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WIP meme

Sat, 09 Jan 2016 16:05:34 GMT

Grabbed from naraht.

Rules: go to page 7 of your WIP, skip to the 7th line, share 7 sentences, and tag 7 more writers to continue the challenge.

"Hold on, okay?" said Marco. "I can be there in half an hour."

"There?" Juliet asked blankly, wondering where he was going. A police station? Why would that take half an hour?

"Your place." Marco sounded surprisingly gentle.

Not tagging anyone, but feel free if you like!

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A few things make a post

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:40:26 GMT

* Inbox zero!!!! Has been a long time coming, so: FINALLY.

* Does anyone have any (online, preferably) shop recommendations for storage solutions for paper/stationery/etc? Ikea have some lovely things, but their delivery charge is exorbitant and I most certainly don't have the spoons for a trip to Croydon any time soon.

* Night Vale live next month EEEEEE.

* Work is going well! Have resolved some slightly snarly client stuff and am getting things done. Last couple of weeks have been really rough but I'm working my way back to where I want to be.

* I am not getting much (any) writing done and I'm slightly panicking about that 'cause it's Exchange Season and i have no idea what I want to nominate for Yuletide.

* I'm also not reading much, but this is an Ongoing Pattern and has been for at least a year. I have zero attention span.

* I think that's it for now!

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Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:14:38 GMT

Almost 17,000 words this week!

~7.5 on WIP Big Bang.
~9.5 on my original sci-fi porn.

My mood is all over the place, but I am getting words written, so that's something I can at least call an accomplishment.

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random thing that I may have stolen from somewhere

Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:15:01 GMT

This came to me in the form of a TV script. I don't know how to write TV scripts and I don't actually care - I'm not planning to do anything with this. Just wanted to get it out of my head. It's junky and needs some work and I don't know if I've actually stolen it wholesale from a Sorkin show (it has that flavour) but it needed to be posted.

( poor imitation of a tv script )

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I got distracted from my to dos

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:50:20 GMT

By organising my bunny list. Oh my god, there are so many things I could write. Including prompts that are more than five years old (I'm so sorry, guys). But yay, ideas! Including many ideas for original stories, which is amazing, and not a thing I ever thought would happen.

So that is a positive.

And I'm currently being really inspired by a story I am writing, with the aim of submitting it to bb_shousetsu. Which is extremely good news!

Focusing on writing is a useful thing when I'm down. So having it coming back to me is awesome.

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Sat, 23 Nov 2013 17:05:06 GMT

Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you between one and three sentences from that story.

Found this on naraht's journal, via moetushie, who comments:

"I agree with Tehta -- responses in the format of story reviews or recs (or anti-recs, or 'constructive criticism') would be the best."

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I have a writing identity!

Sun, 13 Oct 2013 16:46:13 GMT

I have finally decided on a pen name for my original writing, after much deliberation. The name I'll be using is Jules Thorpe. I kind of like it.

Now, I guess, I have to do some actual writing. But in the meantime, I've created social media accounts for my author identity, because obviously that makes sense.

So you can find me here on DW as jules_thorpe, on Twitter as JulesThorpe, and on Tumblr as jules-thorpe.

I am still figuring out how to be a presence in these three places. (Tumblr is the easiest - I reblog writing stuff to jules-thorpe and my usual mishmash of social justice, fandom and cat pictures to randomling.) So there may not be much to follow just yet. But I'm working on it.

And I'm also working on the novel. I'll probably be posting some stuff about that over on jules_thorpe.

That may be the most usertags I've ever used in a single post, and they're all mine. Hello, I'm self-absorbed.

Anyway - feel free to follow me in any or all of those places if you are interested in original writing chatter!

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Another good prompt.

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:08:12 GMT

The story starts when your protagonist begins having nightmares.

Another character is someone from the future who has amnesia.

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NTS: Use this prompt.

Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:24:20 GMT

The story starts when your protagonist is abducted.

Another character is someone from another galaxy who plans to use your protagonist as a scapegoat.

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Someone has probably already done this...

Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:44:15 GMT

...but I would really like to write a piece of metafiction called "The Dead Wives' Club". In which all the wives, girlfriends and female SOs of the men we like to slash - the ones who get killed off, divorced, broken up with, or otherwise disappeared to enable our slash pairings without making our boys have to cheat on them - have a support group.

Things that run through my head. And that I have conversations with myself.

I should put that on the bunny list.

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A writing thought.

Fri, 05 Jul 2013 23:29:42 GMT

So. I am in theory writing a novel, though it's somewhat stalled right now, but it's not the novel I'm thinking about tonight.

