Weekly Check In Post - Cowley knows best

[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

[Poll #1745502]
To help us all along,  and inspired by the F*** Yeah Fanfic Flamingo Tumblr   (NSFW) (thanks draycevixen  and mikes_grrl ) I've created a little meme generator...

Who better to ask for help with your story than the Controller himself - that's 'Mister' Cowley to you and me. *g*    

For example:













Fancy making your own Advice Cowley?  Go here! :D

Comments

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I only have 418 words. *headdesks repeatedly*

Still, thank you very much, Ask Cowley has been a BIG help:

(http://pics.livejournal.com/draycevixen/pic/001fwapf/)

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

*puts cushion on desk* You won't be able to write at all if you give yourself a headache!

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Thanks, but don't worry, I've already beaten all of my brains out for the other BB rough draft due *this* weekend.

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

You know, I totally take my hat off to you attempting two big bang stories at the same time. I'm not sure if you're brave, or crazy. ;)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I'm too crazy to be brave. *g*

My LoM BB rough draft is due by Wednesday, they extended the deadline by a few days. Then the Pros one is due in a month... and the bowl of mush that passes for my brain is eyeing a third Big Bang in a fandom I'm not even active in. Yes, certifiable.

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Uh, yep, definitely time to call the men in white coats! You must really thrive under insane pressure.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I don't really, I just like to take part in stuff. I'm a fandom pokey stick wielder so I think if I don't take part myself it might be a tad hypocritical. Well, that explains the LoM and Pros BBs. The third one is just about a fandom where hardly anything gets written for my favourite pairing.

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. If you're going to wield the pokey stick, you should step up to the crease yourself and have a bat. *nods*

Sometimes, you just gotta write the story you want to read yourself. I write a pairing in my other fandom that no one else seems to write long stories for, so if I want a long story with them in it, I have to do it myself!

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I get the theory, I really do, but I don't feel as motivated to write when I have nothing in turn to read. I know my own plot twists, so no surprise and even the sexeh times are no fun when I've written them. It's a fandom where the Het ship is HUGE and my guys are secondary characters.

So, I'm dead impressed that you persist in writing what you want to read, that's fantastic.

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's not as much fun if you know everything that's going to happen, and I always think my sex scenes are horrendously boring. It's definitely a bummer when your pairing doesn't get much love.

I suppose, in a way, it's rather... I dunno, maybe narcissistic? of me. I will go back, months after I've finished writing and posting the story and read my own work just for enjoyment.

I started writing back in 2005 and I think that sort of burst the dam. I would keep on writing now even if no one other than myself and my beta were reading my stories. I need to write.

But having said all that... I do get annoyed sometimes that there's nothing new to read!

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Journey - 1,000 miles - one step - grasshopper, etc.

Everybody's got to start somewhere, and you can do it!!!!

And: LISTEN TO COWLEY, YOU KNOW HE'S RIGHT.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I keep trying to snatch the pebble but I'm pretty sure you just painted it on your hand...

There's a large part of my brain that's infamous for settling determinedly on a story I have no business/interest/too much sanity to write... but it won't relinquish my handful of braincells to let them think of something else. So I stall in the vain hope that another... nicer idea might come to me. Hah! Anyway, that's where I am right now.

I normally limit my PWP writing activities and all I can think of when I think of 20,000 words of PWP is poor, exhausted, sore lads.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

There actually are 30 (?) days left. If you're done with your other story, you still have time.

But I definitely understand what you're getting at. I have a variation of that where usually I have a faint idea for a long fic, and one or two particular scenes - which I can't get beyond. (Oh, and how many times have I been out, or driving, or at work, and think up a great development; and then, when I'm back near paper or a machine, can't remember why the development was so great. :-/) Which is probably why what I have managed to complete I've done in a day or to. Endurance is my stumbling block.

Maybe if you can block off a weekend (next weekend?) and see how much comes out, that would be a sign of what you'd need to do to truly say yea or nay? From what you've said, you really haven't had a to work on it.

all I can think of when I think of 20,000 words of PWP is poor, exhausted, sore lads.

But think of the crack possibilities... 'cause it's not humanly possible. :D

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Oooh do you also wake up in the middle of the night with a fantastic idea that you can't remember the next morning? That's my least favourite variation.

But think of the crack possibilities... 'cause it's not humanly possible. :D

Once you've given a car a sex life, all things are possible. *g*

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Oooh do you also wake up in the middle of the night with a fantastic idea that you can't remember the next morning?

Insomnia has been the source of a few fics, and near-insomnia has killed a few others. :(

Once you've given a car a sex life, all things are possible.

Okay, I *need to know about this*. :looking for links:

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

It was for a different fandom, Life on Mars so don't think it would interest you.

[franciskerst.livejournal.com]

The premises would be for me but in another fandom's (very old and forsaken for ages) challenge but the solution wouldn't suit: it's a gen story. My B/C story is going on fine though very, very slowly: if it's ever finished, it will be next year (with some hope).

[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

You say '20000 Words of PWP' like it's a bad thing! :D

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

You have no pity for the poor lads? 20,000 words of PWP?

Mind you, they'd die with smiles on their faces. *g*

[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

I know you can do this darlin!!

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad one of us does. *g*

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

(http://pics.livejournal.com/milomaus/pic/0001wga4/)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes I do... like split them up. *hides*

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

You really DO NOT know your readers, eh?

Even if you´d ended your BB story with them split up, there´d be masses of comments making you want to write a following piece where they get back together.
And that just shows that whatever you´ll write, it will be read!

And get out from under that table, I´ve seen you.
(It sounded like you were about to split them up, not spying on them?)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the lovely comment... but really I'd have to write another 20,000 words on top of this to make the readers happy?

*goes back to hiding under the table with the lads* *takes notes for 20,000 word PWP*