2011 will be my year of writing -- I hope

[slumber]

Random Writing Babble

I was reading an old application for a game -- think June 2008, almost exactly three years ago -- and realized that a phrase I used to describe my character's appearance back then is almost exactly the phrasing I used to describe a character in a fic I wrote this year. Granted, I was thinking of the same man while I was writing both, but the semi-self-plagiarization probably means I'm a little too used to using the same turns of phrases or something.

Blergh.

Read a couple of posts recently about POV and epithets too, things I'm not normally aware of when I write, and yep. I've been very recently guilty of them.

Double and triple blergh.

Glompfest Beta?

Due to alaana_fair's not-so-subtle pimping, PLUS the availability of an awesome prompt that I just couldn't say no to, I signed up for Glompfest. Which is funny, because I actually checked, and I have a total of two Harry/Draco fics in my archives, ahahaha. Also, don't look, because I'm not proud of either of them.

Anyway. Almost a third of the way through, and I was wondering if anyone on the flist would like to beta? It will probably be under 5,000 words. I hope.

Het Big Bang Tips and Beta?

I signed up for het_bigbang with a Slytherin-based plot in mind. It's 25k minimum, due September 20th or something close to that date, and I'm not allowing myself to start it until Glompfest gets done. I know 25K is peanuts to some of you (and you have my eternal admiration), but I've never written anything over 10,000 words. So. I need some help? Possibly a beta who will help point out plot holes, iron out loopholes and what-have-you, and then proofread along the way, if someone has the time. And if you've participated in a big bang before...

What generally works best in terms of outlining/planning so you know you'll reach 25K? How do you determine whether or not you have enough of a plot to make the minimum, but not too much that it goes way over? (I don't want to be unable to finish it, since deadlines seem to be my only motivation for writing things.)

General words of wisdom? Advice? Writing habits that really help and writing habits that really don't?

Thanks. ♥

Comments

[perculious.livejournal.com]

That's fine! :D

Also! Before I started the Fic That Ate My Life last year, although I HAD done Nanowrimo, I had never before written a fic that was over 8000 words. And it was fine! So just, you know... write a lot.

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Urgh, now I just have to finish it. :|

I think with under three months to write and a legit outline, I can probably do it? Most of the stuff I've been writing now have been getting surprisingly long and so I don't think it's a completely horrible stretch of the imagination to hope that I could write something 2.5x longer. Getting the plot figured out is probably my biggest concern right now, because the more I put it off the less time I have to write it, haha.

Wait, idgi. Did you write many different fics for Nano to get to 50k before you did that 64K fic?

[perculious.livejournal.com]

Yes, do it! :D

I wrote all original stuff for Nano. I'd never written long fanfic before.