Snowflake Challenge Days 11-13

[thisbluespirit]

I'm very tired again, generally, due to the ME/CFS as ever, and partly some rl stuff, but let's try and not fall too much further behind (still haven't done Day 3!) Forgive me if I'm flaking on comments - I caught up a bit, but then it's still quite busy and I fall away again.



Day 12

In your own space, create your own challenge. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

As I said, I am really tired, so the last thing I am up for is creating a challenge, and I think that's fair enough. I often do writing memes, I sign up for exchanges, I created comms which are/include challenges - tardis_library, who_allsorts, tic_tac_woe, post monthly prompts to b7friday, and run an annual ficathon at who_guestfest (well, even if shivver actually ran it last time). I also have a ridiculous ongoing 500 Prompts thing that I decided to do back in something like 2013 and am still working away on. (I didn't create that one, but I did steal it, adapt it, and am still doing it.)

I don't think I need to create another when I'm too tired just for this challenge.

But if other people are not tired, then feel free to rec something for tardis_library or sign up for the current seasonal challenge there. Ask for an apocalyptic mini-bingo card at tic_tac_woe! Or claim a table at who_allsorts, create something for this fortnight's prompt at b7friday. Or the other way around, well, leave me a prompt on the 500 Prompts post! (I mean, there is no guarantee a ficlet will result & if it does, it might turn up in 2 days or 6 years, but I am still working on them.)

Make your own prompt challenge by generating yourself things via the Genremixer. Or for writing memes, try the poetry meme or the AU Meme, or just for fun, the 15 Characters Meme.


Day 13

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I put my fannish/fic goals on my writing meme entry, so that will do!


Day 11

In your own space, talk about your creative process(es) — anything from the initial inspiration to how you feel after something’s done. Do you struggle with motivation or is it a smooth process? Do you have any tricks up your sleeve to pull out when a fanwork isn’t cooperating? What is your level of planning to pantsing/winging it? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Which can fairly be summed up as "it seemed a good idea at the time" or "there was this prompt" or "my flist told me to do it" or even more inspiring, "my flist told me I couldn't do it."

More literally, I still tend to write the first draft longhand, as I find it helps. I'm trying at the moment to do this less for shorter pieces, especially meme things, as I'm finding it more of a struggle for some reason and then I don't write at all. But for long things, I can't do the detailed plan/structure thing, so writing it out in that format first and then completely rewriting it as you type with notes etc. works out instead without switching off my creativity in the way that planning often does.

Icons not for challenges tend to be fairly simple as a thing i can still do when quiet - so I make screencaps and then tweak them (crop, resize, lighten via layers, sharpen via unsharp mask etc. and then play around with them till I'm happy or just frustrated).

But for fannish things, mainly, it just seemed like a good idea at the time. Or somebody in some way asked me to do it. Or asked me not to do it but in a way that sounded like they thought I should...

(corvidology was saying their flist used to be the "Fiends List" over on LJ. In the best possible way, I know what they mean... <3)

Comments

[swordznsorcery]

"Fiends List". :D I love that!

Sorry to hear you're still tired. It's a shame to be seeing less of you here lately, but needs must. And these are all great answers anyway! And oh dear, I still haven't finished my tic_tac_woe card...

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you!

And oh dear, I still haven't finished my [community profile] tic_tac_woe card...

You're doing better than me! You can make it!

[swordznsorcery]

I certainly hope to. It was a good card, and I had some ideas for it that I liked. 2018 was rather non-stop though. Maybe this year!

[thisbluespirit]

I hope so too! Not just the fic, though that's always great - I've been missing you being about.

[swordznsorcery]

Thank you. :) The good thing about being busy though, is that it (usually) means I'm being paid to do something. Which is quite useful! If a bit inconvenient.

[thisbluespirit]

Ah, yes, money! So unfortunately important!

[romanajo123]

What’s the 15 Characters meme?

[thisbluespirit]

If you follow the link here, you'll see!

[corvidology]

Well they are 'fiends' and they know who they are... :D

Needless to say this seemed very familiar: Which can fairly be summed up as "it seemed a good idea at the time" or "there was this prompt" or "my flist told me to do it" or even more inspiring, "my flist told me I couldn't do it."

[thisbluespirit]

Needless to say this seemed very familiar: Which can fairly be summed up as "it seemed a good idea at the time" or "there was this prompt" or "my flist told me to do it" or even more inspiring, "my flist told me I couldn't do it."

:-D It's how flists are supposed to be, right?

[corvidology]

If you're lucky! :D

[isabellerecs]

Wow, can I say how impressed I am over your 500 prompts challenge you've been working on for six years! *fistbump* I think I would have collapsed under the sheer amount of prompts but you're plugging away. You are awesome! :D

"It seemed like a good idea at the time" sounds like a terrific reason for fannish things. ;)

I hope you feel less tired soon, or at least that things in rl work out to be less tiring. Take care of yourself. :)

[thisbluespirit]

Wow, can I say how impressed I am over your 500 prompts challenge you've been working on for six years! *fistbump* I think I would have collapsed under the sheer amount of prompts but you're plugging away.

