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My very first fandom bingo and these look like so much fun!!! Especially the WIP tasks because I do need some help with those 😅 so many thanks to @flufftober for creating these! This is my new pinned post and I will be marking them off as I write them (and adding any if I'm inspired) - as well as listing them down below, of course!
General need to knows can be found here!
Work in Progress Wednesday (little belated as usual) and the first draft of my Thunderfic is done!!! The second draft is underway - filling in a few scenes I skipped over the first time around for the sake of getting the bulk of the story done, which is...something I still have to remind myself of every so often. This won't be as big an extract as usual, but only because I want to keep some things back until y'all read the fic :D
“Virgil, time check.” He demanded. “Six minutes, but we’ll get another two and a half once the elevator unit’s sorted according to Brains.” “W-we’re c-close to doing so.” “But I’m afraid there’s no chance of repairing the ejector pods.” Gordon added. “The landing gear’s the only chance we got of getting it down, and it’s gonna be a close one.” “When isn’t it?” “Couldn’t they ditch in the water?” Alan asked. “Afraid not.” Sheridan replied. “The damage to the engines is too great – we’d explode on impact.”
Well, there's no point in sugarcoating things at this stage.
As for the technical details, don't ask, all you need to know is that there's high stakes as the plot demands.
(Also this is over 10k words already???? How?????)
Tagging (let me know if you want to be added or removed): @shrinkthisviolet @starstruckpurpledragon @janetm74
Oh so ur a writer?? Prove it. Drop the last sentence of ur wip in the tags
i love when characters lie to themselves in the complete privacy of their own minds
I especially love when the lie is that things will turn out fine, despite all evidence to the contrary :)
What do you meannnn I have to write everything else that comes before it? Booooo
It's Six Sentence Sunday so here's another extract from my Thunderbirds fic!!!
"Ground Control to Starfinder One, we're picking you up on radar - what is your ETA?"
"Seven minutes, Ground Control. We should be seeing you soon."
Hopefully in one piece, Sheridan thought, but International Rescue knew what they were doing - once the landing gear was repaired...
Course, it was going to be the more difficult part since unlike the lifting mechanism, there was no power running through it at all, but she and Henderson could keep the ship in the air in the meantime, and Marianna would keep the passengers calm...
They could do this. They had to.
And then...then they'd find out who'd sabotaged them.
I have actually written out the whole rescue scene in a notebook but typing it up is...proving difficult, and this is one of those fics that's taking a lot longer than expected - partly because turns out writing a full on rescue is a lot harder than I realised it would be, partly because I end up procrasting (starting a brand new video game has not helped in this regard), but we're getting there!! Slowly, but we're getting there!!
Tagging (let me know if you want to be added or removed): @shrinkthisviolet @starstruckpurpledragon @janetm74
characters going “we were lovers once”: eh, it’s okay i guess. it’s nice enough
characters going “we were friends once”: absolutely devastating. one hit knockout i’m gone
“why would you write fics for small, unpopular fandoms? you’re not gonna reach that many hits in fandoms not many people know about” ?? because I’m not writing fics for hits or kudos, I’m writing them for me because these characters are my blorbos and I have so many ideas, so much thoughts about them that my brain might explode if I don’t write them out.
“No matter how hard you work on story in TV, ultimately story will not save you. Character in TV is ALL. Truly good stories, of course, come OUT of character, they don’t happen TO characters. Good story always comes out of character choice. This doesn’t mean that you can slack off and write bad stories, or you shouldn’t bust your ass to write great stories, which is what all those writers hammering away in writer’s rooms right now are doing. It’s just that you can not help be cognizant of the irony that you are working hardest at the part of the show the audience cares least about….What good story does is provide the most interesting or intriguing framework for the characters. Great story supercharges a show.”
a scene can start wherever you want it to
writing isn't real life. You don't need to set up a character walking into a room or two characters greeting each other and talking about the weather or what-have-you in order to lead into the conversation you actually want them to have. just start at the conversation.
hell, start in the middle of the conversation. you could even start at the end and then have one of them leave and the other one left behind to reflect back on what just happened.
writing gets easier when you open yourself up to writing the parts that are interesting, to starting where it's easy instead of where you think you should start.
if it ends up not working? that's okay. you tried it, and sometimes just getting something out of your head is a necessary first step to getting the words right
I'm a fandom oldie and a strong proponent of "ship and let ship", and I defend everyone else's right to ship what they love... But I think that gives people the idea that I like, automatically love every single ship??? Or every single trope?
