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30 July 2012 @ 10:06 pm
Camp NaNo Support Group - August Session  
A few of us were talking over in the Creative Support Group Thread (CSGT?) about Camp NaNoWriMo. The site is here). In a nutshell, by signing up for CampNaNo, you're challenging yourself to write 50,000 words (a novel) in 31 days, beginning August 1st.

Since there isn't really much of a message board system over on site for Camp, I'm just gonna put this here so we have a place to cheer, commiserate, and have fun. (I have plot bunnies - literal little puff-ball bunnies with sticky feet attached to prompt cards - and I'm not afraid to use them**.)

ETA: Word Count Check-In

**If anyone needs them, the blue bunnies are object bunnies, the purple ones are conflict bunnies, the yellow ones are general bunnies (but not General bunnies), and the pink ones are relationship bunnies.
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http://lar_laughs.livejournal.com/: HP - stories live forever[identity profile] lar_laughs.livejournal.com on July 31st, 2012 04:02 am (UTC)
Re: Talk About Your NaNo!
I have the most fantabulous original story idea that has gotten about... oh, I don't know... about a third of the way written. My problem is not the idea portion of things. My problem is the HOOK and the ENDING. Now, I've gotten better at endings, seeing as I've started writing actual stories instead of drabbles when it comes to fanfic, but I can't seem to figure out how to make it all tumble together.

Also, I'm not afraid to admit it but I'm as scared of original as the next person. I love it but it's scary. I talk big and I have a goal (published by 2015! It's totally doable... right?) but it scares me to sit down and write original.

While I've never thrown up my hands and written HP fanfic (although I came SUPER close one year there at the beginning), I have taken the other easy out. I write and write and get my word count and then I stop. No ending. No hook. No story I can show anyone no matter how hard they ask. It's a word file that stays on my computer for years and years and years. I did finish NaNo 2004 only because my sisters nagged and nagged until I gave them an ending and bound it for everyone at Christmas.

All that to say that I love original but the muse stays pretty firmly locked in a cage.

THIS is the first fandom where I have written this much this quickly. The stories play out in my head and I can't help but get them written down. I cut my fanfic eye teeth on HP and figured out how to write a decent sized story in Stargate and now I'm starting to figure out how to just create in the moment. To just be. It's heady stuff!
[identity profile] cybermathwitch.livejournal.com on July 31st, 2012 04:19 am (UTC)
Re: Talk About Your NaNo!
I started out with X-Files fic back in the ninties, and wrote a couple of really short (not great) bits. Same with BTVS a couple years later - I think the Farscape stuff I wrote is the first stuff I was really happy with. For NaNo, I've written Harry Potter, Merlin, and Battlestar - then C/N stuff in June this year. Of all that stuff, the only thing I've posted is a handful of BSG vignettes.

But I agree there is something about this fandom in particular that's really grabbing me. I haven't written this much or this consistently for a fandom before, it's really, really awesome. :D Heady is a good description!