Tag: writing and whatnot

Help me figure out what I should work on today: 
1) Tentacles 
2) College AU
3) Case Fic (Sam POV w/Sam ship)
4) Fix it

If Tentacles is your first choice, pic another, too b/c the tentacles one isn’t gonna take me all night (probably) 

17, 18, 20, 40, and 50!

17. On average, how much writing do you get done in a day?


On a good day? Maybe about 1,200 words. If I’m under the gun though, I can crank out about 7k easy. 

18. What’s your revision or rewriting process like?


It depends on how long the work is. If it’s just a chapter or a ficlet, I’ll give it a quick sweep, try to catch typos and grammatical errors. (Though this is easier if I leave it for a day or so but I’m impatient as hell.) 
If it’s a long work like a bang I’ll re-read the whole thing (after a grammar sweep) and look for things that need to be expanded, things that need to be tightened, things that need to just go. I’ll talk to the person or people beta-ing my fic and we’ll discuss what needs work, if I’m hitting the marks I want to, and what I can do to make it stronger. 

20. Post a snippet of a WIP you’re working on.


lol. Okay, this is just the last thing I had open. 

Jimmy gives his light a cursory sweep around the room but there’s nothing in the room but him. Not like he really expects anything different. He turns to leave when something wet hits the back of his head. 

Jimmy jumps, twisting around so fast he pulls something in his back. “The hell?” He grumbles. There’s no one behind him though. He touches the back of his head, hoping he imagined it, but of course his hair is wet. 

“What the fuck?” He mutters. He tips his flashlight up to the ceiling, expecting a drip or something like it, but there’s nothing. 

He turns to leave again and it happens again, like someone’s got a squirt gun and is shooting him in the back of the head.

40. Original Fiction or Fanfiction, and why?


Fanfiction. Less pressure, more fun, better audience interaction. 

50. Weirdest story idea you’ve ever had.


Well… if I wind up writing the actual weirdest story idea I’ve ever had I don’t want to spoil it.

Maybe not weird in the traditional sense, but the oddest story idea I’ve had and written was Angel Lust. It’s… so far out of my wheel house and I think it kicks off the Peacemaker ‘verse well. It’s morbid, a little gross, funny, kinda dark, and… dare I say hot? In some way? (At least that’s what some commenters have told me.) But I think it kinda sets the tone for what I want to do with the ‘verse. It’s funny, it’s a little (or a lot, depending on who you ask) twisted, and it makes it pretty clear that these people have some issues. I like it though. 

Thanks! 
Writer asks!

No one asked, but to be clear, my issue with cisswap has less to do with changing a character’s gender and more to do with how shitty it is for femslash.

If you want to do always-a-cis-girl!Cas or genderfluid!Cas or transgirl!Cas or anything other than cisdude!Cas I think that’s great. I only have an issue with it when I have to filter out a buttload of fem!destiel from my femslash searches, and even then that’s my personal damage and not on anyone else. I would just rather read about some of the canon female characters when I read f/f fic because they don’t get a whole lot of attention.

And when it comes down to it, I would rather do genderbends outside of cisswap for characters because, frankly, there aren’t a lot of fics that deal with characters who are nonbinary. But that’s just me and my feelings.

I just thought I’d make that clear because I know I’ve said before that I didn’t like cisswap and I wanted to clarify. It’s not that I have an issue with it just on principal, I just don’t like having to sort through a mountain of the most popular ships in order to get to fics that feature minor characters.