Tomorrow

[brigdh]

Oh my god! springkink starts tomorrow, and I only have one of my stories (of four) written. And that one still needs to be edited, and it's not even the first one due. Uh, whoops. Who else wants to panic with me?

Tomorrow is also the beginning of April, which is, as you may know, National Poetry Month in the US. Hopefully no one will be annoyed if I start posting poetry every day, since I plan to do so anyway. April also means my birthday is coming up! It's on April 10th. Just, y'know, saying.

Speaking of springkink by the way, trying to google anything about "bloodplay" proved surprisingly unhelpful. Not that I think the characters involved particularly care about the safety rules of such, but I thought it might be inspirational for me to research. And yet: barely anything could be found. I thought the internet was for porn! Though trying to do the same for the prompt of "fur on skin" proved to be embarrassingly high on the list of 'things I should not google while in public'.

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[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*grins* Well, I'm certainly not doing it in a sitting at the moment. Though it would probably help if I was actually writing and not reading old fics in the name of 'research'.

Everyone is welcome to panic! Particularly since that is quite scary: a yaoi challenge story has to be an actual, well, story, as opposed to the little snippets I'm writing for Springkink. Though one of them always wants to be a monster, and I've been trying to convince it that, no, I don't need all these extra details, and doesn't it please please want to be a 500 word piece?

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

But reading old fics in the name of research can be very helpful! Sometimes it provides real and meaningful inspiration. I think that's one reason busy fandoms are easier to write for than small/inactive fandoms: you have so much less to react against.

Sometimes I think it's actually less trouble to go ahead and write the long version of something than to try to convince it to come in at a shorter length. Maybe if you gave it permission to be a monster, that would help?

Not that this approach is doing me any good, just at present. But in my own case, I have a dreadful feeling that the problem is a species of stage fright: I like the idea too much, and I'm horribly afraid that there's no way the story's going to live up to it.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'm having the opposite reaction to a small fandom, actually: I have no one else's fic to read or think about, so I'm compelled to write everything myself.

I may have to try that. At the moment, I'm seeing if I can't have them drop references to earlier events instead of actually having to write all of those events out, but we shall see if that proves a useful strategy. Given that it's the last of the various stories I have due, I really should be worrying about other things at the moment instead.

You know, I don't think I've ever had that particular form of stage fright. Which I'm very glad for, as it seems like it would be incredibly hard to get past.