In my experience, practice ALWAYS makes better porn. :D And porn can be hard to write, I totally understand. Sometimes I think the biggest challenge is making each sex scene feel unique. I hope that we can provide some inspiration!

[persiflage_1]

After three years of writing mostly Doctor Who fanfiction, I started writing a futuristic police procedural back in February. My main character is Maru, a female no-nonsense police officer who believes passionately in law and order and Justice (with the capital J!). She's strong, determined, fiesty and smart, but occasionally prone to impatience when others don't keep up with her.

My 'verse is a collection of 11 planets, 8 of which are inhabited by descendants of Earth's evacuees (Earth became increasingly uninhabitable over the space of a couple of centuries, so humanity headed out into space). I've got regular humans, four armed humanoids, shape-shifters, sentient dragon-like beings, sentient tree humanoids, sentient bird humanoids, and centaur-like beings. There's also a race of omnipotent non-corporeal aliens who will eventually be revealed to be the big bads.

The society on which most of the stories are focused is made up of mostly polyamorous bisexual humans.

[white_aster]

Oh wow, that 'verse sounds like SO much fun. I can't wait to read some of it! :D

[staranise]

Hi, I'm Lis; when rename tokens come out I'll be staranise and my writing journal will move over to loveandwar.

I wrote Stargate fanfiction until an unfortunate (?) confluence of fandom and creative energy produced an AU that ate the world my brain, to the point that several people have asked me why I don't just file off the serial numbers and make it original. (Answer: because then it loses all the awesome resonances!)

But beyond that, I was raised in the Canadian West and dragged to rodeos as a child, so I've written a couple of Western stories that could loosely be filed under "romance", though one of them's about the difficulty of hiding a longstanding semi-incestuous poly triad in late 19th-century New Mexico. They're known as "The Ridiculous Cowboy Story" and "That Other Cowboy Story".

All the Years After is a story in larval form. I know it's about a young woman named Magritte whose home is destroyed in a bombing, who joins her country's army to combat an invasion, and after the invasion, works as a saboteur and underground resistance fighter. It's steampunk-ish, but inspired more by Japanese fantasy than Victorian literature, and draws a lot of resonances from World War II.

By Our Old Hands is an old story I still haven't quite dealt with, in a fantasy society somewhat like post-Reformation Germany; a duellist finds himself helping an exiled princess-of-the-blood navigate the alliances and politics she inherits when her father dies, and she unexpectedly discovers she's been set up as her grandfather's rival. This one is very informed by my studies of how people viewed human nature over the years, so none of the characters have twenty-first attitudes about who they are, what love and fidelity mean, or what loyalty is.

I also have an unnamed story set over a thousand years after the magical apocalypse, in a nordic gender-egalitarian society, which is a shared project with recessional and celeloriel, detailing the formation of special police investigators who can breach the culture's strict taboos of privacy. But that won't be public.

I like going for really psychological plots, and surprise myself every time I turn out cotton candy fluff. I'm also studying psychology of aesthetics (read: psychology of art) this term, so who knows what I'll come up with.

[white_aster]

Such a variety! Neato! I am jealous. :D I hope you find something inspiring!

[alwayswondered]

I'm Stella. I used to be über-prolific (the last novel I wrote was 240K words) but then I hit the age of 18 and suddenly everything became Very Difficult; I got obsessed with how good my writing was (or wasn't) and basically just got myself into such a state that I can't write any more because I'm so unhappy with the results. I still have characters living in my head, very clearly defined and familiar to me, but I can't plot to save my life and I don't seem capable of coming up with ideas any more. Just people. I'm hoping I can use this challenge to find the fun a little and ease back into writing gently. My long-term goal is to tap back into the well of creativity that seemed so bottomless when I was younger and dried up so suddenly. I'm hoping it's all still there!

[inarticulate]

Oh, ugh, I know exactly how that is, and it's miserable-- I hope you find it again. ♥

[senmut]

Hello, all. I am Filly, and while I write a lot of fanfic in many different fandoms (mostly drabbles), I actually began in original fiction. As most of my worlds were built with my late partner, it took me some time to get back to where I could write original again.

HOWEVER, those muses came back, and her muses began to talk to me, and I've been slowly spending more time in those worlds, and beginning to hear new ones whisper to me.

My current universes (made with her) are a mythos-heavy fantasy world and a parallel Earth with magic that never faded away fully...that one runs from near the fall of Sumer all the way into the far future, so it crosses a few genres.

So looking forward to this challenge to see if I can either flesh some of that out, or draw up the whispering worlds.

I have a comm rec to add for a resource: build_a_world.

