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[iddybangmod]

IIBB 2017 is on the road and we're ready to go! *vroom*

Part friending post, part support group – get to know your fellow par-id-cipants here! (Thanks to ngeonger for the idea!)

Want to talk wordcounts, inspiration and progress? Swap writing tips? Or just flail over the awesome things you're creating? This post is the place. *hurtles headfirst into the id vortex* This will also be the place for weekly discussions!

Stop in to chat with fellow iddybangers, or see how others are doing on their journey to the center of the id! \o/

Comments

[halfeatenmoon]

HI I AM HERE, WHO WANTS TO BE FRIENDS?

I've come to doubt my ability to finish anything very long, but perhaps if I let the id run wild I can get there this time.

[lobeliakurgan]

I just barely remembered this comm existed in time to sign up! Yeah!!!!

I think I'm gonna try to churn most of this thing out between now and when Camp Nano ends, since the idea I bullshitted out of thin air for this is already more compelling to me than the thing I cooked up specifically for Camp Nano.

[lobeliakurgan]

I feel you quite strongly RE: doubting the ability to write something long-form. Here's hoping we can do better!

[peachesandbones]

My fic sign up is going to be pure porn. I suck at writing porn. I tend to be very timid in my descriptions, and I haven't written kink yet. But by god I am going to try for this!

It's nice that the only person I will really disappoint if this all goes sideways is myself.

[alasse_irena]

I feel you. I have written like, one explicit piece of writing ever, and I'm pretty sure I'm writing kink for this thing.

[peachesandbones]

Hot damn! We are id soulmates! If you need a cheerleader I am here for you.

[alasse_irena]

Cheerleading always appreciated! I am happy to return the favour. =P We can fumble our way through smut writing together.

ETA: I added you, because I can always live with more things on my reading page. =P Feel free to return the favour, or not, as it suits you.

[alasse_irena]

I will be friends! I will be friends with everybody!

Yes, I'm basically hoping that the deadline will push me to get something done; it's been a while since I wrote even a moderately long project.

[peachesandbones]

Awesome! I will add you back!

I never post anything, but the upside of that is that I am a one-fandom woman (Star Trek) and I won't be cluttering your reading page with shit that you may not care about.

[halfeatenmoon]

Yes! Let's do it!

[halfeatenmoon]

Several times I've tried to start an original project for a NaNo event and wound up writing fic instead. Those usually turn out pretty well, though!

[halfeatenmoon]

I'm also INCREDIBLY timid about porn, and I think people will have to fuck in the story I'm writing. Here's to challenging ourselves though!

[badass_tiger]

Woohoo, fellow timid porn writer :D My descriptions usually end up so lacking, since my kinks lie more in pairing dynamics than sexy acts, but we'll see how it works out. I'm not a particularly good writer anyway, so at least if it doesn't work out, it won't exactly be a sudden and random dip in quality, haha.

[peachesandbones]

I am so glad that I'm not the only one with this 'problem'! May we grow as writers, and be smutty overlords by the end of this challenge!

[peachesandbones]

I hear you! Usually my smut exists to advance the relationship between a set of characters instead of just being porny goodness. This bang I will work on changing that.

Subscribing to your journal for cheerleading purposes!

[green]

HI! ♥ We're already friends or at least we're mutual subbed and stuff? HI!

[green]

*waves enthusiastically*

I'm so excited about writing idfic but right now I have several ideas and I haven't narrowed it down to one thing yet. I'm considering pulling a few plot points together and then just going for it. I'm going to be writing Teen Wolf fic, if anyone is interested in that still. The fandom has such a grip on me.

[halfeatenmoon]

Hi! I recognised your username right away. I think we added each other back in bandom days???

[green]

Yes, yay, that's where I know you from! Hiiii!

[badass_tiger]

Added back, thanks! Looking forward to journeying to the id with you <3

[badass_tiger]

Just checked and I've got 20k words down for my origfic sign up. Not that I'm in a rush or anything :p

Meanwhile, I am still stuck at barely 2k words for the Vetinari/Drumknott angel AU. I already know everything that is going to happen, I'm just a bit hung up over the in-between bits, like the bit after they meet where they get to know each other. I'll probably just write the scenes I do know for now and hopefully the blanks will fill in themselves afterwards.

[carodee]

I haven't written anything in years (just lurked) but every once in a while I'll re-read one of my fics and remember that I used to enjoy writing a lot. There's something about the process of creating a small universe that didn't exist before and I did this! :-D So I'd like to get back into it. My life is getting a little more in control and maybe it's time to try again.

This idfic is a prequel to a story I wrote almost fifteen years ago. It was a darkfic AU to canon and I'd put enough flashbacks to the past and clues for the future that I realized I could write dozens of fics to flesh it out. I have added a few stories but not the origin fic and that's what this would be.

Good luck to all the other porny writers. Porn is going to be a good third of my fic so I sympathize.

[de_nugis]

*waves*

Looking forward to idding with you all.

I'm planning on reworking a ridiculous drawerfic that I've been dumping prose into for years. It started out as Serious Fic (though still iddy), and gradually became a porn extravaganza of dubious fix-itness. The first thing I need to do is cut a whole lot of it, because I've been using it to write up any hot-to-me scenario that pops into my brain, and, no matter how much I am supposed to be indulging my id, some of these scenes just can't exist in the same continuity as the others. I will also have to impose some skeleton of plot.

I'm a champion at dropping out of big bangs, but third thirteenth or whatever I'm up to now may just be the charm.

[hellkitty]

Me, too! I'm hoping the giggling stage of fanfic writing is going to motivate me again!

[hellkitty]

I started in fandom writing giant robots. For some reason, I'm less awkward about writing two giant robots banging than people. Mostly it's because the terminology is really tough for me when it comes to humans. I mean, what do you call the parts? Half the time it seems so clinical (his penis) and the other half it reads like bad purple prose (his throbbing love shaft).