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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[persiflage_1]

Heh!

[ar]

Hi! My name's AR, and I really want to win NaNoWriMo this year. (I've tried something like four times and never once won. Not once. D: face.) I figure original fic bingo can get me all ready with ideas for November!

I'm currently interested in writing midgrade novels, and in specific, my roommate's gotten me interested in writing talking-animal stories. I like YA novels, too, but not nearly so much, if only because there seems to be a wider variety of things that I'm interested in (i.e., not Twilight, second-world fantasy, or Gossip Girl stories) to be found among stories for younger readers. I like some novels for people my own age, too, but I tend to be happiest reading things that aren't literary tragedies or genre fiction. Urban fantasy in particular has burned me enough that I tend to give it the Frysquint. I find that I just don't like the conventions of most genres as they're written for adults, idk. I guess I'll always secretly be eight years old on the inside.

I love fairy tales, stories that read like fairy tales even without any magic, slice of life stories, dystopias, classic novels, and historical adventures. Stories where women take the forefront, or PoC, or queer characters (especially queer women), are all mad exciting. I'm currently in the mood for stories with happy endings, or at least hopeful ones. Books I've had a lot of fun reading lately include Poppy by Avi, Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn, and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. I've been struggling to get through Malinda Lo's Ash; it has a lot of things I really like in a story, but my eyes glaze over within a page or two of her writing. Idk, maybe I'm just not in the right mood for it.

Oh, and I like comics (strips and books), too! I've been working on trying to write scripts, but it's really difficult for me. D:

I haven't the faintest idea what I'm going to write for my bingo cards--possibly something I've already been working on, possibly something entirely new--so I can't say much to that. But it's nice to meet all of you, so on and so forth. ♥

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[darthneko]

I'm still skimming as I'm still a ball of nyquil dosed fail, but I just have to say this - "to entertain myself with ...before I fall asleep"

This? THIS Is how ALL of my stories start out! Seriously! \o/ I'm terribly pleased to meet someone else who does this too. ^___^

[dingsi]

Oh wow. I really didn't expect such an excited reaction and now I don't know what to say. ^^° Besides, I'm afraid you might be in for a disappointment? I mean, I don't want to come off as unfriendly or ungrateful or whatever, but my journal is mainly 1. rambling, 2. ranting about gender/feminism/trans-related topics, 3. navel-gazing. If that doesn't deter you, I'd be happy to have you as a reader of course. :)
I haven't made up my mind yet about adding back because I very, very rarely follow fiction/writing journals. But I think I'd like to subscribe to your RSS feed and check in manually from time to time when I see something I can comment on. That okay with you?

P.S. I agree with you; filling in the space between snapshots sucks. I admire everyone who can do it, because for me it's like pulling teeth.

[pitseleh]

Paracosmist! So there is a word for that thing I do constantly. 'Secondary World Fantasy' becomes unweildy after a while.

I learn something new every day!

[pitseleh]

Hey, I'm Pel, and I probably like worldbuilding more than I do actually writing. I'm doing this bingo to possibly try to trump this bad habit of worldbuilding and worldbuilding and never getting to the actual writing part.

I have a shit ton of worlds, but I'm going to try to focus on two; Beler, my main one, and a yet-unnamed one (I call it the IDEKverse) that I work on the side. Beler is possibly too big for this Bingo despite being a Ruritania; IDEK is probably more the right size, despite having nothing to do with Earth. Both are Secondary World Fantasies (Paracosms?) that are heavy on the cultural/sociological/anthropological aspects rather than the fantasy bits; in fact, IDEK doesn't even have any magic.

Hopefully they won't be as incredibly convoluted as the seem to me; I can understand what's going on, but lord knows if anyone else can.

Regardless of all that, I look forward to a fun and friendly enviroment in which to post my works (they might include illustrations/comics, as I am more of an artist than a writer; we'll see). It's very nice to meet everyone and read about their works! I look forward to the first of October!

[recessional]

i got it from Sherwood Smith in a discussion, i think. i kind of love it. it just sounds neat: paracosm!

[white_aster]

Yay! Moar artings will be fabulous! I can't wait to see yours! :D Welcome!

[white_aster]

Sandman. <3! Sandman is totally my brand of modern fantasy, too. I am probably due to read the whole series over again, it's been so long.

I hope you find some inspiration here! Welcome aboard! :D

[white_aster]

:waves!: Good to have you here! :D

[white_aster]

EVERYONE needs ghost-y hijinks! \o/

And Mutants and Masterminds! I have fond memories of fumbling my way through that combat system once! :D

[white_aster]

It's good to meet you, too! I hope you find some tasty longfic inspiration! :D Having just finished writing 35000 words of one fic (ok, more like 3 linked fics), I totally understand how challenging writing all a line can be!

[hobbit]

We, uh, never actually got a game off the ground exactly because the DM decided he was too afraid of the combat system to try to run a game. XD;; But while we were doing all the character building I got really really attached to mine and I still really want to write the adventures of Horatio Phoebus Alexander, student body president, track team captain and superhero!

