WEEKLY CHECK-IN: Tickety boxes and a couple of questions

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

[Poll #1824744]

Now that you've started hyperventilating thinking about your story, are any particular songs coming to mind, like "Please release me (Let me go)" or "A Whumping hunting we will go?"

Any particular writing/vidding/drawing survival must-haves at your house? I have to drink pots and pots of tea (probably explains why I always have the lads consuming copious amounts) and my mate Cherry has to listen to the Bee Gees... don't ask.

Or, if none of this foolishness appeals to you, feel free to just check-in and let us know how it's going.
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Comments

[judesmk.livejournal.com]

I was SO proud of myself for having written over 1000 words and then SS and I sat down to complete the plot outline and now I have to go back and re-write what I've already written because she had an absolutely brilliant idea for my central crime. I don't consider that fair at all. But I reckon the story will be better for it.

[hambelandjemima.livejournal.com]

I keep getting ideas for scenes and I'm jotting them down in some sort of shorthand that I hope will make sense when I want to use them. However, I have no real plot as yet. It's not looking good, Drayce.

I don't have any writing must-haves. Family-sized bags of maltesers or revels are always a good idea, but I'm not sure how they aid the creative process. I may have to do some research on this.

[hambelandjemima.livejournal.com]

*iz jealous of your brilliant idea*

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

I'm jotting them down in some sort of shorthand that I hope will make sense when I want to use them.

This, I know. I tend to write notes pictorially as well, which doesn't help me *g*

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

AMNESIA EVERYWHERE *g*

I have to have a writing soundtrack. It is usually reprehensibly awful mainstream pop but there is always 'the song' that backs a given fic. Last year I had Madonna's 'Die Another Day' for my Pros Big Bang fic (and Fleet Foxes 'Mykonos' for my LoM Big Bang which is rather more respectable)

Tea is not a writing survival must have, it is a LIFE survival must have *g*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

On the bright side, you weren't 10,000 words in when she had a brilliant idea for your central crime. *g*

I LOVE to plot so this is sounding very good to me.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

*readies pom poms*

I'm actually dead impressed that you're starting with scenes without having a plot yet. Anything over about 5,000 words and I have to have a plot first. If you want to bounce any ideas of my little pointy head I'm pretty good at plot doctoring.

Large bags of chocolate that can be easily popped in your mouth while typing? Sounds very practical to me. :D

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've written an amnesia story (it could just be that I have amnesia *g*) which is odd as I love the trope.

You do love your man bands pop. *g* I have Dessa's Seamstress stuck in my head right now with a story I'm working on.

True, but isn't creativity a life survival must have too? <-- Allowed one such arty comment a year. :D

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Jumping all over the place - have no plot, just a series of ideas for scenes and lines that amuse me. But I am 2,000 words in to the madness...

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

"2,000 words in to the madness" probably belongs on one of a series of fangirl t-shirts. :D

[hambelandjemima.livejournal.com]

Pictures as well? I bet you have a whole mood board when you're working on a Big Bang *g*

[hambelandjemima.livejournal.com]

Lol, there's nothing to be impressed about... I'll probably change my mind again next week. I have no idea how many words I'll write anyway. I just keep writing until the ideas disappear *g*

[hambelandjemima.livejournal.com]

See, that's me too. Scenes and an OC or two, but no idea how they'll all link together... or even if they will!

But 2000 words sound pretty good to me :)

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

I actually quite liked "I have a cunning plan jotted down on a serviette' half because it sounds like Hayley Mills said it in The Trouble with Angels and half because I have actually written plot ideas on serviettes.

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

What I mean is, because I have living arrangements that prevent me just leaving around bits of paper saying 'they shag after the second car chase' et al (and I hate having to remember to tidy away) I do my notes as doodles - arrows, stick figures, graphs, hearts and flowers and timelines and song lyrics. It's OK when it's recent, but if I leave it more than a few days I have no idea what the underlined picture of an apple means... *g*

I do always have a song per fic, often with no especial relevance but that just seems to feed the muse *g*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I assure you, I am not now, nor ever have been, Hayley Mills.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Perhaps if you keep on writing anyway, they'll come back. *g*

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

And I really wanted to be her once upon a time. (wishes I had a Hayley icon and a scathingly brilliant idea.)

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

No plot or actual story idea as yet... just a page with a weird stream of consciousness and lots of question marks.

I tend not to write with music on, not sure why. Which is not to say I don't think of songs... was just zooming through rush-hour listening to Scissor Sisters, so now my head is full of choice lines like "take me anywhich way you want," "you're so skintight" and "tonight I'm going to toughen you up" which of course is *cough* no help at all.

Writing must-haves: warmth, caffeine, chocolate, carbs, peace and the occasional gin.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I was more of a St. Trinian's sort. *g*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I'm always fascinated by the different ways we all approach this writing business.

I don't always write with music playing but it's nearly always running through my head.

Nice list. Straight gin or cocktail?

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

Movies or the cartoons? I loved their fat little ponies and the evil girls with their hockey sticks! lol

http://ronaldsearle.blogspot.com/2007/06/st-trinians-part-3.html

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Both. :D

And I mean the "real" films, not the much later re-do.

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

*\o/* for gin!

*blushes and slinks off*

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

I write more words sitting in the car on breaks than I do at home. . .go figure.

I love listening to Rob Thomas (solo or Matchbox 20).