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

Comments

[white_aster]

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

[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!

[white_aster]

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

[white_aster]

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

[white_aster]

I had this kind of experience, too: I wrote a lot when I was a teenager and younger, but then not at all when I was in undergrad. I only picked it up again after a good 5 years or so. Talent just doesn't go away, though. All I can say is to try to relax and let the story come as it wants to. I tend to write very character-oriented things, so often it's just a matter of telling the character: "Ok, this is the situation, what do you do ok go!" I hope that this challenge can give you some good inspiration! :D

[white_aster]

Oh man, SHINY comm. I shall have to check out. Welcome to the challenge, and I hope you find everything you're looking for! :)

[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:

[white_aster]

Heh, yeah, I have been lax at mentioning exactly who my co-mod IS! ^_^;;

Glad to have you aboard! :D

[white_aster]

Awesome. We are glad to help with the cause of moar kinky fic on the internets! \o/ Welcome aboard! :D

Heh, we deliberately engineered this challenge to be as low-maintenance as possible in the mod-arena. We want great fic to read! And we are also lazy! :P

[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!

[white_aster]

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

[white_aster]

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

[white_aster]

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!

[white_aster]

O...oh man, I want to read those stories LIKE NOW. <3 I can't wait to see what you come up with! :D

also, I saw "sentient nonhuman organisms" and parsed....well, let's just say there were a few less letters in "organism". ;P

[parhelion]

Thank you! It's already looking like a nice time.

[takerzmuse]

...hi. *waves* I'm Grassy and most of my writing has been fanfiction, though I have some bits and pieces of origi-fic I've worked on - but never finished - in past years for NaNoWriMo. Figured something like this would help me out a bit with stringing together what I've written before and, um. Just playing around with my characters/world and having fun with them. *shrugs*

Yeah, I'll just go hide in this corner over here...

[white_aster]

:D Welcome! Bingos are GREAT for playing around. I'll probably do some bingoing trying to get new muses and settings settled in my head, too. I hope you have fun!

This got way longer than intended.

[dingsi]

I'm late to the party, and signing up was a spontaneous thing. I'm still not sure how I feel about it: hopeful? scared? desperate? excited? - Possibly all of the above. My expectations are really low, though. In so many years I've only written a handful of drabbles when it comes to fanfic, and original fiction has gotten reduced to RPing with a friend -- which is much fun, btw, and I couldn't wish for a better writing partner... but it's still not the same as a story in prose. And I miss that. There's an origfic-shaped hole in my life, so to speak. I've considered joining challenge communities before, but usually they didn't allow for original fiction, or they had weekly prompts or such a tight deadline that I crumbled into an insecure heap just from reading the profile. I'm terrible with deadlines. Or pressure. Actually, let's just call it "I'm a bundle of writing-related neuroses" and be done with it. As your community has "NO PRESSURE!" practically written in bold red letters over it, my goal is as follows: I will hopefully finish something from my bingo card. And then I will feel accomplished because 1 > 0. \o/ The end.

So, what can you expect?

For one, my stories all started out as something to entertain myself with when I'm bored or before I fall asleep, so they don't have as much structure as, say, some novel you're planning. Basically, I'm writing snapshots. There might be a connecting story arc but there's lots and lots of "free space" available inbetween.

Two, the relationships and character development are more important than the worldbuilding or plot. Which doesn't mean I don't care for that sort of thing, or that there weren't constants and facts ... but they take a backseat and I don't keep a box of notes or online wiki somewhere. (Perhaps I should?) Usually mood and imagery are the driving force. (On rereading, this sounds terrible, like I'm just a hack trying to find excuses why he doesn't have to keep up with characterisation and stuff, but I don't know how to explain it any better.)