I don't though!
There are a lot of fandom tropes that are on my "absolutely fuck no" list. There are a lot of irk kinks that are also on my "nope absolutely not" list, too. Personally, this is healthy. I'm able to look at something and go "Yep, I hate it, but it's not harming anyone, so continue to do as you please."
I think this is where the rubber meets the road for actually having principles. It’s easy to defend the things we like, just like it’s easy to fight for our own rights and those of people just like us. When you have to use logic to extend your sense of justice to people you can’t relate to, that actually takes effort.
people who write fics. how do you feel about comments on super old ones you wrote like 2+ years ago
Bringing this out of the tags:
A fic written 2 years ago is NOT OLD. Two years is nothing. Two years ago was yesterday.
Also I don't care if a fic is 10 years old. Leave those comments!! Even if you think the author isn't active, or moved on from the fandom, I promise you it will make them smile.
I commented on a fic that was 11 years old, and there was already a response by the time I got up the next morning. Comment on the fics, please, comment on them, I promise it'll make the author's day either way
I got a comment on a fic of mine this week that just read "TWO THOUSAND AND NINE?"
I replied to it within seconds, of course. someone commented on my fic
As @pentapoda put it in this post:
(transcript: Every time someone comments on my old fic, i feel like I'm an old actor getting paid residuals. Appreciate you, old-fic-commenters. Key source of emotional income, tbh.)
My dash is full of struggling writers rn.
i feel like the youth should be reminded that the point of shipping is not for a ship to become canon. the point of shipping is to collect all the canon crumbs like starved mice, run away cackling and make some fun little scenarios with them just for the hell of it.
Tagged by @kitkatt0430 and @shrinkthisviolet (the latter on my main blog) so thank you very much!!
Writing game: post the last line you wrote and tag someone for every word in that line
“It’s what we do.”
Tagging @dawnquafam @janetm74 @lenle-g and @gumnut-logic!!
It's a belated Work-in-Progress Wednesday (one day I'll start doing them on time) so here's a snippet from my Thunderbirds TOS fic 'star fall' - I'm into the rescue part now, after getting a boost watching the Zero-X rescue (because that's the only example of an air-to-air rescue there is)
"I can weld a new connection easy enough, then." The landing gear would prove the trickier part, but he'd get there when he'd get there - for now he set to work disentangling the damaged wires from the undamaged ones... Then something caught his eye. Small, silver, looked almost like a screw but not quite- Gordon's heart almost stopped. That was no screw. Immediately he whipped out the scanner, tensing as it ran the diagnostics because if this was what he thought it was, if there were more of them- "What's wrong?" Ashton asked. "Is there a problem?" "I don't know yet-" The scanner beeped - nothing else was in the mechanism but the thing was exactly what he thought it was- "Gordon, what's happening?!" Scott demanded. "Scott, this wasn't an accident. I've just found a small explosive device in the lifting mechanism and I suspect there's similar devices in the engines that blew. This wasn't a system failure... This was sabotage."
(Dun dun dunnnnnnnn)
This isn't the easiest part to write but we're getting there - and this fic is also going to be a mulitchap as well, probably split into three chapters.
Tagging (let me know if you want to be added or removed): @shrinkthisviolet @starstruckpurpledragon @janetm74
The thing nobody tells you is that you can just write down that one scene you've been replaying in your head with no connections to anything. You don't have to wait until the plot get there or until you come up with the rest of the story around it that makes that scene makes sense. You can just write that one scene.
you are so right
