Livejournal Questions

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This actually has nothing to do with the recent drama.

I have a confession to make. I'm a genius. But I'm really tragically stupid also.


-how to put on a header. And why everyone can figure it out but me.
-what a DDoS attack is. Looked it up on Wikipedia. Still really don't understand.
-where everyone gets the equipment to do all the icons and everything they do. Seems to me that stuff costs a fortune.
-how to write short fanfic.
-who Rodney is.
-Henry Jenkins.
-GIP.
-how NOT to hotlink some images. I can do it if the image is in a format Photobucket will upload, otherwise I don't understand.
-how people keep up with their flists.
-how people keep up with stuff like which new cat macro is funniest.
-how anyone keeps up with anything.
-why seraphcelene can't be here RIGHT NOW, I dunno, making pie with me.
-how people find out people are talking about them when said people are not talking to them. It's not that I don't like gossip. It's that I don't understand it. I literally seem to have trouble paying attention to anything not aimed straight at me with a missile launcher.
-why I like Harry/Draco.
-flangst.
-how people not being able to post really isn't connected to the Great Strikethrough.
-how to play most online videos, or dl the equipment.
-birthdays.
-why I didn't find a plane ticket to NYC for an earlier day so I could watch DB with a2zmom.
-Spike.
-betas.
-most emoticons.
-who Jo is.
-what Due South is.


In other news, The Sound of Music in Sparta. (link courtesy imnotacommittee.)

Comments

[redbrickrose.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to write long. I realized this weekend that how long my fic is is actually inversely proportional to its length. I don't know what that means.

I don't know why I like Harry/Draco either.

Jo is a secondary character on Supernatural. Her father was a hunter who used to be friends with Sam and Dean's father. See icon.

Henry Jenkins - chair of the Comparative Media Studies Department at MIT - probably the biggest name in studies of our kind of fan culture. Or did you mean you don't understand the hoopla about him? Either way, Kita's right. See Femme for more.

I keep up with things by having a very boring job that forces me to read porn inself defence so that I don't poke my eyes out with paperclips to avoid writing form letters. I don't know about other people.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

how long my fic is is actually inversely proportional to its length.

I'm gonna have to go with I don't know what that means either. What I really wanna do is strap down a short fic writer like you and MAKE them explain to me how they can't go on and on. But then you might ask how I write long. And the only response I would have would be, "well, I just keep writing!"

Thanks for the Jo icon. I thought she had something to do with SPN but for some reason I'd never heard about her until ...oh, maybe two weeks ago.

I guess the deal with Jenkins was more about the hoopla. Now that some people have gone further in explaining who he is, I understand some of it better. One of the things that puzzled me was that even people who don't have fan studies or any kind of academia AT ALL on their radar seemed to know who he was. I guess that makes sense because they're fans...but I didn't know him.

I keep up with things by having a very boring job that forces me to read porn inself defence so that I don't poke my eyes out with paperclips to avoid writing form letters.

HEE. I used to have a similar job. Please don't poke your eyes out with paperclips, honey.

[redbrickrose.livejournal.com]

Uh. I meant to say that how good my fiction is is inversely proportional to its length. SHORTER TENDS TO BE BETTER. Today at work was long. Honest answer about the short thing? I can go on and on and sometimes I do, but I can't do it well. Plot is not my strong suit and never has been. My style doesn't lend itself to too much length, so when I get long winded I just end up with a lot of purple prose and exposition, so then it becomes all about economy of words and tight writing. (Sometimes I am good at this - sometimes not so much). For people with the ability to, you know, PLOT, I assume it's an entirely different thing because then you have to go on longer in order to say what you need to say. I usually have a fairly simple point about characterization or something that I'm trying to make and dragging that out means spelling things out for the readers in a way that is unnecessary and actually hurts the fic. You do plot well, which naturally lends itself to more length. That would be my guess anyway. I always envy people who can write plot. I have one now that's trying to grow a plot. It has dialog. I don't know what to do.

Sure. I like Jo a lot, but I know she isn't always the most popular character in that fandom.

I will not poke my eyes out with paperclips because fandom manages to keep me distracted enough. YAY fandom. *g*

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I meant to say that how good my fiction is is inversely proportional to its length. SHORTER TENDS TO BE BETTER.

That does make more sense. ;o)

I'm not sure whether I am good at plot. I haven't finished enough long stories to really know. My stories ending up long have more to do with premise. If I ask a question such as, what will it take to make Harry and Draco love each other?--well, that question seems like it would have a long answer. The plot spools out from there.

I have one now that's trying to grow a plot.

Are you talking about your F/A/B/S thing, or something different?

I'm glad to hear your eyes will remain intact!

[redbrickrose.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, I think you're good with plot. Even just reading your Harry/Draco - it's over a hundred pages and not close to done, but it's compelling and a quick read so it doesn't feel long at all. I could never write a hundred pages of anything. Hmmmm. Maybe . . . I don't really ever feel like I'm asking a question? It's like, take my IWRY thing from last year. I had a meta point and that was that IF Angel is going to be with a human it can ONLY be Buffy. Now, how do I say that kind of abstractly without actually saying it in as few words as possible? It's like solving a proof or something. *shrugs* Which is a comparison that would never have occurred to me until I just typed it, so make of that what you will.

No, the A/B/S/F thing still doesn't have much in the way of plot, per se, though it has more than it used to. This is a different thing in an entirely different fandom in a genre I swore I'd never write (RPS) in a style that is completely unlike me. Weird!

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Oh, but that is AWESOME. The few short fics I have written, that is how I approach them. With the initial meta point and drawing that conclusion abstractly in as few words as possible, and it feeling like solving a proof. So cool, because I never would've thought of that comparison either.

I'm not sure if I've offered before and I'm sure you have people but if you ever need anyone to storm your brain with on the foursome thing, I'm here and eager.

Well, okay, is it J/J? Please say yes.

*more hugs for you*

[redbrickrose.livejournal.com]

Huh. The difference between making a statement and asking a question, maybe? I'm sure people write short fics that answer a question or long fics that make a statement, but it is definitely an interesting thought.

Thanks so much; I do appreciate the offer. It didn't need plot so much as structure, and I think I've got it under control now. It's not too far from done, I don't think, which is . . . different.

Yeah, it's J2. I don't even READ RPS that isn't J2 (unless it's Idina Menzel/Kristin Chenoweth). Someday I might even let other people read it! Maybe.

*hugs back* Thanks, sweetie.