Fanfic Writers' Virtual Water Cooler

[Sealurk]

What is this about timeshare muses ??

Ask Sealurk.

SF_and_Coffee and I appear to share the same muse but not at the same time (all those transatlantic flights... I don't envy her). Whenever SF&C is writing, I'm generally not doing very well with mine, and vice versa.

Additionally, email and IM conversations have proved that we share the same mental wavelength more often than not, which is what makes me think there's a 'one muse per consciousness' rule in effect somewhere and there's enough overlap that whatever authority assigns muses confused us for a single mind.

Which can be somewhat annoying...

[Gatefan1976]

SF_and_Coffee and I appear to share the same muse but not at the same time (all those transatlantic flights... I don't envy her). Whenever SF&C is writing, I'm generally not doing very well with mine, and vice versa.

Additionally, email and IM conversations have proved that we share the same mental wavelength more often than not, which is what makes me think there's a 'one muse per consciousness' rule in effect somewhere and there's enough overlap that whatever authority assigns muses confused us for a single mind.

Which can be somewhat annoying...

So who is Harry, and who is Voldemort??

[Princess Awinita]

*lifts head from desk and looks about for a harder surface*


Ask Sealurk.

*for harder serface recommends the Encylapedia Bretannica vol 19 Esperanto to Felis Sapienis*

Asking..... Answered...... still confused.....

thinknig on the same wavelength I can understand, I've scared several people twice over because of that alone. Too many parallel plotlines interweaving....

[SF_and_Coffee]

When I think of muse's, I think of Dogma

I think of Xanadu.

[Starfist]

Muses... Xanadu...

Olivia Newton John... She was a childhood crush... :: Blushes ::

[mathpiglet]

Anybody else ever started writing something and quickly come to regret starting it?

I'm currently working on the next episode of Stargate: Ragnarok, and it's proving... challenging. Admittedly it's quite rewarding too, which is good because I need all the motivation I can grab hold of to keep working on it. It's quite different to all previous episodes, which was my intention because I wanted to flex my writing muscles a bit more, only now I'm wondering if I've possibly pushed myself a little too far.

IF it pays off and works out, it should be a very good and memorable episode. Emphasis on the 'IF'.

Just wondering if I'm alone on this or if others have started writing things that ended up much more difficult than expected.

Yep. Some occupy a folder on my hard drive ( and backed up on my network drive) to be re-evaluated at a later time.

[SaraBahama]

Anybody else ever started writing something and quickly come to regret starting it?
Just wondering if I'm alone on this or if others have started writing things that ended up much more difficult than expected.

In a word: yes.

But don't let that discourage you: because it is difficult does not mean it is insurmountable.
at least that's what I keep telling myself...

SF_and_Coffee and I appear to share the same muse but not at the same time (all those transatlantic flights... I don't envy her). Whenever SF&C is writing, I'm generally not doing very well with mine, and vice versa.

Additionally, email and IM conversations have proved that we share the same mental wavelength more often than not, which is what makes me think there's a 'one muse per consciousness' rule in effect somewhere and there's enough overlap that whatever authority assigns muses confused us for a single mind.

Which can be somewhat annoying...

Well...you could take out a restraining order against SF...but methinks that might put a strain on your author/beta relationship...and get kinda awkward.

An example (not written my me!) is

One
Small,
Precise,
Poetic,
Spiraling mixture:
Math plus poetry yields the fib.

Very neat! Thanks.

[Selj]

Hey there. Sorry if I'm stepping on any toes here-please let me know if this isn't an appropriate place to post this message:

(Please see link for complete details)

http://transformativeworks.org/urgen...-sites-deleted

"Fanlore is appealing for help in an urgent effort to assist fans affected by the disappearance of free sites on FortuneCity, an early Internet website provider that hosted many personal fanfic websites and small archives due to its free accounts. In conjunction with the more clearly communicated Geocities fadeout a few years ago, this action on Fortunecity's part has meant the loss of another chunk of fannish history."

[...]

"Fanlore is hosting the website addresses of the now deleted sites. Knowing the addresses to old sites gives fans searching for them a chance to recover and access the content once held there by going through the Wayback Machine."

This is a message for any authors out in the SG fanfic world that may have had sites on FortuneCity.com (I don't think there are too many left-many have probably reposted their fics elsewhere or have moved on from this fandom), as they may not have been notified. Any authors not down with this effort can contact Fanlore to remove their links (I believe).

This is also a message to any volunteers (with some times to kill) willing to search for FortuneCity.com SG fanfic sites (the SG-1 fandom has not yet been claimed). If anybody is interested, please see the link posted above for instructions (and advice for easier searching). Volunteers should be willing to seek out sites with all types of fic (multiple ships, gen, etc.). Time is of the essence here, and any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks!

