Seeking help with New Year's resolution

[sid]

I'm going to make a serious effort to write more this year. Finish up my WIPs, explore old bunnies, sign up for ficathons, do Five Things things. I've made a pledge over at getyourwordsout to write 150k words in 2011. I have no idea if I'm going to manage it - but I do know one way you folks can help me, if you're so inclined.

If you hate commentfic, stop reading right here. *g*

As of today I am watching both LJ's comment_fic and DW's fic_promptly. If you are the sort of person who would enjoy leaving prompts that might whet my appetite (or, who knows, someone else's) and have the time to check out the daily theme at one or both communities to see if it sparks any ideas for you, I'd love to have you add them to your list/circle.

Jump-starts are good. And encouraging. :-)

Fandoms: SG-1 of course; Master & Commander; The Sentinel; maybe Atlantis.

Naturally I'll link in my journals to any prompts that I answer. Thank you for your attention!

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

Oooooh! Oooooh! Here via Latest Things -- hope you don't mind, but I thought I'd mention writethisfanfic, which has been running a monthly WIP challenge -- the goal being to finish at least one WIP, of course. I think it'll be on hiatus in January but should be back in February. Might be useful?

(But I agree that comment fic is AMAZING -- I wouldn't have started writing fic w/o it or 750 Words.)

Oh, & there's inkitout too, but it looks like you're doing the LJ version that inspired it. :)

Good luck regardless!!

[sid]

Hi! Glad you stopped by!

It looks like writethisfanfic is intended for beginning fanfic writers, or at least that's what the profile says, so it wouldn't be the right fit for me.

I'll keep in mind the 'brain dump' idea from 750 Words. That would be something to try on a day when I'm feeling completely stuck!

Hey, there's a DW version! Cool! I'll remember that in case for any reason the LJ comm doesn't work out for me. The DW comm has a lower minimum word count, for one thing. Thanks for the heads up!

[littlebutfierce]

Yeahhhhh, WTF (I love that comm abbreviation, heh) is sort of in a weird space. I'm one of the mods, & the person who started it wanted it to be encouraging for beginning fic writers, which is what I wanted too. Though it's sort of morphed slightly into just encouraging anyone to write fic, if they're blocked or whatever. I think the space can serve both groups (which overlap somewhat, anyway), but I appreciate that it's not quite clear right now what, exactly, the comm is doing. I do know that quite a few veteran fic writers are in the comm & have done the WIP challenge.

That's not to say that you might not want to join, anyway -- I just wanted to say that I understand your confusion, & somewhat share it, even though technically as a mod, I guess I shouldn't. ^^;;;

[sid]

LOL. Well, that's different! I'll start watching, and look back over some of the older posts a bit. Thank you again!

[antares_dw]

I'm on both communities and from time to time I'm posting prompts - but mostly for SG-1 and SGA - or crossovers of these two shows. *g* But "Master and Commander" sounds also very interesting.

I hope you'll be able to find plot bunnies! *bg*

[sid]

We shall see what happens! I'm not off to a very good start, since I didn't write anything yesterday. *smacks self*

[jdjunkie]

I recently left a J/D prompt at ficpromptly which would be right up your alley. Just sayin'. *g*

I'm cheering you on mightily because more sidfic is a very, very good thing. :-)

*pom poms*

[sid]

Did you now? Do you remember which day that was? (Ooh, I just found a paian prompt I'd bookmarked: Jack/Daniel, truth serum.)

[jdjunkie]

Can't remember the date but it's in the lonely selection. "I'll show you a sunset if you stay with me til dawn" for the prompt, dawn.

Isn't that just a lovely prompt begging to be claimed. Hmmm?

[sid]

Your definition of "recently" could use a little work. I just skimmed back as far as Dec. 9th!

My computer slows to a glacial crawl whenever I visit Lonely Promptland.

[jdjunkie]

So sue me. I'm old. 1975 seems recent to me.
:-p~~~~~~~~~~~

[sid]

I think it was only about ten years ago that I stopped saying, "I don't really care much for The Beatles newer stuff."

