GIP plus memes

[tarigwaemir]

Lowell House on the Feast of St. Cornelius

Why yes, I'm posting purely so I can use this icon made by the wonderful zoesque. Pick it up here.

By which I mean, I'm finished with my fic. Thanks so much to tryogeru and paradiseraph for making last-minute edits and putting up with my moaning. Hikaru no Go fandom, I love you for putting up with my whims and rising to the occasion by writing fics for this awful, awful deadline. The awfulness of which I did not fully comprehend until tonight, as I panicked to finish my submission.

murinae has two blind_go-related memes:

Five things I did when I should have been writing blind_go:

1. Read manga. (For other series, no less! Shame on me!)
2. Watch Korean dramas. (While I was still at home anyway.)
3. Refresh LiveJournal, especially the support thread obsessively.
4. Go to sleep early.
5. Browse the course catalog. (Yes, I'm serious.)

Five things you probably never knew about me as a fanfic writer:

1. I like descriptive lists to come in threes. (That isn't to say that all descriptive lists are that way, but the majority of them are.)
2. I also like describing sounds. Hence my first fanfic for this fandom.
3. I often try to tie my ending back to the beginning, to come full circle, as it were.
4. I often start off a fic with some set of arbitrary rules. Sometimes it's to correct a problem, like overuse of semicolons. Other times, it's just bizarre, like refusing to use certain words.
5. Perhaps most importantly: I imagine most of my fics as movie scenes before I ever begin to write them. My transitions often work like a film cut or fade. My endings are usually "momentous" pieces of dialogue. My beginnings act like camera pans or dialogue voiceovers.

Okay, I need to actually sleep now.

Yours &c.

Post-script: I think we need a thread for posting these memes, plus related icons and writing playlists. Anyone agree? ^_^

Comments

[room101.livejournal.com]

I did #3 (refresh support thread) constantly too.

[troisroyaumes]

XD You may be interested in the newly created kifu_archive then.

[room101.livejournal.com]

I was the first one to join! :D Do I get a banner? :D

[svz-insanity.livejournal.com]

I agree! :D :D (And I refreshed constantly too.)

[troisroyaumes]

::coughs:: I took Zoe's suggestion and made a comm: kifu_archive

[zoesque.livejournal.com]

Oh man, five things isn't nearly enough to describe all the "aids" I employed in avoiding writing. XD *yoinks both meme*

Hell, I think we need a comm: blindgosurvivors or something. Also, I really, really think we need DVD commentary on all the fics that come out of this, because I am pretty sure most of us have, uh, things to say about the writing process? :D

[zoesque.livejournal.com]

Argh, for some reason I coded the name suggestion? XD blind_go_survivors, it was supposed to be. *still stupid from all the spaz-writing*

[troisroyaumes]

Alas, blind_go_survivors is too long for an LJ name. ;_; (Why, LJ, why?) But I came up with kifu_archive instead. ^_^

Psst, may I friend you? XD

[zoesque.livejournal.com]

Foiled by eljay! kifu_archive, that's awesome!

Hee, I was just going to ask you that same question. :D

[lucathia]

#3 appears in my fics at times, though not always. Lately my endings have just been dangling.

I like these memes. I think I'll be doing them too. =)

[troisroyaumes]

Ahaha, me too. If my endings fail to circle, they dangle instead. ^_^

[themadpoker.livejournal.com]

Congratulation on finishing it! Want to request an icon as a reward/present? *is not looking for ways to put off bio project, is NOT*

[troisroyaumes]

Haha, perhaps not an icon for me, but I've been meaning to find an icon for the blind_go comm, if you don't mind making one. ^_^

[themadpoker.livejournal.com]

I'll have it done by tomorrow. *forcing self to get to work already*

[troisroyaumes]

Thank you so much~! (And of course, if you find yourself too busy, there's absolutely no pressure. ^_^)

[flonnebonne]

3. Refresh LiveJournal, especially the support thread obsessively.

Yep.

1. I like descriptive lists to come in threes.

Ditto!

3. I often try to tie my ending back to the beginning, to come full circle, as it were.

Yep, I do that too often. I'm trying to kick the habit. For a while there it seemed like every fic I wrote had a circular ending. Not only that, but the middle parts would be circling all over the place too. Don't think I've kicked the habit, but at least I'm aware of it now.

[troisroyaumes]

Ooh, is that a hint for your fic? ^_______^

[flonnebonne]

ASDF;LAKSJDF;LAJF It may or may not be!!!!