I recently wrote about recurring posts. Choosing a few of those makes it much easier to post regularly.
If you are looking for writing inspiration, I recommend:
allbingo is a low-pressure, high-inspiration community open to original and fanwork of all kinds. It hosts monthly fests on different themes.
crowdfunding is a community for creators, sponsors, and fans of cyberfunded creativity. It runs a Creative Jam mid-month with different themes.
I have enjoyed Star Wars and Buffy. We are currently watching Blood of Zeus, which seems to consist mostly of Greek eastereggs. :D And graphic violence, but well, it's a modern toon.
>> I read a LOT of young adult and middle grade chapter books along with all ages of graphic novels. It's not required by my job, I just prefer them at this point. I find that YA books are just so much more fun and uplifting than "Adult" books. In YA books, the teens start out struggling with who they are and then experience life to learn and grow and be a better person by the end.<<
I write some of that, not so much in fanfic, but you might get a kick out of Antimatter and Stalwart Stan. If you've ever shipped Clark/Lex or Charles/Erik and wished someone would give them a copy of The Joy of Gay Sex already ... this is that story.
>> In adult books, they start out struggling...continue to struggled...and tend to be struggling/miserable at the end.<<
That's why I write differently, and one reason I support crowdfunding where folks can ask for and get whatever they want, not what some publisher decided to sell. My most popular fanseries Love Is For Children (The Avengers) is all about struggling and actually making progress. Because no progress is boring.
>> My current obsession is all things tabletop games.<<
Cool. We have ... at least a cubic yard, maybe closer to two by now, on the shelf behind me. Call to Adventure is conspicuously awesome -- it's all character development.
>> As for fannish things that I do, I'm in the category of thinking-too-much-about-that-silly-thing-you-love and picking it apart until no one will talk to me (so I post them here). <<
Meta is a legit fill in allbingo. You could find a whole new audience for your meta posts. A majority of the fills are fiction or poetry, occasionally other stuff, so more variety would be great.
I am similarly fascinated by the infrastructure of art and literature. Per Scott McCloud, I write from the core out. So with fanfic, it's derive in, extrapolate out. I look at something in canon, imagine how it got that way, and then consider how that would influence new stories.
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I recently wrote about recurring posts. Choosing a few of those makes it much easier to post regularly.
If you are looking for writing inspiration, I recommend:
I have enjoyed Star Wars and Buffy. We are currently watching Blood of Zeus, which seems to consist mostly of Greek eastereggs. :D And graphic violence, but well, it's a modern toon.
>> I read a LOT of young adult and middle grade chapter books along with all ages of graphic novels. It's not required by my job, I just prefer them at this point. I find that YA books are just so much more fun and uplifting than "Adult" books. In YA books, the teens start out struggling with who they are and then experience life to learn and grow and be a better person by the end.<<
I write some of that, not so much in fanfic, but you might get a kick out of Antimatter and Stalwart Stan. If you've ever shipped Clark/Lex or Charles/Erik and wished someone would give them a copy of The Joy of Gay Sex already ... this is that story.
>> In adult books, they start out struggling...continue to struggled...and tend to be struggling/miserable at the end.<<
That's why I write differently, and one reason I support crowdfunding where folks can ask for and get whatever they want, not what some publisher decided to sell. My most popular fanseries Love Is For Children (The Avengers) is all about struggling and actually making progress. Because no progress is boring.
>> My current obsession is all things tabletop games.<<
Cool. We have ... at least a cubic yard, maybe closer to two by now, on the shelf behind me. Call to Adventure is conspicuously awesome -- it's all character development.
>> As for fannish things that I do, I'm in the category of thinking-too-much-about-that-silly-thing-you-love and picking it apart until no one will talk to me (so I post them here). <<
Meta is a legit fill in
I am similarly fascinated by the infrastructure of art and literature. Per Scott McCloud, I write from the core out. So with fanfic, it's derive in, extrapolate out. I look at something in canon, imagine how it got that way, and then consider how that would influence new stories.