...wtf?

[kaydeefalls]

Is anyone else on DW getting BUCKETS of spam comments today? Because I am, and it's incredibly annoying. This happens occasionally on LJ, but this is the first time I've been hit on DW, and it's...quite a lot of them in a short span of time. I've just added a CAPTCHA setting for anon comments, hopefully that'll help.

Completely unrelatedly, I am feeling super meh about the X-Men Reverse Bang. Not because the art isn't lovely, because it totally is! There's a lot of really gorgeous artwork up there! But while I've enjoyed looking at it all, only a bare handful of the prompts interest me as a writer. Which makes me a super crappy unimaginative writer, I guess. There are plenty I'd be interested in reading but don't feel confident or interested in writing myself (i.e. a Regency!AU -- would love to read it, but I'm not really familiar enough with the historical period to feel comfortable writing it, Austen aside; this is where being a very research-committed writer trips me up, because I don't want to just wing it and Get Shit Wrong). There are a couple that do pique my interest strongly, but honestly, not enough to fill out the requisite quota of five options, and I would hate to put an artist into a situation in which they're stuck with a writer who isn't 100% thrilled about their prompt. Which probably means I should just drop out, but, man, I really do want to participate in this one. Urg. I'll sit on it and have another look through the prompts tomorrow and see if I can come up with five. Again, I can definitely pick WAY more than five beautiful pieces of art in the exchange. But some of the pieces I admire the most are for AU scenarios I just don't think I could write. Argh.

Comments

[fairestcat]

I've been getting a ton of spam comments on my recs journal, in the last couple of days.

[kaydeefalls]

Urg, they're SO annoying. Try blocking anon comments, or forcing them to filter through captcha.

[cesare]

Re Reversebang, I found myself getting flustered by all the many many gorgeous pieces that were giving me no fic ideas, even though I adored them.

What helped me, after my first pass through, was backing off and thinking about what I want to write. Once I decided, okay, I'd be up for a modern or a fantasy AU but I don't want to do a historical one, I think I only want to do a canon story if it's light... that helped me look at the art again, this time not hunting for the pieces that were most immediately appealing, but the ones that presented scenarios I could write for. After I did that, I went from "I could maybe write for two of these...?" to a list of fifteen. So maybe that would help? Maybe some things that don't jump out visually at first pass would fit a story you'd like to tell. I wish they'd required brief descriptions of each piece, because I think that would help too-- I found noting down what the art depicted gave me more confidence that I could write something for it. I love art but I'm not a visual thinker, so "moody vampire AU, unspecified time period" gave me more of a grip on whether I could write for that piece than looking at the art itself...

[nekosmuse]

Apparently there is more art than writers? So I know a few people who weren't really inspired were going to wait and see what ends up not claimed, and then decide if any of the remaining pieces pique their interest. I think they're doing 2 or 3 claim rounds. If nothing really pings you it might be the way to go, that way you don't take something you're not enthusiastic about.

I have the opposite problem. I want to write fic for it all.