meganbmoore | Prompt me!

Those of you who have known me long enough may remember that around 2000-2001(maybe as late as 2002) I tried my hand at writing. Not fanfic-I gave that up at around 17 or so-but original fic. But then the perils of being an English major with philosophy and psychology as double minors (full minors, not a split minor) took over my life, and I was, at any point in time, working on 2-3 papers for school with no time to write anything for myself, and when I finally graduated two years ago, the thought of writing when I didn't have to gave me hives. (For that matter, I had no time to read. A Regency or category romance could take me a week and a half, if not longer. I remember that it took me a month to read an Elizabeth Peters book at one point. Probably why I started reading so much manga. I could squeeze in time for manga and comics. I also remember that it took me a week to watch the first disc of Wolf's Rain.)

But back to the point!

The last few weeks, I've been kind of wanting to write again, but having trouble thinking of anything where I thought I'd actually be happy with a result.

So, anyone want to give me prompts to see if anything can get me motivated? If fanfic instead of original fic, I doubt I could write anything but canon based gen or crackfic.

~~Somebody could also try to get me to write that Saiyuki crackfic I keep not being able to start where Kougaiji and Sanzo learn that Gojyo taught Goku and Lirin strip poker.~~

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Yeah, that's why it works because it does come across as he just randomly decides to write some things out in more detail, but I also keep thinking "wow, he actually thought of a way to justify telling instead of showing!"

Exactly. :) Telling is a perfectly fine way of telling a story if you do it the right way, and one of the right ways is to make the narrator a distinct, compelling character. It works for Cook in the Black Company novels, and it works for Steven Brust in the Phoenix Guard series, because Paarfi, the historian ostensibly writing everything down, is just hilarious. XD

I've got a book on self-editing for fiction writers but I haven't been able to get too far in it, because it starts with a chapter on Show Don't Tell which immediately makes me ornery and contrary and want to do stories in tell mode. Especially because one of their telling samples in the writing exercises at the end is perfectly fine and just needs a bit more polishing to make it a funny-narrator type of thing.

Prompt me!

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