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corrielleDay 14
In your own space, ask for help. Need a beta? Always wanted to learn how to make a vid? a fanmix? icons? Maybe you’d want to have someone cheering for you while you work on an upcoming big bang or fannish bingo?
This is actually quite a serendipitous challenge for today. I've recently been mulling over some fannish things I want to do this year. Some of them are unfinished fics, but some of them are bigger projects that involve skill sets I don't have yet. So, if you have any advice for me as I embark upon the planning phases, I'm all ears.
1. Five Things/Five Times fic rec and archive community.
I have been in love with the "Five Things" fic format for a long time now. I've done it twice myself, and I love how both of them turned out. I especially enjoy "Five Things that Never Happened to..." fics, mostly because it's like getting 5 little AU snippets in a short space.
What I'd love to do is start a multi-fandom community for reccing and posting Five Things fics. The number would be negotiable, of course. If someone wanted to post "Nineteen Times Much Didn't Speak Up for Himself When Robin was Inconsiderate and One Time He Did," I wouldn't be one to stop them.
I'd like to kick the opening of the community off with a Five Things Fic Fest (say THAT five times fast...) where people submitted prompts or titles for optional use by any authors who wanted to comb through them for ideas. After the fic fest was over, I'd like to leave the community open for people to post new fics or recs of fics that fit the criteria.
Here's the thing... I don't know the first thing about moderating a community or running a fic fest. I'd like to end up with a well-ordered, sensibly tagged community that actually gets a respectable amount of activity here. What do I need to know to make that happen?
2. Robin Hood fan commentaries.
For a LONG time, I've been wanting to do RH fan audio commentaries a la Rifftrax. This, I imagine, would involve me sitting down with the DVDs, a microphone connected to some sort of recording device, and a sheet of paper with reminders like "Try not to rant too much. NO PAUSING" scrawled on it.
The thing is... I don't have the first idea how to go about recording mybrilliant insights in a form that will be free of extra noise and easy to listen to. I also have no idea how to get it uploaded to some sort of service that would then allow listeners to download it at their leisure.
I think I know someone with a decent microphone embedded in her computer, but other than that, I'm kind of at a loss here.
3. Operation: Finish my PotC fic.
Last year, in the lead up to PotC: OST, I was participating in the PotC Big Bang challenge that was going on. It was a fic mostly dedicated to fleshing out my head-canon for Groves. I wrote a lot, really liked how it was going, and only had a couple more large chunks to write and some minor editing to do before I finished it. My intentions were to finish before OST came out. And then... I kind-of-accidentally saw OST early, and my desire to finish this particular fic went into a coma and hasn't stirred since.
I want to finish. I've invested a lot of time into it, and I want to be able to post it. So, if someone wanted to poke me once in a while and say, "Hey, you think you're going to have time to work on your Theo fic soon?" in a gentle, non-judgmental way, I'd love that.
In your own space, ask for help. Need a beta? Always wanted to learn how to make a vid? a fanmix? icons? Maybe you’d want to have someone cheering for you while you work on an upcoming big bang or fannish bingo?
This is actually quite a serendipitous challenge for today. I've recently been mulling over some fannish things I want to do this year. Some of them are unfinished fics, but some of them are bigger projects that involve skill sets I don't have yet. So, if you have any advice for me as I embark upon the planning phases, I'm all ears.
1. Five Things/Five Times fic rec and archive community.
I have been in love with the "Five Things" fic format for a long time now. I've done it twice myself, and I love how both of them turned out. I especially enjoy "Five Things that Never Happened to..." fics, mostly because it's like getting 5 little AU snippets in a short space.
What I'd love to do is start a multi-fandom community for reccing and posting Five Things fics. The number would be negotiable, of course. If someone wanted to post "Nineteen Times Much Didn't Speak Up for Himself When Robin was Inconsiderate and One Time He Did," I wouldn't be one to stop them.
I'd like to kick the opening of the community off with a Five Things Fic Fest (say THAT five times fast...) where people submitted prompts or titles for optional use by any authors who wanted to comb through them for ideas. After the fic fest was over, I'd like to leave the community open for people to post new fics or recs of fics that fit the criteria.
Here's the thing... I don't know the first thing about moderating a community or running a fic fest. I'd like to end up with a well-ordered, sensibly tagged community that actually gets a respectable amount of activity here. What do I need to know to make that happen?
2. Robin Hood fan commentaries.
For a LONG time, I've been wanting to do RH fan audio commentaries a la Rifftrax. This, I imagine, would involve me sitting down with the DVDs, a microphone connected to some sort of recording device, and a sheet of paper with reminders like "Try not to rant too much. NO PAUSING" scrawled on it.
The thing is... I don't have the first idea how to go about recording my
I think I know someone with a decent microphone embedded in her computer, but other than that, I'm kind of at a loss here.
3. Operation: Finish my PotC fic.
Last year, in the lead up to PotC: OST, I was participating in the PotC Big Bang challenge that was going on. It was a fic mostly dedicated to fleshing out my head-canon for Groves. I wrote a lot, really liked how it was going, and only had a couple more large chunks to write and some minor editing to do before I finished it. My intentions were to finish before OST came out. And then... I kind-of-accidentally saw OST early, and my desire to finish this particular fic went into a coma and hasn't stirred since.
I want to finish. I've invested a lot of time into it, and I want to be able to post it. So, if someone wanted to poke me once in a while and say, "Hey, you think you're going to have time to work on your Theo fic soon?" in a gentle, non-judgmental way, I'd love that.