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rionaleonhart) wrote2026-03-27 12:05 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2026-03-27 12:05 pm
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When The Plane Landed, He Would Invoice Me For My Attendance.
Here are a handful of little things I've posted elsewhere recently!
Firstly, I received an anonymous ask about writing on Tumblr, which I thought I'd share here with my response:
How do you write for a variety of fandoms, especially ones you're new to? I can't do that without obsessively reviewing the source material, and consequently don't get any writing done. I want your ability!
My writing process is essentially:
- get into a canon
- devour the canon until I have a good sense of the characters’ voices
- get a fic idea
- OKAY NOW WRITE WRITE WRITE, WRITE BEFORE IT’S GONE
The trouble is that, although there’s a period in which I can hear the characters’ voices clearly, that sense of voice fades very quickly! I have to get the fic written in the narrow window in which I have the characters’ voices in my head, or I’ve missed my opportunity and the fic will forever languish unfinished.
Because writing fanfiction is such a time-sensitive thing for me, my fics tend to be short, and the writing period is often brief and intense; a lot of my fics go from conception to completion over just a few days. Some of my writing takes longer, but, the longer it takes, the greater the risk that I’ll lose my ability to write for those characters. I’ll sometimes go back to a shelved fic and finish it the next time I revisit the canon.
I hope you’re able to get more writing done! I don’t know exactly what things you’re aiming to write, but, if you’re struggling with long things, I can suggest giving shorter fics a try. Everyone’s different, of course, but that’s what works for me!
Secondly,abyssal_sylph tagged me for a meme on Tumblr: The last fictional character in your photo library is the person you gonna sit next to on a 8 hour flight!
My reaction was very much 'oh, God, I hope it’s not Robert Grove, please don’t let it be Robert Gr—'
(GIF by CornleyPolyTechnicDramaSociety on Tenor)
It’s Robert Grove, of course, and I am his captive audience. I suppose I’d better brace myself for eight hours of him performing monologues at me and expecting applause. At least the experience might cure me of my terrible attraction to him. (Let’s be honest: it will probably make it worse.)
Finally, a tiny Goes Wrong Show ficlet, in response to a prompt from JennyC on Discord: Robert's point of view after Summer Once Again.
Robert spends some time sitting on the stage after Summer Once Again reaches its unfortunate conclusion, his head in his hands. Eventually, he hears footsteps approaching: Chris, most likely, here to gloat.
"You know the play's over, right?" Dennis's voice asks, tentative. "I know it's hard to tell sometimes. But I checked with Annie."
"My play was a catastrophe," Robert says, bleakly. "I suppose you're all the company I deserve."
"I liked it," Dennis says.
Robert takes a moment to go over that in his head, ensure he's heard correctly. Raises his face from his palms. "What?"
"The original script was a bit confusing," Dennis says. "But I really liked how it went on the stage. You explained everything."
"I summarised everything," Robert corrects him, "because we didn't have time for any of the dialogue. It was barebones. It was atrocious."
"It was easy to understand," Dennis says. "I liked it. I mean, it was sad when everyone died of typhoid, but I think it's my favourite play we've done."
It's strange; as terrible an actor as Dennis might be, it's still oddly heartening to hear he enjoyed the play. The audience don't have to be actors themselves, after all.
"I could summarise some of our other works, I suppose," Robert concedes.
Dennis lights up. "Oh, yes, please."
Robert leaps to his feet, his despondency slipping away; he can't just sit around feeling sorry for himself when there's an appreciative audience at hand. "Right, let's get started."
If you have any Goes Wrong ficlet requests of your own, send them my way! I am, of course, going to be biased towards suggestions involving Robert; I am willing to have a crack at non-Robert-centric concepts, but I can't guarantee that Robert won't sneak in there.
Firstly, I received an anonymous ask about writing on Tumblr, which I thought I'd share here with my response:
How do you write for a variety of fandoms, especially ones you're new to? I can't do that without obsessively reviewing the source material, and consequently don't get any writing done. I want your ability!
My writing process is essentially:
- get into a canon
- devour the canon until I have a good sense of the characters’ voices
- get a fic idea
- OKAY NOW WRITE WRITE WRITE, WRITE BEFORE IT’S GONE
The trouble is that, although there’s a period in which I can hear the characters’ voices clearly, that sense of voice fades very quickly! I have to get the fic written in the narrow window in which I have the characters’ voices in my head, or I’ve missed my opportunity and the fic will forever languish unfinished.
Because writing fanfiction is such a time-sensitive thing for me, my fics tend to be short, and the writing period is often brief and intense; a lot of my fics go from conception to completion over just a few days. Some of my writing takes longer, but, the longer it takes, the greater the risk that I’ll lose my ability to write for those characters. I’ll sometimes go back to a shelved fic and finish it the next time I revisit the canon.
I hope you’re able to get more writing done! I don’t know exactly what things you’re aiming to write, but, if you’re struggling with long things, I can suggest giving shorter fics a try. Everyone’s different, of course, but that’s what works for me!
Secondly,
abyssal_sylph tagged me for a meme on Tumblr: The last fictional character in your photo library is the person you gonna sit next to on a 8 hour flight!My reaction was very much 'oh, God, I hope it’s not Robert Grove, please don’t let it be Robert Gr—'
(GIF by CornleyPolyTechnicDramaSociety on Tenor)
It’s Robert Grove, of course, and I am his captive audience. I suppose I’d better brace myself for eight hours of him performing monologues at me and expecting applause. At least the experience might cure me of my terrible attraction to him. (Let’s be honest: it will probably make it worse.)
Finally, a tiny Goes Wrong Show ficlet, in response to a prompt from JennyC on Discord: Robert's point of view after Summer Once Again.
Robert spends some time sitting on the stage after Summer Once Again reaches its unfortunate conclusion, his head in his hands. Eventually, he hears footsteps approaching: Chris, most likely, here to gloat.
"You know the play's over, right?" Dennis's voice asks, tentative. "I know it's hard to tell sometimes. But I checked with Annie."
"My play was a catastrophe," Robert says, bleakly. "I suppose you're all the company I deserve."
"I liked it," Dennis says.
Robert takes a moment to go over that in his head, ensure he's heard correctly. Raises his face from his palms. "What?"
"The original script was a bit confusing," Dennis says. "But I really liked how it went on the stage. You explained everything."
"I summarised everything," Robert corrects him, "because we didn't have time for any of the dialogue. It was barebones. It was atrocious."
"It was easy to understand," Dennis says. "I liked it. I mean, it was sad when everyone died of typhoid, but I think it's my favourite play we've done."
It's strange; as terrible an actor as Dennis might be, it's still oddly heartening to hear he enjoyed the play. The audience don't have to be actors themselves, after all.
"I could summarise some of our other works, I suppose," Robert concedes.
Dennis lights up. "Oh, yes, please."
Robert leaps to his feet, his despondency slipping away; he can't just sit around feeling sorry for himself when there's an appreciative audience at hand. "Right, let's get started."
If you have any Goes Wrong ficlet requests of your own, send them my way! I am, of course, going to be biased towards suggestions involving Robert; I am willing to have a crack at non-Robert-centric concepts, but I can't guarantee that Robert won't sneak in there.
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Aw! I love this!
Ficlet requests:
Robert's ideas for seducing every other member of the Drama society
Robert/Trevor, with some kind of contraption