lizzypaul

It shouldn't be a surprise that I'm supporting Barack Obama for president.

( For those are shocked, let me ramble on for a bit about why I'm excited about this election. )

But I'm also a poor college student, and while I'd love to be able to raise five billion dollars, that just isn't happening.

So I thought to myself, "What can I do that might encourage other folks to give a few bucks?" And the only thing I came up with, the only real "skill" I've got, is the ability to write decent fanfic. We are what we are. :)

So! For everyone who donates $5 (or more) to the Obama camp, I will write a fic. Simply donate, let me know what fandom/pairing/situation you'd like, and I'll get it back to you. Slash, het, and gen are all fine.

( Terms and Conditions: )

( Fandoms I can write for: )

ETA: I understand everyone is eager to have their fic, and I really, really appreciate everyone who donated and contributed to this historic and FUCKING AWESOME win! I had hoped to have the fics finished by election day but...that didn't happen. I could go in to why, but suffice it say, my life took the detour through Crazytown, and I havn't had the chance to give the fics the time and effort they deserve.

So. Here is my promise: I will have the fics finished by inauguration day. In fact, I'm heavily leaning towards posting them all on inauguration day. We'll see...I might just get over-eager and post as I finish.

I just wanted to let everyone know that no, I haven't forgotten you.

Thanks again, everyone!

This is probably the most narcissistic meme ever, but what the hell, everyone else is doing it. Stolen from mizzmarvel, but I've seen it everywhere.

If you would like, please quote a bit of my writing at me. Find that one story of mine that you really like, and find a sentence or a paragraph that presses your prose-buttons in the right way, and comment here with it. I don't care how long or short the excerpt is.

All my stuff is here.

I'm having a hard time with a Drake and Josh fic I'm writing (DON'T JUDGE ME), simply because it's by necessity from Drake's POV, and Drake is...well, he's a canon idiot. And so I'm constantly having to go, "Oh, can't use that word, Drake wouldn't know what that means." Also, Drake can't note that Josh says something sincerely, because a) that's probably not a word Drake would ever use, and b) he's just not that insightful. It's like writing in a straightjacket.

WHINE WHINE WHINE.

So for my last post of 2007, I decided to be kind of pretentious and do a 2007 wrap up. Warning: the following post is long, self-involved, and will probably not be very interesting to anyone but me.

( Top 5 things I enjoyed in 2007 )

( Top 5 things I'm going to (try to) do differently in 2008 )

( Top 5 fanfics I read during 2007 )

( Top 5 fanfics I wrote during 2007 )

Happy New Year, y'all!

Yeah, so my LJ is going to be fairly Potter-centric for the next couple days.

( Bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch. Also, spoilers. )

I spent most of my fourth of July in bed reading fanfic. Yay? And after approx. 9,000 Numb3rs fic--don't look at me like that! I didn't ask for another fandom, it was thrust upon me--I have just one little complaint. ::cough:: Dear Numb3rs eppescest writers: "Buddy" is not a pet name. And Supernatural wincest writers? "Sammy" isn't a pet name, either. ::eyeroll::

Actually, today I read several Supernatural fics contained my absolute biggest pet peeve. I cannot stand it when Dean points a gun at Sam as a joke or an empty threat. Just, no. They were raised around weapons, they were taught how to use them at a young age by an expert, and lesson number one, drilled into you constantly, is: never point a gun at someone unless you intend to shoot them. John Winchster would have beat his boys black and blue if they ever pointed their guns at each other in play, and I can't see Dean throwing off all that early training and holding a gun to Sam's chest to get him to take a shower or whatever.

Ah, well, I'm drugged to the gills and bitchy, and I should probably be asleep.

(PS: Teen boys are so moody! Everyone talks about teen girls, but my two brothers--12 and 17--are so sullen and touchy! I can't really compare, not having a little sister in the house all the time, but I'm going out of mind. Sometimes they're fine, and other times the littlest thing sets them off. I kind of want to hit them both.)

So it seems like things have calmed down. I've unlocked all my fanfic, and moved what was over at bscslashfic (which is now flocked) over here. All my fanfic can be found in my memories, or by tags.

Also, I now have a del.icio.us rec page, found here. I love that place! It makes rec'ing so much easier! :) 114 recs in 19 fandoms, so far, and I'm adding to it all the time.

*Mom, this is one you want to avoid.*

( To my lovely bitch_jerkoff author... )

I've been working on a Psych fanfic for a while, and it's driving me nuts. I know how it's going to end, I've written most of the major scenes, but it's just not...right. I had an idea of who the characters were and where they were going to go, but then they had sex, and now it's all wrong.

The sex scene is kinda hot (if I do say so myself) and perfectly in character, but it just doesn't mesh with the rest of the fic at all. And normally I'd be fine with just taking it out (sex scenes are embarrassing) but then the fic just looks empty, and besides, it's good, it just doesn't work with the rest of the fic. And it feels wrong to twist the rest of the fic around the sex scene, but the rest of the fic doesn't work without the sex scene and GAH. Just need to put it aside and move on...I'll get back to it in a couple weeks and hopefully have enough perspective to figure out what to do.

*This whine brought to you by the Society for the Prevention of Erin Doing Homework*

I had the chance to read through the Harry Potter books when I with Grandma at the hospital. I thought the reason I liked books 1-3 best was because I read them as a child/young teen. Turns out that no, books 1-3 are (IMHO) far better than books 4-6, even reading them as an adult. And book six still sucks. (Although book 5 is still my least favorite. I couldn't even get through it...I kept skimming it.)

I've been reading a lot of HP fanfic, some old Snape/Harry, a little Snape/Lupin. There is a Snape/Draco story I read years ago and can't find....it's quite long, and follows their relationship from before Draco was born. IIRC, Draco was physically weak, a lot of allergies and asthma, and maybe he was part Veela? (Although I could be mixing two fic, there.) Anyway, I want to find it, and I can't. It probably isn't as good as I remembered, though.

I wrote a really long, really bad Harry/Draco fic six years ago. A friend of mine had a copy and loved it, and out of the blue, asked if I was going to finish it. Now I stopped liking H/D years ago and it's been sitting abandoned on my harddrive since then. So I opened it up, just to see what I could do with it, and OH MY GOD. It is such a peice of shit. It is a cliched, tear-soaked, sappy mess. The thought of re-writing it to make it presentable makes me a little sick, so it's just going to have to remain unfinished.