Stolen from... zinke? maybe?







Sadly, this is me. And yes, I do mean sadly. Say what you like, but I am tired of being the optimist and the 'nice one.' For once I'd like to be the outspoken bitch. I'm not sure I have it in me though. Sigh.

I am bored beyond belief, so I'm stealing from Bex, who stole from Priya:

Ideas: Where the hell do they come from? Can you make those little fuckers show up?
Mostly if I see an episode of something and it just niggles like hell at me. Then I'll feel the need to explain/figure out what it is that seems off. Also? I dream a lot of my ideas. Don't ask.

Wild horse-bunnies: When a story just gets pulled right out of you. Do you get them?
Yes, oddly. See the aforementioned dreams. Of course, there's also the tortuous ideas that take eons to get right on paper too.

Writer's block: Have you been scourged?
Yes.

Clean up duty: Do you like editing?
Oddly, yes, I do. I like editing for others, and I like fixing what is pointed out as inconsistent or incomplete in mine. I'm insane and I know it. *g*

The ending: Is it hard for you to find the ending?
Always. If I am lucky, my beta suggest a way to end things cleanly instead of schlock-ily like I tend to.

The title: Where do you get yours? Do you have yours when you start the story?
HAHAHAHA. I'm even worse at titles than endings. I beg my friends to help me and then usually settle for something trite and boring if they can't come up with something. Although for the handful of Andy fics I have, I've used bits from Bird York songs. *g*

Plot: If you plot out your stories first, raise your hand.
::hand stays firmly against the keyboard::

POV: How do you choose your POV for a scene? For a story?
I just start writing and whatever comes out naturally is the one I use. I also have a tendency to switch occasionally mid-story. In those cases, I either chop the story into semi-chapters so I can use multiple POVs or restructure the parts that use the less dominant POV to match the most dominant one.

Challenge: Do you like them? Do they inspire you?
Sometimes. This years bubblefic one is kicking my ass, though. I think I need to take the nanowrimo approach to it and just write without editing and cobble the 'good' bits together when I am done.

Sex: Do you like writing sex?
Sometimes? Sometimes it comes out sounding awful and I cringe. Sometimes it flows sweetly and I am happy with what I created.

A meme gacked from Clr, gacked from Raedbard…

( Apologies to the fictional characters for the abuse you have heaped on them in the last year/period of time/last week/etc. )

yanatya and caz963 are love. They know why, but I felt the need to say it publicly. You were both absolutely right and my brain is churning with ideas.

Speaking of Caz? She requested I do that "5 Men I'd Shag Without Hesitating" meme a while ago and I couldn't come up with 5 men who I'd do without reservations of at least some sort. But I am happy to say that after this weekend? Jamie Bamber is firmly in the top three. John Barrowman and Brad Whitford being the other two. (Of COURSE! :))

Also? I'd like a Donna of my very own right now to whom I can say, "Thank god, there's a pile of stuff on the desk." Sadly, I *am* Donna at work, so that isn't going to happen. Instead, I will scamper back to cowering under my desk and crying at how much stuff there is at the start of each semester and then get back to work.

Sigh.

xyellowroset tagged me for this a while ago, but I'm just getting around to doing it.

Name 5 of life's simple pleasures that you like most, then pick 5 people to do the same. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used. Tag 5 people on your list.

1. A really good cry that leaves you feeling cleansed afterwards
2. cozy blankets
3. holding hands
4. a friend's company
5. giggles

I'm not tagging five people, because almost everyone who would do it has done it already. So in the spirit of others, do it if you want, don't if you don't want. :)

imacartwright, thank you SO much for the rec! I'm honestly amazed and incredibly flattered that you thought to include us. And in another, completely different vein, I'm sorry about the stuff going on with your mom.

And for other people on my flist who have other things going on, I have been reading. I've just... I get sucked into other things and I forget sometimes that there are other things that are more imortant. I need to stop doing that. But rest assured that I have been reading.

But really, what I need to do RIGHT NOW? Is finish some birthday porn. ;)