I'm thinking about how one of my kill-time activities (and calm-down activities) is doing codewords. They're also known as code-breaker puzzles, and they're the kind that's shaped like a crossword, but instead of clues, there's a number in each square. The puzzle is to crack the code by figuring out which letter is represented by each number. Fill in the correct letter in every square, and you complete the codeword. You're left with a grid full of words, just like a completed crossword.

The part that interested me tonight was the part where you're left with a grid full of words at the end. See, in a crossword, you're trying to figure out the words on a semantic level. In a codeword, you're trying to figure out the words on a purely structural level - which words fit into this hole? And it means that the words themselves, when you get them, feel to me somewhat more surprising, because you never had any clues to what they might mean.

How does this relate to writing?

Well.

I completed a codeword earlier tonight, and afterwards I was looking at the grid and thinking, and I remembered that writing exercise where you have to write a story including certain words. And I wondered what it might be like to write a story based on the words in my codeword.

I haven't done it yet, but since I completed a second puzzle tonight, I thought I'd share the words, and maybe some thoughts on what kind of story the words might generate.

Puzzle 1: chubby, jejune, image, maze, leg, snap, awry, diary, alert, accepts, safes, tells, expunge, piled, toque, vole, boys, win, gunk, notch, trendy, tetchy, clematis, pub, over, mercifully, boa, swan, eased, yield, tinny, cascade, unquote, pin, jelly, eight, aster, jogs, nit, needlework, nova, pot, severely

( Musings on these prompts )

Puzzle 2: animal, baroque, unify, boom, togs, eked, prize, sail, blue, icing, vows, junk, city, isle, ibex, cold, stun, goat, earth, grew, oxen, gnaws, tier, warn, upon, alder, revert, faking, adverb, grocer, lasso, beau, anew, mood, eject, name, lump, ingle, gnat, rick, damn, mini, aide, zinc, stow, byte, girth, surf, rags, vying, took, sago, rein, where, exiled, wiring

( Thoughts on these prompts )

I think I like this idea.

Feel free to share where you might take these prompts if you feel like it! And if you do write something of your own based on these prompts, I'd love to read it!

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Apparently that AO3 top 10 meme is going around again.

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:07:25 GMT

My top 10 under the cut:

( Stories )

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Writing thought.

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:10:42 GMT

If your characters had their formative teenage years during the 80s or later, and they are music fans, and they grew up in the US or UK the Now! That's What I Call Music series is a really excellent resource for finding out what kind of music they might have enjoyed as a youngster. All the track listings for both series (the US and UK versions) are on Wikipedia, and so far I haven't had trouble finding any of the songs on Youtube.

I'm currently using this to do some deep background on my current characters, whose teen years were in the late 90s/early 00s. (Yes, I was a teenager myself in 1999. My memory is terrible, and actually hearing the tracks helps.)

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Christmas madness seems to have begun.

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:41:16 GMT

I signed up for Make the Yuletide Gay.

Let the panic begin?

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Fanfic is win. But should I commit to writing some of it?

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:57:20 GMT

So apart from Harry Potter and the Methods of Anti-Gravity, I haven't posted any fic at all in almost three years. And I have written very little of anything in that time, either. I keep starting things and then abandoning them.

And yet I'm tempted to do two different Christmas exchange challenges this year. TWO.

One is Make the Yuletide Gay. I did it for the first three years, but have skipped it for the last two. It's in my old main fandom, popslash, and it must be admitted that I miss popslash dreadfully.

The other one is the famous Yuletide. This is much more work, because I have to figure out what fandoms to request and offer.

I think, however, that writing two 1000 word stories in 3 months is not impossible.

Friends, tell me if I am reckless and insane?

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Fic tropes meme

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:25:56 GMT

I have decided to do a fic meme for the first time in aaaages. Perhaps it will actually produce some fic.

Pick any of these tropes, offer me a fandom and character(s), and let's see what shenanigans I can get up to.

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. first time fic
7. amnesia
8. crossdressing
9. truth or dare/dark secret/confession
10. Animal transformation
11. historical AU
12. high school AU
13. soulbonding
14. sex pollen
15. de-aged

For those of you who haven't seen me do much writing around here, I've included a list of fandoms under the cut.

( Fandoms! )

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So I don't really write any more.

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:51:15 GMT

It's been... I don't know how long since I posted anything new. In fact, yes I do - it was Christmas 2009, the last time I took part in MtYG, the popslash Secret Santa challenge. I just haven't been writing.

So it seems like weird and unusual circumstances that I have a new fic to share with you all.

It's called Harry Potter and the Methods of Anti-Gravity and that link goes to the story on AO3.

It is, as the title suggests, a Harry Potter fic (my first and only).

