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Original fic: Week Two
How are you doing with your original fic? I am hopeless, as I have not even looked at one of my WIPs that I said I was going to tackle! I need to get on that, stat!
Anyway, here are a couple more prompts to hopefully kick you out of any slumps:
1. Wordplay
2. Don't you dare!
And while we're here, let's discuss: do you write the same genre/s as you like to read? If not, why do you think that is?
Personally, I like to read m/m romance and sci-fi best, with a lot of humour thrown in. If all three can be combined, it's brilliant! I also prefer to write in these genres, but I do find myself dipping well into the angst/dark fields, and sometimes kink, way more than I like to read it, which I find amusing! I don't know why that is, it's just the way my muses seem to go, whereas when I'm reading, although I like the protagonists to be overcoming some difficulties and/or growing/learning something, I prefer it doesn't get too angsty or dark (a little is okay)! I didn't use to mind kink, but as I get older I seem less interested in it, and that is where I head away and into more of the adventurous sci-fi stuff, when I can find good stories (The Expanse, anyone? I've recently finished the 9th and final book *Sobs* My saving grace is there is a bunch of short-stories too, so I'm holding out for the book that contains all of those).
And I think that's enough for today! Good luck with your ongoing original writing! ;-)
Anyway, here are a couple more prompts to hopefully kick you out of any slumps:
1. Wordplay
2. Don't you dare!
And while we're here, let's discuss: do you write the same genre/s as you like to read? If not, why do you think that is?
Personally, I like to read m/m romance and sci-fi best, with a lot of humour thrown in. If all three can be combined, it's brilliant! I also prefer to write in these genres, but I do find myself dipping well into the angst/dark fields, and sometimes kink, way more than I like to read it, which I find amusing! I don't know why that is, it's just the way my muses seem to go, whereas when I'm reading, although I like the protagonists to be overcoming some difficulties and/or growing/learning something, I prefer it doesn't get too angsty or dark (a little is okay)! I didn't use to mind kink, but as I get older I seem less interested in it, and that is where I head away and into more of the adventurous sci-fi stuff, when I can find good stories (The Expanse, anyone? I've recently finished the 9th and final book *Sobs* My saving grace is there is a bunch of short-stories too, so I'm holding out for the book that contains all of those).
And I think that's enough for today! Good luck with your ongoing original writing! ;-)
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I will happily help beta any hockey romance you decide to write. It's hard to write the on-ice action. I tend to focus more on the camaraderie and off-ice stuff.
Mysteries take way too much planning. Half the time I don't know how something ends until the end and I can't write the thing backwards like mystery writers do. Maybe when I retire, I'll try my hand at them.
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Yeah, the actual hockey might be too much for me. But team dynamics, bromances, and relationships, I think I can handle that. And thank you - we'll see if this desire fizzles or flames after tomorrow (k)night. :D
Oh man, that's it, right there. I'm the ultimate pantser in that I plan nothing. And working backwards would just confuse me. I bet you could do it!