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NaNo... -__-;;
NaNoWriMo starts on Monday and I still don't know what story I want to poke at, or even if I really want to do it this year.
Anyway I don't have a new Ofic to prod, so it would either be more Mermaids in Space (... sorry, Mermaids... IN SPACE!!) or more Black Ops Werewolves.
Or maybe Teamwork. I dunno, it's all asleepy right now. *prods it with a stick*
I'm not feeling it. T__T The werewolves are love but I don't have a real plot. The mermaids have a plot but I don't have the love. Well, yes, i love them but. The werewolves don't have any interesting characters on other teams and local werepeople to interact with! The mermaids don't have any shiny mermaid and two-tail people to interact with! There's plot hooks enough, but for me who loves nothing more than character interaction, that makes things FLAAAT. It's like, okay, yay, my car has a motor, now it can roll forward without needing a slope and gravity to gang up on it. Neat. Now could I have some seats and a radio please? Also a wheel, a wheel would be nice. Cause otherwise I'm taking the bus.
*ponders Tyr/Liadan crossover interaction*
Also there's Real Life things coming up this month and I'm not sure how much I'll feel like writing. (it's nothing bad, job search stuff. I suppose everyone must go through that at some point. I'm just horrible at dealing with that kind of stress.) Or perhaps having something I must write would be a great distraction! No friggin clue.
As for Teamwork, I seriously doubt that it'll take me 50,000 words to get to the end of TW3. Though I suppose it would help if I could decide if the marriage is part of TW3 or its separate sequelthing! though at this point the sequels are all such an interconnected mess I suspect it's all mostly academic. Okay, no, TW 3 was the tournament, tournament'll be over by then, therefore since TW 4 is something else! that means Teamwork:Marriage is an interlude instead! A hugeass interlude. In several parts. Plus outsider POV sidefics. ahaha o self wat. Okay, not an interlude. TW3.5? I mean, i've got the Suna trip down as TW2.5 already. ...Someone put me out of my misery. DX
Anyway I don't have a new Ofic to prod, so it would either be more Mermaids in Space (... sorry, Mermaids... IN SPACE!!) or more Black Ops Werewolves.
Or maybe Teamwork. I dunno, it's all asleepy right now. *prods it with a stick*
I'm not feeling it. T__T The werewolves are love but I don't have a real plot. The mermaids have a plot but I don't have the love. Well, yes, i love them but. The werewolves don't have any interesting characters on other teams and local werepeople to interact with! The mermaids don't have any shiny mermaid and two-tail people to interact with! There's plot hooks enough, but for me who loves nothing more than character interaction, that makes things FLAAAT. It's like, okay, yay, my car has a motor, now it can roll forward without needing a slope and gravity to gang up on it. Neat. Now could I have some seats and a radio please? Also a wheel, a wheel would be nice. Cause otherwise I'm taking the bus.
Also there's Real Life things coming up this month and I'm not sure how much I'll feel like writing. (it's nothing bad, job search stuff. I suppose everyone must go through that at some point. I'm just horrible at dealing with that kind of stress.) Or perhaps having something I must write would be a great distraction! No friggin clue.
As for Teamwork, I seriously doubt that it'll take me 50,000 words to get to the end of TW3. Though I suppose it would help if I could decide if the marriage is part of TW3 or its separate sequelthing! though at this point the sequels are all such an interconnected mess I suspect it's all mostly academic. Okay, no, TW 3 was the tournament, tournament'll be over by then, therefore since TW 4 is something else! that means Teamwork:Marriage is an interlude instead! A hugeass interlude. In several parts. Plus outsider POV sidefics. ahaha o self wat. Okay, not an interlude. TW3.5? I mean, i've got the Suna trip down as TW2.5 already. ...Someone put me out of my misery. DX
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(To be perfectly frank, right now I like the werewolves better than the mermaids. I have no idea why -- maybe it's that I connect better with the characters in werewolves? Or maybe I'm just not in the mood for something as unfamiliar as mermaid's world? Yeah, I dunno. .__.)
As for putting you out of your misery, I'll be very happy to! Just as soon as you finish all the fics you have started.
*evil laughter*
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and as for the werebeasts... well, no plot means no story. i'd stall almost immediately. 's what happened last time. ;_;
As for putting you out of your misery, I'll be very happy to! Just as soon as you finish all the fics you have started.
