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Panic About Dead Week = Memage!

Okay, flist, I'm sorry for spamming you. Last post of "today" I promise. (And wow, I think 5 posts in a day is a personal record.)

I wanted to clear out my requested fics, and then I just couldn't pass up this meme:

Gacked from [info]cornerofmadness.

Give me a kink and a pairing and I'll give you at least a sentence of kink.
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Re: Feathers

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2007-06-29 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
My main thing is the commments - fanfic will usually get more of a response than original fic, so it gets harder to motivate myself to write something where the payoff is later instead of almost now.

Plus, it's well-nigh impossible for me write original drabbles - all the stories that come into my head are for novels - it's damn frustrating.

Re: Feathers

[identity profile] cornerofmadness.livejournal.com 2007-06-29 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
oh i don't do original drabbles. I find making marketable short stories very difficult too.

See I'm older than you. Fanfic used to be by mail. I was used to waiting months if at all to hear about a story. I was more motivated to do stuff i could get paid for Though hearing the instant response is lovely

Re: Feathers

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2007-06-30 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Wow. *mind boggles at the thought of fanfic by mail.*

My problem is I have these novels in my head, and haven't managed to train myself to have the disciple to finish them. I'm getting closer though. And the short stories I write are always a couple thousand words to long to be the prefered short story size, and never depressing enough to make it. I've noticed that most of the fantasy shorts that get published are really freaking depressing.

Re: Feathers

[identity profile] cornerofmadness.livejournal.com 2007-06-30 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
you know what, I don't actually LIKE short stories all that well.I prefer novel length stories, the only shorts I read are fanfic.

Yep I've been writing fanfic since 77 and started exchanging them in 81 or 82

Re: Feathers

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2007-06-30 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, usually with short stories I either don't like them, or like them and wish they were a novel instead. ^_^

Wow. You've been writing fanfic longer than I've been alive. *giggles* Should I have not said that?

Re: Feathers

[identity profile] cornerofmadness.livejournal.com 2007-07-01 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
yes short stories are too short for me

and eh, i'm USED to being old enough to be a mom to about a fourth of my flist. I was ten in 77

Re: Feathers

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, livejournal. Where generational gaps don't mean a thing. ^_^

Re: Feathers

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It think so - especially when it's not just age, but geography. I seem to remember that I have someone one my flist who's in Europe but I could be wrong about that. Anyway, it's just so awesome that you can connect with people by intrest, and for someone who's only lately started finding people my age interesting... I fit in nicely, if I do say so myself.

Re: Feathers

[identity profile] cornerofmadness.livejournal.com 2007-07-03 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
i have people from all over (I used to in the pen and paper days too). any given night i'm talking to SC, IN, OH, Australia and Malta in YIM
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