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flonnebonne) wrote2006-09-15 10:52 pm
Blind_go meme!
murinae started it!1) Re-read some of my old fics to see what my style is like, and trying to avoid some of the most obvious markers of my writing. Not that I'm going to tell you what those markers are, nyah. But I think the re-reading backfired because I ended up imitating the style of my own past fics. Euch. I also saw lots of things I wanted to edit in my old stories, so I procrastinated on that for a while...
2) Downloaded anime, but didn't watch it, because watching it would be procrastination! Well...I might have watched an episode of Ouran Host Club. And the Hunter x Hunter musicals. And the Naruto movie. And...okay, never mind.
3) Checked blind_go with a growing sense of desperation in the hopes that the deadline would be extended, and lo, it was! I felt like I was back in university during term paper season.
4) Played Fire Emblem: the Sacred Stones on my GBA. God, I hate Fire Emblem games. But I can't stop playing them. Stupid tactical RPGs. Whenever I'm playing one my life goes to hell.
5) Got a boyfriend. Yes, I was that desperate to procrastinate. But then I broke up with him as the deadline approached. I couldn't procrastinate that much.
Five things your probably never knew about me as a fanfic writer (or maybe you do):
1) I don't think I've ever actually posted a serious romance story on the net. In my misguided youth I may have started writing a sad little sword and sorcery epic or two with serious romance in it, but those pages of my childhood are thankfully buried in my hard drive or in a notebook somewhere. Now, parodies of romances, on the other hand...
2) I love deadlines metaphors. I love the tortured sounds they make as I beat them with a stick...over, and over, and over.
3) I try to tell myself that self-plagiarism is one of the worst crimes that an author can commit. I even wrote a short treatise on my views before abandoning it for more awesome things. Anyway, self-plagiarism is wanky. And you're writing gets stale. Too bad I do it all the time.
4) Description? What's that? That's that thing that non-lazy writers do, write? I mean, right?
5) Sometimes I fear that the characters in my stories are just talking heads who I've manipulated in order to get an idea across. Add this to my stunning lack of description to distinguish the characters, and the whole self-plagiarism thing, and you've got a whole lot of blah same blah.
Supposedly, reading this meme will help you identify my
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blind_go fic(s), but it probably won't help you because I am a lazy bastard and didn't answer the questions very thoroughly. Hah! I win! Now go do the meme in your own journal so that I may profit!
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I keep dying with Fire Emblem games, and then get frustrated an don't want to start the entire chapter over. I haven't gotten very far with Sacred Stones, though I did finish 6 & 7. I love that series, but those games did eat up a lot of time when I was playing them last Winter.
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I think a lot of the frustration in Fire Emblem could be fixed if they would just let you resurrect your damn characters! I don't know why I keep playing. I even played Rekka no Ken twice (once on normal and once on hard). I've only ever played two GBA Fire Emblem games--none of the old school ones, sadly. Or maybe not so sadly.
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I tried FE4, but even the first map was huge. I never finished it. I liked FE6 because a lot of the characters were children of characters from Rekka no Ken, so that was kind of fun to find out who was related to who.
Mm, you keep playing because you want to level up your characters? I don't know, it's kind of satisfying. :3
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Yeah, I'm definitely a levelling-up whore. Not so much in normal RPGs, but in tactical RPGs HELL YES. Have you ever heard of Disgaea? (or any other Nippon Ichi game?) They let you level up your characters and items to level 9999 and stuff like that. It's the funnest game ever. I lost my university scholarship for one term because of Disgaea, seriously.
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Oh yes, Disgaea. I've bought phone straps, t-shirts, and other Disgaea merchandise, but I haven't exactly played the game itself, though I do have it. Even items have levels, so crazy!
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Disgaea is the craziest thing ever. You don't know how crazy it is until you play it. There are so many things you can do that feel like cheating but which were most definitely put in there on purpose. And you can bribe senators! How many games let you do that?
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OH THANK GOD I AM NOT ALONE. I'm like, "Well, everyone will be able to tell it's me, given that they can't figure out WHO I'm talking about, WHERE they are, or WHAT they're doing, EVER." Screw description, anyways: I seldom bother to read it, so why would I write it? *lazy justification for writerly flaws*
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High five, fellow lazy writer! Ha, it would be funny if your fic(s) got identified as mine and vice versa.
My justification is that there aren't many writers who can write description that's worth reading, and I'm not one of them, so why inflict pain on the reader? *lazy lazy lazy*
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::bowls over laughing:: Hahahahaha, this wins at procrastination techniques. XD
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I'm with you on #1 of the second meme. Ha, serious romance? *dead*
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In order to write about serious romance, I'd have to know a thing about serious romance, and as my last "relationship" shows, I don't know a thing. :D