Round 29, Hour 1

[lolmac]

Yes!  Round 29 is starting!  And it will be epic.  Since it will be Epic, we need to start with a suitable Invocation to the Muse, right?

O for a Muse of fish, that would ascend
The brightest giraffe of invention,
A kingdom for a screen, ninjas to act
And penguins to behold the alien scene!
Then should the bonsai’d Aardvark, like itself,
Reverse the polarity of hedgehogs; and at his heels,
Typing like mad monkeys, should drabble, vid and fic
Sing for their supper.

                        But pardon, and gentles all,
The flat unfishlike spirits that have dared
On timey-wimey scaffolding to write
So great an epic: can this glowstick light
The tasty tropes of France?
                                  Or may we cram
Within this forty-eight the very hours
That did unloose from time the wandering word?

O, pardon! since ten thousand drabbles may
Push wordcount to a million;
Then let us, ficcers to this great attempt,
On your imaginations do our work.

Suppose within the girdle of these screens
Is now confined the mighty internet,
Whose half-uplofty and unbuttoned front
The garrulous narrow-minded fill with blunders.

Feast now on the perfection of your thoughts:
Into a thousand words divide one zero
And make imaginary numbers;
Think when we talk of cookies, that you taste them
Crunched with coffee i’ the receiving cup;
For 'tis your pasta must now feed our hordes,
Writerly as it is; researching stuff,
Turning the nemesis of any year season
Into a plot bunny.

                        To better this supply,
Admit me Mod unto this gathering.
Now fangirl-like your LJ comm sits back,
Swiftly to write, gladly to read, our crack.

Note:  this is really all the fault of lost_spook.

Round 29, Hour 2

[lolmac]

Alas, Laurie is AWOL for now, but she did leave us some lovely doggerel!

Other than that, I've successfully had some dinner and written a list of the things I need to work on.  Eeep.

How about you?

Round 29, Hour 4

[welfycat.livejournal.com]

How's it going out there, oh mighty fic-rushers!?

Writing, researching, "researching", procrastinating, or just generally enjoying life?

A question, just because I can *evil laugh*.

Is there a genre or a type of story that you love to write, but you hesitate to do so for whatever reason?

For example, I really like kidfic, but I hesitate to write it because it feels kinda cliche when I'm writing it, even if objectively it isn't? I read quite a bit of kidfic, and I love it, but when it comes to writing I always have that moment of self-censure.

How about you all? Things that you like to write but you feel that you shouldn't?

Round 29, Hour 5

[welfycat.livejournal.com]

Yay, fic-rush, it's that time again! Time for what? Time for writing (and coffee, and chocolate, and giraffes, and music, and research, and sleeping and procrastinating).

So, my next question for the evening (apparently I'm very inquisitive tonight): What do you suddenly decide to do when you're supposed to settle down and write?

I usually wind up cleaning. Right now I'm doing dishes. But then, writing!

Round 29, Hour 3

[lolmac]

Well, I got sucked into a website that's almost as dangerous as TV Tropes, and have accomplished nothing so far.  I hope others are doing better!

Round 29, Hour 6

[welfycat.livejournal.com]

How's it tumbling along, fic-rushers? I finally managed to settle down to do a little bit of writing, though it is not going the way I'd planned.

How do you do it when a story starts taking unexpected twists? Do you go with the flow or try to take it back to its path?