A Little B2MeM 2012 Meme Quiz Thing.
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1. Number of responses you generated (WiPs also count).
2. (You can also count up the number of prompts you answered, etc, but I'm lazy so I'm not going to do that.)
3. Favorite card?
4. Most challenging prompt(s) you answered? Why?
5. Number you most wish had been called, but wasn't?
6. You're still going to write it, right?
7. Most fun prompt to write for?
8. What surprised you the most? (About your own writing, others' writing, the prompts, the community, anything.)
9. Which of your B2MeM works are you most happy with?
10. Recommend a couple of things other people wrote that you found memorable.
Anything else you want to ask your fellow B2MeMers? (Because you can't spell "B2MeMer" without "Meme.")
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Date: 2012-04-02 01:48 am (UTC)2. I'm guessing I answering 50ish prompts, but no real clue.
3. My fave card was Alternate Viewpoints.
4. "Thuringwethil and other vampires" (Horror card). This spawned a short-story-in-progress, and the only work I've not posted any of yet. It was challenging because a good vision of Thuringwethil has hitherto always eluded me. My brief mentions of her in my work have usually been intolerable for some reason or other. I did finally hit on a Thuringwethil I really like, but the story requires a lot of work still.
5. The number I really wanted called (B15) popped up halfway in...I'd no other particular number-related desires.
6. But I will definitely be sifting my uncalled prompts to find good ones to finish my Istari novella thing.
7. How to choose? It was definitely fun to write for the I18 combo of “Hawk” (Beasts), “Hill” (Landscape), “Splintery” (Texture); that set the tone for abovementioned novella thing. Can't beat wizards falling off ships.
8. I was surprised to find myself writing a bit about hobbits (and every mention of hobbits in my work was, like, incredibly complimentary...could the little fellows be growing on me?).
9. Of my works, I am most pleased with:
- "The Jay and the Moon," which I wrote largely because it bothers me how Bombur is stereotyped.
- "Istari, circa 1040 Third Age" (hey, at least one knows exactly what one is getting with that title), the WIP that ate my soul for the first three weeks
- "A Water of Cirith Ungol" and "The muddled last thoughts of one Gelmir of Nargothrond," which kept my more grisly muses happy.
10. Recs of others' work? aokyujqmhphmo!!!!1 there's too many...um...this is why I should have been diligently bookmarking.
At risk of looking like an ingrate given the author of this survey, I did love Aliana's drabble (which I now cannot locate) responding to (I believe) "what if Tolkien read one of your works?" Short, simple, to the point, and encapsulates beautifully the interesting relationship our fandom sometimes has to its originator.
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Date: 2012-04-02 02:23 am (UTC)Ditto - this is one of the problems I'm having writing Thuringwethil/Ungoliant slash.
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Date: 2012-04-02 03:12 am (UTC)ETA - by which I mean, that's the idea I finally came up with that I approved of. She was always either a smug asshole or a sniveling kiss-up in her prior cameos in my 'verse.
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Date: 2012-04-02 03:53 am (UTC)I knew there was a reason I liked you.
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Date: 2012-04-02 04:36 am (UTC)*Pun intended.
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Date: 2012-04-02 03:10 am (UTC)(When I look back on this month, I will always remember fondly the Hot!Glacier, and, of course, FINDUILEORN.)
edit: Also, thanks for the drabble shout-out but I hope it did not look I was fishing for compliments. ;) Actually that question was rather selfish on my part, but in that I hoped to get quick recommendations without having to go through, and you know, actually search through all the B2MeM output, myself. Because I'm lazy.
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Date: 2012-04-02 03:25 am (UTC)And no, no it did not look like that at all... I just rather panicked because SO MANY GREAT STORIES and I lacked the foresight to do any bookmarking. And your drabble stood out to me because it also described my own sentiments (about my writing and fanfic in general) really well.
ETA - OH WAIT. I can't edit my original comment (?! *shrug*) or I'd put it in there, but out of the chaos of my mind, one hilarious fic arose: Dead Reckoning (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/38210.html) by Ignoble Bard. Dead Cook = awesome
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Date: 2012-04-02 03:54 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-04-02 04:07 am (UTC)*makes a note to seek this out!*
I'm also eagerly awaiting the Thuringwethil fic - there's this weird fascination I have with her and Lúthien, and she is another underwritten character.... hmmm. :)
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Date: 2012-04-02 04:15 am (UTC)Do you mean Thuringwethil and Lúthien together, or just both of them respectively? Embarrassed to say I don't recall offhand who was doing them as a pairing this month, but I did find that intriguing.
I've no idea how my Thuringwethil fic will pan out. I'm envisioning it as a short story around 5,000 words, but then I envisioned the same thing with Draugluin and now instead I'm writing a story about him that has no end in sight.
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Date: 2012-04-02 10:35 am (UTC)Do you mean Thuringwethil and Lúthien together, or just both of them respectively?
As a very short-lived pairing, of course! And I, er, may have made that one manip to sort-of feature it.
but then I envisioned the same thing with Draugluin and now instead I'm writing a story about him that has no end in sight.
Also intriguing! ^^ *cheers on your writing endeavours!*
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Date: 2012-04-02 05:26 pm (UTC)Okay, that was you who made that...apologies for my memory, that must've been a few weeks ago and it's all a blur by now. For some reason I was thinking more than one person had done something concerning that pairing, but I think that was a slightly deluded notion. Could be I thought that because that image stood out a lot in my mind.
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Date: 2012-06-23 04:52 am (UTC)Yes, yours if like a prequel...that idea really sounds interesting though. I suck at romance as well...romance is just hard to write.
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Date: 2012-06-23 05:06 am (UTC)Finduilas might be half bat, yes. ;)
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Date: 2012-04-03 07:50 pm (UTC)There may well have been a few fics - I haven't read as widely as I liked this month, so bound to have missed a lot.