[darthneko]

Thank you for the comm rec, that place looks awesome! And exactly what one of my less developed worlds needs. ^_^

[plutokitty]

Hi, I go by any number of names but you can call me Pluto or plutokitty!

I am so excited for this bingo, because I'm finally finding my original writing energy again after getting burned out a year or so ago.

I mostly write fantasy, magical realism and sci-fi. I'm working on at least one novel--"The Red Box," a sci-fi/noir mystery/thriller thing I started last year. Just picked it up again after 9 months of nothing, which feels SOOOO good. Have at least one other that's begging to be written, and whose universe is active in my head, a fantasy novel ("King of Salem"). I suspect both will pop up in some of the short fiction I might write for bingo?

But really, I just want to stretch my legs, run with prompts, and feel good about my writing again. I spent too much time trying to cram my writing into pre-defined, marketable boxes, and I don't want to do that any more--I just want to WRITE.

So thank you, thank you for setting this up! xooxoxo

[white_aster]

\o/ You are very welcome! I am so glad that the writing mojo is coming back to you! :fans the flame: :adds charcoal: :squeezes on lighter fluid:

[darthneko]

I should probably do the intro thing too, and I'm going to be lazy and use my default icon because a lot of the time I probably WILL be lazy and this way there's no confusion that the purple bunny means me.

Hi! I'm Rose, aka Darthneko, aka Mod-Mysteriously-Not-Appearing-In-This-Comm. ^_^'' Aster has been awesome and amazing and handled getting all of this off the ground because I'm currently drowning in a flood of work, school, and some sort of flu bug that's come to visit, and don't have two braincells to rub together right now. I'm here, though! I can totally answer questions or any of that jazz. I'm just sort of... running at quarter engine power, or something. And DayQuil is my friend. (Whatever viral bug came up with the concept of combining migraine level headaches with fevers needs to be rounded up and eradicated, post haste.)

Writing wise, I share some spacecats and some magic-mojo-steampunk-mobsters in common with Aster. Then there's the alt-historical-earth-with-magic universe that I've worldbuilded to death which has... um... three different permutations of worlds and five main storylines plus three AUs off the principal storyline and two more AUs off of one of the first AUs. Ranging from 16th century Dutch East India Company sailors on a world where time doesn't always flow linearly to 20th century WWI German soldiers on a world that's cultivated a type of atomic necromancy. And then the AUs just devolve into happy ending romantic fluff because sometimes I get tired of writing Plot and Angst.

Oh! And then there's the multi-versal magic university story, and the galactic empire gladiator story, and the bi-cultural family that's split across three timelines and mucking up history story. And the stranded alien hive story. And some other thing with dragons and foxes that I don't even know what the point of it is, they just won't go away and leave me alone. And I'm sure a year of dabbling with bingo cards will give me some more things to play with - I've had an unholy fascination with some very silly fanfic tropes (zoofic, wingfic, mpreg, etc - oh hai, my guilty reading list, let me show it to you!) being applied to orig fic lately.

[whatawaytoburn]

...The modthings at this comm write awesome, awesome things. That is what I have learned today.

...And that was my vaguely fail way of saying *BOUNCE!* I am excited to see what you come up with.

[covenmouse]

Hello everybody, I'm Rae. I've been in a bit of a writing slum here lately and am trying to prod the muses into working form again. Most of my time is spent running between two jobs, but I'll try to be around to chat as much as I can.

I did have a question, though--is script format allowed? Not because I'm lazy, I promise, but that one of my major verses is a Graphic Novel I'm working on and I thought this might be a grand opportunity to write in some side stories. Of course, if you want prose only then I'm fine with that. XD It's all good.

That being said, I'm a fiction whore with a leaning toward fantasy and sci-fi. My stories tend to be primarily character driven, but also contain a lot of political struggle and exploration of such things as race, religion and philosophy issues. Most of my characters are human, though I have a handful of vampires, werewolves, dragons and witches to toss around, as well as a good collection of deities which may or may not correspond to anything in real life.

Relationship drama is the key with me, and not necessarily of a romantic sort. I absolutely love to get my characters frothing at the mouth at one another. Also, gore may be involved (I will warn for this). And mermaids.



oh yeah, and Darth? I swear to god I had no idea you were running this, too, until about... a minute ago. XD I am that retarded.

[darthneko]

Haha! I am sneaky stealth mod! ^__^ I think mostly I'm supposed to be in charge of wrangling card generation or something like that.

Scripts are totally allowed! Seriously, everything is allowed. If it's creative, it's allowed. I may have to do dollfie photo stories at some point just because it's possible. And honestly, I sometimes think writing scripts is harder than prose. =P Go for it!

