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onedeadplotbunny Heya! I'm the idiot who jumped the gun and posted a check-in post even though it wasn't on the schedule LOL. Sorry guys, hopefully no hard feelings!
In the same way I get overly-enthusiastic about community participation, I also get overly enthusiastic with plot bunnies, hence the need to join this community XD Although my list is probably not as long as it could be, most of the projects that I really care about are super long and involved ones, so a long-term motivational community like this one seems like just the right place to remind me that I need to slow down and give them the attention they deserve before moving onto the next shiny, instant!gratification fic. I did a bunch of those in 2014 and was not overly impressed with any of them.
I write both fanfic and original fiction. For fanfic, I'm currently in HP fandom, though I've dabbled a bit in other anime/manga fandoms, especially PoT Rikkai fic. I'm seriously considering graduate school for a Creative Writing MA (our local uni doesn't offer MFAs) and admission into the program requires a 15-page (double-spaced) writing sample. Since most of my original fic is in the form of bits and pieces of a fantasy-genre series I've been working on for years, my focus right now is on completing a short story I've outlined to serve as my writing sample. It's going okay, I guess!
Writing can be really lonely since it's such a solitary activity, but it doesn't have to be! I really believe that as writers--especially as writers who also write fanfiction, for the most part--we all have so much more in common with each other than many of the people who cross our paths who aren't writers or artists of some kind. I'm really happy to have met a whole bunch of kindred spirits such as you guys, and I hope that together we can embark on an ass-kicking, bunny-slaying journey this year. Bunny #1 (Make a List) has already been amazingly helpful in helping me prioritize things, and I look forward to fun times here =)
In the same way I get overly-enthusiastic about community participation, I also get overly enthusiastic with plot bunnies, hence the need to join this community XD Although my list is probably not as long as it could be, most of the projects that I really care about are super long and involved ones, so a long-term motivational community like this one seems like just the right place to remind me that I need to slow down and give them the attention they deserve before moving onto the next shiny, instant!gratification fic. I did a bunch of those in 2014 and was not overly impressed with any of them.
I write both fanfic and original fiction. For fanfic, I'm currently in HP fandom, though I've dabbled a bit in other anime/manga fandoms, especially PoT Rikkai fic. I'm seriously considering graduate school for a Creative Writing MA (our local uni doesn't offer MFAs) and admission into the program requires a 15-page (double-spaced) writing sample. Since most of my original fic is in the form of bits and pieces of a fantasy-genre series I've been working on for years, my focus right now is on completing a short story I've outlined to serve as my writing sample. It's going okay, I guess!
Writing can be really lonely since it's such a solitary activity, but it doesn't have to be! I really believe that as writers--especially as writers who also write fanfiction, for the most part--we all have so much more in common with each other than many of the people who cross our paths who aren't writers or artists of some kind. I'm really happy to have met a whole bunch of kindred spirits such as you guys, and I hope that together we can embark on an ass-kicking, bunny-slaying journey this year. Bunny #1 (Make a List) has already been amazingly helpful in helping me prioritize things, and I look forward to fun times here =)
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Date: 2015-02-08 12:35 am (UTC)I'd be tempted but I don't neeeed any moreGood luck with the writing sample - that sounds like a lot of pressure.
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Date: 2015-02-09 09:09 pm (UTC)Thanks!