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'.

Comments

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yaoi Challenges do seem to be more panic-inducing, if just because they tend to be longer stories, while the Sprinkink ones can just be a drabble.

*laughs* No worries, I think I've got all I need.

Ooo, cool! That's a neat idea.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

They're longer and much more fic-exchangey. I mean, yes, people turned in requests for springkink, but the way it's being run de-emphasizes that aspect, so it's much less as though you're writing the story for the person who made the request. Whereas with Yaoi Challenge, you are specifically writing for someone else.

I saw you got pointed at some good resources. Lo, I am pleased. *G*

I figure this is a good way to let people see what's being published today. Also, I'm lazy, and links are easier to type than whole poems. *G*

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ah, and see: I hadn't even thought of that aspect to it. You're right, of course- there is always something especially worrisome about a writing a fic for a recipient as to just writing one to meet a deadline.

Heh, in truth it's too short a piece to have needed any guidelines. I had to stick any sort of preparations or clean-up and just write the middle of things, as it were, to fit it in 500 words. (I know, I could have gone longer, but this seemed so well suited to a short piece.) But the resources are certainly inspiration if I ever want to write this again, and I may well.

It makes it more likely that the poems you link will be new to me, too, which please me. And since it's all about me... *grins*

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

I just...know my brain takes weird turns, and when writing requests where the person knows who I am, this is not a problem, because people who don't like the way I write aren't going to make requests of me. Anonymous ficathons, though, are a bit of a crapshoot, and I especially feel bad for people who participate in the Yaoi Challenge hoping for, y'know, yaoi, and instead end up with my special brand of...whatever the hell I write. I can't say slash, because the same rules apply to my het and my gen. Brain built on the nightmares of a lost civilization of gerbils, check....

I love how the piece turned out, and I sincerely hope you do write more in that vein, because. GUH. And also, it's just so right for them.

I've fallen down on the poetry thing, but I console myself you follow the other LJ, so you're still getting what I'm linking. *G*

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ah. You know, strangely, I've never worried about that, even though I also don't write to the standard yaoi tropes, or aesthetics, or rules, or whatever you want to call it. I think I've made my peace with the fact that it would make me unhappy to do so, and so don't worry about trying. It probably is something I should consider more for gift-fic challenges, but I'm fairly reluctant to do anything I know will make me irritable, and produce something I'll like less.

Hee, thank you. Well, I need to write one more, at least. After having had numerous discussions insisting they make more of a switch pair than strictly Richard-top/Alec-bottom, I should write at least one story proving my point.

I do! And you've been choosing excellent ones; I'm having a lot of fun reading them.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Oh, I would never write something unless I thought I could get some joy out of it (sometimes I'm wrong, but that happens). And I don't tend to worry about it when I'm just selecting prompts someone's suggested, because I don't feel like the results are as much a gift story as they are for things like fic exchanges. But while I want to be known as an author with integrity, I don't want to be an author who's seen to disdain the wishes of her assignee. I find such a game pointless.

It says bad things about how jaded I am that I'm not surprised there are people out there who assign Richard and Alec strict top and bottom roles, doesn't it?

Damn it. SFWA threw me off my poetry bandwagon. I need to get back on it, and leave the jackasses to snort at each other.