Weekly Check In Post

[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

Howdy agents! How goes it?

Now that the big writers reveal has come and gone, it really feels like we're properly up and running with this years Big Bang - hurray! Let us know how things are progressing - stories started, stories thought about, stories a mere twinkle in the ex-mercenary's eye - we want to hear it all! And vidders/artists - have you thought about taking the plunge this year when the sign-ups open? Maybe you're up for trying a new style, or have an idea about the sort of story you'd love to work with. We'd love to hear your thoughts :)

For now, have a good weekend, and if you're at a bit of a loose end, why not take a look at these writing tools/games right here. A bit of fun, and you never know - it might knock the odd idea loose too \o/

Comments

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

I'm sure your ideas must be good otherwise you wouldn't be contemplating investing 15000 words (and doubtless a lot of time, effort and emotion) in them. *shakes pom poms enthusiastically*

Poldark! I remember watching the original series with Robin Ellis and Angharad Rees in the 70s, so I've been looking forward to the remake with eager anticipation. :-)

OMG!!! Doyle as the officer returning from the Revolutionary War and Bodie as - To Be Decided - but he'd make a wonderful rake, or smuggler, or Molly house proprietor, or Molly house patron, or Excise man, or copper mine owner, or doctor... well, pretty much anything 18th century-ish that suited someone tall, dark and beautiful would be WONDERFUL! As a big fan of the Hornblower and Aubrey & Maturin books, I have a big soft spot for the latter end of the 18th century, especially when it involves sailors (seriously, I have books on rigging!), or freckled Swedish doctors attached to the Stockholm police force despite being sympathetic to the French Revolutionary ideal of "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" (have you ever seen "Anno 1790?" Wonderful series...) or Pretties in pretty uniforms, or tight-fitting breeches and frilly white shirts, riding horses across the countryside in billowing capes... *swoons* So yes, you are right that ideas are not the same thing as plots, but just think of all the wonderfully illegal, immoral, dangerous and downright grubby things B&D could get up to in 18th Century England! That would make a whole series of EPIC AUs!

[natsuko1978.livejournal.com]

I'm not big on sailors and sailing, but in addition to an 8 volume hardback History of the Eighteenth Century, I have about 15 other books on 18thC England on my shelves.

No. No! Too many ideas dammit. :(

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Another 18thC England fan!!! Yay! *shakes pom poms wildly*

*hugs you for having too many ideas and lobs you a distracting picture in hopes that it makes you feel better*

[natsuko1978.livejournal.com]

Hello there!

OOOH! Less distracting and more - now write a fic for this pic. :)

I am a total history geek. :) 18thC England is just one of my favourite eras. I also love reading everything I can get my hands on about the first 3-400 years of Christianity, when they were still working out what orthodox, catholic and heresy were; Nazi Germany; and Tudor England. There are other periods I read about, but not with the same voracity. :)

Hmmm. How about Bodie as lower social class - an actual miner or fisherman (doing a bit of smuggling on the side)? Or Oh! take Doyle's art classes and his social conscience and turn him into a sort of Hogarthian character in London? Portraits and conversation pieces and copperplate etchings and portraying the things he saw on the city streets?

Or how about a Tudor AU (very Wolf Hall) with court factions and religious reformation and counter reformation and uprisings, revolts and rebellions, heresy and treason and CI-5 as spies under Henry's Thomas Cromwell or Elizabeth's Francis Walsingham?

See what I mean about ideas? Ten a penny. :D

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I concede the point. There are lots of ideas - so now you'll have to be very disciplined (ooohhh... discipline... that would open a whole other avenue, wouldn't it?) and just choose one to progress. Or three. Possibly more! And OMG! An AU Tudor Pros story! I've NEVER read one of those! There'd be ruffs and doublets and swordfights and jousting and imprisonment in the tower and that would be even more epic than a Poldark-era story on originality alone!

(I'm not really helping, am I? :-}

[natsuko1978.livejournal.com]

And the death penalty for sodomy.

Though I'm sure there's got to be at least one Tudor AU. I don't bet on the historical accuracy of it, but in 37 years someone must have thought of it!

And no, not helping. Note to self - *AFTER* BB look into historic AU. ;)

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

*AFTER* BB look into historic AU

Yes! Yes! :-)