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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.
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.
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Date: 2012-03-30 06:32 pm (UTC)