origfic_bingo | Chatter Post!

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

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.

-laughs- Very good point!

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.

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

(Tricksy threads, always hiding on one).

Thanks. :D Hopefully some of it will entertain when the time comes, anyway.

on friday when i do the status post for findyourwords (pretend that's a link to an lj comm :D ) i'll pimp the lj and dw original bingos. i don't think that will net you a ton of new people, but it should bring in some.

Hi! That is an awesome list of things to see in your writing, but personified locations has me making greedy grabby hands. That is one of my favorite things I do not see enough of!

'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. :)

Thanks! I appreciate it! :D I keep thinking of looking for some of the origfic comms on LJ and posting to there, which I might do still.

My breakup with LJ has come back to make things awkward, really. On the one hand, I want folks to be able to play with a minimum of hassle! On the other...I'm not really comfortable posting about this, say, on MY old LJ. Maybe it's an odd line to draw, that I'd do an LJ comm but not reopen my LJ journal, but...oh well...I never said I made sense! :P

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

My brain has a habit of breeding personified things. Amongst other things, I have a personified strip club, a bar and a library. I'm pretty sure there's a theatre in the same verse and I would not be surprised if I find out that there's even more. I love Cityverse so very much.

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.

It doesn't help that I'm really based in fanfic and using other people's worlds and characters for my own fun and entertainment. I always have this overwhelming feeling of "UR DOIN' IT RONG" when trying to create my own characters/'verses.

D: Which, I think, is a case of taking myself too seriously lol

...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.

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

This is a very excellent approach and I think I might just "borrow" it from you. ;)

<3

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!

Eeee. Looking forward to your writing! And very happy to have you join in. ^_^

Hee! Thank you. I hope we deliver to expectations. ^_^

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

I thought it might be useful to others here.

You are more than welcome to! I won't even charge! :P

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?

I'm Tara! And original fiction is where I love to reside, although I've written about as much of it for public consumption as I have of fanfic ... which is to say: not a lot.

I'm hoping to use this as an excuse to charge up the old batteries and see if I can't convince myself I can make something interesting without making it epic in scope - I work best in fragments, as it happens, but everything I write keeps trying to be bigger than a fragment and thus terrifying.

The bingo offers an opportunity to take fragments of that wider scope and just tell those and maybe work the tapestry in around them - I like these characters, I've just no faith I can do their stories full justice, so it's a good way to take the pressure off.

Most of the stuff I write about tends to be either post-apoc or high urban fantasy - tonally, I tend to pinball between RIVERWORLD and BLADE II on the scale of thoughtfulness vs. "cool bits". I have one major overarching metaworld that pretty much everything I write comes back to, the Black River construct, and so the titular not-really-body of water shows up as metaphor and symbol and obstacle and destination in a lot of my stuff; it may not show up as a major facet, and thus might not show up in the stuff I write for this bingo, but it's in there somewhere. Don't know why, don't know how, but it's stuck. Things that'll show up in my story besides that include but are not limited to kemonomimi, vampires, werewolves, fairies, witches, ghosts (hungry and otherwise), all sorts of inhuman creatures not previously listed, giant robots, gods, mad scientists, cyborgs, soldiers, bureaucrats, torch singers, bartenders, outlaws, thieves, prostitutes, lawmen, wandering strangers, impossible machines that aren't giant robots, sentient nonhuman organisms, metafictional concepts (i.e. "am I in a story or aren't I?"), superheroes, time travel, and trains. (Don't much care for cars, for some reason.) The kinds of people that show up in my stories tend to be queer, many of them disabled, several are poly, most of them very young but several who are very old, and they're all kinds of fucked up. The tag I use on my DW to talk about my original fic is "this story ends in bloodshed" for a reason; not all the blood's metaphorical. That said, I love happy endings, but I'm the type of gal who considers END OF EVANGELION a happy ending, so take it with a grain of salt. I'll warn for as much as I can, but often times the best thing I've found for my original works is just to say "these are not nice people and this is not a good situation and it's going to hurt" and leave it at that.

