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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[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!