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recrudescence at 09:40pm on 12/10/2009 under i r srs artist
recrudescence at 09:40pm on 12/10/2009 under i r srs artistI need thoughts!
More than one person on my flist has expressed some frustration over writing these days. Namely, the fact that it's hard to be original.
Fair enough. We can only put our own spin on the same tired tropes so many times. Sometimes that's a fact it's hard to work past. Add onto that the seasons changing, the holidays approaching, school really getting underway, and any other stressful things that might be rearing their heads this time of year, and it can make for a lot or teeth-gnashing.
Which is lame, since writing shouldn't be a teeth-gnashing enterprise all the time and there are a lot of nifty ideas floating around out there that haven't been combined yet.
I'm wondering about the possibility of doing a ficathon, of sorts. Nonspecific to any fandom, just open to anyone who's interested in trying to write something a little off the beaten path.
Essentially, prompts would be collected from anyone and everyone, provided they consist of the following:
Something that's on the cliche side and something that isn't. The idea is for writers to do a mash-up of old safe ideas and things that are completely unexpected, however out of the blue they may seem. For example:
Supernatural: Sam and Dean are given a single-bed hotel room after being mistaken for a gay couple...and there's a buffalo stampede.
Criminal Minds: At long last, Morgan and Reid make sweet love for the first time...but there's a power outage and toothpaste gets mistaken for lube.
House, MD: House treats a beautiful, mysterious woman suffering from a terrible disease...only it all takes place in the land of Oz.
Stargate Atlantis: Sheppard and McKay have hot kinky sex...only it's all in a fic rated no higher than PG.
Yes, well, those were the first ones I thought of. Um.
Since creativity is paramount, there would be no limit on how many fics an individual could write. Authors could work the two elements together however they liked, turn out anything from hardcore crack to dead serious drama. And there would be lulz and plumbing of authorial depths and stuff.
I dunno. I'm trying to orchestrate a pick-me-up, and I'd love to succeed, but maybe I'm going about it all wrong. Thoughts?
More than one person on my flist has expressed some frustration over writing these days. Namely, the fact that it's hard to be original.
Fair enough. We can only put our own spin on the same tired tropes so many times. Sometimes that's a fact it's hard to work past. Add onto that the seasons changing, the holidays approaching, school really getting underway, and any other stressful things that might be rearing their heads this time of year, and it can make for a lot or teeth-gnashing.
Which is lame, since writing shouldn't be a teeth-gnashing enterprise all the time and there are a lot of nifty ideas floating around out there that haven't been combined yet.
I'm wondering about the possibility of doing a ficathon, of sorts. Nonspecific to any fandom, just open to anyone who's interested in trying to write something a little off the beaten path.
Essentially, prompts would be collected from anyone and everyone, provided they consist of the following:
Something that's on the cliche side and something that isn't. The idea is for writers to do a mash-up of old safe ideas and things that are completely unexpected, however out of the blue they may seem. For example:
Supernatural: Sam and Dean are given a single-bed hotel room after being mistaken for a gay couple...and there's a buffalo stampede.
Criminal Minds: At long last, Morgan and Reid make sweet love for the first time...but there's a power outage and toothpaste gets mistaken for lube.
House, MD: House treats a beautiful, mysterious woman suffering from a terrible disease...only it all takes place in the land of Oz.
Stargate Atlantis: Sheppard and McKay have hot kinky sex...only it's all in a fic rated no higher than PG.
Yes, well, those were the first ones I thought of. Um.
Since creativity is paramount, there would be no limit on how many fics an individual could write. Authors could work the two elements together however they liked, turn out anything from hardcore crack to dead serious drama. And there would be lulz and plumbing of authorial depths and stuff.
I dunno. I'm trying to orchestrate a pick-me-up, and I'd love to succeed, but maybe I'm going about it all wrong. Thoughts?
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