At the rate I'm going I won't finish before I'm 100 or something, but I love having them around for inspiration! They're very pretty! :-D

And thank you!

it just seemed like a good idea at the time

[oldtoadwoman]

Story of my life.

Re: it just seemed like a good idea at the time

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, indeed. *nods*

[maplemood]

I love your description of your creative process! It rings very, very true. :)

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! I'm glad I'm not the only one... :-D

[arcanetrivia]

corvidology was saying their flist used to be the "Fiends List" over on LJ.

My personal journal titles my friends/reading page "Villainy Hive 24", as in a-wretched -one-of-scum-and. This one says "alt.fan.harry-potter / rec.arts.drwho".

[thisbluespirit]

friends/reading page "Villainy Hive 24"

Ha, well, yes, indeed!

[luthien]

The idea of 500 prompts makes me feel tired just thinking about it. You deserve applause for undertaking it, let alone everything else you've been doing.

I have a Doctor Who rec in mind, so I'll try to post that to tardis_library later.

I hope life will allow you time to rest and try to find that careful balance between doing some things but not doing too much.

[thisbluespirit]

Well, I don't actually have 500 prompts properly, I have about 200 of them with actual prompts in and about 40 written! (So at this rate of completion, if I get to live forever, I shall finish it soon enough...)

I have a Doctor Who rec in mind, so I'll try to post that to [community profile] tardis_library later.

Oh, cool! Please do. We have themes and challenges and things but any and all DW recs are welcome at any time. <3

And thank you - life is evening up, there's just been some bad/weird rl news and that doesn't help.

[auroracloud]

Sorry you're still feeling tired! Take care of yourself as much as you need to. *hugs*

I should probably start finding out what my friends list can make me write. It could be interesting!

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! <3 I am a bit better, there was just some rl stuff going on, but hopefully... *hugs back*

I should probably start finding out what my friends list can make me write. It could be interesting!

Aha, yes, do! It's usually good fun. I have a meme tag which is rather cluttered, but if you burrow back through should include quite a selection of writing memes over the years. Or create your own, or steal one from tumblr or whatever... (Stealing memes is the time honoured fandom tradition.)

[sallymn]

That sounds like quite enough, you make me feel lazy!

[thisbluespirit]

Well, you see, each of them happened at a different time and they all seemed like a good idea at the time!

[liadt]

It seemed a good idea at the time: I know the feeling!

When I have finished writing out something I lose some interest as I've got the fic out of head and why should I have to type it up when I've written it down, it should magically appear on the computer screen! Bit scary if it ever did...

I hope you feel less tired soon.

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you!

And I don't know why writing it down doesn't kill creativity for me and planning it out does - it's not done, it's there, just crying out for editing and sharing, I suppose! And it's a lot easier to type stuff that's already written. I don't know. It works differently for everyone!

[paranoidangel]

One day I will do some tardis_library reccing, but I read so little fanfic these days - I permanently have a load bookmarked and generally get round to them months later.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, well, whenever you do, you'll be welcome! And old recs are as welcome as new ones, too. <3

[mab_browne]

I would never know what the hell to write about my creative process. Presumably I have one but I've never really tried to analyze it.

Sorry to hear the CFS is playing silly buggers.

Oh, and btw, if you chose to come back to Tumblr, one of your former mutuals does miss you - Mariocki.

[thisbluespirit]

I would never know what the hell to write about my creative process. Presumably I have one but I've never really tried to analyze it.

Which is kind of what I was saying. And then I just feel bad because there are all these people that plan and research and do clever structural things, and I'm just, okay, there's this prompt, and then I wrote it? And edited a lot?

<3

Oh, and btw, if you chose to come back to Tumblr, one of your former mutuals does miss you - Mariocki.

I am trying quietly to reconstruct my tumblr and will say so at some point, but I doubt I'll ever use it as much again. And Mariocki is the one person I've been close with there - and even they can't so much as drop an anon comment here to say bye/I miss you... which says so much about tumblr culture, really, doesn't it? You press the button and otherwise, oh well - even the very nicest of people! And I've been trying to find my old posts and so far there is nobody whose archive I've looked at, or a specific tag I've searched that I haven't found missing 'adult' material in (including in your Sapphire & Steel tag, btw)!

[dimity_blue]

~~Which can fairly be summed up as "it seemed a good idea at the time" or "there was this prompt" or "my flist told me to do it" or even more inspiring, "my flist told me I couldn't do it."~~

Haha! Ahem... I mean, they're all awesome reasons for writing.

*hugs* I hope you're feeling a little less tired now.

[thisbluespirit]

Haha! Ahem... I mean, they're all awesome reasons for writing.


Quite! :-D