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ATTF: Team Delta Assemble!

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!

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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

Edited 2015-11-27 21:07 (UTC)

My NaNoWriMo novel just doesn't want to be written, been battling writers block when it comes to it-but apparently I can work on one-shots/wip's with hardly any problem, but even now I'm coming up dry for inspiration for one-shots (and I'm so close to the 50,000 word goal that I'd hate to not make it)

encouragement/prompts/rabid plot bunnies are welcome ^-^

Edited 2015-11-27 21:36 (UTC)

So, I haven't finished my MarvelBang but it's because of no time, not lack of inspiration or cheerleading (

inkvoices, take a bow!) The good news: since I already missed the deadline (but I WILL finish it, hoping for end of 2015) I can now focus on my Secret Santa, and this weekend I ACTUALLY HAVE FREE!! Yay!

What do I need help on? Maybe just a pat on the head and some sympathetic cooing noises for all those 60-70 hour workweeks? (This week, for example, NOT A SINGLE DAY finished before 22:00...).

can't deliver any rabid plot bunnies, but the suggestion that you stick a couple of those one shots into the story (as flashbacks? dream sequences? epilogues?) Good luck!

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

HUGS!!!!!!

You are so close! Four more days and you can have the 50k crown within your grasp. I'm fresh out of prompts/rabid plot bunnies (my own NaNo has been eating them like candy), but maybe I can link you to various AU prompts & so forth? Or do you have a saved file of prompts from past promptathons that might be lurking around somewhere?

*shakes pom-poms* You can do it! :D

That is TOO MUCH WORK. Is that a typical thing? Or is this just a busy season for you??

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

My prompt? Smut. ALL. THE. SMUT.

Ahem. ;)

Hello, just wanted to drop in and say hello. At the moment I do need beta readers for stories I am working on (includes Clint/Nat Secret Santa). If you have any prompts or idea you would like someone to write about. You can post them here (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mSPfJJTMXNIvQPfGeFYC44H8EBw13dXCQiHaFhBsbyM/edit?usp=sharing).
I hope everyone is doing well.

Edited 2015-11-27 23:44 (UTC)

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 :)

Okay, what kind of plot bunnies are you after? What's the basics? Or are you looking for the 'and now zombies attack and there's an epic battle that takes up many, many words' type of NaNoWriMo plot fix? ;)

NEARLY THERE!!!!

*pats you on the head, you crazy workaholic lady with the amazing job*

YAY for a free weekend!

I can't help with the beta reading i'm afraid - I won't have the time to turn it around before the secret santa deadline, sorry. But hello :)

I'm suffering from the problem of having too many things and ideas and wanting to do everything at once, so some patting on the head and being told that it's okay to prioritise and make lists, and maybe not finish everything on the lists, would be nice :/

And maybe some advice from people who've posted WIPs on how to handle the panic of having something posted that's not finished? Because I have a uni AU that I posted the first part of because it was meant to be a pinch hit for an exchange, but it grew and now is my first WIP, but that was in August and i'm a slow writer. I have chapter two nearly finished, but it needs polish and some parts taking out that i've realised shouldn't go in that section. Maybe kick me up the butt to get on with at least that before the end of the year *head desk*.

I started Christmas shopping after work today though and posted an ATTF, so that was productive :)

Well, I already wrote the 'epic battle' portion so I'm up for 'characters a & b do something adorable' or even something to round out my Superhero trilogy (I have Clint and Natasha alternately telling the other they're a superhero through funny circumstances ~~thank you tumblr for those prompts~~) or even a 'zombies in space' kinda thing.

Anything that might kick start a bunny lol

I've been trolling tumblr for prompts and some have helped but mostly nothing been yelling 'WRITE ME'

*pats you on the head* it's okay to not finish everything on a list! Do what needs to be done first (or even things you don't want to do to get them over with) so you can get to the good stuff as a reward/encouragement to finish other things up first!

there are a few that I've written that might end up as separate side stories but most might end up in the 'to delete' doc i.e. stuff I'm not completely thrilled with and doesn't fit the narrative as a whole and thank you for the advice! :D

Edited 2015-11-28 01:48 (UTC)

Heeeey GUESS WHO TOTALLY FORGOT THE DEADLINE FOR SECRET SANTA WAS NEXT WEEK? *points* This girl! Fortunately, I have an idea, which laughably I've had in my head and ready to go since assignments went out but I just kept putting it on the backburner. So this week/weekend will be interesting in trying to get that together. Other than that, plodding along on mutli-chapter fic that refuses to stop growing. I attempted NaNo on a fic that I really like but only have ended up with about 16K so far. I'll probably end up posting it anyway, but I really want to finish it and I'm super stuck on the last 60%. Argh.

For me, I found that posting a WIP made me MORE inclined to write. I get anxiety about that stuff (I'm currently trying to hold myself BACK from my most recent WIP so I don't update too quickly because all I wanna do is work on it) but posting a WIP for me was kind of helpful actually. And I know gecko has a WIP that she's updating more slowly, so she might be able to offer some insight. IN THE MEANTIME <3 *all the hugs* and patting on the head.

*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.

OH MY GOD. So, um, I kind of forgot that it's the fricking end of November and that means secret santa time, so I'm now having a MASSIVE PANIC. Don't get me wrong, I love my assignment, and I've had nebulous ideas floating around, but I had 200 words when this post went up and scared me. I now have... 600? So that's something, anyway, but writing is so hard for me this year, you guys. And I have two papers due for school on Wednesday. And someone needs to take away my small fandom bang until the end of the year because it's not due for months and yet somehow that's the only thing I can seem to write these days! Also I'm in the process of trying to change one of my part-time jobs into a full-time job and have an interview coming up in the next couple of weeks, in the midst of end of semester shenanigans, so hello, stress! Hug? *g*

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