amand_r

Hey, it's time to get a new phone, and I and to get an email and data plan too. I suspect that this will be mucho bucks under my current company, Sprint. Does anyone have recommendations? I pay 60 bucks now, so that's about where I'm looking.

Title: Buy My Fucking Cookies
Fandom: Mander fandom
Characters: Mander, Vstroyer, You, eBay, THE DAMN ASSHOLE WOT OUTBID ME, cookies, the computer
Rating: W for WOE and C for COOKIE (it's good enough for me)
Wordcount: 1000
Author's Notes: I am totes not joking. Warning for butter.
Summary: I HAVE A STORY OF DEFEAT AND TRIUMPH TO TELL.

( She was a baker desperately trying to lose weight. And desperately trying to buy DVDs. )

So my goal was 50,000 words of original short stories,each inspired by a fortune from a fortune cookie. I got the fortunes, I got the files, and the openings, but not one of them is finished. In fact, my nano final word count was well under 5K. But I'm going to finish them all. But I have no idea what to work on. So here are the openings, and if you care to read them, let me know which ones you'd like to see more of, and I can priortise them.


( My nano--opening lines. )



Yeah?

I want to write a novel for Nanowrimo. My problem is that the last time I "won" nanowrimo, I was only 8 chapters in.

This year, I want to do a whole story in 50-60K, and not just the first 1/4 of one.

But I need ideas.

Gimme ideas.

Because I am selfish like that.

I have been looking at a lot of short stories in all kinds of genres and in general fiction lately, and I have come to the conclusion that I can't think of these things. Really, I don't have a feel for it. I can do it in fanfic, but when I think of original ideas to write about, they're always very long.

But I'm good at writing to prompt. This leads me to believe I just haven't figured it out yet. Like a tic.

This is where you come in.

I need story ideas. Short story ideas. They don't have to be scifi. They can be non genre. I tried that generator thing but it's too wacked out. I need your ideas. Ones you don't mind parting with. I can come up with a bunch of my own, but for some reason I'm not writing them.

Sentences, scenarios. Prompts, really. It doesn't have to be complicated or hard.

I promise I'll post the stories here and will not make money from them. This is just for practice.

I want to do several stories in between 500 and 2K, possibly more. But let's start small and build.

So come on. For serious. Help a gal out to exercise her rusty muscles? OIL CAN, BITCHES.

I need someone to beta something Highlander/Torchwood. Just a spag, and if you find a timeline error in the HL side, let me know. I think it's 10 pages. I have about...500 words left to add.

I take back all the mocking I did. I have never seen it like this. If you live in a place that get a lot of snow, feel free to mock me, but I just wasn't prepared for:

SNOWPOCALYPSE 2010

1. Lost power (re: heat) at 2 am. Ate the kid for warmth.

2. I kid, we did that huddle for warmth thing.

3. Discovered all coffee was unground. Used mortar and pestle.

4. No method of heating water. Did you know that when water is hot enough to burn you in the shower, it is still not hot enough for coffee?

5. Drank coffee anyway.

6. Went outside. ( Pics included! )

7. Went inside, peeled off clothes (PLUS: I have lost so much weight that I was able to wear my fleece pyjamapants under my old size 14 jeans. MINUS: COLD)

8. After lunch. POWER RETURNS! HUZZAH! COFFEE FIRST, CHARGE CELL, RUN DISHWASHER.

so I have an email that says:

You have a parcel with the Ups Courier Service United Kingdom,please confirm your correct delivery address to this ups courier address below

ups-post-uk@post.com
Call; +44-70-111-32860

Is this some sort of spam? Or did one of you people send me a package? Is it quarantined by customs? You should know better than to send body parts through the mail. Again. Swine flu and all.

1. This is what happens when John Hart is bored and has access to the internet and the History channel. I don't even know where to start. The reference to the anus as the DEVIL'S ALLEY, the need for a Boba Fett costume? It's all so golden (h/t 51stcenturyfox)

2. PIRATES! WE'LL SAIL THE SEVEN SEAS! WE'LL WEAR EYEPATCHES! WE'LL CUT OFF OUR LEGS AND GLUE ON WOODEN ONES!



3. Thanks, oh flist, for your input over the last few days. I now know that I a) am ready to forge ahead and b) will never to show this to you all. :P I kid. I kid.

