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The tilde is gone!
Pause with me a moment to mourn the poor tilde. Rest in peace, ~.
No more nasalization, eh.
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The fiction index is http://www.eternalvox.net/auburn/fiction.html
If you run into a link that doesn't work, try taking the tilde out of it and let me know so I can update the evasive bugger.
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Wheee!
I rewatched my source material today and used it to add a few details here and there to my story. I've got 9028 words and expect to finish the first draft this weekend. I'm lucky I was able to use a story idea I already had and work it together with the request.
I know, I have this freakish love/hate relationship with deadlines. They make me crazy, but they make me write steadily, every day, and they also give me this great whooop of relief when I know I've succeeded ahead of time.
And I will get right back to work of GT&T once I've finished with the Yuletide story and get the next part out before New Year's. I swear. I can write on one thing and revise on another, I've discovered.
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| 2009-11-27 23:43 |
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Could anyone remind me when the writers and artists are free to post their work outside the Big Bang site? I just noticed one of the stories reposted at the Pit of Voles.
ETA The release date was/is 11/27.
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| 2009-11-26 14:21 |
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Andy Rooney voice:
You know what annoys me?
A story with no email for feedback, just a journal to comment in.
I read a story I really very much liked, but I also wanted to discuss the ways it didn't work for me, and so I thought: I'll send the feedback in an email. Only there was no email addy. So I tried the writer's livejournal profile. No email. Tried her story site and the stories there. No email. A journalfen link for replying, but see, if I wanted this feedback public I'd have already left it at the feedback post.
And now I'm annoyed and not in the mood to feedback at all in any form.
Too bad, because there was a lot about the story I wanted to praise.
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| 2009-11-16 23:27 |
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I think I've ODed on SGA Big Bang stories.
Also on the apple cobbler/crisp thing I made yesterday.
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It only took three days to occur to me that I could (ought even) post the link to my Big Bang story on my journals. I am so slow I'm moving backward in time.
Yuletide story idea has been hatched, however, complete with thinky theme. Minimum of ten thousand words to even hit the high points. So I'll need to get cracking.
But back to what has been written.
Here is where you can read Know How to Fall.
(Which I consider to be an Equestrian AU slash Harlequin, if that helps. I suppose it might hurt too.)
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The rest of SG=[team number redacted] wandered back to the gate eventually after no one showed up after the gate dialed in. They looked around the clearing before shrugging.
"What do you figure?"
"Wrong number?"
"Bad autodial?"
"Didn't like the neighborhood? This planet is dead boring."
"Who cares? No one's shooting at us."
"Hey, wasn't Bamber on watch here?"
"Uh, the new guy? Yeah."
"I don't see him."
The officer in charge tried his radio. No answer.
"Ah, crap."
"What?"
"Aren't those his boots in front of the stargate?"
"Sonova -- Didn't somebody tell him to get out of the way when the gate dials in?"
"I guess not."
"Now I've got to explain losing another newbie in my report. What do you figure I should say this time? Ori soldiers, cannibal natives or rogue Jaffa?"
"Mix and match, sir. I don't think anyone's used cannibal Jaffa yet."
"Good idea. Well, I guess it's time to dial home. Someone toss his boots into the whoosh."
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I've got my assignment!
And...
A big smile on my face because my recipient's first request is for something that I'll love writing.
A thousand words will not be a problem.
Not writing a novel might be.
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| 2009-11-13 17:11 |
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It's five o'clock and I still haven't had a chance to even start reading even one Big Bang fic.
There was an unfortunate turkey incident, you see, that necessitating cleaning the entire stove. (I had to cook the bird - I bought it because it was on sale then remembered there was no room in the freezer.)
Tip: cooking and writing, not actually a good mix.
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::glee::
SGA Big Bang is live!
The Art! The Stories! It's all there!
I should probably rush out and buy a lottery ticket.
