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Time for my first-ever week of making the check-in posts! I hope I don't screw up (I nearly got the date wrong today) :D

So, how are you doing? Did you...
  • write
  • edit
  • plan
  • research
  • post
  • take a break
  • or something else?

Discussion: The importance of shipping (or lack thereof). Do you spin your tales around specific couples, or does the plot decide who gets together or not? If you don't write pairings at all, do you deliberately avoid them or just tend to come up with stories where romance wouldn't fit?

Date: Sunday, March 4th, 2012 19:27 (UTC)
littlebutfierce: (natsume yuujinchou ot3 school)
From: [personal profile] littlebutfierce
Wrote ~1100 words on what might be yet another treat for the Book of Friends exchange. What I've been doing is noodling out these little snippets, & then I sit on them for a week or two to get some distance, & then I try to edit. I'm getting there with at least one tiny little ficlet of a treat, & am hopeful about the others! Also, I think I have a title for my main assignment at last. :D

I write both ship fic (*cough* sometimes pairings, but also OT3s!) & gen fic. Also, there's that gray area in fic where the plot is totally gen but maybe there's a relationship there in the background, as part of the universe of the fic, even if it doesn't really get much screen time.

I think whether I write ship fic or not depends in part on what I feel like is missing from canon; I like writing both ship & gen, really!

Date: Sunday, March 4th, 2012 21:18 (UTC)
enemytosleep: [Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist] colored image of a teen boy adjusting his tie, looking serious (Default)
From: [personal profile] enemytosleep
Sounds like you've got a fair amount of treats in the works!

Date: Sunday, March 4th, 2012 21:20 (UTC)
littlebutfierce: (natsume yuujinchou taki oh no)
From: [personal profile] littlebutfierce
Well, we'll see how many of them come to fruition!

Date: Sunday, March 4th, 2012 21:24 (UTC)
enemytosleep: [Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist] colored image of a teen boy adjusting his tie, looking serious (Bored Sensei)
From: [personal profile] enemytosleep
I know what you mean. This second treat, as much as I love the prompt, is not coming easily. I wrote some more today, but then had to delete nearly all of it because it was beyond salvable. @_@

Date: Sunday, March 4th, 2012 21:25 (UTC)
littlebutfierce: (natsume yuujinchou fear the paw)
From: [personal profile] littlebutfierce
Oh no! ;_; But at least you know what doesn't work now... ?

Date: Sunday, March 4th, 2012 21:31 (UTC)
enemytosleep: [Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist] colored image of a teen boy adjusting his tie, looking serious (Lucy Sigh)
From: [personal profile] enemytosleep
It wants to be a chapter fic. I've only ever written one chapter fic. T_T I'm trying to instead write the meaty part of it that best fits the prompt, but I can't seem to get there without a lot of set up. My next idea is to make a beefy outline for the set up, write the beefy part, and then see how much I can cut from the outline/throw a reference to without actually writing the entire thing. So that'll be me tomorrow, I guess. Usually I'm all about tiny drabbles and snippets, but this exchange is making me want to write way more than I can handle. Weird!

Date: Sunday, March 4th, 2012 21:57 (UTC)
littlebutfierce: (natsume yuujinchou misuzu nyanko)
From: [personal profile] littlebutfierce
Oh dear, good luck! Finding the frame for the story & figuring out what you can get away w/not writing can be tricky, but you'll know it when you've found it, I think! I feel pretty lucky that most of my ideas for treats are pretty short... so far. ^^;;

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