... It occurs to me that I have found the perfect way to be sure to live to see one hundred. GUYS. KEEP ME ALIVE UNTIL I FINISH EVERYTHING OKAY. :D
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NaNo is just a really long, really terrifying leap of faith; you're not gonna get anywhere if you don't jump.
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... oh hey, I forgot the whine tag on this post. *goes to add*
The problem with the werewolves is that there is no external conflict or even hook, as I have no real characters outside of them apart from a few quick sketches, and they're not interesting enough that I want to bother having them interact with my cast, there'd be no spark. I can't manage not to fall into the same old cliche roles for a werewolf pack, asshole leader and all that jazz, and when I try to reverse it I come up with ineffectual villains or villains who aren't villains at all, so how the hell am I gonna get my characters in the pack if they don't need to take it over after all! my plot ;__; Mergh. meeergh.
[/whine] Um. Sorry. XD; I just like to complain.
... Would you, or anyone, happen to have character concepts that'd fit this story? (urban fantasy, cast can be human normal, witches (not v. powerful), not!elves, or werecritters, natural or military-induced variant. ... or Bigfoot!) Or even tropes to throw at me, see how they bounce? >______>
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I'm very fond of the mermaids, but I can see where you've sort of written yourself into a corner, and all the plot bits waiting in the wings are getting in the way of character development and non-scripted interaction (I guess? Maybe it's just my interpretation). Getting rid of particularly strangly elements might help, or just letting it sit for a while and coming back to it later with fresh eyes, so you can see what's going on when you're not so involved. (Actually, that applies to any story.)
Basically, do whatever you want to do. If you want to write, write. If you don't want to, don't. But don't feel you have to commit to anything, just because it's November.
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I'm glad you like the mermaids, though. Thank you. ^^ ♥♥♥
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(About naming the saga fics, I woudnt't mind 3.5 but you can also rename TMW III to IV, to create space.)
Werewolves and mermaids are nice too....and OC....Argh, I really don't know how to advise here. *useless*
I'll try to give my team7 AU story a sequel. They haven't even /kissed/ Sakura yet in 50K of space, stupid boys. U___U;
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Team 7 AU story!!!!! did you even post it? I can't remember it D:
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But since I can't actually harass you in such a fashion, I suppose I'll have to be content with throwing a few words your way in the shape of opinion. So, between mermaids, wolves and shinobi mating customs-
-Sorry, totally just lost train of thought imagining baby Mer!Sasuke swimming after his big brother and I had a squee.-
-I think I'm most partial to wolves. Maybe you could try fracturing a fairytale or two for plot elements? Classic is classic for a reason after all and nobody says they have to be recognizable when you're done with them. Just stay away from tvtropes, lest you lose your will to live.
On the other hand, I have a terrible bias against all of them when Sephiroth is smirking down at me. So you see, I'm really no help at all. I shake a stick of dynamite at your misery though. A little kaboom goes a long way. u.u
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*ears perk*
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right now I'm trying to work out some kinks in a OP fic I want to write, but it's making strange faces at me. *cries*.
(and yes, I shamelessly borrowed the pic, but I thought it would rather appropriate for your situation.)
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I shall borrow you as a bunny-target if I manage to kill my betas with them. XD promise. Thank you for offering. ♥
augh, blank spots are horrible. do YOU have someone to throw your stories at and see if they can unstick them? I would never get anywhere without people to help me like that. D:
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oops sorry XDD;;;
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*waves goofy "NANOPREMO" flag*
(After all, if you give yourself time to get important RL things done and stew over your stories a bit, you'll be more ready to devote time to writing once things have straightened themselves out. Give yourself a writing break and come back twice as strong! ...Or something.)
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Nah, I loved that series and squeezed out a few drabbles, but it never inspired me to multipart for it. Well, okay yes, it did *once*, but that was Jossed by season three and it was all evil angst where Aang was dead and Katara was going crazy with grief anyway and it didn't even end well, so good riddance. DX
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Sorry, Lurker that found this from your awesome, awesome art on Deviantart (I lurk on Jo's livejournal as well).
You mentioned wanting character's to ping off of your werewolves...
*Coughs and looks over at her basket full of characters all bickering/fighting/molesting each other* Uh... feel free to look through, if you want. ADRIAN, NEVAN, STOP MOLESTING THE OTHERS, IT JUST MAKES THEM HIT BACK HARDER! AND KIT, STOP TRYING TO SET THE OTHERS ON FIRE TO GET THEM TO LEAVE YOU ALONE!