Or, god, go to bed. I think I wrote another four thousand words on the sesa revision today. I write a paragraph and realize, no, that has to be an entire scene, or it reads like an outline. This is not the time to stay up all night reading.
Okay, I'm just going to look at the art for my story.
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| 2009-11-12 20:19 |
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Dear Yuletide Writer,
I hope I get this right and if my prompts were too vague to be helpful this will serve instead (and if my prompts were too detailed, just, you know, pick and choose what inspires you).
I'm an equal opportunity fan of slash and gen or even het if that's what fits the fandom, and while I kept my character picks down to one or two or three, if there are other characters in the fandom you feel are needed in the main focus to make a story work, don't hesitate.
I love plotty stories, action, and clever dialogue and banter, but equally, character insights, deep and abiding friendships, dark pasts coming back to force personal revelations, characters being driven to cross the line - and not retreating back afterward, 'going rogue' tropes, family-by-choice, world-building, established relationships and first-times, outsider POV, characters undercover in serious or crazy situations, angst, dark themes, and trust issues.
Sex in the story is totally about whether it helps the story, so I'm as happy with a Dick Francis' style fade-to-black as a melt-your-bones hot encounter told in every detail.
I'm not terribly fond of stories about pregnant characters (female or male), kidfic, heavy kink, permanent mutilation of a character (but go ahead and kill them, deathfic I'm dandy with; I know, consistent I'm not), or second person narration. Some shows and books call out for crack and humor and I enjoy both, but don't really want them in these fandoms.
Just, have fun with whatever you write, because that always comes through, and I'll be sure to happy with it.
More detail, you ask?
( Lewis )
( Roger Zelazny - Chronicles of Amber )
( First Monday )
( Jocelin Foxe - The Wild Hunt )
I really don't want to dictate what you write; I want to be surprised and know that, if you have fun writing one of these, I'll have fun reading it.
Thank you,
Auburn
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Tomorrow as far as I know. ::glee!::
Which means that, yes, I have finally posted my preview for my Big Bang story, Know How to Fall. You might find it interesting or at least want to snag the soundtrack.
It's here: Preview
Meanwhile, I'm neck deep and thrashing my way through major secret santa story revisions. Why must betas always be right? ::makes pitiful sounds of self-pity::
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Four thousand words on GT&T! I have the Satedan mutiny to write now and I have decided, with the backing of a poll I offered a while back: Melena will live.
Has the entire SGA fandom gone eerily silent in the last few days or is it just me? Is everyone busy writing?
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SGA santa story first draft finished.
Went ahead and signed up for Yuletide. ::twitches:: Offered only to write for media I am very, very familiar with and not intimidated by writing.
Asked for some semi-obscure things and one fandom I didn't think anyone had ever heard about or knew except myself until I saw it listed.
And wow, got my copy of my sign up already. Okay. Deep breath. Thanks to few I didn't make any mistakes.
Yay.
Will go collapse now.
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::stares at fic::
Why the effing hell does Rodney turn mean as a rabid rattlesnake every time I try to write this sex scene?
What is wrong with him?
What is wrong with me?
::headdesk::
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Currently ahemming the pilot of White Collar. If this turns out to be my next fandom, I predict the local Starbucks will get used to me showing up to use their faster wifi.
Contemplating the Yuletide sign ups. I can do a thousand words in a day. Of course, not a thousand words that finish a story, but we'll ignore that niggling little inconvenience. few has written me a how to sign up post here; if you're a newbie like me, take a gander.
I think I'll have the first draft of the sga secret santa story done by the weekend. I broke 10,000 words last night and have thrown out all the parts that aren't from John's pov, so it's on the down hill slide. No more action to speak of, just two emotional denouements and the sex scene. Hope no one thinks I'm bashing Mitchell or Keller in this, because I most certainly don't mean to do that. I see it as a no fault situation, with no one meaning to hurt anyone ele.
Circling back to Yuletide, I mean to take my time making my decisions before I officially sign up. No use piling on in the first few hours and breaking it, after all.
