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origfic_bingoYay 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
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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Date: 2010-09-22 02:20 am (UTC)"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!
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Date: 2010-09-22 02:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-22 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-22 02:36 am (UTC)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!
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Date: 2010-09-22 02:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-22 02:48 am (UTC)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*
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Date: 2010-09-22 02:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-22 03:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-22 03:12 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2010-09-22 03:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-22 03:56 am (UTC)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!
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Date: 2010-09-22 04:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-22 04:19 am (UTC)Chi's so dayum cute! :3
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Date: 2010-09-22 04:24 am (UTC)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 90ยบ, so i'm ok with it. (hey, aster suggested we talk about the weather.... :D )
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Date: 2010-09-22 04:32 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2010-09-22 04:34 am (UTC)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!
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Date: 2010-09-22 04:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-22 04:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-22 04:37 am (UTC)I like your sandbox.
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Date: 2010-09-22 04:39 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2010-09-22 04:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-22 04:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-22 04:42 am (UTC)And I noticed! -pokepoke-
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Date: 2010-09-22 04:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-22 04:46 am (UTC)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!