Original fic: Week Two

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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! ;-)

Comments

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

I think most of us do prefer to write what we like to read, generally, but then there will always be things you read that feel outside of your wheelhouse to write!

I am much like you in that I write without planning, generally, so the muses dictate what happens. Anything too difficult plot-wise or that would need extensive planning and research is way beyond me!

You could definitely pull off the hockey romances; I see Cat has offered to help, and that would definitely make it possible! I once wrote a story involving a quarterback and as I don't know the first thing about American Football, I mainly kept away from that part of the action, but there was one game that needed one team to come back from almost losing to just winning for plot reasons (yes, there was some in that fic!), and one of my American friends who loves the sport was brilliant! She helped me out no end!

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Oh, absolutely.

Same here. I probably could if I sat myself down and made a point to plot a story. But, that's also now how I function so I'm not sure how well it would go. :D

Thanks for the support. I guess we'll see - I have an idea and I need to get some of it out before I know if it will go anywhere or not. I know enough about the game itself, I think, I just have no idea about any of the other stuff. Oh well. That's never stopped me before I suppose.