Today smells like Hinoki wood oil and wool and frost.

[flamingsword]

I need to find someone else who is a slow writer to be an accountability buddy and keep me on track for a WIP, but I am not sure who to even ask about that, since everyone else I know who writes go on the long tears of writing and doesn’t write like, 200 words a week.

And I ache right now, so I’m not going to do much about that tonight.

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[semperviridis]

Sure, that would be great!

I don’t know if you’re in to hard rock / “hair” metal like Verhalen and I are, but the fic I’m very gradually working on is a prequel to Silmarella - although it will have serious subject matter (as well as one of Maglor’s cousins as a hippie in a nudist colony).

But I’m currently stuck in Germany in 1840, and haven’t found just the right tone for the part that I’m writing.

What are you working on?

[flamingsword]

I want to write a Star Wars thing where Senator Amidala talks to Obi-Wan and then spanks the Dark Side out of Anikin. It’s not even necessarily going to be the sexy kind of spanking. She was Queen of Naboo when she was still a teenager, now she’s 10 years older, has been a senator for 5 years, and displays all of the agency … until George Lucas needs her to be helpless to make his tragedy happen, because he can’t stand to come up with a better idea than to make her carry the Idiot Ball?

No. I don’t think so. Not on this ficcer’s watch. I want to write her having agency up to and including taking her husband in hand and giving him the emotional release he needs to let go of the Dark and screw his head back on straight.

[semperviridis]

I love this idea, and I completely agree! Padme turned into way too much of a pushover.

[annathecrow]

Hi, yes, I'm totally here for every fix-it where Padmé gets to save the day instead of the... ~everything~ that was Revenge of the Sith.

...I mean, I can kind of see where Lucas was going, with the inevitability of the tragic end kind of thing? It's just that in the span of one movie that also needs to include all those lightsaber duels, there isn't enough space to tell that story without someone ending up looking useless, and unfortunately Padmé is the main victim of that.

ANYWAY. Ahem. I have Prequel feelings.

That tangent aside, are you still looking for an accountability buddy? I'm currently struggling through a longfic and it's pretty demoralizing, and I think I could use someone to suffer together with. I guess I probably average a bit more than 200 words a week, but it might not be much more than that, ouch.

[flamingsword]

In my opinion, the more the merrier as far as cheerleading and accountability. How to handle this though … 🤔

If I set a reminder alarm for … (*checks schedule*) … Tuesdays? Would Tuesdays be okay? Or Friday evenings? And I can make a post or comment on people’s journal or y’all can comment on mine? Wait, surely there is already a community for this.

BRB

[flamingsword]

Wait, derp, I am already in a WIP cheerleading community!

If you want to congregate there, we could post our weekly word count and talk about the problems and process of our writing? We’ll just pick a rough date and time and see what we come up with. And hopefully I dust off my cheerleading skills, which are quite rusty.

What is your WIP about? And in what fandom?

[annathecrow]

You making a post on your journal and we all coming to comment sounds good! I used to do accountability partnerships through email, which was good in the "not getting forgotten" sense, but if you use a unique tag we can track the post and get email notifications, so that'd work practically the same.

Both Tuesdays and Fridays would work for me I think.

[flamingsword]

you_did_the_thing is a community for cheerleading that will ask people where they’re at on their projects on Mondays, and we can comment on that anywhere in the week. It just went live, and it sounds kind of like what I was hoping for, since it will have multiple folks at my level of slow writing.

Would you like to do stuff there? Or we could do a tag for this here, if you want to track a tag, which I will have to look up how to do.

[annathecrow]

Moving on to the comm sounds like a good idea. Less work for you, and as you said, the more the merrier.

I've requested to join, so... see you there on Monday? :D

[flamingsword]

Yaaay!!

[flamingsword]

I remember 80’s hair metal, but was only into the stuff I could understand the lyrics to, which wasn’t a very big subset. But I can look up some examples if you want to name a few?

[semperviridis]

Well … the first chapter of Silmarella features the song “Shake Me” by the band Cinderella, and Verhalen’s squad have replaced the members of the band to become Silmarella.

The second chapter appropriated the song “Shoot From the Hip” by the band WASP.

And Verhalen has a running joke about Maglor being a KISS fan.

I mean, I could go on more, but I don’t want to torture you. 😆