ATTF: Team Delta Assemble!

[inkvoices]

So it’s that time of year when there just seems like so much to do, am I right? There’s that Secret Santa deadline on December 6th (there’s a submission post and email coming soon), time is fast running out for those doing NaNoWriMo, there the other fics and creative works – all the unfinished ones, and the in progress ones, and the ones that you really wanted to finish by the end of 2015 which is, argh, only a month away – and then there’s all the holiday preparations and shopping…and work/school, whoops, can’t forget about that ;)

Which means it’s that time of year when we could all do with some cheerleading, hugs, and encouragement.

Reply to this post with something you’d like encouragement on. If it’s your Secret Santa, tell us how that’s going, if you need a beta, if you need someone to hash ideas out with, or just someone to stand at the finish line waving like mad. (Remember Secret Santa is anonymous, but feel free to continue chats in more detail by PM etc.) Tell us how crazy your NaNoWriMo novel has gotten and if you need some even more crazy ideas to get it done. Post a bit of a stubborn work in progress. Ask for holiday gift ideas. Ask for a group hug.

‘Cause we’re here to help each other out! Let’s wrangle plots, offer beta help, cheerlead each other on, group hug, post drabbles of encouragement and pretty pictures of Assassins telling each other that WE CAN DO IT.

Because you can. Because this is the best bar!

Comments

[geckoholic]

Assassins-related encouragement... hmm. I am ???'ing over my Secret Santa a bit, but also, I have a promptathon fic that I really wanna finish and throw out there but I have somehow convinced myself I can't swing it and I'm unworthy, and also several older ideas I have no time for, and my MCU/616 crossover is also kinda buckling. Basically, my brain is the worst right now. I bowed out of marvelbang too, even though that was a Clint/Kate story and doesn't really belong here, but. /whines

So, uh. Yeah. Encouragement? Group hug? I'd take everything. XD

[sweetwatersong.livejournal.com]

You've got this! Sometimes making confused noises at a fic is enough to make it pull itself together point out the hidden sticking point. For the others, maybe you can do a holiday countdown/fic amnesty leading up to the New Year? Throw together a compilation of 'if I had time this is what you'd get' and 'here's this thing, enjoy what it amounts to' and clear your hard drive that way?

And sometimes, none of the above works, just a hug. So, have a hug too. <3

[geckoholic]

Hugs are very appreciated and gladly accepted. ♥

Heeh. I think I've made confused noises at everything I've ever written at some point, except for the short things I hammer out in one or two sittings. They tend to be rather unimpressed. XD The amnesty and the cleanout are good ideas though; I'll think about that. Siiiigh, why is this writing thing so hard?

[alphaflyer.livejournal.com]

HUGS!!!!!!

[geckoholic]

THANKS. ♥

[happilydancing.livejournal.com]

You can swing it and you are worthy!!!! No, seriously, I haven't read a clunker from you ever.

[geckoholic]

Thank you, that's sweet. :)

[inkvoices]

I think take one thing at a time - I have the ALL THE THINGS issue also ;) - and you'll get there, you will, and you can swing them because seriously, you're GOOD AT THIS WRITING THING. Really *hugs*. The 'can't swing it' part just needs to be plot wrangled, because i've yet to read something from you that you've not pulled off wonderfully.

Clint/Kate has Clint. We'll take it. Also Kate is awesome. You're not the only one who's no longer doing MBB - me and alphaflyer haven't finished our joint thingumajig either. Solidarity! 'Cause we're still gonna get it done :)

[geckoholic]

Oh, I can't even remember the last time I was only working on one thing at a time. XD The problem's lying more with confidence right now, I've been in an enduring "everything I write is shit" phase for, like, months now, and pushing out words regardless is getting harder and harder; especially for the promptathon fic, which is stagnating for no other reason than that I convinced myself it exceeds my skill level. :/ BUT THANK YOU. ♥ If only I could make my brain process compliments like that, which it steadfastly refuses to do.

Yeah, my artist is a friend, she's already made a fancast (marvelbang-that-wasn't is the Kate is the first Hawkeye AU, so she fancast the YA older) and banners and a sketch, so I WILL finish it. Just... not now. It's buckling super hard, and I didn't wanna halfass it just to keep a posting date.

[inkvoices]

I vaguely remember those days. They were less brain boggling lol. Well, if you want someone to look at it and tell you that it's certainly not above your stkill level at all, or look at problem areas, just give me a shout. Otherwise I will be standing over here cheering like nobody's business in the hopes it gives you a confidence boost :)

Ooo, shiny graphics things! Older YA will be interesting to see. Well if it needs more time to be good instead of just in on time then it not being finished is a good thing, because it means the finished fic is going to be better!

[geckoholic]

Thank you, I might get back to that offer. I have someone who I've brainstormed with, but more help is never a bad thing, right? XD You're sweet. ♥

Well, here's hoping that'll be the end result, heh.

[findthesea.livejournal.com]

*hugs you hard* You'll finish MB. Or, former MB. ;) It's too good for the world NOT to see it and I can't wait til you do. I'm gonna cheerlead you so hard, because you WILL get these projects off the ground sooner rather than later, damn brain.

[geckoholic]

You are seriously such a gem and I still don't know how I deserve you. ♥!!

[celeste9]

You are worthy! \o/ I totally know that feeling though, but think of it this way. If you want to write it, write it, because otherwise the world will be deprived of reading your awesome fic. :D

[geckoholic]

Thing is, brain's been telling me the opposite for a couple of months now, and it's getting harder and harder to write my way around that. Blergh. Thank you, though, really. ♥

[shenshen77.livejournal.com]

All the hugs! As for the Secret Santa, maybe find someone to brainstorm with, it might kickstart what you have into what you actually want.

I'm right there with you in regards to terrible brains, though. Mine wants to plot everything at the same time, then I end up doing something else entirely.

[geckoholic]

I have someone to brainstorm with, but right now it's kinda... I gotta settle into a concept/structure? And that's SO HARD with this one. Like, there're two things I really wanna do and I thought I could get them to fit together and I might not, so right now I'm contemplating, like, two gifts, or a gift and an extra, or posting the second thing later, if I can't make this work as I originally wanted to. Sigh.

Nah that's not really a problem for me, if I have enough time to do something else and reset my brain in between I could, like, work on three or four different things in the same day. I'm having a heavy case of Low Confidence Syndrome, did for a while now and it keeps getting worse, and it's fucking with my head, idk. :/