Smoke and Scribbles

These range from unfinished to really really unfinished and are of many fandoms and types! In two parts because of length.


( second time around )

( hell is empty and all the devils are here )

( long shadows )

( too late to turn back )

( I'll take my chances )

( dirty deeds done dirt cheap )

( I can see the flames from here )

( prickles at the back of your neck )

( there's a girl in there )

( the rat returns )

( back to school day )

( how we dance )

( vanishing cabinet )

( apologized all wrong )

( broken down )

( suffer in silence )

INTERVENTION

Iambic, we are all here for you. You need to stop writing about gay carnies all the time. I have a letter here. There's one from all of us.

Also

Halflight, we are all here for you. You need to stop writing about gay world politics all the time. I have a letter here. There's one from all of us.

I wrote this for my Craft of Writing class. We had to write something taking place in a diner. It had to include a poet, mistletoe, a waltz, and obsession. LJ has just deleted this entry for the second time so this note is more terse than it otherwise would have been. PG for nonviolent, nondescriptive death. I'd appreciate comments/crit because I'm turning this in tomorrow.

( THE POET )

Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

You see me in a police car. What would you think I got arrested for? Answer me, then repost this.


Uh while I'm here, fanfic I wrote a while ago for iambickilometer. Rated PG I guess. Real short. Check out more Evan and Julian stuff at Iambic's journal!



( Things That Tick )

I have a ton of stories and prompts to do and I'm not doing any of them. My laziness is making me hate myself a whole lot. Also I want to be in fandom again because I love fandom, but I feel like I just can't do it. I like shows and stuff, but I am worried I will fuck the characters up or whatever, and that people will hate me, and even if I get over that, I just don't click with anything. I have no burning desire to fanfic what I'm watching or reading. And it sucks because it makes it hard for me to meet new people, and to enjoy shows and books with people, and nobody reads original fiction [/brat] and also I just feel like I can't fucking finish anything and I am really unmotivated and UGH. My life does not revolve around reviews, but I have trouble finishing things anyway. I feel like I am the only one who cares about the story(even though that's not really true). I have like three stories to do and a ton of prompts and while I love them I just can't finish. I guess I had deadlines and motivation while I was in fandom. Now that I don't, I'm a lazy fucking bum.

Basically how this makes me feel is: I am never going to be able to do this for a living because I apparently can't write without an audience. So that makes me feel like I don't do it for ~the love of the craft~ or whatever. I was not aware of this before and it makes me feel kind of like a trashy attention whore. I like writing, wouldn't be doing it if I hated it, but I dunno. I think you're supposed to just want to do it for the sake of doing it and it doesn't matter if anyone likes it? Or something.

Also my NaNo plot is tenuous and I'm never going to get into a good college and I don't have my senior year schedule yet so I'm worried I didn't get into creative writing. And I don't have a topic for my college essay.

I ran around the playground today pretending to be Sloth after dying and being transmuted to life by my friend. So the day wasn't like a total wash.

Also, feel free to tell me to get off my ass as opposed to providing sympathy.

The "You Should Write..." Meme!
my thread here

Warning: This is three and a half pages of the worst kind of crack. Also, be aware of the rarepair: This is Iambic/Second person!

( Read at your own risk. )

Title: Leak
Author: Smoke
Rating: PG-15 for swearing and nonexplicit sex.
A/N: I wrote this as a response to the BUCKETS AND BUCKETS OF RAIN WE'VE HAD. TAKE THAT, RAIN.

( Black Wind Blowing )