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[tarotgal]

I've got stories coming at me faster than I can write them. Monday I started 3 new Obi fics. Just- BAM- started them. It's insane. I've NEVER had this many plot bunnies begging for attention at one time before. I didn't want to mention the Obi stories for fear that they were shy bunnies and I'd never get them written... but at this point, anything I can think of to get them to stop multiplying at this point would be great. I started the sequel to 'Forced Communication' last week... but I was inspired by Nermal's Qui ficlet on her LJ and I needed to write a sneezey!Obi fic with a lot of fan service. So I started that. And then while I was writing it, a pretty damn good idea for another story (with a PLOT! Gods forbid!!) just started writing itself.... and then, before I even knew what I was doing, I'd opened up another document window and there was a third story going. Literally within 4 hours of each other, three completely different stories had been started. And that's not to mention the other hundred unfinish stories I have or the other *counts* eight stories I have open on my task bar right now. The damn task bar's so swamped I have to arrow up and down four times to see the whole thing. LMAO This is INSANE. 4 SW stories... 5 HP stories... 1 LotR... and 1 Stargate one that's sort of the last one on the stack, though it had such a promising beginning (damnit, that's what always happens when I start an allergy fic... I just never have the same passion for them as cold fics... but given that I haven't finished my sick!Daniel fic EITHER I shouldn't be complaining)
Anyway... the stories are going very well... but fast... and coming at me way too fat... I swear, now I know exactly why they're called plot bunnies. They not only inspire ideas that blow up into great stories, but they're literally expanding in number right in front of my eyes. I need some plot bunny birth control.
Oh, and I think I'm going to write a 10th Kingdom fic this week for my Friday Fic. It's the 4th anniversary of the 1st airing of the miniseries on tv, and I just can't resist. Every year people on one of my 10thKingdom lists rewatch the series on the dates it first aired (Feb 25-March 5) and I've never done that before as invariably I accidentally watch it a month earlier and it's hard to sit through a 10 hour mini series, then start it again from the beginning days later. Well, not so much hard as emotional. I HATE Wolf at the beginning of the miniseries and by the end I've SO fallen in love with him and want to play Hide and Seek and OOHHHHHH!!! Yes yes! A Hide and Seek fic!!!! Perfect opportunity for a sneezing while hiding situation- I haven't written one of those in years. Oohhhh *wants it to be Friday now!!* Anyway, so, yeah, by the end of the series I adore Wolf so to start again at the beginning so soon after... it just doesn't feel right because I don't hate him as much as I should. Watching something that's 10 hours long... it just... it puts you through so many changing emotions... I grow right along with Virginia... and starting over right after ending sort of ruins that journey. Anyway... oohhhh Hide and Seek... DAMNIT! New plot bunny! See? They're fuzzy and cute and wonderful but horny!

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[(Anonymous)]

"Plot bunny birthcontrol?" You're hilarious! But Oooh, more fic? Wow! Sounds great! I wish I had time to write or improve my writing, but I have so much work, including history studies and french studies that simply must be attended to. Oh well, so much work and so little time, not to mention there are 2 Queer as Folk Episodes just waiting for me. Sigh. Ethan...Speaking of, I love the Ethan ficlet that you wrote, it's adorable, and ohh makes me want to watch more of Ethan now! LOL.

[tarotgal]

Oohhh oohhhh! So does that mean that you bought the QAF season 3 DVDs??? Nowhere around here has 'em so I have to drive into the big city this weekend (an hour away if I take the interstate) to go to Best Buy for it. I'm not entirely excited about it since it's only 14 episodes and a music video (all of which I already have on my comp) but there's another almost 3 hours of other stuff... and there's no question that I wouldn't buy it. It's just not on my "Drive all the way to the big city right now and get it" list. But how is it? Black? Pretty? Full of cute sexy boyos? :-)

heehee, Ethan :-) He's SUCH a romantic. I'm totally taken in by him at the beginning of that season. Ach. I want an artist for a lover SO badly. It's SO annoying to be dating someone who has no idea about art. He just doesn't get my compulsion to write... or how incredible it is to create things... or how true inspiration feels... or how I look and listen to things on a whole other level from normal people. There's SO much passion and excitement and intensity... och, I totally want an artist as a lover :-) And Ethan is just SO fantastically adorable. heehee! Glad you liked the fic! I wanted to write it as soon as I could because I knew eventually it wouldn't last. I just like Brian/Justin too much :-)

As for the plot bunnies... I wish I had time NOT to write! But they won't leave me alone, I tell you. They just sit at the back of my head, demanding I write them out! heehee The inspiration to write only seems to hit the hardest when I'm the busiest :-)

[(Anonymous)]

Oh it's the greatest, I've seen 4 episodes, and I'm so stoked! Emette and Ted are a little squidgy at first, and I'm a little disappointed that Ethan isn't in it too much, but it's so great! I love Michael, he started out a little angry at Justin, but by Ep. 3 and 4, he's just such a sweetie again!
I should start hanging around music halls and academies, anywhere to meet an artist boy! Lol.
~A

[(Anonymous)]

Oops forgot to sign.
I wish it was friday too. *SIGH*
~A

[ladymiriamele.livejournal.com]

Plot bunny birth control? Does that mean there is also artificial-plot-bunny-insemination? Because I could use some of that... ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Oooohhhh - you do this to me on purpose! Forcing me into the fanfiction derived equivalent of salavating for these referenced fics (though I'm rather unsure of what that is, I'm sure I'm doing it...:) Three Obi! Three! Do you have any idea how lovely that thought is? Muy. So much so that I've invoked the power of two languages. Lo que es muy marvilloso.

And then the Harry Potter fics! Sirius? Remus? Jamie? Harry? :) Mmmm...Oh, prospects! Happy happy joy joy. First sneezey QE Thom and now...life is good.

Insanity is, in my opinion, a rather desirable thing.:) At least, I'm glad you possess it if it means the creation of more of your wonderful fics.

-c

[vatergrrl.livejournal.com]

tg --
I dunno if you've ever read the magazines The Writer and Writer's Digest, but I highly recommend them. Writer's Digest tend to be more commercial, "sell your work here" articles everywhere, while The Writer has (or used to have, I have not read it in a loooong time!) down-to-earth articles by published writers about genres, plots, characters, pacing, and what have you. Your college or community public library might have old issues of either, and the articles from The Writer never seemed to become dated over time.

The other thing you *might* want to consider is flipping through The Writer's Market, though that worthy tome is more about marketing your work than wirting it. OTOH, maybe getting a feel for how the various genres and markets define themselves (small literary journal versus SF/F novel publisher versus Harlequin/Silhouette mass-market romance) might help drive your fiction in a certain direction.

'Course, I'm mostly talking out of my hat, as I've only ever had a few poems published in college literary mgazines. My fiction is something I keep confined to the web, and then only under my pseudonym! That, and i'm not sure I could really plot something if my life depended on it.

E- me if you'd like to chat more about the vagaries of writing for publication. I'm just in the soup with a few published-author friends, and they blab every once in a while about "the industry" and creative writing classes.

--VG