Three: I tried to write characters that weren't queer in some way, but it just doesn't work. I seem incapable of having totally straight main characters. Later it turned out I can't have 100% gay or lesbian main characters either. I'm not doing this because of the misguided and ultimately condescending opinion that "everyone's bi at heart" -- thankfully I outgrew that phase in my teens *cough cough*. It's just that a) I think sexuality and desire are both more complicated and complex than we're generally told, and b) somehow the charas grew that way. I mean, even the ones I thought to be gay or straight eventually piped up with "well, that one time at college..." or "okay I'm not into women but if I was I'd totally [gushing description of adored female person]". Or "but we were drunk!" *hands* (To be honest, I like them that way.)

Four: a lot of people described their stories and I tried, but it only made me think I'd suck as someone in charge of advertising. Goth vampire has a silly sense of humour! Watch him feed his frogs! Grumpy ex rock star struggles with abusive past! Is also kinky! Guy who had a crush on ex rock star in their teenage years is now happily married but the couple is open for moresomes! And kinky. There's really lots of kink, actually, but mostly in the "After doing the dishes, I hurt my lover in ways we find exciting, and they told me I look sexy in my Birkenstock's and grey sweater that my dog had gnawed on again" way. There's also magical tattoos and dead brothers and longevity treatment and laser-guided amnesia and dude someone shoot me already.

[ignotussomnium]

Hey, I'm Tash, and I've never done a writing challenge thing before so crossing my fingers. Fanfiction's never really been my thing, so fic challenges just don't spark my interest.

I like modern fantasy, and my main influences are things like Sandman and Pan's Labyrinth. So less urban fantasy vampires and werewolves and more eerie unknowable-things-are-hiding-in-the-shadows. I like playing with ideas of what it means to be 'human,' perceptions of reality, mythology, politics, linguistics.

I've been working on this one series about dreams for a while, but it's gotten so cluttered that I'm going to have to go back to basics and rework it. Typically I tend to overorganize things, and plan and plan forever until a project becomes a veritable hydra. So hopefully this'll help actually get me writing. Also I signed up for the Gen+Romance card because I don't have much experience writing romance and want to work on fixing that.

[crossfortune]

*pokes head out of corner* Hi. I'm Lynn, and I'm really bad at introductions. I tend to write a lot of modern fantasy, whether it being wholly original or stuff based on tabletop writing. Most of the settings I've poked at and built recently have been very human-centric, with humans being the most important and a lot of playing with the nature and meaning of free will.

[persiflage_1]

If you're really interested, I've made the first five chapters public as I posted them for LJ's scifibigbang earlier this month.

You'll find them here at Tomasun Wolves - but I will be making the posts members only again at the end of the month so if you don't get to them before Sept 30, you'll need to request membership to the LJ comm.

[hobbit]

I am cairea hobbit, often known as just cairea! For some reason I don't capitalize my online nick!

I write mostly in small private RPs that are a mixture of fan-worlds and original worlds, and it's been a while since I did any real writing on my own. I'm hoping to get more into the groove of writing longfic here.

I write a lot of fantasy with a good dose of ghost-y hijinks. Everybody needs ghost-y hijinks, right? I have a Victorian England setting that is just bursting with characters I'd like to further define, as well as some D&D and Mutants and Masterminds characters that might turn up from time to time.

[hareguizer]

Oh boy, this sounds so much my cup of tea. I can't wait to see what you write! I can see me spending a great amount of my spare time reading instead of writing.

[white_aster]

AHA, that's why it sounded familiar! I saw your sffbb posting fly by my radar, and it's on my to-read list. :D

Re: This got way longer than intended.... but it sure was awesome ;)

[sterling]

I don't even know where to begin to reply to your post, but I have to reply because I think you're full of awesome sauce. ^_^ A lot of my ideas start out in that snapshot manner, and I tend to have to force myself to fill in the free space in between if I actually want to finish a cohesive story.


I think I'm going to friend you... (friend back if you'd like)! I would enjoy hearing your commentary as you work on the bingo (in addition to your other randomness). XD