Creative Boot Camp, day 1

[elaby]

caitirin has enrolled me in Creative Boot Camp, which for us means that I am to do one creative effort per day for a week. There are several options and rules, such as:

- I have to write at least 400 words, or
- I have to spend at least an hour on writing revisions, or
- I have to draw at least one complete picture ("complete" to be decided by caitirin; detailed busts are fine. Turtles in party hats are not. Unless they're extremely life-like turtles.)
- I am to journal about my Creative Boot Camp experience, publicly or not.

Tonight I worked for a little more than an hour on something from the dark depths of my computer: LotR fic. It's taken me years and years to work up the courage to even write any of my ideas down, let alone contemplate posting them anywhere (eeugh). The one I'm working on now has the most likelihood of seeing the light of day (out of the whopping two I've ever written), and it's still pretty... eeugh. LotR doesn't come easily to me, in spite of how I love it, much in the way that Utena fic doesn't. But I'm enjoying myself and finding my work fulfilling, which is what it's all about :)

Comments

[med_cat]

Congrats and keep it up :) Looking forward to your LOTR fic ;) And I know what you mean--I'm very fond of ST:TOS and ST:TNG but I just can't write 'em ;)

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The fic went better than my drawing did tonight XD

I haven't tried much Star Trek fic, but I think I'd find the same problem!

[med_cat]

You're welcome ;) And yeah, someone else I know on LJ is very much a fan of SH but she said no plot bunnies came out of it...her fics are all LOTR...

[elaby.livejournal.com]

That's interesting! I feel exactly the opposite XD I had such an easy time writing Holmes stuff! Well, "had" being the operative word, I guess.

[coastal-spirit.livejournal.com]

I hope I get to read your LotR fic, whether you decide to post it or not, because I know it will be awesome. *gives you great big wibbly anime hobbit eyes*

I don't think anything you write is "eeugh". And that's not just mother-bias.

I'm glad you're having fun with this.

And turtles in party hats sound very intriguing to me, somehow. *gigglesnort*

[elaby.livejournal.com]

n_______n I'll let you read it, at any rate, whether I decide to post it or not :3 Wibbly hobbit eyes! I cannot resist!

I drew a turtle in a party hat for Caitirin once because she wanted one XD