01 April 2012 @ 12:58 am
a topic everyone cares about at 1am  
I miss writing fic. I realize it is not very productive to say that and then do nothing about it, but it's true. I have ideas that float around in my head for days but I never sit down to write them, even though it's not like I'm doing something more productive. I think part of the problem is that most of the ideas I have these days are longer than the average one-shot, which makes me intimidated before I start so I don't even bother. I got very used to being able to shunt a fic off to Frances when I was frustrated with a scene, lirl.

I also wish ficathons -- specifically comment ficathons but even more generally -- were still a thing, but they seem to have been largely wiped out by Tumblr. I've seen a couple comment ficathons recently, but they're nowhere near as populated as they were two years ago and most of the fandoms/prompts were for things I don't read/write fic for anyway.

There's no real point to this post other than to whine about it I guess. IT IS NO ONE'S FAULT BUT MY OWN, though I do wish I had pages of prompts to scroll through and then get frustrated over not writing lol. I am also sure it is no coincidence that I suddenly miss fic writing when I have an essay to be writing. ISN'T THAT ALWAYS THE WAY?

I guess the moral of this post is, are there any active ficathons right now? Or even fic memes more exciting than "give me a prompt"? Hmmm.
 
 
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Kali: dw :: ten :: i had this friend once_thirty2flavors on April 1st, 2012 09:02 pm (UTC)
He would try to give some big moral speech to the cameras/other tributes about how THEY CAN'T MAKE US DO THIS and WE ARE STRONGER WE WILL SHOW THEM THE POWER OF OUR RESILIENCE AND COMMON HUMANITY and then Jack would stick a harpoon through him and that'd be done.

I DID THIS POLL A WHILE AGO

and was so offended at so many people choosing River. I think River would do very well -- LOL she's practically a Career! -- but I don't think she'd be able to win BECAUSE MARTHA WOULD OUTSMART EVERYONE and River would probably get in a shoot-out with Jack or Rose or something.