[white_aster]

I totally don't blame your DM! We slogged through, but the system was pretty brutal. :P

I loved the character creation system, too. I had a really great character that jumped me for it. Maybe I'll drag him out and see if he wants to play in origfic bingo! :P

[hobbit]

Oh man, I think I love the character creation system more than any other game's. The ways you can customize your character's powers are just amazing. I mean, I guess I can see where it would be really scary for a DM, but I just loved the whole process to pieces.

[white_aster]

Yeah, I wouldn't have wanted to DM it, but nnngh, being able to pick out what you could do was awesome. We had so much fun with that part. :D

[crossfortune]

Yay Mutants and Masterminds~

...even if I never properly learned how to create a character in it, sob.

Tentative introduction

[missingopossum]

Hello, I'm Shona. I'm here via the link in the community promo comm; I've just set up my DW account this week as part of a plan to encourage myself to write more and when I saw this brilliant idea I decided that I wanted to give it a go. I'm really looking forward to it.

As to what I write, it's pretty much all original fiction tending towards SF and occasionally wandering into fantasy. I shall shortly be having my first attempt at erotica / porn for this year's NaNoWriMo - I've worked my way through three different genres in three years so adding a fourth to the collection seemed kind of like the natural next step, really. I'll see if I still think it's a good idea after November, but on the whole this challenge can only help spark ideas!

By the way this is the first challenge I've ever seen for original fiction. Great idea and kudos to you for organising it!

Re: Tentative introduction

[white_aster]

Wow, the community promo comm link actually worked! :P I debated, because though they're great, they're sometimes high-volume enough for me not to actually watch them with any regularity. I figured that others might be the same, but hey, why not! Glad that you found us! :D

[kylaye]

Hello!

I'm kylaye, a 17-year old cisfemale living in Singapore (NOT a place in China). I write mostly poetry, although I'm trying to regain the swing of prose. I write about relationships, love, education, science. It's hard for me to create characters and see them through, but I will try.

Mostly, I love words. Nice to be here (:

[white_aster]

I think probably "I love words" should be a pre-requisite for this challenge. We're not so big on pre-requisites here, but that sounds like a great one. :D Welcome!

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[dingsi]

I have the suspicion that it's actually very common, only that people rarely talk about it.
(Hope you're feeling better btw)

[kylaye]

decided to hop on board too! just to let you know. idek why i signed up for a GRK card since i can't write porn can only read, but hey, i have to start somewhere right.

[cade]

Hello everyone. I'm Cade, writing for NaNoWriMo 7 years including this one, writing otherwise for over 20 as a hobby.

I used to write fan fiction almost exclusively, but in the past few years I've been switching over to original work. Not a judgment of any kind - it's just that my tastes changed and I'd also rather work on things I can sell someday, so the only fanfic I'm adding to my plate is the kind based on public domain work.

I'm hoping here to flesh out some characters from my 2007, 2008, and 2009 NaNoWriMo novels (all originals), and maybe even lay out a little groundwork for 2010 in the early weeks. 2004 is getting a massive overhaul right now, but it technically is fan fiction (of the sellable kind) so I'll pull from '07-'10 for the bingo.

My serious works of late usually involve some kind of gender variation, in a sci-fi setting. The Last Guardian features a world where all the women are barren and only a small number of male-appearing intersex individuals can bear children. Explaining how this fits into Bounty Hunter Games (which needs a retitle) spoils the whole thing, so I'll keep my mouth shut and keys untapped. Hand of Winter features a girl who would have been a boy but her parents had her implanted with a chip that would override her genes and cause her to develop as a girl. Unfortunately, long after they're dead and she's adopted into an extremely primitive, superstitious native population on another planet, the chip malfunctions and stops working, triggering a rapid transformation that nobody can explain except as an act of their Gods and Goddesses.

I don't have anything strongly in that vein planned for 2010, but there's an ungendered character as part of the supporting cast; like in previous works, this is completely normal for the native population of the planet from which ze comes. All are human; I don't write non-humans, exactly. Some characters are arguably non-human, but they descended from humans, and their genes altered through intentional manipulation on the molecular level, natural selection, or simple eugenics/dysgenics.

I also sometimes do ordinary modern-day fiction but when I do that, it's normally for NaNoWriMo wordcount filler and/or free DIY therapy, and I don't intend to sell or share it. Most of my modern-day fiction is crud and either wish fulfillment or nightmare exploration. Or both. I can multi-task.

[white_aster]

either wish fulfillment or nightmare exploration. Or both. I can multi-task.

Awesomest quote about writing, ever. :D

Welcome! Wow, I totally bow to your Nano chops. I finished it one year, but often just can't find that much sustained time to devote to the wordage per day. My hat's off to you, and I hope your card(s) will help inspire you for 2010!