Assorted Notes (+ Meta Meme: 30 Days of Shipping)

[+] Because I had the chance to reorganize my USB drive of fic, on a whim I decided to take a look at the original stories I worked on in high school and college. Maybe its just perspective or something...but you know what? They're really not half bad. I had some pretty neat ideas, and you can see remnants of my style (as well as the heavy influence of the novels I was reading at the time, LOL), and the work itself is pretty decent - I knew there was a reason I saved it :) My biggest problem seems to have been pacing, and in that, trying to tell way too much story, way too fast. Interesting that I seem to be on the opposite end of the spectrum now :P

Maybe one day, the original muse will come back, and I can rework these ideas into something approaching good - unfortunately, I didn't keep as good of notes back in the day as I do now (I think I was in denial about how much I could hold in my memory at once, LOL), but it was a nice little trek down memory lane, for sure :)

[+] By pure accident, I found a pretty neat little comm this afternoon, and wanted to share it with my f-list. It's called fandom_of_one, and its a tiny-fandom rec comm that also publishes a weekly newsletter. I'm going to pitch Kids Inc over there and see if I can't rustle up some more fans, or maybe hustle up another tiny fandom or two (though it seems some of my little fandoms are merely little, so much as inactive - the comm's upper cutoff point is 1,000+ fics at FF.net).

[+] I have (slowly) started writing again, and I've finished up another sentence set for 1sentence; right now all I'm waiting for is to have my claim accepted so I can post over there. I definitely recommend these sorts of writing exercises, especially if you feel like you have a million ideas and no time to completely flesh them out, LOL.

And, last but certainly not least...

( Shipping Meme Day 3: Ship that Needs to Happen NAO )