Snowflake Challenge Day Two
Jan. 3rd, 2016 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stripytights
Day Two
In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts
I always find this one particularly difficult - much the same as with present lists and stuff in general. Talking about things you want is much harder than talking about the things you'd like to give. But after a lot of thought, it came down to this.
1. Is it a cliche to say art? Absolutely, but it doesn't make it less true. Then I remember that I tend towards very unvisual scenarios in my fic and I'm not really surprised. Description isn't my forte - maybe something else to work on in the coming year?
2. Fic talk. I appreciate people who beta for me more than I can say, but sometimes I'd like to thrash out a fic in an early stage and talk it through in a way that can be very self/fic-centred, and I find that hard to ask for.
3. Recs done by other people. I freely admit that I can be really lazy in catching up with all the things I know I'll love, and external reminders can be very handy.
4. And then after all that Victorian swooning over asking for three things, I'm going to include a fourth, because I'd like 2016 to be a year of change. I really want to improve as a writer, and fix all of the things I know are wrong with my work. I don't need much help figuring out what my problems are, but I do need help identifying how to fix them. So concrit and a friendly word of where I go wrong or what I can do to fix it - well that would mean more than I could say.
I always find this one particularly difficult - much the same as with present lists and stuff in general. Talking about things you want is much harder than talking about the things you'd like to give. But after a lot of thought, it came down to this.
1. Is it a cliche to say art? Absolutely, but it doesn't make it less true. Then I remember that I tend towards very unvisual scenarios in my fic and I'm not really surprised. Description isn't my forte - maybe something else to work on in the coming year?
2. Fic talk. I appreciate people who beta for me more than I can say, but sometimes I'd like to thrash out a fic in an early stage and talk it through in a way that can be very self/fic-centred, and I find that hard to ask for.
3. Recs done by other people. I freely admit that I can be really lazy in catching up with all the things I know I'll love, and external reminders can be very handy.
4. And then after all that Victorian swooning over asking for three things, I'm going to include a fourth, because I'd like 2016 to be a year of change. I really want to improve as a writer, and fix all of the things I know are wrong with my work. I don't need much help figuring out what my problems are, but I do need help identifying how to fix them. So concrit and a friendly word of where I go wrong or what I can do to fix it - well that would mean more than I could say.
