Day 18 Check In!

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Day 18 is here. Tell us how you're doing!

Little busy so I didn't have time to change up the questions--but "Creative Corner" is a bit different.

1.) How are you doing today?

-Are you having a good day or a bad day (and a good day doesn't necessarily mean a good writing day, we all know, so tell us how BOTH are going)?

-What’s your progress on your writing goal today? This can be:
-Word Count
-Planning
-Research
-Editing
-Something else specified in comments

-And how do you feel about your progress?

2.) What are the really, really great things that happened in your writing today?

(for example: “I totally nailed characterization today” or “This plot rocks so hard I’m going to burst my own ear drums”)

3.) What are the not so great things that you’re struggling with? How can your fellow writers try to help you today?

-What don’t you feel so successful about today (if anything)?

-Need someone to hold your hand? Cheerlead for you? Kick your @$$ to get motivated? Something along those lines. I’m sure I or any of your fellow writers will help where they can because we know the feeling. ;)

4.) Creative Corner

Feeling tired and frustrated and stumped on the next scene? Feeling excited and really proud and want to show off the good things you’re creating? Get your creative juices flowing or just brag on yourself!

-Today take the FIRST LINE from your favorite book, song, poem, movie, or pilot/first episode to your favorite show and use that as a prompt for a drabble (150 words or less). The drabble can have something to do with your fic--maybe an introspective piece on the character, or the beginning of a scene. Or the drabble can be unrelated to your fic.

For example, I don't have time to do it this minute (stupid work!) but my favorite book is Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Johnathan Safran Foer and the first line is, "What about a teakettle?" I'll be using that. :)

Also a few examples:

Song: "I took a walk around the world" (3 Doors Down, "Kryptonite")
Poem: "We are the hollow men" (T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men")
Movie: "You're always sick" (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
Show: "Come on, let's say goodnight to your brother" (Supernatural)

Comments

This is my brain on academia.

[charamei]

1,2,3) I haven't started editing yet today. Look at (4) and you will understand why.

4) Okay, so. The only first lines I know off the top of my head are Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the Iliad, the Odyssey and Ovid's Amores 1.1. (This is what happens when you have a postgraduate degree in classical literature.) And I suck at drabble-length fic. And I got so bored at work today that I plummeted straight through 'dossing on the Internet' into 'Barmy Academic Mode', and, well, basically what I'm saying is that THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT.

(My apologies to Ovid, and my very great apologies to Peter Green, whose translation I have brutally murdered.)

Looms, Torchwood, Gallifrey – I was winding up to produce a
Regular epic, with plot points to match –
Timey-wimey, naturally. But Theta (they say) with a snicker
Lopped off a foot from each character's height.
"Nasty young brat," I told him, "who made you hero of this story?
The Doctor should be an adult, you're not close in age.
What if Martha played operation with young Hath on Messaline,
While blonde Romana had tea with a stuffed K-9?
Who'd stand for Sarah-Jane of Ealing fighting evil in a pram?
Who'd trust the Toddling Huntress with a sharp knife?
Think of the tousled Brigadier parading with a broom-handle,
While small Daleks exterminated Princess Barbie.
Look, boy, you're just not old enough, and a sight too precocious
As it is. Don't get big-headed, quit playing for more.
Or were you always like this? Were you born running? Can't even
Your childhood be safe from fanon these days?
I'd got off to a flying start, clean paper, two magnificent
Opening scenes. Number three brought me down
With a bump. I haven't the plot to suit your frivolous story:
No villain, no girl with a plucky attitude –"
When I'd got so far, voila, he opened his pocket, selected
A setting to lay me low,
Then waved the screwdriver in an arc above his head, and
Cocked a snook. "Hey, ficcer!" he called, "You want a plot? Take that!"
His sonic – worse luck for me – never fails to work:
I'm on fire now, Snail owns the freehold of my brain.
So let my tale shrink to match people with small stature and big problems –
Goodbye to plotty epic, and timey-wimey too!
Come on, then, my Muse, take my hand with a sticky–
Fingered paw, and lead me off in the First Steps groove!

Re: This is my brain on academia.

[insertcode11]

O.O

HOLY SHIT.

That's amazing. Seriously. Just wow. Amazing and fun and incredibly. VERY NICE JOB!! *feels smug that this is my fault*

*FLAIL*

You have me doing this endlessly: :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Just so you know. ;)

Though. I may be just a little sorry that this kept you from fic writing.

Just a little, though. But not really. This is too epic to feel sorry for. ♥

Re: This is my brain on academia.

[charamei]

Thank you! (Though, you know. 60% Not-Mine AT LEAST.)

Re: This is my brain on academia.

[curuchamion]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH HOW SO AWESOME?????

*is NOT going to write baby!UNIT fic - baby!DS9 fic is hard enough, even with Q helping out*

Re: This is my brain on academia.

[charamei]

BECAUSE OVID WAS A COMIC GENIUS, THAT'S HOW.

Dooooooo iiiiiiit. The Master will help things along, you know he'd find it hilarious...