| Introduction and Getting Started Meme |
[Oct. 2nd, 2007|12:03 pm] |
Name: Summerborn
Fandom(s) you are working on for this fest: Harry Potter.
Participation: Writer for this fest; also beta & occasional RPer.
The one item from your list that you most want to complete: Lusty Month of May (and only half a year late!)
Items with a deadline other than this fest: Snupin Santa 2007 (Nov 15).
Most fun item on your list: Lupin/Girlbits!Snape, one of the first fic prompts I ever started.
Item you are dreading the most/need the most encouragement on: The 2007 Snupin Fantasy Fest piece.
How do you start a project? Usually I start by letting an idea bounce around in my head for a while, to figure out the general shape of the story and where it's going to go. Then I put some words on paper and hope I can keep it up.
In what conditions do you work best? I definitely work best in the morning, either at home in a comfy chair or at the library.
One thing that always inspires you to create: I am often inspired by poetry or a very good song lyric that could have been poetry. Sometimes they are classics, like Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, and sometimes they are friends' works, like Klynie's haiku.
One general thing you would really like to improve on: At the very end of a fic-writing process, I tend to be extremely critical. I think finishing works closer to when I first got the idea would help me see the story more objectively, and that means not percolating ideas quite so long.
Advice and/or questions regarding the creative process that you have for the other members of the community: I manage my LJ/IJ filters when I am overcommitted, which means not reading fest announcements, not reading beta requests, not reading RPG openings... because I can't let myself be tempted when I've got so much to finish already!
A teaser from something you've got at least partially done:
( The start of the Draco/Ron ficlet, rated adult. ) |
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| Small accomplishment |
[Sep. 24th, 2007|08:28 pm] |
Seeing other people get stuff done and post about it turned out to be motivating! I finished and posted one-half of one of the twelve items on my to-do list. That means... 1/24 done. More than 4%! WOO!
Anyway, what I posted was "Five things Eileen Snape would change if she could turn back time" and "Five things Remus Lupin secretly likes about being a werewolf", both here. |
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| Summerborn's List |
[Sep. 17th, 2007|10:19 am] |
Right! So here is my list of items I want to finish in five weeks, by 4 Nov 2007 (Links all go to locked drafts on my livejournal, so no point in clicking):
( Summerborn's List )
I'm looking forward to crossing many things off of this list! |
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