Verbose jaybee is verbose

Jul 15, 2009 12:42

So, I signed up for that cliché fic prompt fest over at cliche_bingo (and no, I haven't posted my card because I'm too disorganized). I like my prompts (ghosts! evil twins!), and I've now thought up enough story ideas to do at least the minimal "bingo" score. I've got until August 31 to finish, and the stories only need to be 500 words each, so...it should ( Read more... )

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madamedarque July 16 2009, 00:57:25 UTC
Oooh, I want to play! Cliches sound fun. I have a particular idea for a story in which Adama finds out that Laura is actually his long-lost sister...

You know, I'm a pretty verbose writer myself. So in order to write 100 word drabbles for bsg_100, I would write what I wanted to, and then cut all words that weren't crucial to the plot. Basically I would end up with a drabble without adjectives. Still, it got me down to 100 words! LOL.

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jaybee65 July 16 2009, 01:40:27 UTC
The sign-up for this particular fic fest is now closed, but you should keep an eye on it for next time! It's a great excuse to indulge in all of those silly clichés that we actually secretly love. ;-)

I need to do a minimum of 5 fics, and I've got 5 planned so far (1 LFN/Spooks crossover for the "crossover" prompt; 1 LFN story for "truth serum"; 1 Spooks story for "ghosts"; 1 LFN story for "doppelgangers/evil twins"; and 1 Alias story for "geographical isolation"). And they all (well, except maybe the last) have complex plots, because I can't ever just do something simple. Argh.

I really hope I make August 31, but I love all these story ideas so much, I'll finish them anyway, even if some are late. (It was ridiculously easy to think up some of these stories, especially for LFN, where things like truth serum and evil doppelgangers are *canon*. LOL.)

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jackiejlh July 16 2009, 02:13:05 UTC
*sits down and waits patiently for the LFN fic* :D

Seriously, though, this does sound awesome. When I read about it in your LJ earlier, I went to go check it out, but they'd already closed sign-ups. :(

Oh well. It's probably for the best--I have about two dozen partially written stories on my harddrive as it is, including one LFN fic that is already 30 pages long but will probably never get finished because I have seven different versions of chapter 1 alone and the plot keeps running off in directions I want to follow but the directions contradict each other, and story that can only be described as utter crack!fic which may be too ridiculous to ever let anyone read, about Madeline kidnapping a child's cat adopting a cat. It's, um, funnier than it sounds. Lol ( ... )

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jaybee65 July 16 2009, 06:23:59 UTC
Can I do anything to prod you on about any of these stories? Because they sound wonderful, and I am a greedy reader! (And I would totally read the cat one. TOTALLY.)

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sk56 July 16 2009, 06:56:40 UTC
The thing about 500 words is that you have to treat it like it's around 300 words, since you use the first 100 or so to introduce things, and the last 100 to wrap them up again.

I have no idea what you're writing, but my suggestion is to just write about one thing, and see what that needs. One exchange or one conversation or one epiphany or one trip to the grocery store.

I do a lot of 500 count things, and it's bloody hard.

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jaybee65 July 16 2009, 19:52:00 UTC
You always have such good advice!

I may have to scale back what some of the stories are going to be about if I want to finish all 5 on time. The crossover, though, may simply have to be long -- it's hard enough writing something simple for a single fandom, much less explaining why two of them are crossing paths!

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belantana July 16 2009, 23:26:06 UTC
Oh, what a great idea for a prompt-fest! I'm really looking forward to your stories, especially the Spooks ones of course. Good luck making the deadline. :)

And yeah, I second the write-heaps-and-heaps-and-then-cull-like-mad technique - it's the only thing which works for me.

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jaybee65 July 17 2009, 02:33:42 UTC
I *do* have a month and a half, so if I stop panicking and just get writing I might make it after all. LOL. But I will take your advice about writing and culling!

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