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Poking around the internets, I found the kind of diabetic socks my dad likes and ordered him some. Gah. 70+ bucks for socks! For that they ought to do their own laundry. But they'll make Dad and his feet happy and more comfortable.
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Huh. Do not like the Starbucks on the other side of town, but this one is pretty handy and much quieter. And the brownies are tasty.
Hell and damnation, I've succumbed!
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Whenever I think I might possibly someday subject my brain cells to SGU, I run across something that snaps me back to sanity.
( annoying show is annoying )
SGA secret santa story is cooking along. I'm averaging something like 2300 words a day on it. Half way done. It's invigorating to work on things I'll be able to post. Once it is done, I'll go back to part four of GT&T and try to finish it before the end of the year, maybe fit in something from the Green Sea 'verse and then the Criminal Minds apocafic. And then get back to the original novel I started last January.
Hi, I'm Auburn and I'm a deadline addict. But it has to be outside deadlines. The ones I set for myself -- like finishing the novel? -- have no force. It takes anxiety to motivate me.
Only ten or so days until SGA Big Bang goes live. Apparently there was a sign up to pick a day to post a teaser, but I must have been out of town (or just out of my mind) because I missed it at the time. I'm really, really looking forward to the artwork for my story, anyway. ::cross fingers::
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Ten thousand word minimum, any fandom, not due until February, apocafic!
Apocabigbang
Also, all you great writers reading this (why are you reading this and not writing me fic?) should check it out.
I wanna sign up so much. I love apocafic, pro and fan, like a burning, burning, burning thing.
But would anyone want to read a Criminal Minds apocafic? I have a genuinely cool idea that isn't supernatural, isn't zombies, and isn't nuclear war (though it might escalate) for the collapse of civilization.
Peoples! Talk me down from signing up for this! (Or egg me on, because you realize now that there is no way for your life to be complete without a Criminal Minds apocafic.)
BTW - home, internets, I missed you. Though I really wish my dad had been feeling better before I had to leave.
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Thing One.
Hard at work on the Secret Santa story and what am I writing?
( coerced consent or dubcon? possibly triggering )
Thing Two appears to have been frightened away by the contents of my brain.
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Secret santa assignment.
Anyone else open their assignment email, read it and just think, oh, this is going to suck? Because mine makes me think whatever I come up with is going to suck big time, suck to write, suck as a story and suck for the poor person that requested this in all innocence. I'm going to have to go to the secondary, even tertiary request level to come up with something. That makes me feel rather guilty, because I like to come up with something that really fits what someone wants, but like the song says, I won't do that. Even if I tried, it would suck balls. Bowling balls. Basket balls. Bucky balls. Schwetty Balls.
To be clear, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with the request, it isn't one of those that make you want to shake the person, it is just something I have no interest in writing about, never have, never will.
I suppose it could be worse. It could be Beckett. Or Barfy Sparky.
And the cat broke the seven off my laptop keyboard in a feat of vandalism I still am steaming over. My barely six months old laptop that I keep as pristine as possible. I suspect it was deliberate retaliation for the ear mite medicine and I'm thinking next time I'm letting the little bastard kick his own head in.
My poor precious. It looks like some knocked out a front tooth.
BTW the worst thing about my Toshiba Satellite is how easily the damn keys come off. I've already had to fix two, but Savage managed to break the little plastic clip that snaps them in place, so this isn't an easy fix like before.
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Because I'm at loose ends but don't want to work on GT&T IV, I give you leave to ask for snippets. I'll write you something in comments from 100 to 1000 words, if you give me a prompt.*
A character, a noun, a verb
Five things__________(fill in the blank)
A quote (results may vary widely)
A picture.
It's twelve-thirty-eight pm my time, I'll stop taking prompts at twelve-thirty-right am. Otherwise, I'm going to sit here and draft and cast a proposed Criminal Minds spin-off starring Joe Flanigan as a gay FBI profiler. Which isn't that bad a fate, come to think of it. If you don't have any prompts for me, you can suggest names for said gay FBI profiler.