... Sorry, they're a little strange.
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JUST DO EEETTT
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It helps! it helps tons! Please do keep asking, if you get more questions.
-Not-elves and humans have had officially no -non-hostile contact that wasn't part of a peace effort for the last 100 years (most of them failed, only the last one worked.) There probably were clandestine attempts or strange friendships, but they were trying to stay under the radar because both sides wouldn't take it well. ... This could be an interesting character origin, nice contrast too. *starts pondering*
-Tyr does join. It... goes. He's good at all parts of the job that don't require either socialization or strolling around in full sight during the day XD also his colleagues think he's weiiird but then again he's a frontline vet, so they likely cut him some slack. He's just not weird in the ways they *expect*, so...
-Local pack, a lot of them have jobs, those who can stand to be around humans. They tend to associate with other wolves to get businesses going, but not all the pack is working for the same one. One of them has this furniture shop thinger Tyr and Dian shop at, one has this... what's the name, with lumber... the others I have no clue. One of them's a taxi driver. He's weird. Around humans in close quarters all day! XD
-He hates her too much to let her do it. XD Dian would only want to die if his transformation goes badly and he goes crazy -- which was more likely to happen if he hadn't stayed around Tyr and the rest, because he was in a dark place mentally speaking and that counts for a lot. The rest of the time he's refusing to lay down and die. ... as for what happens between him and Xiang, I dunno, I figured I'd let the characters decide where to put those shiny shiny explosions. Because hello bad blood.
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But, like. If you're not going to enjoy it, there's no reason to force yourself! Still, maybe once Nano starts and you begin, it'll begin to flow better? Sometimes when you feel the pressure, the ideas come a lot easier? :D
I HAVE FAITH IN YOU. You are amazing.
Also, I have an essay due in three hours. Brb researching for sources so I can begin writing it. >.>;;;
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I say instead of focusing on one story, you can just try for 50,000 words total, if you think you can be inspired/have the time to write. That way you can bounce around between your big fics and short random ones or whatever, and have more freedom rather than feeling tied down. *shrugs* I dunno.
Best wishes with job searching, I know that can be a pain! I hope you find something great.
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I'll split my NaNo love between you and Saro since I'm not doing it 8D
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But in all seriousness, I love your origific and I yearn for the day you finish one. The mermaids are probably my favorite, for all the prettypretty worldbuilding (and, I admit, I so ship the threeway), but the werewolves are a really close second for their character interaction, and both concepts are just win in my book.
If you're really uninspired, you should try working on your villains. I find this solves most of my disinterest problems when I get bogged down with plot, and usually totally rejuvenates my love for the good guys.
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I've never been able to do NaNoWriMo, though I've tried many modified (read: easier) versions for the last six years or so. I was idly thinking about making another attempt this year, but between work and the realization that one of my originals is probably not salvageable at this point, I don't think it's going to happen. ._.
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I guess writing or not all comes down to what you feel you could handle, and what ideas are floating around. If you feel you could get 50,000 words out in a month regardless of external pressures, go for it. If you don't think your idea could hold up to it, don't. As far as whether it's interesting or not...does it matter? I start out writing things for myself. If you enjoy it, that is truly all that matters. If later you want to share it, you can always edit, ne?
Good luck with all the RL and plotbunny pressures. And I hope things work out regardless of what you choose to do. ^_^
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(Anonymous) 2010-10-30 12:13 am (UTC)(link)maybe for NaNo you could put a bunch of different Ideas into hats, like a hat for setting, charas, etc. and write a random story?
IDK, I fail.
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You can technically write for Teamwork for NaNoWriMo and file the wedding/outside fics/TW3.5 under Teamwork too? It's kinda one huge storyline, afterall.
Job searches suck. D: I get antsy when I go for interviews, all the way until I get a reply. Good luck!!
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I see that you are enjoying Detective Conan, so why not have incidents in the werewolves areas that need to be investigated? and you can write in short instalments? or even mission based? slipping character development in along the way?
possible plot elements could be people going missing, a group of -not-elves spotted in a particular area, lol you could even have them checking out things that turn out to be nothing more than deer in the woods and that jazz. after all, not every tip yields expected results!
I hope that helped. Good luck!!!!