WIP challenge - day 7 check in

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What did you do ficwise today?

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wrote
7 (100.0%)

edited
4 (57.1%)

posted
1 (14.3%)

procrastinated
1 (14.3%)

research
1 (14.3%)

I'll explain in the comments
2 (28.6%)

If you wrote, how many words did you get written?

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0-249
2 (28.6%)

250-499
2 (28.6%)

500-749
0 (0.0%)

750-999
3 (42.9%)

1000 or more
0 (0.0%)

How do you feel about your fic today?

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Today's discussion topic: What are your favourite tropes, both to write and to read? 

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[rebecca2525]

I love tropes where a pairing is forced to act like a romantic couple/have physical contact/... and where that's exactly what they secretly want anyway. Could be bets, sex pollen, undercover as gay, truth or dare, having to share a hotel room, aliens made them do it, etc. I also love match making and drunk!fic.

[littlebutfierce]

I wrote 800+ words for a WIP that is giving me a lot of trouble -- I wrote the characters discussing the plot issue that I am confused about myself. I was hoping one of them would say something useful. ;) We'll see.

I'm drawing a blank on the trope question! For some reason being asked this always stymies me. XD

[lacerta]

I sneaked in my porn battle fill just under the deadline. I was silly and didn't look up the timezone, so ended up in a bit of a hurry, but I think/hope it turned out okay.

The trope I seem to be writing a lot recently is domesticity. I don't know how that happened because I'm not actually that fond of it, but... writing it makes me happy.

[lea_hazel]

I like banter, but I find it hard to write. You know, those impossibly smooth and witty exchanges that no one really manages in real life, except by serendipity.

[curuchamion]

I did not write fic. But I worked on a post! A meta-y discussion-y post about the value of labels and warnings and how fandom has changed in the switch from zines to Internet. (It's this ongoing sort of quasi-academic thing I jumped into... highly complicated.) Haven't finished it yet.

Also I had a massive epic conversation with my dad that started with Deep Space Nine and went on to religion and politics and nitpicky language stuff. Which was prep for a long thinky PM I need to write to a friend, so. :D

And tropes! I... am bad at identifying tropes.

I know I have a massive thing for "the Guarding Dark", i.e. a character who is always fighting an inner battle not to turn into a bad guy. And an equally massive thing for shapeshifters, cops, and cop-like vigilantes. (The number of gruff, lovable, optionally shapeshifty cop-guys in my list of Favorite Fandom Characters is... ridiculous. *g*)

I loooove writing slice-of-life fic; I love characters (especially guys) who love kids; I love protective parental figures, and masters of the deadpan one-liner (as long as they don't use it hurtfully), and clever-handed people, and people who would be good to have around in the zombie apocalypse. And I am ridiculously fond of "best enemies", and of partners who know each other so well they can work together without having to say anything.

[curuchamion]

Or by being really, really hyper and slightly crazy. (My family occasionally pulls off some pretty loony exchanges of banter, lol.)

Alone? I find it hard to write too. Darn near impossible. *wry grin*

[ficwriter1966]

I would love to read that meta-y post when you finish it! I've been chatting with friends a little bit on that very subject.

[jagnikjen]

Still just plodding along with my Narcissa fic. It's too darn hot here to do much of anything else except sleep. (Today is the 37th day in a row :( with over 100* temps.)

But that's okay, I've been working on putting all the scenes I've written into order and then writing/re-writing the transitions to make them flow properly. And then I remembered a scene I meant to write and which I think I started but never finished, so that's what's next.

Tropes...I'm not so good with identifying those either, tbh...

If it's well done I like just about anything romance related. I do like "forced to spend time in close proximity" type scenarios when you can just *feel* the sexual attraction/tension between two characters (Mulder/Scully anyone?), um...that's all I can think of specifically off the top of my head. Secret baby is one of my least faves, though.

I don't know that I really write to any tropes either.

[katzenjamming]

Got my 750 today, along with a little editing... which is barely what I've I've been managing recently. However, upon finding a series of writing meta posts with a few methods that might work for me, I did manage some more concrete planning and organization that I didn't have before.

I could probably name a few dozen trope I gravitate towards... but without opening that certain site, I will say that I love friends! As in the blood-brothers, die-for-you, nakama, stick-with-you-til-the-end-and-after-that kinds of friends. Along similar lines I'm a sucker for relationships that are in between being romantic and platonic, or maybe even romantic friendships, life-partnery things.

[lacygrey]

I wrote the core of another scene. It looks boring and I wonder if the fic actually needs it. The plot does, I think I'll have to try to jazz it up a bit - at the moment its just: characters A and B who are out of sorts with one another search for character C and don't find him.

I like stories where characters gradually fall in love - Ive never written one like that - but I like there to be more than just that going on. So, a bit of sappiness but with a rich backdrop.

[lacygrey]

Oops, is that not a trope?

[rebecca2525]

That meta post sounds very interesting! Would you mind sharing a link once it's posted?

[rebecca2525]

Ooooh, I love banter. Now that I think of it, I believe almost all of my favourite pairings banter a lot.

[bay_alexison]

Was able to get around 250 words and finish the springkink story. I originally wanted to have the last stretch of the story be a full blown smut scene, but haha got stuck on how I'll do that. I ended up rewriting one of the paragraphs and still have some smut, but end it where things started to get heated. Change in direction, but I think it's for the best. XD

I'm not too familiar with tropes, although I enjoyed writing one trope in which the characters don't say their names. In that story I had one of the characters say his love interest's first name and then they became passionate with one another. The two had known each other for a long time, so it's about time he starts saying her first name. XD