[jdjunkie]

And I've only just stopped calling CDs records. *sigh*

[feroxargentea]

Master & Commander

Oh, Sophie? more Sophie? *puppy dog eyes*

[sid]

Hmm, yes, I see that little conversation about blackmail material and so forth!

More Sophie might be forthcoming, yes. *eg*

But the commentfic communities might inspire any sort of prompt for the fandom, if someone were to give it a try. Maybe I should do a little post at perfect_duet inviting people to leave prompts at comment_fic? And I could do the same at age_of_sail hereabouts. I will ponder that!

[feroxargentea]

Yes, do make posts at p_d and aos! *nods happily*

[princessofgeeks]

i am totally happy to read your comment fic when you link to it. I LOVE THAT. but i am not in a brainspace to leave many prompts and I cannot follow a lot of multifandom prompt comms.

But i can totally read your fic and leave you FB wherever you post it, if you link to it.

Happy New Year to you and here's to much writing!!! And I love the Sentinel too!

[sid]

Of course I was thinking of you!

(And also thinking of you when I mentioned that I would naturally post linkies. *g*)

My brain seldom comes up with prompts, either. I wouldn't be able to help out anyone.

Happy New Year to thee and thine!

[zats_clear]

hope all the latest offerings have been rolling about in that wonderful writer brain of yours!

[sid]

I've got a bunch of them bookmarked, and I think I know how to spend my afternoon. *g*

[wraith816.livejournal.com]

...you do remember what happened the last time I gave you a commentfic prompt? *evil cackle*

[sid]

Yes, but you're much more mature now, almost-still-a-birthday-girl. *g*

[wraith816.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. HAHAHAHA. HAHAHA. HAHA.

HA

[sid]

Point taken. *G*

I see we both still have 'swan boats' listed among our interests!

*goes to fill champagne glass*

[delphia2000.livejournal.com]

If I had prompts/bunnies, I'd probably be writing them myself! I'm without much inspiration these days it seems. I do watch fic promtly at DW tho.

I think you can do 150K in a year easy. If I did 50k in a month (once!), then sure you can beat that in a year's time.

[sid]

I never did have much writing discipline. I'd work on a bunny or an assignment, and as soon as it was done I'd stop writing for a week or two, unless an extremely rabid bunny bit me. I don't really even know why, because writing is pretty much enjoyable almost all the time!

This pledge is going to mean writing whether I feel like it or not and scrounging for ideas a lot of the time, more than likely. But I really feel the need to try something different to get me going. I'm hoping for good results, whether I reach the goal or not. :-)

[delphia2000.livejournal.com]

I have zero writing discipline LOL!

I'd love to see you do something a bit longer than your usual. A novelette maybe. Jack and Daniel of course. Maybe fixing Threads back in time or taking off from another episode that needed a slashier viewpoint/ending. :o)

[sid]

Hmm, or there's always that 1921 AU I'm still not writing. That would probably turn out to be a novelette at the very least, if I did it right.

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

Once the year gets started and all, want to word war with me for GYWO?

[sid]

Maaaaybe. Probably. I will lose, but at least I'll be productive!

[lolmac]

Why not join us at fic_rush? That would give you one weekend every month, just there, dedicated to writing in a supportive community. I became one of the mods there last year, and it's been terrific. You don't have to attend for the entire 48 hours -- nobody does! -- but it's there for you to come and go and come back to.

At the moment, in fact, I'm wrapping up a mini-round I threw together at the last minute, because we'd never gotten round to doing a 'Rush in December.

[sid]

See you there!

[lolmac]

Yeehaw!!

The poll for choosing a weekend for the January round is here: http://community.livejournal.com/fic_rush/19886.html

You'll probably want to join, or at least watch, both the fic_rush and the fic_rush_48 comms. I personally used to just watch the latter, and unwatch it after each round.

[sid]

Watching both. My schedule for the next few months is going to be somewhat reliant on what other people are doing, so I voted accordingly. LOL