[Starfist]

Hi all,
At the convention I went to last weekend I gave each of the female guests a poem that I wrote. Would anyone like me to post it here?

[SaraBahama]

This is the watercooler...share away...

[Starfist]

Ok. Here it is. It was read out at the convention by Elyse Levesque aka Chole Armstrong in SGU during the panel with Alania Huffman on the Sunday afternoon.

Someone Out There.

If words were easy
If I never blushed
I think I'd find it easy
To say I'd found someone
To love

But to me
Words are never easy
And I'm bound to blush
I'd never find it easy
To say I'd found someone
To love

So I've put Pen to Paper
To help ease my heart
And fears
Because I know
Out there somewhere
There's someone
To wipe away any tears

I hope to find that someone
I hope it won't take long
Because I know
I'd love her
And to me
She'd do no wrong

[fems]

Just saw this post from GateFic Awards:

Hey, gang, it's us. Yeah, we know: long time no see. Things have been really really busy for us this year in that evil realm known as "the real world", and so your GateFic team hasn't been able to promote this year's awards as we should. So... we have options. We can either push this year's awards back to later in the year--around November, maybe--or change the format entirely. Thoughts?

I'm not sure what they're gonna do, hopefully they'll just postpone and it will still happen this year but thought I should share as I'm sure many people won't read this. I didn't know much about them until last year's voting rounds but I think it's a great way to show how much you enjoy your favorite fanfics, -art and -vids.

[Princess Awinita]

Just saw this post from GateFic Awards:

I'm not sure what they're gonna do, hopefully they'll just postpone and it will still happen this year but thought I should share as I'm sure many people won't read this. I didn't know much about them until last year's voting rounds but I think it's a great way to show how much you enjoy your favorite fanfics, -art and -vids.

How exactly does the gatefic awards work ? I mean, are there categories to place your submission are exisiting stories allowed, what about older stories that a write wrote and just wants to share ? I got an old series, Ascension War, I'm trying to start up the third story in the same series, haven't stouched the series in almost two years since I finished the second story

[fems]

How exactly does the gatefic awards work ? I mean, are there categories to place your submission are exisiting stories allowed, what about older stories that a write wrote and just wants to share ? I got an old series, Ascension War, I'm trying to start up the third story in the same series, haven't stouched the series in almost two years since I finished the second story

One rather important rule is that you're not allowed to nominate your own work. For the rest there are various categories and older stories are allowed to be nominated (by people other than the author) as long as they've never won a GateFic Award before.

There are different categories (Gen, Het, Slash, Other), shows (SG-1 and SGA, perhaps SGU too) and crossovers, characters, pairings and subcategories (genres). From what they told me last year it's also dependent on what kind of nominations they get; sometimes that means a fic is put under one category while the author themselves thinks another is more fitting, for example. That means it's possible one category suddenly disappears.

Length of stories and ratings aren't separate, at least they weren't last year; some novel lengths were competing against 'normal' lengths (and probably to short ones too) and mature fics could be going up against K-rated ones. But it's possible those things are changing this year. If I were you I'd just check it out to nominate your favorite fics/arts/vids and then you'll see what happens.

Nomination Guidelines

1. Nominations may be for fiction, art, music videos, or other transformative works.
2. Only works based on Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Universe, and any movie prequels and/or follow-ups are eligible. Any crossovers must primarily focus on characters from one or more of the Stargate series. Real Person-based works are ineligible.
3. Works which have previously won a GateFic Award are ineligible for future awards. Works which have won other fandom awards (Stargate Fan Awards, Blue Moon Awards, Isis Awards, etc.) are eligible provided they pass other eligibility requirements.
4. We will not accept nominations for works-in-progress. We will, however, accept nominations for completed stories that exist within an incomplete or on-going series.
5. We will not accept nominations for works which contain child pornography.
6. Professional authors, artists, and videographers are eligible for nominations, but professional publications are not. Please do not nominate official tie-in novels, audio dramas, or short stories published in the official magazine. Likewise, any art or videos published in a professional capacity are also ineligible.
7. Self-nominations are prohibited, as most participants believe they diminish the honor of the nomination for all other works. Any nominations believed to be self-submitted will be discarded, which includes nominations made by a spouse, partner or other person who is not a regular participant in fandom. Campaigning for nominations or votes is in poor taste, and may result in a temporary or permanent ban from the awards.
8. Nominated works must be in English, or a translation must be provided. We would love to be able to offer a truly international experience for our voters, but we feel a common language is necessary in order to provide all nominated works with a "fair chance".
9. Nominators are encouraged to provide as many details about the submission as possible, in order to facilitate categorization of the work by our team.

[Falcon Horus]

Not a fan of fic awards... *shrug*