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[jennickels]

That's like my motto or something.  I swear there is always something I'm "supposed" to be writing and either avoiding or not able to concentrate on.  After theme week at stargateland I'm kind of out of creative juices.  Or real motivation.  Something.  I wrote seven stories last week (very proud of that).  But now I have 2 other projects I'm supposed to work on.  I signed up for het_bigbang  doing a Jack/Sam story.  I have a tentative story idea but haven't put much real thought into it seeing as it isn't due for a few months (yes, I'm a major procrastinator and if I can write 50k words in 30 days I'm sure I can pull this off). 

I also signed up to do the sg1friendathon .  My prompt is: 164. Classic Team (& others if you wish). The world ends, but they're still fighting for another day (apocafic).  I also have a basic idea of what I want to write for this one.  The hard part for me is keeping my shippy fingers off the plot.  I might have to write a non-shippy version for the comm and then the shippy version that I know will want to be written.  I know I can do it.  I've written a few stories that have no overt ship to them (at least I don't think they are shippy).

AND coming soon... are challenges for fictionland which starts... um, today, I think.  Yeah, so I'll be busy, busy, busy writing pretty soon.  But I really do need to put some thought into the two stories I have a real deadline for.  I've really been enjoying all this creativeness I've had over the last few months.  I've learned to write in different styles (*cough* 1st person, present tense) and stretched my comfort zone.  I've also forced myself to write from prompts which I've found I don't hate so much and to write drabbles.  I still have a hard time keeping word counts down but I can now write shorter pieces and finish them and have them turn out pretty good.

All of this kind of worries my, though, with NaNo coming up in, oh... 5 months!  I'm afraid I'm going to run out of steam by November or won't be able to come up with a long story idea especially now that I'm getting better at writing the shorter pieces.  That's making me a little nervous.  I've done NaNo every year since 2005 and I won the last 3 years.  Won as in I wrote 50k+ words.  I still haven't finished last year's story which is also nagging at my conscious.  Sigh.  It's a good story, too, I'm just having trouble finishing it.

Well, I better go start writing start making dinner before the family riots.  No rest for the wicked.

Oh yeah... pimping:


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[jennickels.livejournal.com]

I tend to like my stories with a little ship even if in the background but good team fics are good. :)

I might actually do a second one if I finish this one before all the prompts I liked are taken. My little brain was all a whirl trying to choose and I got first dibs. But I've been wanting to write an end of the world story so it worked out perfect.

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

I'm like that with Atlantis. I don't really have a ship. I just the teamy-ness of it. And only recently got shippy with SGU (TJ/Varro and slightly Eli/Ginn).

With SG-1 I'm all about Jack and Sam.

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

I've only gotten through the first 3 seasons of Atlantis and then various episodes of the other seasons. When I watch I go back and forth likeing Sheppard with Elizabeth or Teyla. But, to me, they come off more as friends but can see how other people can see something under that. But, yeah, not a real ship.

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

sg1friendathon.. eep. *carefully heads over and takes a look* I really shouldn't but... *ponders*

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Very tempted. I'll take a look through the prompts and see if anything inspires first. I have a few other writing projects already, so..

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

yes you should.

bow to peer pressure. Bow, I say!

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

I think it might be okay given that I'm on holidays from the 10th.. but I do have het_bigbang and writers30days to do as well. I'll look through the prompts and if anything really inspires me I shall definitely consider signing up. First though, need breakfast. :P

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

Unless I'm suddenly inspired I'm not doing writers30days this month. I did the last two (I actually wrote all 15 stories last month in a matter of 3 days).

But I also have nothing else going on besides kids and commland stuff. If I was in school, too, I probably wouldn't be able to do much.

When do you go back to school? I'm used to US scheduling. My kids have 2 weeks of school left and then are off for 2 months for summer.

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

I almost didn't sign up for this month either, but I figured I'd try give it a go and see how things are after that. Been going through each of the Firefly chars, so it'd be awesome if I can stick to it 9 months to at least get through the main chars. Don't think that'll happen though. Might skip a month here and there. Always great prompts though.

I go back in the last week of July.. We get off from semester 2 around Oct 28ish and then there are summer classes if you're into that (I'm not; barely function in sumemr) and then semester 1 of the new yr in Feb.

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

Last month I didn't sign up until the half way reminder went up. Then I looked at the prompts and got suddenly inspired. And, like I said, wrote them all in 3 days.

That's a long winter break. When I was in college we only got a month off between 1st and 2nd semester (from beginning of December until beginning of January). At least that was the schedule at my college. Summer went from early/mid-May until mid-August.

My brother's schedule was much different, though. He had trimesters at his school (like many of the school on the west coast) so he had breaks at really different time than I did.

I took summer classes after my 2nd year of college. Took a full course load, too. I remember there was a really dumb computer course because I needed the credit. This was back when personal computers weren't in every house so half the people in the class (many over the age of 30) didn't even know how to turn one on, lol. I breezed through it. And I took a Shakspeare course which was interesting and a US history one (which was my favorite). And a PE (for the credit). I was scheduled to graduate a semester early and if I had stayed in and took summer courses the next year I would have graduated a whole year early. But I quit after that summer. I guess I burnt myself out.

I didn't know what else to do, though. I didn't have a job over the summer but didn't want to abandon my apartment for 3 months to go home (350 miles away). My dad paid my bills for me while I went to class (normally I worked in the school cafeteria but they go down to part time help in the summer and I didn't have a car to get to a job off campus).

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

True. :P I may have to do a rush with the last of mine from round 2 today and post those...

Not that long a winter break. Tis winter now. And June 10ish (differs if you have exams and depending on which subjects you're doing) through to the last week of July.. it's about 5 weeks. The summer hols are the long ones, end Oct (or Nov-ish)-Feb. *shrug*

Summer classes.. true! That computer one sounds interesting lol. And very behind.

Not good burning oneself out. Sort of been doing that this semester. I think I've gotten it into my head to relax and that if I fail stuff I can always retake next semester.

Sounds a bit of an awkward place to be in.. not really many options left open..

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess that sounds about right for winter break. I remember having exams all the way up to my birthday on December 13 and then going back to school on like January 5. We had a pretty short winter break, I guess.

In defense of the computer class... it was 1997, lol. I did learn a few tricks I didn't know but for the most part I just showed up to mandatory classes (he only expected us there like once a week and the class met 5 times, I think). And he gave us a list of all the assignments ahead of time and the lessons were all accessible through the school's server so I only had to go to the library to do my work and his office was in the next building. (I didn't have internet access so I couldn't do it from home).

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

I'm prompt #169, Classic SG-1, Conversations Offworld in Tents.

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

OMG, I missed that one. Must have stopped reading at my prompt, lol. That should be hilarious.

[ami-ven.livejournal.com]

I'm doing sg1friendathon, too- #73 Jack, Vala: Jack has his inside source on SG-1.

Because those two would cause epic trouble togehter :)

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

haha, I thought about doing that one, too. Vala would so get Jack all the dirty little details on SG-1. Epic.