[Meme] Ask me my top 5 whatevers

[edenfalling]

Slightly modified from various places: Ask me my Top Five Whatevers, fannish or literary or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really. I will answer them all in comments or a new post. (But definitely not with pictures. *grin*)

Because I am bored and I hate all my WIPs -- including the two things I was trying to write for Femgenficathon and which I failed miserably to finish by even the extended deadline. Please help distract me?

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ETA:

--5 fanfics I will never write (but want to read), courtesy of aishuu

--5 favorite manga and/or anime series, courtesy of theodosia21

--5 favorite stories I've written, also courtesy of theodosia21

--5 Naruto characters who've had all of five panels, but deserve their own story arcs/gaidens, courtesy of leahnari

--8 favorite things to eat, courtesy of hungrytiger11

--5 favorite scenes from The Chronicles of Narnia, also courtesy of hungrytiger11

--5 favorite female characters (from my childhood), courtesy of uminohikari

--5 tropes I love, courtesy of rianax

Comments

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

*looks at you speculatively* Ever think of cowriting or a shared uni?

[edenfalling]

I've tried doing a few original fiction projects with my sister, but we are both hopelessly bad at motivating each other beyond basic world-building (though we are probably each other's best editors), so they never got much of anywhere. Also, I have a tendency to get possessive about ideas that I have mentally tagged as 'mine' in some form, which means if I am actively trying to write them, it's really hard for me to see them done 'wrong' by someone else, which is the other reason those attempted collaborations fell apart; Vicky and I construct stories along notably different patterns, and we got into intractable arguments over plot and character arcs.

But I have done some world-building for Vicky that I then handed over to her as a base for her own stories, since she isn't very detail-oriented in that particular way, and I had no problem working in icedark_elf's mercverse shared FF7 AU. My guess is that if I'm starting from someone else's idea, it's easier for me to relax, and also that it's easier for me to see someone else use my basic ideas in her own story than to let someone else co-write a story I see as 'mine.'

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

*understands* I was going to suggest you share-universe it (I wouldn't mind doing a short scene, but I can't commit to an epic). However, I do understand how watching someone else screw up your plot/idea can hurt. Especially since you're almost obligated to lie through your teeth and say you loved it.

[edenfalling]

Actually, I think a shared universe might work, if I can lay out a basic framework of world-building, character snapshots, and 'canon' timeline; pick a couple short ideas to write myself; and then convince myself to back off the rest of it because there is no way on earth I have time to write the whole epic. Hmm. I could maybe work up some background and, I dunno, episode summaries over the next week.

Would you still be interested in working under those constraints? (Meaning that if I've claimed an incident/story/episode, it's mine, but anything aside from those few reserved ideas is fair game, and you can always take the basic idea and go AU from my idea of the 'canon' timeline?)

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

We could try? I'm not sure - I'd have to see what you'd laid out. Knowing me, I'd fixate on Peter/Mary...