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30 days of fanfic meme, day 22
Jul. 17th, 2011 08:45 pmMy poor hips! This morning's Body Balance instructor was so gentle-voiced that everything seemed as though it ought to be easy (except being in Swan pose and grabbing my back foot, which I cannot do). And now my hips are grumbling like the old-lady hips they are. I spose if I hadn't been going to these classes they'd just have seized up completely by now. Or something. Meh.
Day 22: Have you ever participated in a fest or a Big Bang? If so, write about your favorite experience in relation to one. If not, are there any you've thought about doing? And if not, why not?
My first Big Bang was the popslash![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
bittybang challenge; it was the first time I'd set out to write something over 20,000 words and I was quite a lot daunted. I wrote a popslash/The Full Monty crossover, because I knew that way there would be enough plot to get me through, and I'm very pleased with the resulting Show You the Shape of my What?, and am still completely besotted with the trailer ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bubbleforest made for it. Just goes to show, keeping lots of canon references is a *good* idea!
I made a lot of serendipitous discoveries on the way - I had originally thought that the musical was set in Pittsburgh, PA, because that to me says 'steel city' but in fact it was Buffalo, NY. I moved the story to Pittsburgh, though, because my wonderful betawithdiamonds could and did give me all kinds of useful advice on the localities, which peering at Google maps just wasn't doing for me. And there is, there really is, a Hot Metal Bridge in Pittsburgh! Since in the film (dunno about the musical) the guys call themselves Hot Metal, this made me very happy.
Then I wrote Bouquet for the RPF big bang that was around at the time, and found it ended up as easily the longest story I've written to date. Which is what happens when Nopseud is your beta, of course. *wuvs nopseud* Actually, Feast, or what every gay Jewish boy wants for Christmas, the latest instalment in that series, was written for the Cockbert big bang, although I'm not sure that 5,000 words is really a…. well. Never mind. Don't help, Kevin.
Day 22: Have you ever participated in a fest or a Big Bang? If so, write about your favorite experience in relation to one. If not, are there any you've thought about doing? And if not, why not?
My first Big Bang was the popslash
bittybang challenge; it was the first time I'd set out to write something over 20,000 words and I was quite a lot daunted. I wrote a popslash/The Full Monty crossover, because I knew that way there would be enough plot to get me through, and I'm very pleased with the resulting Show You the Shape of my What?, and am still completely besotted with the trailer bubbleforest made for it. Just goes to show, keeping lots of canon references is a *good* idea!I made a lot of serendipitous discoveries on the way - I had originally thought that the musical was set in Pittsburgh, PA, because that to me says 'steel city' but in fact it was Buffalo, NY. I moved the story to Pittsburgh, though, because my wonderful beta
withdiamonds could and did give me all kinds of useful advice on the localities, which peering at Google maps just wasn't doing for me. And there is, there really is, a Hot Metal Bridge in Pittsburgh! Since in the film (dunno about the musical) the guys call themselves Hot Metal, this made me very happy.Then I wrote Bouquet for the RPF big bang that was around at the time, and found it ended up as easily the longest story I've written to date. Which is what happens when Nopseud is your beta, of course. *wuvs nopseud* Actually, Feast, or what every gay Jewish boy wants for Christmas, the latest instalment in that series, was written for the Cockbert big bang, although I'm not sure that 5,000 words is really a…. well. Never mind. Don't help, Kevin.