Fandoms I have some familiarity with: SGA, SG1, Criminal Minds, NCIS, Alias, Due South, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Magnificent Seven.
I don't take part in Yuletide (don't even know how a novice would sign up), so I can't really mourn that no one nominated Inspector Lewis (though Inspector Morse might conceivably include Lewis), but I'm still surprised. Sgt. Hathaway couldn't be better slash fodder if a fan herself had created him. Maybe Lewis is too rare even for Yuletide?
Anyway, here's a rec for an Inspector Lewis fic:
Five Things Morse Taught Lewis and One He Did Not
Forty-three SGA Big Bang stories were submitted. This is SGA Big Bang's last year (at least in this format) and I'm going to miss it terribly, from a writing and reading viewpoint. But right now, I cannot wait for November 12 to roll around. I want to read and see the art. Especially (I'm a self-involved bitch, it's true) the art for my story!
*If a snippet gets away from me (they do sometimes, see Ardhanarishvara and In the City of Seven Walls, wait dear God, why am I doing this again?) I may post it to Dreamwidth rather than the journal the prompt came from, but I'll link it at the originating journal in that case. It's highly unlikely I'll write anything long enough to need the longer comment length available to me at DW, though.
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Submitted my final version of my SGA Big Bang story. Did it wrong the first time and found myself panicking and jerking out the internet line to stop it from uploading. Yeesh. Second try, I think I got it right. Crossed fingers. It's all out of my hands now.
Just like the pan of brownies I made to celebrate.
As I pulled the pan out of the oven, my mitt slipped and I managed to flip the pan right over. Honestly, my brownies always stick. Except this time. Brownies, meet floor. Floor brownies, meet dog. I know, chocolate is bad for dogs, but she doesn't seem to care much. And they smelled so good. It's finally raining here and I felt like baking for first time in ages. Drat it.
I wonder what would happen if I tried to make popcorn?
A lightning strike?
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| 2009-09-30 14:25 |
| Things wot I'm not writing and things wot I want to read |
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Things I want to read:
John/Vala
John/Sam
John/Jennifer/Rodney
John/Chaya
John/Larrin
What? I've got a het yen of late. And I really want to see John with someone who will make him happy. EATG left me bitter on his behalf. And I always want to read really good McKay/Sheppard, that's a given.
Things I want to read, per a DW comment thread between ![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) monanotlisa and myself:
Where is the Kanaan fic? Where's the Teyla/Kanaan fic and where's the Teyla/Kanaan/Ronon and where's the Teyla/Kanaan/John fic?
monanotlisa : You're right about the lack of Teyla/Kanaan/Ronon. Weird, seeing as fandom's usually over minor male characters. Although it helps when they're WHITE. *eyebrow*
And I think she's right. Which makes me mad at all of us, including myself. Kanaan should not be a rare pairing character when he is canonically involved with a main character.
Moving on to the things I'm not going to write.
The one where John and Teyla were involved since season one and Torren is his son, but he called it off after finding out she was technically already married to Kanaan. Should end up as a threesome. Sigh. Anyone want this one? Free to a good home writer.
The one where Rodney really isn't as oblivious as he acts, because Elizabeth figured out that John had a thing for him in the first year and briefed him on how to keep John from ever declaring anything while at the same time keeping him strung along, because they couldn't afford to have their military commander go off the rails or end up on the outs with Rodney after being rejected. John finds out from some private papers of Elizabeth's...It's just too cruel.
The one where John really is a cockblocking sonovabitch and seduces Jennifer away from Rodney, either because it's a nasty joke or because he thinks she'll make Rodney unhappy if they marry.
The one where John confesses his love for Rodney, they get together, but Rodney goes back to Jennifer because he just really wants women more than men.
The one where Rodney doesn't leave John for a woman, but cheats on him.
These prove I have a deep and abiding sadistic streak.
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