John, I'm only dancing!

[extemporally]

Do you ever get to the end of writing a fic and go, "Yeaaaaaaah! \o/"? Like, finishing writing a fic is always inherently satisfying in itself, but sometimes the sense of triumph you get from finishing this fic in particular is outrageously awesome. Last night I finished one such fic and had to flail around in happiness for a while because.

I don't know, it wasn't even particularly hard to write. But yay!!! I wrote a The Like story! Keep an eye out for that in the next couple of days, yeah? It was the fic I worked on when I was stuck on all the other (read: figure skating) fics I was working on, so now that that's done and I'm not working on anything else in particular except the ficlets from my prompt post a while back and the OT3 with alex_boylove, it's scarily like starting anew again.

Also, I love writing endings a lot. When I had to write compositions in primary school I'd write really great and long-ass beginnings and sort of wind down towards the end, but right now it's kind of the opposite. Endings are great! Usually I kind of know what happens, but that doesn't affect my feelings of, let me tell you all about it. :)

It's Monday morning now and I had a pretty good weekend. Yesterday, in addition to many other things, I had three oranges and like ten mangosteens and also pineapples. All your fruits, they can be mine.

Also, IT HAS BEEN WHOLE WEEKS SINCE I DID A MEME! What is up with that?

Now, some writers embrace their id and write it all out there, and that can be a fabulous thing. Self-awareness FTW. But often when I'm reading a fic I find myself wanting to tap the author and say, "Pardon me, did you know your id is showing?"

So, a couple of us got to wondering what our fics revealed about us. Hence this anonymeme. Are our ids showing?

Come talk here!

Comments

[lemniciate.livejournal.com]

The ending is always the worst part for me to write! I never know what's supposed to happen, or where it's supposed to cut off; is it too long after the climax, too short, etc etc. XD It's really interesting to see other people having completely different feelings toward them!

[extemporally.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is interesting! I think for me, it's because I tend to have endings which cut away to another scene completely? So I don't have to deal with any of the structural problems with sadly dog the beginning and middle of the fic, most of my endings tend to be something of a "MOVING AWAY AND PAST ALL OF THAT" kind of thing for me! Like, okay self, so maybe the middle is fucked but this story could still be great. One more scene to prove it!! Yeah!

What is your favourite part of a story to write, then?

[lemniciate.livejournal.com]

That's what I always try to do, but most of my endings tend to just fizzle out? I always think it happens too fast after the climax. Of course, this could just be I mostly write for challenges/on a deadline, and by the end I have about 2 hours to get the file sent in. XD

I love writing the beginning! I have to write in order, so I spend a long time on the opening scenes. They never change after I move on.

[extemporally.livejournal.com]

A ha ha ha this is why I suck at challenges! I always get all, "THIS CANNOT BE RUSHED" and end up not writing anything at all after procrastinating a good long while, which is a prime indicator of how much I suck as a human being. :D:

Ooh, beginnings. Usually mine sound pretty stiff because I haven't really figured out what kind of headspace the story needs yet! It gets easier as I write, until I hit a bump and then start sounding awkward.

Also, your icon is extremely distracting. That stupid t-shirt. His COLLARBONES, oh god.