Fic prompts please - Going off to China for a couple of weeks

[rhythmia]

Still alive, I promise. I hope all of you are doing well, or at least tolerably. ^^

-Going to China (Guangzhou, specifically) for my cousin's wedding, so I'll be gone from November 5 in the evening until I come back November 20. Whoo, 13-14 hour flights.

-Which brings me to my next point. Fic prompts please! So I'll have something to do while I fly alone for so many hours, since I can't bring my knitting. I'm kind of rusty but I'd like to get some practice, since I was re-reading that one Valentine's Day challenge I wrote waaaay back that suddenly got new comments on it, and totally wincing my way through it. Ehehehe. Part of it was the premise was executed kind of poorly (really, I should have known better, but the idea hit me while I was delirious and I just went with it) and part of it was just the writing quality. >.>

So fandoms I will attempt to write for: Arashi, I'm willing to try my hand at Skip Beat!, Ouran High School Host Club, and maaaaaybe Inception (I think I'd like to explore Ariadne, Yusuf, and Saito, but I'm scared of writing them wrong despite having seen the movie twice, hehe). Possibly Super Junior M but I think my impressions of them are too strongly influenced by fandom. I want to write more girls/women! :D

Hit me with your best shot!

<3 to you all~

Comments

[artemidora.livejournal.com]

[supports your ficwriting goals even though I don't know any of your fandoms well enough to offer prompts for them!]

And I hope all your travels are safe and uneventful. [waves!]

[rhythmia.livejournal.com]

Thank you hon! ^_^ *waves back* You're welcome to throw stuff at me, however. I'm thinking of playing a game. You know how it's easy to fall into a fandom via reading fic and not know any of the canon, and trying to back engineer what you think canon is about from fanon? :D If you like, throw a fandom at me and maybe a brief description of what it's about, major players etc. and their character traits, and I could try to write a snippet and see how close I get through sheer luck and whatever I extrapolate from you. :D

...yes, I know, completely ridiculous. :D By the way, I got your DVDs a day or so ago! So I know what I'll be watching when I'm back from China....

♥

[artemidora.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, oh yes, that is what I did for my first... three fandoms? Four? The fourth I think was Smallville, and then I did catch up on all the extant canon at the time... and then decided I should go back to reading fic without watching canon (as did a number of other Smallville fans!). And yes, I remember exactly that process of back-engineering canon; it was a bit like doing historical research by reading primary documents. Or I suppose by reading various fictionalizations of historical events would be a closer analogy. :-P

Which is to say, I think this sounds like a really fun idea! I will take a little time (but not too long, as you're leaving soon!) and try to come up with which fandom(s) I'd like you to try this with and write the descriptions.

Also, this idea reminds me of strangefandom, where people watch vids in fandoms they don't know and then write up what they think the show is about. Hilarity ensues!

[rhythmia.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, yeah, that was me and Gundam Wing. And the latter half of Fushigi Yuugi. To this day all I've actually experienced of GW canon is one volume of manga that was a 'special chapter' about Zero.

Yup, I leave Friday evening, so anytime by Friday afternoon would be the "flying to China" deadline. Alternatively, you can keep coming up with things and I'll have something to do on the return flight, hehe.

Okay, that looks cool. Also sure to be hilarious for both the people who know the fandom and the people doing the guessing. It's like those one-liner summaries. :D

*rubs hands together* Oooer, I'm excited to see what you come up with. ^__^