dreaming on

I was genuinely surprised when I went to go make this list to find that I'd written very little. I didn't bother to sort them by size, so they're collected by fandom:

( List and meme under here. )

Yeah, I didn't finish this on time, you wanna fight about it.

First, the list of fics I wrote in 2013! I sorted them by length because it's neater. All links lead to AO3, but fics should also be present on my writing DW, insincere.

( List and meme under here. )

I'm going to make another post later today once all my things are done, about resolutions. But here's a little looking back at my writing.

( Even though I'm the world's most predictable writer, I'm actually pretty pleased with myself, looking at this. )

Oh baby oh baby. My totals so far are 2297, 1422, 2058, and 2239. The 2nd was a low point for me: I wrote about 110 words at lunch, and then after work I just stared at my keyboard for about three hours while trying to brain any of the things I wanted to write. I couldn't do it and I wanted to beat my head against the wall. Failing already?!

Finally I went browsing through fic_promptly for "any fandom" prompts until I found one that I thought I could write for my ship, threw myself on the floor, and scribbled in a notebook. And I managed a decent word count in spite of myself! I am on track with a respectable buffer so far.

So far in those words I have started three fics, and finished one: The Simple Gesture, Thor/Sif.

Here's how my brain works -- when I posted the Thor/Sif fic on AO3, I posted a note saying, I know I'm pretty much writing these for an audience of me, but someone should champion for this pairing! And then when I got a comment, I immediately thought, this is someone telling me why my pairing sucks. :(

I switch tabs to my Gmail to peer suspiciously at the notif. I can see in the preview that it says, "I do not normally like Sif AT ALL."

A Leslie Knope quote sums up my reaction: "That's terrific. Or is it awful? Everything's okay. Or is it just the same?"

How is everyone else doing on NaNo?

Okay, hurricane canceled! I have found the most amazing thing ever.



This will solve all problems, everywhere, forever.

You're welcome.

Something awesome I've discovered: if I use the Portable Apps suite, and bring the USB it's on to work, I can be running my home Firefox on my work PC. LJ Login and all! It's beautiful.



I want to encourage any writery types to check out kinkfest! The prompts are up and open for claiming.

A giant list of the prompts available are here, and none of them are due until May -- so there's plenty of time for you to get writing if you're inspired by any of them. Fics can be anything 100 words or more, and they don't have to be porn, despite the community name.

Please just for the sake of seeing, do a search for your fandom and take a look at the prompts? Do it for me!

I am also available to provide dry commentary on prompts if anyone is interested in hearing me bitch about any of them based on characterization, cliches, trends, or overall intelligence level. Name a fandom I know and I will do it. Hell, I already have, over IM.

Okay. I'm alive again. Back to my 75%. I have today off and I took tomorrow off because I'm probably still contagious and I'd like to not spread the plague to Colorado. I'm going to do a whole bunch of things today. Here, I will talk about them!

• Shower.
  Yeah. Don't ask about the last time I was clean. You won't like the answer.


• Consider doing some of the 72 tags in my inbox.
  But I don't know if that will happen. That might take more energy than I have.


• Play Tales of the Abyss 3DS.
  I don't know if I'm going to be able to app Peony at marinasylum in March given the current state of my tags, but we'll see.


• Watch some of the pile of TV I want to finish.
  Here's the current list of TV shows I want to watch: finish Sherlock season 2, and catch up on Parks & Rec; try Big Bang Theory, Grimm, Once Upon A Time, The River, Alcatraz, Ringer, Homeland, Smash, and Terra Nova. Fuck yeah.


• Transcribe more of the Silence of the Dragonrider chapter.
  I meant to do more of that while I was at the funeral, but... yeah. Deathly ill and incapable of movement or not being in pain prevented that from happening, so I'm very behind.


• Write, write, write.
  I have a lot of reasons to be psyched for writing. Here are all the things I am writing for:
  
  • fic_promptly is doing a challenge week -- fill as many prompts as you can. No one submits Tales of Vesperia prompts but me, so I will be filling out my own prompts + old Vesperia prompts, plus whatever "any" prompts catch my eye. (2 done so far.)
  
  
  • areyougame prompts are up. Few of them are Vesperia, but for some reason a lot of other series ones caught my eye. I will be trying my hand at those.
  
  
  • tales_100 prompt for the week, "wintry".
  
  
  • no_true_pair prompts are out, and I have 4-7 things I want to write for it, minimum. I have one started at about 10%.
  
  
  • My newgameplus assignment is about 60% done. It is not Vesperia-related! I know this writing list is shocking. (DONE.)


Let's see how awesome I can be today! (gym)

This is a ridiculous entry about word counts. I noticed that I was getting different word counts from my old word count resource, here, and the one tales_100 recommends, here.

For example, this drabble is 100 words in the latter... but only 98 words in the former. How did I lose two words? When you manually count, there's clearly 100 words there. It's not the HTML for the one italicized word confusing things; I get the same counts from both resources with or without HTML.

I was kind of miffed about this after femslash100 gave this silly drabble a weirdly-colored star, and I looked it up, and you get that color star if your drabble has a random word count instead of an even 100. But it is 100 words. I counted! So I assume they're using a word counter that screwed me over. (This is a danger of being nitpicky about your word counts. Unless you do it yourself, and even if you do, you run the risk of alienating people. I am now mildly alienated.)

Li and I baffled for a while, and finally she realized: My old word count resource isn't counting line breaks as a space. So it reads "again.He" as one word instead of "again. [line break, line break] He" as two words.

Very weird.

Now it's time for a few recs.

Mine
insincere: For my fic. Yeah yeah.

bunnyguild: Because everyone but me had a musebox. Shut up.

Dreamwidth-specific
dw_community_promo: Advertising communities -- a lot are springing up, so check it every now and again if you want to find new communities.

dreamcodes: Profile codes, muse lists, CR charts, etc. All the delicious code things a roleplayer could ask for.

dreamwidthlayouts: Are the official layouts not cutting it for you? Here are people constantly making more, and they're easy to implement, and gorgeous.

P.S.: If you're not using this layout, you are missing out.

Fandom-related
talesof: The Tales of... general series community. Go here to crosspost your fic, have discussions, ask questions, etc.

anime_manga: What it says on the tin. All anime and manga content can go here.

Writing!
100_women: I adore big challenge charts and female characters. So this is perfect! It's no-claims, and there are charts for 100, 50, or even just 10 challenges, so it's very low-pressure!

tales_100: This is a drabble community for Tales of fandoms; limited to 100 words only. The current prompt is "any past prompt you like", so look through them and see if you're pinged?

fic_promptly: Every weekday they post a new topic (for example, today's is "umbrella") and you suggest prompts in the comments that can be specific to whatever fandom you love. It's like a prompt meme on demand. You can also go back and fill old unfilled prompts at any time~ I'm kind of in love with this idea now that I've figured it out.

1sentencefic: 1 sentence writing challenge, naturally. A big table with 100 prompts for which you can write one sentence apiece.

no_true_pair: Scheduled. Make a list of 8 characters, and the mods give you a list of prompts -- pairing determined by the number you chose! It's fun and irregular.

areyougame: Scheduled. Throw down prompts for your favorite game fandom and then write others!