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Help, help, writerly help!
Aug. 23rd, 2005 11:22 amEhhh, never recall asking my fiendslist for writing advice before, but...
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devils_devotion is having a fic contest. You probably all know this, and if you didn't, well, you do now.
And I so want to enter. I think the idea of a gen contest rocks, because there is much good gen to be had in FMA, but the squick category is, ah, tempting. But it's tempting to everybody else too; far as I can tell most people are planning to enter that category. And not only do I like supporting the idea of a gen contest and doing what most people aren't doing, there's more chance of my winning.
^^;;
On the other paw, I've got a Tucker-muse. A chimera!Tucker-muse. Courtesy offorgottenlover. Who's been seduced on the kitchen floor by an Envy. Courtesy of empty_geas. Which, ah, gives me more squick-ammunition than I might otherwise have, and the urge is to use it. (Not that I'd be transcribing RP fic; that wouldn't be fair to any of us. But the Tucker headspace you guys got me into? Yeah.)
On the left hind paw, there's the temptation to write squicky gen and enter it in both categories, just to be a showoffy smartass. And if anything could enable squicky gen, it would be the Tucker-muse.
To stop counting paws, here are my possibilities.
1) Write >1,500 trippy angsty geeky Tucker gen and submit it to the obvious category. Easy. Not as interesting.
2) Write >2,500 trippy angsty geeky Tucker gen, hopefully with enough gory details of chimeras, and submit it to both categories. Probably doable,
lets me submit to both 'cause I'm freakish like that, but I don't get to do some of the things I could otherwise do.
3) Like write >2,500 trippy angsty geeky Envy/Tucker manipulative non-con/torture. (Got this idea of Envy visiting him in the lab to, ah, play every once in a while.) Probably doable; could be way fun; could break my brain; don't like abandoning gen.
4) Go for broke and do 10,000 words of the above. @.@ On the other hand, I'm kinda hoping to get a job in the next two weeks. x.x
5) Do either 3 or 4 and assemble some of the non-Envy-related angst ('cause he's got plenty of that too) into a fic for the gen category. Doable, seems somehow like cheating; and the idea of having two versions of the same fic really bugs me when it comes to later reposting.
6) Do either 3 or 4 and write something else entirely for the gen, like Pride, or Roze wangst, or whateverthefuck. I got bunnies. x.x Vaguely doable. Covers all bases, except the possible joys of squick!gen. Still trying to get a job though. And if I'm doing that much, chances of the threesome'o'doom getting finished in the next few weeks = zero.
See? Ran out of paws. Would've had to use ears too.
Suggestions? Preferences? Especially you, Devi, since it's your freakin' contest? HELP I CAN'T MAKE DECISIONS BY MYSELF *FLAILS*
Of course, if this fic does pan out (the RP is bad enough) I'm going to need to research/have a fact checker in possible biological applications of traditional alchemy, human anatomy, animal anatomy, biochemistry, and god knows what else, and that expands writing time liekwhoa. (@#*&$%@(*#&^$*^ded. x.x
*totters off to finish trying to write the first scene of whatever Tuckerfic may develop, because she got bunnied*
...honestly, the first scene probably would or could break 1,500, count as very dark (though not too squicky) gen, and I could just do that as a seperate fic. Still feels like cheating. -.-
Okay, so, the full story:
devils_devotion is having a fic contest. You probably all know this, and if you didn't, well, you do now.And I so want to enter. I think the idea of a gen contest rocks, because there is much good gen to be had in FMA, but the squick category is, ah, tempting. But it's tempting to everybody else too; far as I can tell most people are planning to enter that category. And not only do I like supporting the idea of a gen contest and doing what most people aren't doing, there's more chance of my winning.
^^;;
On the other paw, I've got a Tucker-muse. A chimera!Tucker-muse. Courtesy of
forgottenlover. Who's been seduced on the kitchen floor by an Envy. Courtesy of empty_geas. Which, ah, gives me more squick-ammunition than I might otherwise have, and the urge is to use it. (Not that I'd be transcribing RP fic; that wouldn't be fair to any of us. But the Tucker headspace you guys got me into? Yeah.)On the left hind paw, there's the temptation to write squicky gen and enter it in both categories, just to be a showoffy smartass. And if anything could enable squicky gen, it would be the Tucker-muse.
To stop counting paws, here are my possibilities.
1) Write >1,500 trippy angsty geeky Tucker gen and submit it to the obvious category. Easy. Not as interesting.
2) Write >2,500 trippy angsty geeky Tucker gen, hopefully with enough gory details of chimeras, and submit it to both categories. Probably doable,
lets me submit to both 'cause I'm freakish like that, but I don't get to do some of the things I could otherwise do.
3) Like write >2,500 trippy angsty geeky Envy/Tucker manipulative non-con/torture. (Got this idea of Envy visiting him in the lab to, ah, play every once in a while.) Probably doable; could be way fun; could break my brain; don't like abandoning gen.
4) Go for broke and do 10,000 words of the above. @.@ On the other hand, I'm kinda hoping to get a job in the next two weeks. x.x
5) Do either 3 or 4 and assemble some of the non-Envy-related angst ('cause he's got plenty of that too) into a fic for the gen category. Doable, seems somehow like cheating; and the idea of having two versions of the same fic really bugs me when it comes to later reposting.
6) Do either 3 or 4 and write something else entirely for the gen, like Pride, or Roze wangst, or whateverthefuck. I got bunnies. x.x Vaguely doable. Covers all bases, except the possible joys of squick!gen. Still trying to get a job though. And if I'm doing that much, chances of the threesome'o'doom getting finished in the next few weeks = zero.
See? Ran out of paws. Would've had to use ears too.
Suggestions? Preferences? Especially you, Devi, since it's your freakin' contest? HELP I CAN'T MAKE DECISIONS BY MYSELF *FLAILS*
Of course, if this fic does pan out (the RP is bad enough) I'm going to need to research/have a fact checker in possible biological applications of traditional alchemy, human anatomy, animal anatomy, biochemistry, and god knows what else, and that expands writing time liekwhoa. (@#*&$%@(*#&^$*^ded. x.x
*totters off to finish trying to write the first scene of whatever Tuckerfic may develop, because she got bunnied*
...honestly, the first scene probably would or could break 1,500, count as very dark (though not too squicky) gen, and I could just do that as a seperate fic. Still feels like cheating. -.-