In which I am pulled into a ficathon

[primsong]

I did it. I just signed up for "A Ficathon Walks Into a Bar" - intoabar - in which fictitious characters are assigned to run into each other in a bar. Second Doctor. 500 words... hm... okay, I think I can do that... no one point and laugh later on when I'm going 'why did I sign up for that?', hah. I appreciate a ficathon in which Gen is perfectly okay, so many of them seem to expect a certain amount of what to me is 'squick' that I only rarely find one to sign onto.

Also looking forward to fic_rush next week at the Other Place, in which writers get together to write as much as they can on whatever it is they are currently working on for 48 hours with hourly opportunities to give updates or carry on about it. I'd like to see something like it over here at DW eventually.

Now to NOT sign up for any more fic challenges until these are done!

Comments

[kerravonsen]

I appreciate a ficathon in which Gen is perfectly okay, so many of them seem to expect a certain amount of what to me is 'squick' that I only rarely find one to sign onto.
If I wasn't trying to cut down on ficathons, I would have signed up for xover_exchange (which I only heard of this year); I was very impressed with the sign-up format - not only does it try to be extremely flexible with offering lots of options for prompts, but in the "character/character" section of it, it explicitly states that one isn't allowed to disallow gen for that kind of prompt. Hooray!

I'd like to see something like it over here at DW eventually.
You could always run it yourself.

My favourite "write in a group" comms are picowrimo and writingbuds.

With picowrimo, it runs at the same time as NaNoWriMo (the month of November), but rather than having a huge enormous goal, one sets one's own goal, even if it's as small as one 500-word fic. There are daily posts where one comments with one's progress, and people make encouraging comments back.

With writingbuds, it's a freeform free-for-all; one simply makes a post in the group that one is going to be writing X, say, for an hour, or an afternoon, or "all night until I finish this thing", and people who are up and around and feel like writing too will comment saying that they'll join you and that they're working on Y, and periodically one might comment with updates, and then when one feels like stopping, one gives a last comment with how much you'd written. It's cosy and friendly, I like it. And simply declaring in public that one is going to be writing for an hour helps one stick to actually doing that, instead of putting it off.

[primsong]

Writing buds sounds a lot like the atmosphere I enjoyed so much at fic_rush, I'll have to give them a look-see. Thank you for the pointer!

[curuchamion]

PicoWrimo has a very fic_rush-ish atmosphere too. I joined a while back and am waiting eagerly for November (though not quite as impatiently as when the 'Rush was to all appearances dead).

[dbskyler]

I had to go take a peek and what you'd signed up for, and now I'm rooting for you to get assigned Maxwell Smart as the character the Second Doctor meets. : )

[primsong]

I'm really wondering who will come through that virtual door now - which is kind of fun in itself.

[infiniteviking]

Oh man, that ficathon is starting again? XD;;; And I still have way too much unfinished stuff to commit to a new one.... But it's on my list for later.~

*also looking forward to fic_rush WOOOOT~*

[juliet316]

I have too much stuff to do to sign - up for another ficathon or gift exchange at the moment, but I wish you the best of luck.

Most of us are still wondering what happened to studyofrunning as it seems nobody's heard from her on almost four months now.

[primsong]

I know! The longer it goes the more worried I am that it was something quite serious. :-(

[ex_bel786]

in which fictitious characters are assigned to run into each other in a bar. Second Doctor. 500 words.

Ok, I want to read that! Sounds like it would be entertaining. :D

[primsong]

We'll see what happens! I'm kind of looking forward to reading it myself and I'm the one who has to write it.

[travels_in_time]

I really enjoyed the last round; I had Cal McCaffrey (State of Play, UK version) running into Nelson (Life on Mars, UK version). I'm looking forward to this round, although when I actually get my assignment, you should probably expect some whining and "WHYYYYYY did I sign up for this again?!?"

Over at The Other Place, there's also a comm called "wrisomifu" (full name is rather rude) It runs during November for those who can't do Nanowrimo, and the goal is to write for at least ten minutes every day. They don't take themselves too seriously, which I really like. They have daily check-in posts where moaning and whining is required (the "mi" in the name stands for "miserable") and posting snippets is encouraged, and there's a lot of interaction and support in the comments. I had a blast last year. I hope there's something like that on DreamWidth this year.