Photo meme

[jadesfire]

Good morning! I may attempt another happy list today, although that's going to have to wait until I've actually done something other than groan into my coffee.

In the meantime...

Gakked from matsujo9

Tell me something to take a photo of and I'll interpret your request then snap a picture! It can be anything (family friendly!). Just a word for me to think about or something more specific!

I recommend Oxford at the moment, BTW - it's showing off in the sunshine.

Comments

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Something you look forward to seeing while you're walking. (Neat meme!)

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

Architecture...

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Neat. Although I'll have to take it on the way home now... ;-)

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit spoilt for choice, so I'll see what I can do :)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

"Fabulous"

however you define it and whatever fits the bill for you

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Ooh neat.

...what are you doing up at this hour?? Isn't it the middle of the night for you? You ok?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

It is 3:30 am- one of those nights, couldn't sleep so figured I'd see what LJ was up to

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Oh hon... Well the UK/European folks will be craving their next morning coffee, the Australians will be thinking about a nightcap before bed, and most of the people in your part of the world are asleep!

Still, have you found anything interesting in your middle-of-the-night ramblings?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I am perusing ljdq an LJ daily quiz. It's quit strange

and I'm looking at old abandoned plot bunnies and seeing if any have any life left in them

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I like quizes but that does look a bit weird.

Prodding plot bunnies is always fun, even at 3.30am. Just careful they don't bite you! I'm here for a little bit if you want to play comment fic :D

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

What's great is trying to figure out what the heck I meant with some of them. I have a list entitled "Words I must use at some point" they are shillelagh, anosognosia and shibboleth. It's followed immediately by "Tosh had a timpini"

I fail to see the connection

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*g* Now that I've looked up what the words mean, I feel entitled to giggle...

You really should use them all at some point, preferably in the same story as that sentence. Although I would have thought Tosh was more of a Tambourine person than the Timpani ;-)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Actually I can totally see Jack spouting off about words he's always meant to use at some time or another but just has never been able to fit into a conversation.

hmmm, tambourine? that's much more likely than a tuba or triangle.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Hee. I can buy that. Even if it does make him sound like he swallowd the dictionary. Maybe especially then. Or maybe he...er...dated...a language expert. Or a dictionary writer.

I am so not seeing Tosh with a tuba. And I think she'd think the triangle was a bit girly. Nope, I think I'm sticking with tambourine. Or possibly the trumpet (can you tell I'm running out of instruments beginning with 't'?), to get some of frustration out...

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Just remembered my idea for shibboleth - TW finding something that fell through the rift and even though all the scans came back that it was safe and not broken or anything none of them could activate it until Jack reads the inscription correctly and it turns out to be a music box or something like that

hmmm- t- tenor sax, trombone (definitely not for Tosh) ummmmm..

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like the idea of that fic. I love big, deep, plotty fics, but I like the gentle, little ones too, that leave you with a warm fuzzy feeling. The big ones are a night out on the town, and the little ones are curling up under a fuzzy blanket - I need both!

Ooh, I can imagine Tosh playing the Tenor sax, but no, not the trombone so much...

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

plotty is good (up to a point) but yeah, the cutesy, leave you feeling warm and smushy inside are great too

I haven't gone near anything plotty since finishing my bigbang, I should think about doing something about that at some point.

re: characters and instruments. I got in a long deep convo once about how the different TW characters related to Rhapsody in Blue. All I remember is that Jack was the clarinet- brash and standing out, begging to be noticed but Ianto was the french horn, because the piece would just fall apart without the french horn- for the entire piece the horn is there, providing support and contrast and layers and that's kind of like Ianto

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Plotty is a weird one for me. I get lovely comments from people saying how much they enjoyed the plot, at which point I turn round and notice I actually have one. I geniunely can't plan like others seem to - I just have to write and see what happens. Things sort of happen one after another... It means a lot of rewriting, but it's that or not write at all!

Heh. I like that analogy. Definitely makes sense.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I write similarly, but I do need that starting point, be it the one scene I imagine and have to write (which usually means figuring out how to get the characters there and what happened and whatnot) or the one line/argument/etc that needs to be written. Those have been lacking lately.

I wish I remembered what the other characters were... we had it all figured out.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I tend to write off prompts, so I know where I'm going, and things resolves themselves as I go. I'm very much a thematic writer, so my stories will have an over-arching 'thought' behind them, which keeps them moving forwards. But you can burn yourself out on them, especially if you're not used to writing really long stuff. The more I write, the more I enjoy writing the 10k+ stuff, which is good, if inconvenient ;D Hopefully if you start out slowly again, the ideas will gradually flow.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I've only ever written 2 things over 10k. And 3 over 5k. For awhile I was flowing and managing quite a number in the 2-4k range, but that's not happening anymore. Even with prompts I seem to push through to the place I want to go quicker now. I'm a smidge grumpy about that. I miss having the long thing I was working on there to take a stab at whenever it the muse struck.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*winces* Yeah, that's a pain. But don't underestimate the problems that burn out and putting too much pressure on yourself can cause. The more you write, the more you find you want to write better, not just more, and that slows you down again. I find that taking a breath, stepping back and working out what I really have to write helps a lot, just to give me the perspective and room that I need. And not giving up writing completely, even if you throw away everything at the end of the day. If you persevere long enough, you'll get there.

I think I'm the opposite on long stories, because unless I give a story my whole attention for a sustained period, it doesn't happen. My SGA Big Bang is wandering because I'm writing it too slowly - I need to pick up the pace if I'm going to finish on time with something that I don't hate! Relax and just keep writing - it'll come.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

when's the big bang due?

I keep trying. If I haven't written anything in a few days I wander LJ looking at the prompt communities till I find something. I have quite a number of abandoned drabble prompts living on my hard drive

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

The draft is due on 14th July - it should be good enough to go, but the actual final deadline is 28th July. My current schedule in my head is to finish Part 1 today and tomorrow and get it to you, Z, Chrys and probably A N Other for beta, while I start work on Part 2. That's assuming John's happy for me to do that *glares at him* I want to have Part 2 done by 7th July, so that you've got a good few days to go through it and get it back to me, and I can stitch it together in time for the deadline. Then I'm going to write my gateverse_remix story (I know what I'm writing, I just need to go through the original again - should be no more than 2-3 days), then I'm going to give the whole thing a final polish and I'm done. *falls over*

It's incredibly demoralising when things just won't come, but that's the bit where you've just got to keep plugging away - it'll come back if you keep at it!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

holy cow of heticness! I'm sure you'll pull it off though.

Wow- they only gave you 2 weeks from rough to final draft? You guys were much more lenient with tardis_bigbang!