Yeah, my usual way is to have a giant bunny list that I never get around to writing half of. Which is sort of a shame, 'cause there's lots of things on my bunny list and I would like to write lots of them!
You are way braver than me! I'd be terrified to post long stuff chapter by chapter, for that very reason - if there's something in earlier chapters that doesn't quite pan out in later ones, I want to be able to go back and fix it. I'm pretty sure I'll go back to my novel draft when it's done and change all sorts of things that don't make sense in light of where I ended up...
I didn't think about it when I started posting. At that point, I thought the story was going to be a lot shorter than it's turned out to be. I'm twenty-three chapters in and have at least ten more to go (I'm bad at outlining, so I'm not sure). So far, I've mostly been lucky that I seeded enough stuff early on that I can draw on it now.
My daughter is watching a Disney sit-com right now. I find sit-coms painful because I hate seeing people embarrassed.
I've been getting dinner ready in the breaks between replies. The rice and baby bok choy are warm. All I have to do is heat the chicken.
It'll probably be a little bit before I'm back, but I will be back.
Sounds like you are in a pretty good position with it!
Yeah, a lot of sitcoms are really painful like that. My personal hates are gross-out comedy and slapstick - I have never understood why watching someone get whacked on the head is funny. I just feel for them.
Also, chicken is delicious. We had shepherd's pie tonight and it was yummy.
I am looking forward to Yuletide! It's only my second year participating, and it was my first year nominating, so I'm really thrilled that all my noms got in. I should grab the spreadsheet at some point and figure out what I want to request and offer...
I'm not sure how many years I've been doing Yuletide now. I did take one year off because my husband felt that it was getting in the way of holiday preparation. I missed it dreadfully, though, so I was back the next year. I'm happier when I'm writing than when I'm not.
I nominated some really obscure things this year. I don't know if anyone will offer to write them. I spotted a couple of other fandoms I might request. I just have to decide whether or not I'd be okay getting a story for one of those fandoms. If I wouldn't be, I shouldn't request them.
I have started going through the tag set to see what I could offer. I've copied over all the fandoms I've found that I think I might be able to write. I'll narrow it down gradually to what I'm really sure I want to offer. I want to go through the song and other media fandoms to see if there are any five minute fandoms I could reasonably offer. Last year, I thought seriously about it but only ended up offering one (and didn't match on it. Which is probably just as well as I'd have had to lie to the friend who was the only one who requested it).
I tend to offer a lot of fandoms. I limit it to things I own or can get my hands on very easily. I tend not to offer TV shows because they're too big to review properly. I currently have two or three TV shows on my maybe list. I don't know if they'll stay.
Yeah I haven't really looked at anything since noms - I should really write my WtNV fic first.
I think I will probably offer the maximum, if only because it seems like that would make things easier. Pretty sure I'll be able to find 10 fandoms I can offer!
I might request the maximum, too. There's a lot of stuff this year.
There are a few anime/manga fandoms that I'm side-eying because I don't think they're very rare. They're rare on AO3 because there's not much anime/manga fic there and because they're old, but I don't think they're really rare. I'm not planning to challenge them, but I also don't think I'll offer them.
I'm always surprised by the people who say they can't find enough fandoms to offer. I don't consider myself widely read or to have seen many movies, but I can usually find forty or fifty things that I might be able to write (and there're at least another couple of dozen that I know but am sure immediately that I can't write). I don't offer all of them, of course. I whittle down the list considerably.
I seem to recall that last year they limited us to offering twenty fandoms.
Wow was it really that many? I didn't remember that! Ten seems like a good number to me - enough to get a good bit of variety without being really overwhelming.
And yeah, I can't remember how long my unfiltered fandoms list was last year, but it was pretty long. There are an awful lot of cool small fandoms out there!
I am really not familiar with anime or manga fandoms at all. The closest I might possibly get is Hellsing, which I've only watched once and never sought out fic for.
I would have real trouble narrowing it down to just ten fandoms. I mean, I expect I could do it, but there'd be things I'd love to write that I'd be leaving off the list. I hope I can get the bucket list to work. I couldn't when I signed up for Fic Corner this summer.
Next year is going to be hard. There are so many fun exchanges that I'd love to sign up for, but I really, really want to try to finish my big WIP. If I push and find people to do writing sprints with, I might be able to manage a chapter a month. It's a pity my best times for writing tend to be while everyone else is busy.
I stayed away from Fic Corner - I loved the idea but I was too scared. :D I'd really like to try and do it next year, and Jukebox too, because that looked like lots of fun.
Yeah - I'm kind of wondering when I'm going to find the time for my original bunnies in between all the fic I need to write! And never mind all my meta ideas... sigh.
Fic Corner was fun. I like the story I wrote for it. I actually wrote for a fandom I hadn't matched on-- I didn't offer the Chronicles of Chrestomanci because it includes several books that I've only read once and because people often ask for characters I don't remember from my reading. My recipient asked for a straightforward crossover, however, with a book I love. I couldn't resist.
I don't think I could handle Jukebox. I don't recall in detail how it works, but I know very little of the music that other people seem to like. (My taste runs to top 40 from the early to mid 1980s and folk music from even earlier.)
Two challenges that I used to love didn't happen this year. I liked Remix a lot. It was always an interesting challenge. Then there was the Finish-a-thon where people posted a list of plot bunnies and other people voted as to which one the person should finish.
Should we start a new thread? This one is getting kind of narrow. If you like, I can do that with my next response.
Sure, starting a new thread would be cool! They do get a little narrow as they go on. :D
Yeah, I have no idea how diverse the song nominations were for Jukebox, but I guess at least a song is a pretty easy thing to research? So much is on Youtube now.
