I fail....
13 Jun 2009 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
curiouswombatI not only just fail, I am made of fail...
So -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quinara decided that it would be good for there to be a community for writing Plot without Porn - with a posting window over this weekend. Now I don't usually get involved with 'post to order' communities - but this is Quinara, and it is such a good idea... So back in January I said - 'I'll do it!'
But I've been involved with Brotherhood - which has mostly plot, and only tasteful sex, honestly - and the story in my head for Plot without Porn simply stayed there - in my head.
Then I saw people mentioning it in their journals... Meep! I thought, better get on with it!
So - I went and checked the rules - including the all-important events must progress from beginning to end. To describe one of my own fics, a character walking into a room and catalysing a complicated reunion is not a plot. We want external action, people, not just internal. - and started writing.
Except that I am still only 1,500 words in, and at this point I still have Dawn aka Tindómë in Middle Earth worrying about Spike, and Spike in an unidentified small town in our world feeling lonely since Buffy died, and thinking about Dawn. So - not really past the 'character walking into a room and catalysing a complicated reunion' point - and it is Saturday.
I admit defeat - I fail - I haven't got to the plot. Apologies to Quinara.
And is it more fail, or a reason to not fret too much over not having the story finished, that when I wondered why I wasn't seeing other people's PwP posts on my Friends List I realised that I had never actually got around to joining the community?
Fail, wombat - fail, fail, fail!
So -
quinara decided that it would be good for there to be a community for writing Plot without Porn - with a posting window over this weekend. Now I don't usually get involved with 'post to order' communities - but this is Quinara, and it is such a good idea... So back in January I said - 'I'll do it!'But I've been involved with Brotherhood - which has mostly plot, and only tasteful sex, honestly - and the story in my head for Plot without Porn simply stayed there - in my head.
Then I saw people mentioning it in their journals... Meep! I thought, better get on with it!
So - I went and checked the rules - including the all-important events must progress from beginning to end. To describe one of my own fics, a character walking into a room and catalysing a complicated reunion is not a plot. We want external action, people, not just internal. - and started writing.
Except that I am still only 1,500 words in, and at this point I still have Dawn aka Tindómë in Middle Earth worrying about Spike, and Spike in an unidentified small town in our world feeling lonely since Buffy died, and thinking about Dawn. So - not really past the 'character walking into a room and catalysing a complicated reunion' point - and it is Saturday.
I admit defeat - I fail - I haven't got to the plot. Apologies to Quinara.
And is it more fail, or a reason to not fret too much over not having the story finished, that when I wondered why I wasn't seeing other people's PwP posts on my Friends List I realised that I had never actually got around to joining the community?
Fail, wombat - fail, fail, fail!
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Date: 13/06/2009 10:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 13/06/2009 10:38 pm (UTC)Oooo! Look! Icon!
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Date: 13/06/2009 10:45 pm (UTC)And seriously no worries about the fail - someone other than me posted fic, so I'm calling the whole thing a success! (Don't bring me down, man... /Neil from the Young Ones)
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Date: 13/06/2009 11:09 pm (UTC)It has got me 1,500 words into the story to follow Brotherhood as well!
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Date: 13/06/2009 11:08 pm (UTC)You could probably have gotten away with just posting your icon...