I'm a lemming wolf, it seems
"Cmon... everybody's doing it!"
That apparently is all the encouragement I need to sign myself up for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sgabigbang . I'd blame it on ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kristen999 because it was through her that I found out they were including gen this year. Or muzzle_ for going "You can do it! You're so awesome!" (Damn you, Muzz, you know I can't resist a good ego stroking). Or jadesfire2808 going "Join meeeeee!"...
But honestly... I'm just a masochist, and I thought another epic WIP is just what I needed.
Because obviously having figured out what to do with my genficathon prompt (thank you sleepy subconscious) is a sign that I need more to do in life. (And keep me from exploding with anticipation before S5's premiere).
That apparently is all the encouragement I need to sign myself up for
sgabigbang . I'd blame it on kristen999 because it was through her that I found out they were including gen this year. Or muzzle_ for going "You can do it! You're so awesome!" (Damn you, Muzz, you know I can't resist a good ego stroking). Or jadesfire2808 going "Join meeeeee!"...But honestly... I'm just a masochist, and I thought another epic WIP is just what I needed.
Because obviously having figured out what to do with my genficathon prompt (thank you sleepy subconscious) is a sign that I need more to do in life. (And keep me from exploding with anticipation before S5's premiere).
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Wow! My longest fic was about 21,777 words - and that was hard work! I'm normally well under that... *stares in awe again* I'm constantly in awe of people who can write longer fics.
So, not signing up, 'cos it nearly killed me to get a 2,000 word minimum ficathon story done in time...and it only just scraped over the minimum!!!
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After a few Nanowrimo's where your minimum is 50,000 and you only have one month, this looks like a cakewalk in comparison ;) Then again, I'm still on page 87 of that first Wrimo...
And those ficathon prompts are tricky, aren't they? So deceptively simple at first glance...
Actually I wind up writing longer than I think, because while I have planned plot points to hit, I usually get lost in the moment of the scene, usually in dialogue. (Me? Like writing dialogue? Noooo...)
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There are times when the story just ends and I think, oh wow, that's short, and there are times when I estimate its length and then it gets bigger and bigger...!! Scenes do have a tendency to grow sometimes...and yeah, dialogue is often to blame!
The one I'm sort of writing (on and off) at the moment was meant to be a one shot, maybe 5,000 at most. Hmm, over 6,000 and I've still got some longish scenes to complete...and even then I'm thinking I should add more (or else people will be clamouring for a sequel... Needs more plot...me thinks it's going to be a 10,000 one at this rate!).
I might get it finished later this year (fingers crossed). It doesn't help that other WIPs keep wanting attention - and I tend to write whatever grabs me at the moment!
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I often tend to underestimate the length of a story, although it's happened once or twice where it's come up shorter than I had envisioned.
Pfft, and don't you just hate it when people cry for a sequel? Yeah... me neither.
I might get it finished later this year (fingers crossed). It doesn't help that other WIPs keep wanting attention - and I tend to write whatever grabs me at the moment!
Yeah, that tends to be my method too. Whatever WIP is shiniest at the moment gets my attention. I think "Outcast" just finally pushed my interest in the brother AU to the point where I could finally finish it. That one had been languishing for... a while.