After I did yesterday’s snowflake post I did a few things. I started working on a fic based on a prompt from
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akamine_chan’s Ray fic a thon which I stumbled on the other day and it got stuck in my head. I switched from it once I started getting prompts to yesterday’s post. Feel free to leave more Ray centric posts on it (or any MCR ones). Even if you’ve already left one feel free to leave another. I’ve already finished one and I’m working on another (well, I was until I had a nap). Even if you’re new feel free to request one! The post is
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this due to an offhand comment on turps awesome fic
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bandom_holidays fics were revealed yesterday, so I was finally able to post them here. I had the immense honour of writing the one for
turps. I was super glad to get her, because she’s been so good to me. I was really pleased with the result, which like I mentioned in the notes came to me right away. I was even pleased with the pinch hit that I did over the course of an afternoon. It’s a challenge I’ll definitely do again and all the fics were great.
Last night I ended up watching Death In Paradise, though I didn’t pay much attention since I was reposting the bandom holidays fic. I then went on Ac doing some of the olympics based quests and watched an ep of a Lucifer while ficcing some more.
I watched the last Torchwood ep of disc one which was To The Last Man, which is so sad. Tommy saved the world and what did he get for his trouble? Shot for being shell shocked. Torchwood of the past surely could have stepped in to stop it, yet they did nothing. Ugh.
Today I listened to Sappenin podcast, which I was looking forward to since it had Moose from Bullet in so I hoped we might get info on what went on and Jay. However ‘legal stuff’ prevented all that (no doubt Tuck’s doing) so it was a little disappointing. It was still fun though and they said they’ll get him back when it’s sorted. It makes me worry if they ever do get Jay on that we’ll know nothing.
I had a delivery this morning too, from my friend that went to Canada recently. She found the funko of Renji from Bleach and so got it for me as a present! She’s the best! He looks great and makes me wanna resume my Bleach rewatch (resume might be a bit much, I only watched the first ep after the awesome live action film).
While putting him on my shelf I spotted my Gerard one. It’s the TBP one with the skull face and it made me realise I never got a Revenge Gee. After doing a quick search the only place that seems to have him is the mcr store but I just know wit postage it’ll be close to £20. Has anyone seen it elsewhere? I still wish they put out ones with the rest of the members. Maybe this year.
Today hasn’t been eventful other than that. I worked on fic, had my doze and now I’m gonna do the day’s snowflake challenge. Mum did find my missing Switch game which I thought was long gone, yay!
I did, however, find some footage from the
show Ray got topless. The quality is terrible, but it’s worth it to see Ray swing his shirt around his head. What the fuck happened to get him to do that? And why did it never happen at any other shows? (And how did anyone survive, since Frank was topless there too)
Tomorrow I won’t be around during the day, I’ll be in Birmingham going to the streetpass meet. I’m hoping to try a vegan sausage roll and to see if McDonald’s has any Pokemon toys. I’m not gonna go in too many places due to money so I should be back pretty early.
Day 11
In your own space, talk about your creative process(es) — anything from the initial inspiration to how you feel after something’s done. Do you struggle with motivation or is it a smooth process? Do you have any tricks up your sleeve to pull out when a fanwork isn’t cooperating? What is your level of planning to pantsing/winging it? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.Ahh this is an interesting challenge. Well my creative thing is writing so that’s what I’ll talk about.
The first key thing is getting inspiration. This can come from several ways, either a prompt, a picture or a video. Other times I can just get random ideas, while lying in bed or even while watching something else. I find it easier if I’m working on something that’s either for a person or has been requested by them. That way I know that I have one person who will read the finished result.
Once I have the idea, I note it down. Sometimes the idea is a few words or a line, other times it’s a pairing. If it’s clear in my mind (and I know it won’t go away), I’ll open up a new file in Documents, which is what I use on my iPad to write. I write the header first, so at this point the fic is this.
Pairing:
Rating:
Warnings:
Notes:
I used to include POV too when I wrote in first person. After that I usually jot down the basis of the idea, unless I am able to get going right away. If that’s the case then I just start writing. I usually try and focus on one thing at a time, writing whatever I have to completion before switching. If I have any other ideas during this time I will note them down though.
I’m at a point now where motivation isn’t a problem. I’ll just keep going with the idea until I finish it up. This can take anything from an afternoon to a few days to do. (Although writing things in one day is rare unless it’s short.) Sometimes I’ll have links open to any specific pics that are relevant. Right now for instance I’m working on a Jet Star fic for turps, so I have a google image search of Jet Star for his outfit reference. Before I’ve had primers or picspams open, or even links to festive gear.
Since my fic isn’t usually terribly long I generally don’t plan things. That changes when I do a series (and when I did Kinkverse stuff there was a lot of interconnectedness and planning). I currently have a bit of planning with my Killjoys series. When I did my bandom holidays fic I did have some planning in place for it, because it was a challenge fic, so I noted a few things down.
Once I’ve done it, I usually give it a quick once over and then post it. Since Better Than Him, for bandom holidays, was different this last step was different. I ended up working on the end a bit longer. It originally ended with Ray and the Ways sleeping together, but then I got the idea of a final scene with Pete showing up. My first thought was that Ray would punch Pete in the face, knocking him out. But in the end it didn’t feel right to (because as Ray thinks in the fic, they’d be stuck with him unconscious outside). So instead Ray threatened him instead and it ended on a nice moment with him and his new lovers, which I thought felt better.
One of the hardest parts often ends up being coming up with a title. Sometimes I have one in mind, but other times it can be hard. Then I usually look to songs or lyrics for inspiration.
Anyway, yeah, that’s my basic process. I hope you found it interesting.
