tommygirl: (supernatural - in my time of dying)
So Wednesday night I fell and sprained my ankle and messed up my knees. Fun times! I'm just the biggest klutz in the world.

Needless to say rather than being involved in anything fannish, I've been lamenting my dire situation (aka being a baby) and questioning God's existence (aka "why god, why meeeee?")

But I had to come back to share my thoughts on Supernatural. What kind of obsessed fangirl would I be if I neglected the awesome?

My review of Hunted - many spoilers... )

**

I'm hoping to get my website updated with all the stories I've written since July. I've also got a new batch of SPN recs to go up at [livejournal.com profile] polyfandomrecs in the near future. And then I want to get caught up on the numerous bookmarked fic I've got and write, write, write.

Ciao darlings!
tommygirl: (writing)
My wubulous doctor has called in two prescriptions for my back, one of them being a muscle relaxer. Though he pointed at my head and said, "Be careful though because sometimes it relaxs other muscles too." My doctor, the medical comedian.

Now I really need to start writing. Preferably today rather than continuing to write in my journal. I'm such a lazy bastard sometimes. Eep.

**

So [livejournal.com profile] dragonsinger posted the following question to her friends: What kinds of fics really catch your attention and make you go squee?

I'm the first to admit that in some ways I'm a very picky reader. I'm the type of reader you have to win over within a few paragraphs because I can get distracted by shiny lights. Is that necessarily fair to the writer? I don't know, but I do know that fandom and fanfiction are supposed to be fun and if I'm not enjoying the story...I just move on.

But some of the things that will most likely get me to read your story:

1) The characters. - I'm a character girl. I've said it before in this journal and I'll say it again. It applies to everything fictional - television, movies, books, and fanfiction. If I don't like the characters, I'm not going to bother, no matter how good the plot is. In fanfiction, I want to see the character that I already love. I don't like the cop out of A/U as the writer's carte blanche to write a beloved persona completely out of character. At the same time, bringing new believable layers to a character we see is something that will have me shouting "brilliance" from the mountaintop.

2) Banter. - It's why I adore Aaron Sorkin and Kevin Smith and Joss Whedon. I want the banter. I want the snappy dialogue and the sarcasm and the wit.

3) The Cheese Factor. - I am not, nor have I ever been the romantic sort by general standards. It's why I don't read most romances. So I tend to avoid anything that's overly cheesy and we all know it when we see it. Lines like "you complete me" or weeping single tears or declarations of true love that include "you see into my soul." I stop reading. It's just not my thing.

4) Amazing Language - Okay, I might let you slide on the first two if you have a brilliant hold on language. It's the reason I read Michael Cunningham, for example. I couldn't care less about his characters or his plots, but the way he strings words together is fucking amazing. It makes me weep with love of the written word and jealousy that I can't write like that. Please note: amazing language is not the same thing as a whole lot of unneccessary purple prose.

5) The Technicals. - I've done posts on my grammar nitpicks before so I'll save you all that rant. But basically, if there are more than a few mistakes, I'm not going to bother reading it because the writer didn't bother to edit. The editor in me comes out when I stumble upon these stories and the last thing I want to do is have to work at enjoying a story.

Those are really my five main criteria for a story. There might also be other rules depending on the fandom. In larger fandoms, I much more picky with what I'll read because there is so much more to choose from. Really small fandoms where I can only find a few stories and really need a fix, well, I'm more likely to be a bit more lenient on my criteria. Also, some fandoms I'm a very OTP girl whereas in others I love it all. For example, I tend to stick with Michael/Maria in Roswell and really won't read them with anyone else because I can't see it. But then there is Firefly where I have no real OTP aside from the canon of Zoe/Wash.

I guess though the general rule of thumb is the five things listed above. You bring those and chances are I'll read your story.

**

So far only [livejournal.com profile] dragonsinger has provided me with some ficlet requests. Again, not promising anything, but I'm gonna try to work with them. So if you have any bunnies you won't be using or a ficlet request, leave it and I'll see what I can do.

Now I'm off to get some other stuff in order.

Ciao, mis amigas.
tommygirl: (bsg - frak)
Further proof that the house I'm living in currently is out to get me...I fell down the front stairs and screwed up my back. Now, this is nowhere near as bad as the fall I took two summers ago in Chiles parking lot where I ended up with two sprained wrists and two sprained ankles, but it's definitely one of the worse falls of my day. And I've had many. I mean, if you look up the word klutz in the dictionary, there is a huge photograph of me.

So yes, in utter and horrendous pain and my doctor can't see me until tomorrow and I really didn't want to go to the Emergency Room, so I'm waiting until tomorrow to see him. In the meantime, I'm just weeping and gripping my back and using a heat pad at work like I'm freaking eighty.

Damn house!

Damn klutzy feet!

**

Needless to say, I've been far too busy whining and complaining about woe the pain to do any writing. I really need to change that. I'm behind already on the April Fools challenge and that's not how I wanted to start. I've got to write 28K this month. I did it last year, so I know it can be done. I just have to actually sit down and do it.

Anyway, since I'm doing April Fools, I figure, if any of you have any ficlet requests that you want to see, comment and I'll see what I can do. I'm not promising anything definite, but if your prompt strikes me, it will probably get done as I need the word count. Also, for those who didn't get their lyric or valentine's ficlets yet, those will get done this month as well. Figure anything that helps my word count.

**

[livejournal.com profile] medie and [livejournal.com profile] iamtheenemy: The things I was sending out to you guys went out in the mail this afternoon, so keep a lookout for them.

**

So Remix authors have been revealed and I'll do another post with my story and such. Once again the stories were all amazing and [livejournal.com profile] musesfool rocks the house for running it so well. The only downside for me? The person I wrote for never sent feedback or mentioned it in her livejournal. Makes me sad. And a bit peeved. But what can you do?

March 2025

S M T W T F S
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031     

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 12th, 2025 01:16 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios