Introducing The RCK
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onedeadplotbunnyI'm The RCK (![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
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.
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.
