Introduction and Getting Started Meme Name:Melfina aka melfinatheblue Fandom(s) you are working on for this fest:Mostly HP, with dashes of LotR and Dr Who Participation: Writer
The one item from your list that you most want to complete: um, before I started, Legolas and the Elves of Lorien. Now it's the epic fic o'Doom, aka Lucius Malfoy and the Cauldron of Doom. Items with a deadline other than this fest: only item on my list that has a deadline that matches this fest is the forty_or_better fic. Then 12th_night fic is due later, then the fic o'doom, then nothing else has a due date, but my friend might kill me if I don't eventually get her fic done. Most fun item on your list:Um, tackling a plot bunny should be fun, especially if I can strangle it to keep it short. And I'm rather looking forward to the War at Hogwarts one. Item you are dreading the most/need the most encouragement on: Legolas and the Elves of Lorien. Thanks to the wonderfulsuemonroe I am now convinced it does not suck, but I am having trouble even convincing myself to look at it. My writing style's shifted enough away from that insane silly that it's difficult to get back into it.
How do you start a project?I start writing the fic. Idea pops into head, and I either start writing then and there, or if I'm working on another story, jot it down for later. Research gets done as I work, or I stick a note in for later. In what conditions do you work best? When I have nothing else to do. Lately this means at work, since I have lots of downtime. Seriously, I get bored, and write down the story in my head. One thing that always inspires you to create: Stress. One general thing you would really like to improve on: Muse control. I'd be much happier if I knew how I was getting to where I was going. Advice and/or questions regarding the creative process that you have for the other members of the community: Read. Seriously, read. Poetry, fiction, non-fiction, fanfiction. If you know you have trouble with writing dialogue, find an author who writes it well and study how they do it. Also, bouncing ideas off others is always helpful.
A teaser from something you've got at least partially done: And Haldir led the way to what Legolas thought was a nice bar. In reality, it was the Lorien Rave Club (motto: Proudly stoning the fair folk for over one thousand years). The rave club was well known for their use of pipeweed as incense and their very impressive orgies, often involving over 50 elves. Not to mention the only place in Lorien where you could get body shots. And their bad lighting, but that was intentional. The Silvans may go there to watch the Noldor and Sindar get it on, but neither group is going to bother to show up without the illusion of privacy.
Now, you or I would probably be tipped off by the darkness and the smell of pipeweed that this is not a nice little bar, but sweet, innocent, confused Legolas had no clue. He just assumed all bars in Lorien were like this.