Pros Big Bang Weekly Check In

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone and welcome to the weekly check in post. Just a few links for you this week, hopefully you’ll find them distracting interesting. So to start with a couple of pages with quotes about writing: Quotes about writers and writing and More quotations about writing

My fav of the quotes is: "Every novel should have a beginning, a muddle, and an end." (Peter De Vries).

Next to give us all something to avoid and have a giggle, and maybe an occasional wince, over here are links to some of the winners / contenders for Literary Review’s annual bad sex in fiction awards.

Passages from the 2010 winner, past contenders, a few more, and the 1994 - 2004 winners

And lastly, as I am currently impersonating the chicken in this cartoon:



A couple of links to posts about writer’s block: Hack your way out of writer‘s block and Symptoms and Cures for writers block (for assignments but has some useful tips).

And, as always, please chat about anything you like, ask us questions, and let us know how you are getting on with your planning/writing/curing your amnesia.

Comments

But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Apparently all of my pencils are eeeeevil... good to know. *nods* Evil wood... now there's an idea. *whistles*

The question I've been asking myself for the last few days is just how embarrassing would it be to to have to withdraw from the BB when I'm a co-mod? Yes, it's going that well. Ahem...

It's not even that the characters are refusing to do anything (for once) more that they're absolutely determined to do things that are making me wince and not want to write anything more for them. Yes, picture Drayce, pouting like an eight year old while muttering "shan't, you can't make me, nuh huh." Yes, I'm looking at you in particular, Doyle. *glares*

My current strategy is to write other things instead and/or spend my time uploading to AO3. I call this "the Ostrich technique." /ramble.

I'm hoping there will be inspirational tales of derring-do under this post. *settles in to wait*

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Yep all the pencils are evil and I think it might be safe to say the pens are too.

Evil wood... now there's an idea. *whistles*
*splutters* *giggles* I'd read about that.

So we need to find a way to make Doyle what you want him to then........I may have a few ideas.

And the ostrich technique is one I heartily endorse.

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

...how do we feel about the rubbers?

*ponders* I wonder if the evil wood acts independently, sneaking off in the middle of the night?

Ideas eh? Do they involve... handcuffs? 'Cos I've heard tell of such things from the bad kids behind the bike sheds.

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

They may indeed involve handcuffs. I may have the relevant equipment around for us to use.

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I have handcuffs too... I think we're on to a winner. *g*

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

... And how is it going with you? Hmmm?

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Well I'm finding it a little difficult to tell. I have an outline and a very small word count but for the last couple of weeks I haven't really added to either of them. I'm hoping I'll be able to push on a bit more soon.

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Hey, from where I'm sitting that's looking like a lot. *g*

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a spiffing start to me!

*pom pomming like mad*

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

There's got to be a way of making Doyle behave for you!

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Well, I have a few ideas but Bodie would have to cooperate. *g*

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

Swiss roll is the answer there. I've heard he'll do anything for swiss roll...

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

If only... *mind drifts off to the happy place*

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

I should try freezing him out for a few days - say till the weekend or after - and see if he decides to play ball. Muses can be incredibly bossy...

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Meet my muse:

(http://pics.livejournal.com/draycevixen/pic/00046fkt/)

It's not wise to leave him to his own devices for too long. *g*

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

God, I love that movie!

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

It's a great film. *g*

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

No, no! He's on vacation and Doyle has taken over. That's your problem. You're used to dealing with a guy from a gay pride parade and you need strategies for out-thinking a cop. Bodie is probably your best bet.

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

He's nearly always on vacation, usually in Las Vegas.

Bodie is currently far too angry with Doyle to be of much use at all. Perhaps they all need a drink, I know I do.

It's Michael Jeter in The Fisher King, about to deliver a sort of "singing telegram." Ever since I first saw the film it's stuck in my head as my image of my muse. Yes, it sings show tunes. *g*

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

I've been using this loading stories *from other fandoms* onto AO3 myself!

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Brilliant, common Big Bang avoidance technique FTW. :D

I'm actually amusing myself with the sheer range of my stupidity... Erm... fandoms, yeah, I mean fandoms. *nods*

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

Although I'm not writing for the BB, I use downloading stories from AO3 as a procrastination technique, so it seems like that site is all sorts of useful. *g*

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Doyle is a stroppy, recalcitrant bugger, isn't he? I recommend a bucket of vodka in his orange juice... and it sounds like Bodie could use the same drink. Perhaps they'll be more pliable if they're hung over?

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I think perhaps a bucket of vodka and cranberry juice for me instead... then I might write what they want me to write. *g*

Re: But, but, my persona is always a pirate... *headdesk*

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

*g* Sounds like a grand plan. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. ;)