So on another note, here is a thing that I do:
I have my original characters who I love, and a lot of (mostly TV show) fandoms. And my brain is a champion cross-pollinator. So I tend to keep dumping my original characters into whatever fandom I'm playing with at the moment. I've been doing it a lot with Joel and Danny, the MCs from my novel, and now I'm starting to do it with Ash and Kieran, the new characters that I came up with a couple of weeks ago.
I recently got into Sleepy Hollow, and I was dumping Danny and Joel into Sleepy Hollow fandom. The dude who's been dead for 230-odd years (and recently reawakened) turned out to be very confused by two guys kissing in public...
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Date: 2013-10-04 10:50 pm (UTC)You are way braver than me! I'd be terrified to post long stuff chapter by chapter, for that very reason - if there's something in earlier chapters that doesn't quite pan out in later ones, I want to be able to go back and fix it. I'm pretty sure I'll go back to my novel draft when it's done and change all sorts of things that don't make sense in light of where I ended up...
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Date: 2013-10-04 10:57 pm (UTC)My daughter is watching a Disney sit-com right now. I find sit-coms painful because I hate seeing people embarrassed.
I've been getting dinner ready in the breaks between replies. The rice and baby bok choy are warm. All I have to do is heat the chicken.
It'll probably be a little bit before I'm back, but I will be back.
Are you looking forward to Yuletide?
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Date: 2013-10-04 11:00 pm (UTC)Yeah, a lot of sitcoms are really painful like that. My personal hates are gross-out comedy and slapstick - I have never understood why watching someone get whacked on the head is funny. I just feel for them.
Also, chicken is delicious. We had shepherd's pie tonight and it was yummy.
I am looking forward to Yuletide! It's only my second year participating, and it was my first year nominating, so I'm really thrilled that all my noms got in. I should grab the spreadsheet at some point and figure out what I want to request and offer...
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Date: 2013-10-04 11:34 pm (UTC)I nominated some really obscure things this year. I don't know if anyone will offer to write them. I spotted a couple of other fandoms I might request. I just have to decide whether or not I'd be okay getting a story for one of those fandoms. If I wouldn't be, I shouldn't request them.
I have started going through the tag set to see what I could offer. I've copied over all the fandoms I've found that I think I might be able to write. I'll narrow it down gradually to what I'm really sure I want to offer. I want to go through the song and other media fandoms to see if there are any five minute fandoms I could reasonably offer. Last year, I thought seriously about it but only ended up offering one (and didn't match on it. Which is probably just as well as I'd have had to lie to the friend who was the only one who requested it).
I tend to offer a lot of fandoms. I limit it to things I own or can get my hands on very easily. I tend not to offer TV shows because they're too big to review properly. I currently have two or three TV shows on my maybe list. I don't know if they'll stay.
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Date: 2013-10-04 11:37 pm (UTC)I think I will probably offer the maximum, if only because it seems like that would make things easier. Pretty sure I'll be able to find 10 fandoms I can offer!
I might request the maximum, too. There's a lot of stuff this year.
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Date: 2013-10-04 11:44 pm (UTC)I'm always surprised by the people who say they can't find enough fandoms to offer. I don't consider myself widely read or to have seen many movies, but I can usually find forty or fifty things that I might be able to write (and there're at least another couple of dozen that I know but am sure immediately that I can't write). I don't offer all of them, of course. I whittle down the list considerably.
I seem to recall that last year they limited us to offering twenty fandoms.
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Date: 2013-10-04 11:48 pm (UTC)And yeah, I can't remember how long my unfiltered fandoms list was last year, but it was pretty long. There are an awful lot of cool small fandoms out there!
I am really not familiar with anime or manga fandoms at all. The closest I might possibly get is Hellsing, which I've only watched once and never sought out fic for.
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Date: 2013-10-04 11:58 pm (UTC)Next year is going to be hard. There are so many fun exchanges that I'd love to sign up for, but I really, really want to try to finish my big WIP. If I push and find people to do writing sprints with, I might be able to manage a chapter a month. It's a pity my best times for writing tend to be while everyone else is busy.
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Date: 2013-10-05 12:01 am (UTC)Yeah - I'm kind of wondering when I'm going to find the time for my original bunnies in between all the fic I need to write! And never mind all my meta ideas... sigh.
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Date: 2013-10-05 12:10 am (UTC)I don't think I could handle Jukebox. I don't recall in detail how it works, but I know very little of the music that other people seem to like. (My taste runs to top 40 from the early to mid 1980s and folk music from even earlier.)
Two challenges that I used to love didn't happen this year. I liked Remix a lot. It was always an interesting challenge. Then there was the Finish-a-thon where people posted a list of plot bunnies and other people voted as to which one the person should finish.
Should we start a new thread? This one is getting kind of narrow. If you like, I can do that with my next response.
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Date: 2013-10-05 12:18 am (UTC)Yeah, I have no idea how diverse the song nominations were for Jukebox, but I guess at least a song is a pretty easy thing to research? So much is on Youtube now.
So on another note, here is a thing that I do:
I have my original characters who I love, and a lot of (mostly TV show) fandoms. And my brain is a champion cross-pollinator. So I tend to keep dumping my original characters into whatever fandom I'm playing with at the moment. I've been doing it a lot with Joel and Danny, the MCs from my novel, and now I'm starting to do it with Ash and Kieran, the new characters that I came up with a couple of weeks ago.
I recently got into Sleepy Hollow, and I was dumping Danny and Joel into Sleepy Hollow fandom. The dude who's been dead for 230-odd years (and recently reawakened) turned out to be very confused by two guys kissing in public...