Self-Writing, Fest-Writing
Apr. 6th, 2010 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dagas_isaNewish Fic: Five Trivial Side Effects of the Liar Game
Mission: Cheer myself up after a fairly ugly week. Also, girl power.
Tactics:
Outcome: Very accomplished.
Mostly, the Ao3 version is still getting edited here and there as I fix typos and find small ways to improve it. I'm also wondering if I like it better as themed one-shot, or as five short chapters. I put it up whole on LJ and FFN, but chaptered on Ao3.
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So, signed up for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
lgbtfest, and claimed a prompt.
No, not Liar Game. Animorphs, which lol, I was huge into the series when I was younger, and they still have a similar charm today. Plus, the prompt hits a huge sweet-spot of mine besides the nostalgia.
Cultural-implications. *wipes drool from her mouth* Anyway, I have an idea in mind and a structure for the prompt. Basically a look at the effects of the morphing technology on the transgendered community, through the perspectives of five trans individuals, including one who identifies as genderfluid. Two Andalite perspectives, three human perspectives and hopefully a connection between both species at the end.
So far I've been rereading most of the Andalite/alien centered books, as well as the finale to get a better idea of the post-Yeerk Invasion Earth/galaxy.
Wondering if any title featuring a "Blue Box" pun would be too cringe worthy. The Blue Box being the device which grants the morphing power in canon.
Also wondering if I can get it done considering thesis defense is the day before my posting date.
Mission: Cheer myself up after a fairly ugly week. Also, girl power.
Tactics:
- Nao as a POV character (on one hand, it's fun. on the second hand, it's harder than one might think).
- Use the 5 things structure as a way of keeping things light, easy, and themed.
- Demonstrate five small ways her situation has changed her/strengthened her.
- Keep Akiyama out of focus. Two of the five scenarios imply a crush on him, but only in conjunction with other changes.
- More Fukunaga + Nao friendship goodness.
- Bits of recognition glee (the green tea she always serves the fake lawyer, statistics + school "friends", the teddy bear, a reference to a to-be-translated bit, and a 100 yen coin.)
- End on "punch lines," just like ficlets should.
Outcome: Very accomplished.
Mostly, the Ao3 version is still getting edited here and there as I fix typos and find small ways to improve it. I'm also wondering if I like it better as themed one-shot, or as five short chapters. I put it up whole on LJ and FFN, but chaptered on Ao3.
*
So, signed up for
lgbtfest, and claimed a prompt.No, not Liar Game. Animorphs, which lol, I was huge into the series when I was younger, and they still have a similar charm today. Plus, the prompt hits a huge sweet-spot of mine besides the nostalgia.
Cultural-implications. *wipes drool from her mouth* Anyway, I have an idea in mind and a structure for the prompt. Basically a look at the effects of the morphing technology on the transgendered community, through the perspectives of five trans individuals, including one who identifies as genderfluid. Two Andalite perspectives, three human perspectives and hopefully a connection between both species at the end.
So far I've been rereading most of the Andalite/alien centered books, as well as the finale to get a better idea of the post-Yeerk Invasion Earth/galaxy.
Wondering if any title featuring a "Blue Box" pun would be too cringe worthy. The Blue Box being the device which grants the morphing power in canon.
Also wondering if I can get it done considering thesis defense is the day before my posting date.