Enjoy!

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Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:13:08 GMT

I am home from North Ca'lina and alive, but quite tired.

Things appear to be looking up. The volunteering thing starts on Monday. I'm sort of even looking forward to my therapy appointment this week. And I'm knitting a fair bit and planning to write more than I'm actually writing.

(I should do some writing before I go to sleep, really.)

How's everyone been this week?

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Today is a day of "trying to take it easy, but still getting stuff done".

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:01:03 GMT

I'm baking bread and doing laundry.

I have an email to send, a cover letter to write and a CV to tailor, and an interview to prepare for (it's for a voluntary post, but that's okay). All of that is deadlined for Monday, so it's today or tomorrow.

I've also got an ongoing knitting project - no deadline, but "watching TV and knitting" is my go-to relaxation activity. Noticing those depression warning signs means I'm trying to allow myself lots of relaxation time, in the hopes of preventing myself going totally to pieces before I can get more drugs on Tuesday.

And there is stuff to be done to stop the entropy in my room. Five minutes of picking-up and putting-things-where-they-live will totally make my bedroom back into a haven.

So I am working hard on the self-care thing, while also trying to keep an eye on the various balls I have in the air.

I also still want to do writing but I'm totally floundering. Thank you to everyone who gave me links for prompting communities - I have lots of stuff to play with now! But something is still missing, I just wish I knew what.

Grr, this whole thing of having to figure out what you need before you ask for it. It's frustrating!

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Need to write! Can you help?

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:21:21 GMT

I need to write! And I am completely stumped. So my plan is to trawl the kinkmemes of the world and look for something to inspire me.

Except I don't really know where the kinkmemes live.

Anyone have links? Doctor Who, Whedonverse, small fandom or multi-fandom memes would be awesome.

(I know about the popslash fic requests comm - but I'm kind of not finding anything there to inspire me just now. :()

Or you could just prompt me?

Stupid lack of muses.

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Stuff is happening in my world.

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:42:18 GMT

I have a bunch of paid-for jobs to write applications for, an interview for a voluntary position, and another interview for a voluntary position to set up for towards the end of next week. So that's good news.

In less good news, my warning signs for depression (feeling numb, cranky and overtired) are rearing their ugly heads 'cause I'm out of anti-ds. I'll get more on Tuesday. It's a combination of my own stupid fault and the chemist losing my repeat prescription. Siiiigh.

I'm still a) unable to pick up the Inception story I've been writing and b) itching to write something. Not sure where to go with that. Writing, it is HARD. But on the plus side, MtYG assignments come out in about 10 days.

I keep thinking that I want to work on life design - but the concept of "desiging one's life" seems overwhelming and scary! So I think it'd be easier just starting by figuring out what I want my life to include. I don't even know, we'll see.

Also, I'm trying to navigate the difference between the good kind of pushing and the bad kind of pushing. It's hard, people!

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Sad.

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:28:35 GMT

Feeling kind of sad tonight. But I am sort of... noticing it and letting it be there. And I think that's sort of good.

In better news: I did some good stuff today. Made job-hunt progress, worked on my ebook, and finished knitting the hat I've been working on (and darned in the ends). I shall probably do the pressing and making-up at the weekend, and then: new shiny hat for me!

Wondering about picking up the writing again after a couple of weeks' break. I miss it, but for various reasons the Inception epic is well and truly stalled at the moment. I don't want to give up on it permanently but I think I need something different to work on for now.

There was also piano tonight. Five minutes, but that was better than nothing.

To be done tonight - I want to find my hairdryer (I've been thinking about this for days and haven't got round to it!) and work on a bedtime routine of some kind. I'm pretty sure that would be good for me.

And now, dear Journalling Services, I am going to turn off the internet for the evening.

Good night!

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so this is what it feels like to have an OTP...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:44:05 GMT

Hello, lovely people!

I am trying to jumpstart my muses.

A thing that has worked for me in the past is to ask for prompts and write ficlets in return. Seems to get the juices flowing. And I have a new fandom (Sherloooock!) and that's kind of enormous fun, but I can't seem to get writing. Thinking, yes. Writing, no.

So I'm not going to restrict this to just Sherlock, because I'm not sure how Sherlock-enabled my readers are in general. But I'm going to include Sherlock, and I'd like at least one Sherlock prompt at some point! But if you want another fandom, go for it.

( Fandoms under the cut )

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ego moment

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:17:52 GMT

I've been re-reading some of my fic as I post it over to AO3.

I'm actually quite a good writer, believe it or not.

:D

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Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:48:18 GMT

Just started posting my fanfics to AO3.

It's quite good over there, really!

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