randomling: A very young Justin Timberlake with an expression of great distress. (oh noes)
So - as some of you know, I'm running a challenge next year. Current plans are to run it from March - May next year, with stories posted in early May. That way people have plenty of time to write, and be finished in plenty of time to write their stories for Pen's Dragon Challenge which always goes live on June 6th.

The challenge is going to be called The Badass Badfic Challenge, and we already have a community open at [livejournal.com profile] badass_badfic. Here's what it's all about:

We've all read our share of badfic. Not just the stories that are poorly written, have bad spelling and grammar, or dodgy dialogue - but the ones that make you cringe or even laugh with their ludicrous plots, bizarre characterizations, or painfully-bad sex.

So have you ever had the urge to take one of those crazy plots and make it work? Yes? Good! Then this is the challenge for you. Take the badfic concept that has been bothering you and make it into goodfic, something that takes the ideas and runs with them. Or is, alternatively, intentionally funny.

And if you like the concept, but don't have a particular badfic-related bunny eating your brain, the never fear. We'll have a list of badfic prompts to inspire you and help you on your way!


So here are some of my plans and, um, concerns.

Dive under the cut for details. )
randomling: A very young Justin Timberlake with an expression of great distress. (oh noes)
  • I'm so impatient for SeSa sign-ups. I'm taking part in a test for it this weekend (about which I'm very excited!), and just the thought of it is getting me all geared-up for the real thing. Roll on Christmas!

  • I'm doing some serious thinking about my writing process and what works and doesn't work for me. So far I have discovered that the half-hour goals are fabulous for producing words, but not so much for producing words I like. (Whether that's an indication that I need to do more pre-planning, write slower, or be prepared to do more editing work, I'm not entirely sure.) I know that an exhaustive scene-by-scene plan doesn't work for me, as it tends to kill my desire to write the story, which is a fragile and precious thing. More thoughts on this as I continue.

  • I feel a bit like something is missing from my [livejournal.com profile] bittybang story, but I've resolved not to look at it again - beyond writing the required summary for the challenge - until the start of November. It's cool to have the time and leisure both to edit it, and to give myself some space and perspective on it before I start the editing process. (Weird, though - this'll be the first story I've ever tried that with. I hope I don't kill it like that.) Not sure if this is the right thing, but all the writing advice I've ever read says it's easier to edit something it if you put it away for a while. Time to find out if that's true for me.

  • I need to start thinking about when and how to run my Badfic Challenge next year. The only challenge I've ever done was the June Bug (which was pretty easy and I still sucked at it!) so I'm not sure how to go about it, really. Any tips, seasoned fans?

  • I'm worried about how the hell I'm going to finish "The Plan". What I've written so far is really different from what I wanted to write and while I've never written something this long, I discovered that getting down words-any-words isn't all that hard. I've never edited something this long, either, though, and the sheer size of the job ahead of me is really intimidating. Plus, I've only written half of the story, so I need to put the editing part of it out of my mind for now.

  • I think that's all for now!

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