Introducing The RCK

[the_rck]

I'm The RCK (the_rck). I've been writing fic for about fourteen years. Before that, I wrote a lot of LARP scenarios. Before that, I majored in creative writing as an undergraduate (if I had it to do over, I probably wouldn't do that).

I write relatively slowly-- In a good year, I manage about six stories or chapters of longer works. One of my goals is to start writing faster so that I can actually get some of my stories done. I sign up for a lot of exchanges; some years, that's all the writing I do. Last year, I did Remix Redux, Not Prime Time, and Yuletide. Most years I do more, but last year, I was hoping to complete work on some chapters of my big WIP, Rheotaxis. I didn't. I'm utterly blocked on that one, but I tried.

I am disabled due to a combination of generalized anxiety and physical difficulties, mostly related to fibromyalgia. I am married and have one child, a girl who's eleven who doesn't understand why on earth I want to write. (She has read a little bit of fic in The Heroes of Olympus fandom, but she has no interest in writing it. She says she hates writing. We'll see if that ever changes. I used to hate writing when I was her age.)

I write in a lot of different fandoms, but I've written twenty stories for Weiss Kreuz, an anime about young men who are florist by day and vigilante assassins by night. Most of my plot bunnies are for Weiss Kreuz. I've also written seven stories for The Chronicles of Narnia and have two plot bunnies for that. The rest of my stories flit from fandom to fandom.

I still want to crank out a few chapters of Rheotaxis. I've been working on that for fourteen years, and I'd really like to finish it. Until I figure out how to get it moving again, however, I'm going to write whatever seems to be flowing at the moment. I've got about a dozen fanfics that I've started and not yet finished and (I think) four original works likewise. Those are the only ones I'm counting as active bunnies. I hope to finish some of them this year. At least six of those are certain to be novel length, so I'll settle for making any progress on those.

I like to do word wars/writing sprints. I make my best progress on stories when I do those. Something about having someone else writing at the same time gets me moving. I'm mostly online between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Eastern time and (with more distractions because my family is home) between 3 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., weekdays. Weekends are more likely to be interrupted, but I'm online a lot then, too. I keep AIM open almost all of the time, and I'm in the Yuletide IRC a lot. Gchat is possible, but I sometimes miss things there because I'm doing something else and don't think to check there.

[Bunny #2] Check Your List!

[kalloway]

So, that list you made last week? Go ahead and grab it/load it/bring it up in another window.

If it's making you want to run screaming in terror to live in an abandoned missile silo with nary a typewriter in sight, I completely understand. If it's actually not that bad, well-organized and manageable, well, that's fine too. I am, as always, a little envious of anyone falling into the latter category.

However... don't run screaming. Because it's not a scary list of things you have to do.

It's an amazing list of awesome stories you are going to write/videos you are going to make/crafts you are going to craft/etc.

Seriously, look at all the cool stuff you have planned!

If you have a list so astounding and cool that you have no idea where to start (or perhaps you want to work on all the things), take a couple of minutes and look it over.

Some of you have mentioned exchanges/fests/things-with-deadlines. While there may be something far more sparkly attempting to get your attention, stick with your deadline-shiny! I know it's hard, but I also know you can do it!

If you don't have any deadlines and have time to work on something, work on the first thing that jumps out at you. While you work on it, the rest of the list doesn't exist. You're not neglecting all those other things; they are perfectly content to wait.


This is also a weekly check-in! You do not have to check in, of course, but if you would like to comment on the last week, feel free! If you want to introduce yourself and weren't sure you wanted to do it in an individual post, feel free to use the comments. If you have any other questions or, well, anything, feel free to use the comments as well. ^_^


If you have a deadline coming up, you can do it! If you need a deadline, feel free to ask!


The current Brainstorming Post is here!

Intro - LdyBastet

[ldybastet]

Hi, I'm ldybastet, here and on LJ and AO3. I've been part of this merry group for two years or so, I think. It's been a great help as I've been wrestling with my writing.

I'm a slow writer, not at all good at churning out thousands of words each day, or even each week. (No NaNoWriMo for me!) But I am plodding on, and adding words little by little. A persistent writer's block keeps popping up to make things difficult at times, but I have learned a few tricks... Mostly though, I know that stress is killing my creativity.

I started writing fanfic in 2003, in LotR fandom, because someone said I could never write the Balrog of Moria/Witch-King of Angmar slash, and make it sort of believable. I just had to prove them wrong. ;) Since then, I've mostly written porn, lots of kink, and mostly one-shots in a number of fandoms (HP being the largest of them). I just can't write huge, long fics of Big Bang length so those challenges are right out for me. And deadlines paralyzes me. Sadly, I'm also one of the world's top procrastinators! So it's easiest for me to write when not alone, but when someone else is also writing and I know I have to produce a word count.

To feed my own (and my friends') need for kinky, porny prompts and challenges, I started a slash-friendly kink challenge here on DW when kink bingo went on hiatus last year: seasonofkink. It's proven to be a never-ending well of fun prompts, and I have a few bingo cards here that I still need to fill completely. So, I expect my list of bunnies to grow as I get more ideas for them! :D

Right now, I'm writing mostly for a Japanese rock band fandom (the GazettE), so it's all about the RPF for me, with the occasional detour into a few anime/manga fandoms.