[helensaito]

Hi! I'm Helen, and after a couple years of dealing with writer's block, I am looking forward to writing and electronic-self-publishing original works. (I also write fanfiction. I also write a lot of fanfiction.) I've got a slavery AU piece (still in editing) that is going to be my first foray into that world, and I'm looking forward to it quite a bit!

I am, heart and soul, a writer of leather and kink fiction, so even prompts that come from the Gen or Romance lists are likely to end up being kinky if they come from me. It's quite likely that any shorter pieces I write will just go up on my journal as standalone, free pieces, but anything novella or novel-length inspired by the challenge will end up being folded into the Quest For eBook Writing.

I am a massive fan of the Creative Commons and transformative works, so as it says in my profile, anything I write is covered by a Creative Commons 2.0 Noncommercial-Attribution-Sharealike license.

I'm also pretty excited to see this community (and excited that it's offset from the writing period for kink_bingo, and excited by the no-score, get-a-new-card rules and suggested methods for achieving bingo patterns!); I had seriously contemplated seeing about getting an original-fic kink bingo going, but I'm very very happy to be a member and not a mod. :D

[whatawaytoburn]

Oh god, I think I am going to love your writing and am so looking forward to reading.

[raedbard]

'Ello. I'm Jay, and I'm hoping to use this as an opportunity to give myself the kick up the arse I need with regard to writing some original fiction that I can submit!

I used to write a lot of West Wing fanfiction, but as my interests started to become more and more avant-garde I've begun to get more interested (finally, considering that I want to write professionally!) in my original stuff and ideas that started out as fannish ones but diverged from canon enough that they no longer have anything to do with a West Wing universe. I wrote for kink_bingo last time around and noticed that I got a lot of good ideas but not ones that would really appeal over much to the fic community. Hence this seemed like a good plan. :)

I write literary fiction, I suppose. Touch of a new weird, apocalyptic, slipstream-esque feeling about it. Current main interests are dystopic cities, masculinity and transmasculine experience, male or male-identified people's desire for each other (ex-slasher; habit is hard to break), monstrosity and becoming the monster and loving the monster, locked room stories (not mysteries, but just stories that take place or partially take place in a locked space or single space that doesn't change during the course of the narrative -- watching a lot of Silent Hill 4 playthrough vidoes on YouTube!) and ... that kind of thing. *g* I'm better at throwing out themes than I am at giving slick synopses, I guess!

I'm working on two novels (one of which is a gay love story that takes place in a dystopic city -- and possibly also in a locked room! -- and may be based around Wallace Steven's poem '13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird', if I can figure out what I want to do with it; the second novel is about a trans guy in crisis and the people who love him and how he relates to his masculinity and how his life becomes all the stranger when a man who used to be in love with his father comes into it) in between other commitments, and I really want to get a novella finished by the end of the year. That's my goal, anyway. Hoping this will help with that a little. :)

[white_aster]

monstrosity and becoming the monster and loving the monster
Might I just say, "unf. <3!" :D

I hope that the challenge will inspire you! A lot of your themes sound incredibly cool, and I can't wait to see what you come up with!

[ysobel]

Hi! I am a person who does the thing that is writing and I am excitied about this because it should be awesome for getting my origfic muses out of hibernation :D

[white_aster]

I KNOW. They always find little nooks and crannies to conk out in, don't they? :P Welcome aboard!

[dunmurderin]

Hello! Like several others, I'm here to hopefully give myself a kick in the arse that'll get me back to writing. I've got a couple ideas that I want to play with and I'm hoping this'll be the inspiration to get me cracking.

[white_aster]

Hi! Welcome to the challenge! I hope that you find just the kick you need! :D

[chasethecloudsaway]

Hello! I'm Alex, and I'm a bit tired so I apologize if this introduction sounds off.

I like coming up with worlds and exploring characters, but I am very bad about getting down to the writing. I'm hoping this challenge will help me do some of this. I am very bad with plots, but I'm trying to work on that too.

I mostly veer towards urban fantasy, with occasional bits of not-quite-as-urban fantasy and science fiction thrown in for good measure. I think my head turns people bisexual, polyamorous, and kink-curious if not flat out kinky, so all three of those things come up a fair amount in my writing. I write about Gods, Goddesses, angels, demons, fae, vampires, werewolves, personifications, witches, psychics, and plain old humans, and the definitions of each change from world to world.

I... could probably say more about various things I write but that's going to end up going on and on and I'll still forget things, so, um. If you have questions, ask?

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ahahaha, I'm with you on the "long on planning, not so long on actually writing" thing. ^_^;; That's what I love about fic bingoes: they give lots of inspiration AND give incentive to actually do something about it! I hope it works for you!