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jengrrrl's fault, but: I find myself tempted to sign up for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
apocabigbang. And that's bad, because a) I don't have a plot bunny, b) plot and world-building is not my strong suit, and c) I really don't need another big fic project on my plate.
I mean, there's already the 30k 80s AU, which I still haven't finished typing up, let alone started editing, and then... then there's NaNoWriMo. (For those of you who don't know, that's a writing challenge where you write a 50k novel in November.)
Now, I fucking love NaNo. I've done it for the last five years, and I've won each time, and I've always, always had so much fun with it. I've written five completely terrible original novels, and even though I've never shown anyone the stuff I've written for NaNo, I still think it's been a really rewarding experience each time and I know my writing has vastly improved because of it. I'm sort of reaching the stage with NaNo where I feel like I've got everything I can out of it as a challenge, and this year I'm really just going to do it for fun.
And you know what's fun? Writing Skins fic.
So, yeah: there's 50k of Skins fic coming your way in November, if you're interested. It's going to be, I think, a collection of interrelated stories spanning Our Heroes' second year at Roundview that will hopefully end up forming some sort of coherent whole, and I'll be posting it up as I write it, so more or less every day. There's no time for editing, so it's not going to be perfectly written, and it will probably end up veering off in unexpected directions, but that's the fun of NaNo. :D I thought I'd keep it off this journal, because I don't want to spam the fuck out of the people who aren't here for fandom reasons, so I've created a comm:2ndyearstories. Obviously nothing will be posted there until November, but you can watch the comm if you're interested. I think it's going to be fun!
jengrrrl's fault, but: I find myself tempted to sign up for apocabigbang. And that's bad, because a) I don't have a plot bunny, b) plot and world-building is not my strong suit, and c) I really don't need another big fic project on my plate.I mean, there's already the 30k 80s AU, which I still haven't finished typing up, let alone started editing, and then... then there's NaNoWriMo. (For those of you who don't know, that's a writing challenge where you write a 50k novel in November.)
Now, I fucking love NaNo. I've done it for the last five years, and I've won each time, and I've always, always had so much fun with it. I've written five completely terrible original novels, and even though I've never shown anyone the stuff I've written for NaNo, I still think it's been a really rewarding experience each time and I know my writing has vastly improved because of it. I'm sort of reaching the stage with NaNo where I feel like I've got everything I can out of it as a challenge, and this year I'm really just going to do it for fun.
And you know what's fun? Writing Skins fic.
So, yeah: there's 50k of Skins fic coming your way in November, if you're interested. It's going to be, I think, a collection of interrelated stories spanning Our Heroes' second year at Roundview that will hopefully end up forming some sort of coherent whole, and I'll be posting it up as I write it, so more or less every day. There's no time for editing, so it's not going to be perfectly written, and it will probably end up veering off in unexpected directions, but that's the fun of NaNo. :D I thought I'd keep it off this journal, because I don't want to spam the fuck out of the people who aren't here for fandom reasons, so I've created a comm:
2ndyearstories. Obviously nothing will be posted there until November, but you can watch the comm if you're interested. I think it's going to be fun!
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rock out!
Just be sure to stretch to prevent cramping, yeah.
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LOL, noted! I'm inching closer and closer to sign up for
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Oh and I've also friended you btw - hope that's ok :)
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Everything you write is awesome - I'm besides excited to read what you've got coming up! Immense. I'll be keenly watching that new comm...
Good luck with it all!
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And thanks! ♥
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(you're very sneaky, though,I had no idea you were working on another epic!)
Will the story feature all the characters? I'm absurdly attached to them all (sans the sponge) so I'm excited about a whole cast extravaganza.
For someone who claimed she don't post often, there's going to be a deluge of fics soon. Not that I'm complaining one iota.
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I really want to include more Panda and Thomas, but I'm just drawing a massive blank when it comes to ideas for them.)
I think Panda has unresolved issues with both Effy and Cook. Perhaps examining why she was acting out? Or at least, her and Effy need to work through things, because both characters care about each other deeply but are rubbish at expressing it (one of my favorite scenes of season three was Panda ripping into a devastated Effy after the pajama party. Good acting from Lisa and Kaya made me begin to care about their friendship).
I also think Panda would be an awesome minion of Katie. Just an idea.
I don't think it's possible focus on Thomas for a major storyline because we know next to nothing about his character except he's: rather awesome, far too forgiving and very enterprising. I could see him being bff's with Emily and JJ, somehow (I think he'd click with them both. I still think he'd want to knee Cook in the nads, multiple times).
Random suggestions, take them however you like.
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You're right, I don't feel like I know Thomas well enough to give him his own storyline, so he'll probably just end up reacting to other people's.
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