4. Heh. Pirates.

5. Trying Ethiopian Yirgacheffe this week. They say it's fruity. I say, where is the fruit? But damn, good nonetheless.

6. I present: 100 Reasons Why Twilight is Better than Harry Potter. Taste the future. Enjoy. (h/t kwanalicious)

And speaking of Twilight:

Kwanalicious: I'd get this for your Christmas present if it wasn't too much for a gag gift.
Amand-r: OH JESUS NO.
Kwanalicious: hahaha
Amand-r: "AND THE LION FELL IN LOVE WITH THE LAMB." OH MY GOD.
Kwanalicious: hahaha
Amand-r: IT'S ALL POETIC AND BIBLICAL AND SHIT.
Kwanalicious: because vampires were totes in the bible
Amand-r: OMG DIDN'T YOU READ THE BOOK OF EDWARD??
Kwanalicious: it's in genesis. Esau "fell on his brother's neck".
Amand-r: IT WAS TOTES BETWEEN ESTHER AND LIKE, JOB OR SOMETHING LOLOR5.
Kwanalicious: lol
Amand-r: "And the Lord smote Edward, saying, 'For the rest of thine days, thou shalt glimmer like the night sky, so that all may see your wickedness and emo.'"

1. I am both repulsed and intrigued. And hungry.

2. We have issues:

Amand-r: I bet Rhys is the occasional cuddler.
Foxy: Rhys, yeah.
Amand-r: with his massive bear paws.
Foxy: MAUL MAUL MAUL
Amand-r: he and Jack should get into one of those girly slap fights with their giant man hands. It'd be like if you and I strapped tennis rackets on our wrists and went to town.
Foxy: LOL that would be excellent.
Amand-r: Raaaaaghr.

Then we decided the world needs more Jack/Rhys with a reasonable explanation.

3. Let's talk for a minute about the SRS. I have a fic in which someone is a paraplegic as a result of Canary Wharf. Oh hell, it's Lisa. Anyway, here's the thing. It's not that she hasn’t made peace with what happened, because Lisa is pretty "this totally blows, and I'll deal with it," but I'm worried about my audience when, at some point in the future, through a series of timey wimey stuff, Lisa regains her ability to walk.

This is not to say that I think that paraplegia is something bad in the sense that those with it are less. But I I'm just going to be honest about myself-- if I lost my ability to walk and then was given the opportunity to do so again, I would jump at the chance. I can't imagine a situation in which I wouldn't. And this is not, I repeat not, similar to someone from the Deaf community deciding not to gain the ability to hear, because Deafness isn't a "disability" the way that paraplegia is from a medical standpoint, in most cases, I gather. And I don't even really like the word disability, but transable, maybe. But nonetheless a transability that some people were not born into, and if given the opportunity, might choose to give up to return to their old form. Does THAT make sense?

I just want to gauge reactions, because I don't know how people will feel about this. I think it's a logical set of reactions on her part, and how she approaches it will be how others in the fic approach it. On the other hand, no matter how much research I do, I am not a paraplegic, and I cannot speak for them. I have been spending a lot of time on transabled.org and other sites to look into BIID. And I'm still pretty confident that this can be done with grace. It is a very science fictiony plot, because, hello? TORCHWOOD, but I don't want to make it seem as if I'm not looking at all the angles.

If you are transabled and have an opinion, please email me, if I could please pick your brain, or you know, if you have more info than I do, or personal experience. My flist is awesome like that. You could also put it in the comments below.

On the other hand, I was thinking about it again, and I might not even be necessary in the story. The walking. Hrm. I mean, it can go either way, actually. Hrm. Now I am torn.

4. Dreamt poorly last night but cannot remember anything.

5. Listening to Regina Spektor on auto play. Yeah, it's going to happen all day.