Making Light and Pimping the Un-Fic-A-Thon

[liz_marcs]

First off, I want to thank Making Light for linking to my entry on Sen. Santorum, the Black Man from Boston, and Nicholas Scratch. When I checked my email at lunch, I was shocked to see a bunch on new comments on that entry. *grins*

Whoever reported me, mucho gracias.

On another front, soundingsea is holding The BtVS/AtS Missing Stories Un-Ficathon.

The general idea is three-fold:

1. Did you have a fic-a-thon story where the person who was supposed to write it bailed on you?
I had two, actually. But the one that truly annoys me to this day is the Faith-Fic-A-Thon held last year. I was one of two people that asked for a story with Faith and Xander at the center of it (romantic or friendship) during a time period when a lot of people wanted Faith and Spike.

Considering that this same fic-a-thon resulted in Ishmael Sings of the White Whale (which was totally the_red_shoes's suggestion), I at least wanted a story as a reward. It should be noted, that the_red_shoes was not the person assigned to write my request, so all credit and no blame should be thrown her way.

2. Do you wanna be a hero and write one of these poor, abandoned puppies?
Unh, have to say no one this one. Because of the Third Question.

3. Do you have a fic-a-thon story that you owe and owe but need motivation to write? Or are you willing to give it up for adoption?
My Death-By-A-Thon story never made it out of the gate, even though it would be relatively short (for me) to write. So, I'm applying for amnesty. My plan? Use the amnesty for a new deadline and write the thing myself for booster17.

Yes, I am aware that No Myth for the Laugh-A-Thon and Discovering the Truth About the Wizard of Oz for the Pal-A-Thon have been started and not finished. They are already on my calendar for completion after I finish Water Hold Me Down.

In all honesty, I had no idea that writing Water would be so blasted complicated. I think I'll never write such an out-and-out AU again. It's hard to pull off while keeping everyone in character. It didn't help that I just nuked two scenes (not including the earlier "adult" scene which proved why I don't write smut) because they weren't working. That's why finishing the above other two stories have been delayed.

However, my Death-By-A-Thon story (I get to kill Kennedy with Acme products after torturing her into the role of Wily Coyote and making Andrew or Xander responsible and ensuring there's no angst) isn't even on the schedule, so I need to actually do something with it, especially since I have a sketchy plot ready to go. Plus, I figured out how to pull it off without making everyone OOC or bashing any characters or introducing angst.

So go, join the rest of us in either the story you wanted written for you to be written for you, or to claim amnesty and either give your puppy up for adoption or set yourself a new deadline. And thank soundingsea for the idea.

In other news, yes, still working on Water, but my office is unbearably hot. Plus, I've been working late all week.

RL, she is the bitch. But it is progressing. Apologies for the delay.

Comments

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

WooHOO, go you! I loved that post, and want to link to it too in another roundup of Internet Goodies. It was so damned good.

(Oh thank goodness I didn't stand you up after you wrote that great story for me -- I stupidly signed up for some ficathons, suffered nasty block, and bailed on nearly all of them, and felt terrible about it. Still do.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

I have no problems with people linking to me. So no worries. :-)

As for writers' block, I totally can understand. That's sort of what happened with the Death-By-A-Thon for me. I have the plot clear, but doing it is another thing entirely.

Generally, I'm used to being stood up on fic-a-thons because Xander isn't a terrifically popular character outside of limited circumstances (which is half the reason why I ended up adopting him, I think). Not that you can tell that from my FList, which is pretty Xander-centric for the most part, with a side-helping of Faith.

I think this particular one annoyed me because there was actually a very high fulfillment of people getting their stories and I was one of the handful that got nothing. *is annoyed* Plus, it was my first one, so I really, really was looking forward to getting mine and was crushingly disappointed that I never did.

Since then I've learned not to expect it.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Um, Liz? Your "Ishmael" link points to your Santorum post.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Fixed! Thanks for telling me.

<lj user=liz_marcs> fanboy and proud of it

[booster17.livejournal.com]

*waves*

Not deliberately putting more pressure on you, but I did squee severely when I found that you had got my ficathon story. And I'm definitely willing to wait for whenever you can do it - I never had any doubts that you would.

If it helps, I never said anything in the original request about Andrew or Xander.

[rileysaplank.livejournal.com]

I've been involved in two ficathons where I was the only person who didn't receive a fic, so that's totally put me off joining any more ficathons, but might head over and give this a look.

[othercat.livejournal.com]

As "AUs" go, Water Hold Me Down and the other stories in the Whisperverse is really well written, and fun to read, though nerve racking in the way of cliffhangers per chapter ending. I hope to see more stories in this AU.