Intro & Whatnot
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onedeadplotbunnyHi, onedeadplotbunny's twenty-odd new members! Welcome! I mentioned that it's totally cool to make an intro post if you want to make one (but you do not have to), so here is mine:
Hi! I'mkalloway. I write. I craft a bit, too, and sometimes attempt to draw. But mostly, I write. And breed plotbunnies like I'm trying for some sort of award...
I write mostly for anime/manga and video game fandoms, along with original work in a couple of decade-old universes. I maintain my own fanfic archive, which I still hardcode in Notepad. (Let's not talk about how far behind I am with that.)
My current, almost-full plotbunny notebook has more than 650 entries in it, though it also has nearly 100 check-marks. That isn't counting several bingo cards and prompt lists that are printed out and tucked inside. It also doesn't count a whole bunch of things from memes, though I'm working on getting those cataloged.
For the last couple of years, I tried various 'write all the words!' communities with quantity numbers, but I mostly ended up writing new stuff and not looking back at old ideas, which was frustrating (because then those new ideas decided to breed and whoops now I have like 150k words of a Meta-Gundam universe) and not really what I had been hoping for.
I've discovered a few tricks, though. For the two Big Bangs I've done, I cross-referenced the theme with my list, found matches, and then went for it. For the second, I made sure I had over 8000 words written before I even signed up. Kept me from waiting til the last second and panicking...
One of my first, full-speed-ahead! fandoms was Kingdom Hearts, and a huge number of my plotbunnies are for the series. So I'm replaying KH2 to re-spark everything and hopefully get the urge to put pen to paperwithout ending up with a new herd...
The main thing I want from this community is for people to know they aren't alone and that there is hope for that plotbunny from 1995 and all those bingo cards can be done and that even though the mailing list that fic was for was deleted five years ago, yes it makes sense that you want to finish it!
Hi.
onedeadplotbunny's twenty-odd new members! Welcome! I mentioned that it's totally cool to make an intro post if you want to make one (but you do not have to), so here is mine:Hi! I'm
kalloway. I write. I craft a bit, too, and sometimes attempt to draw. But mostly, I write. And breed plotbunnies like I'm trying for some sort of award...I write mostly for anime/manga and video game fandoms, along with original work in a couple of decade-old universes. I maintain my own fanfic archive, which I still hardcode in Notepad. (Let's not talk about how far behind I am with that.)
My current, almost-full plotbunny notebook has more than 650 entries in it, though it also has nearly 100 check-marks. That isn't counting several bingo cards and prompt lists that are printed out and tucked inside. It also doesn't count a whole bunch of things from memes, though I'm working on getting those cataloged.
For the last couple of years, I tried various 'write all the words!' communities with quantity numbers, but I mostly ended up writing new stuff and not looking back at old ideas, which was frustrating (because then those new ideas decided to breed and whoops now I have like 150k words of a Meta-Gundam universe) and not really what I had been hoping for.
I've discovered a few tricks, though. For the two Big Bangs I've done, I cross-referenced the theme with my list, found matches, and then went for it. For the second, I made sure I had over 8000 words written before I even signed up. Kept me from waiting til the last second and panicking...
One of my first, full-speed-ahead! fandoms was Kingdom Hearts, and a huge number of my plotbunnies are for the series. So I'm replaying KH2 to re-spark everything and hopefully get the urge to put pen to paper
The main thing I want from this community is for people to know they aren't alone and that there is hope for that plotbunny from 1995 and all those bingo cards can be done and that even though the mailing list that fic was for was deleted five years ago, yes it makes sense that you want to finish it!
Hi.
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Date: 2013-02-05 09:24 pm (UTC)(I'm really proud that, last year, I finally knocked off something I've had on my list since the first time I signed up for OD(P)B; it ended up 177K. BUT I DID IT.)
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Date: 2013-02-05 09:41 pm (UTC)One of my (embarrassing) goals for 2013 is to try to make sure as many as possible of the things lingering from 2003 are finally completed.