I'm intensely interested in nontechnological expressions of the Singularity, as just one thing I like to fixate on - just how far into strange ways can you go and still be recognizable, does anyone besides yourself still need to recognize you to still be you, what happens to a world where these options exist and can they be regulated or should they be, etc. etc. I also like exploring the ways privilege and kyriarchy fuck people up - and I don't necessarily pick characters who I agree with to explore these things through. I find trying to justify how someone who is otherwise a decent person can believe hateful things a fascinating, if draining, exercise, but I also find exploring the ways in which awful, despicable people can be inexplicably kindhearted to be just as rewarding - I don't have many straightforwardly heroic people I care to write about, I'm afraid, although I've a few here and there. I like urban environments and I like crumbling ones better; I've a love for cities gone feral. And - of course - I like violence. I don't write about peaceful lives - I'd love to be good at it and I might write about moments of relative peace in amongst the chaos and violence of my characters' lives, but I'm drawn towards catastrophe like flies to a corpse. It doesn't have to be stylish, but it helps. I'm a romantic at heart - although I try not to be Romantic about it.

As influences go, I'm heavily indebted to the works of - in no particular order - Guillermo del Toro, Tim Powers, Watsuki Nobuhiro, China Mieville, Fritz Leiber, Kathryn Bigelow, Kevin Williamson, Tsurumaki Kazuya, Yuki Kaori, and Gerard Way. But I like to think I'm a lot queerer than all of them. (This is definitely a delusion of grandeur, I know.)

I figure you have an even chance of getting fic from me about:

The Dead City - a New Weird West sort of thing, about a city called Absolution and the living desert it's feeding on and the sins of the past and the idea that redemption and revenge are not so different, actually, and neither one ends the way you want; it's a queer love story (or three, or five) and a tragicomedy and a mystery play and about five different other things, set in a city where all the sins of the past can be forgotten, a city whose own sins are coming home to roost.

A Wolf at the Door - a rollicking action-horror melodrama about a family of vampire hunters with a nasty little family legacy courtesy the big D himself, spanning the years 1890 through 2017, and along the way including weird science, magic, the potential end of the world (multiple times), several games of poker, and a road trip.

The Guns of Revelation - being the story of the second year of the war between the city-states of Asagrin and Chettle, and the triumph, tragedy, and failure of the 83rd Public Defense Battalion, M Company; a story about science and magic, gods and the absence of, mud, war, camaraderie, and survival - and giant robots.

The Beetle Valley Irregulars - remember those kid detective supergroups back in the day, the ones who ran around solving mysteries, righting wrongs, saving the day, having magical adventures in faraway fantastic lands, with magical friends and fizzy drinks and simple, good, kind, morals - whatever happened to them? What happens to a vampire, a fairy, an elf, and two utterly normal girls when they grow up in fantasyland, far away from home? Whatever became of those crazy kids who just wanted a friend in each other - the kids afraid to grow up?

House of Jealous Lovers - in a broken land of hungry fog and devouring mist set adrift from the passage of time, filled with strange monsters and stranger gods, five not-really-strangers have to survive by any means necessary, even if it means forgetting and discarding everything they know - but moving on isn't as easy as it seems, when your life is on the line.

Without Feathers - the Revelation of John tells of seven lampstands that represent the values of seven "churches" that will hear the call of God in the last days - but who are these lampstands, what are they, and if they are actually people, say, seven girls from all over the world, can they save the world before God decides to end it? How? And who in their right mind thought "what if Sailormoon met the Revelation of John" was a good idea for a story?

The Black River - on a planet ripped apart along all axes of space and time that shifts with every step, it's the unalterable black line that circles the world - someone's gotta walk it; it's got to end somewhere; what's waiting there at the end? Nobody's sure. But the only way to find an answer is to start walking - past Asagrin, past Chettle, past Beetle Valley, past the lands of mist and hungry fog, past Absolution - and keep walking until you reach an end - your end. The River waits.

Uhm. I think that's a good introduction, right?

Edited (added, er, a bit more.) 2010-09-23 00:39 (UTC)

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