THIS IS A CALL

[hope]

I've starting writing my story for ontheroadzine, and have done over 3000 words already! The limit for the zine is 15,000 words; if i keep going as I am, I have a feeling it's going to be *too* long. Ah well, I've got until October at any rate, plenty of time to decide/edit/write something else.

It's pretty good. Writing this way, I mean. I mean I've had this story kicking around for a little while; this way I *am* actually able to just write it out in my down-time, instead of hurryhurryhurry writeandpostitNOW kinda thing. I wrote 3000 words of thesis yesterday, and 3000 words of fanfic in the evening. I feel good.

Anyway, it's a John-centric story, which you wouldn't have convinced me I'd be doing a month ago. Field of Mars was really damn hard to get the voice and characterisation for - both because John is emotionally unavailable and because the trouble with writing intelligent characters into conflict is that you have to outsmart them. And that can be a delicate/difficult thing to construct.

ANYWAY.

I've been strangely excited by the idea of this gen zine, god knows why. Maybe it's that time of year again, I'm having nostalgia, a revisionist reminiscence where all I remember is the glee of getting a bunch of authors I like to write for me me meee, so I can hold all their hotass stories in my hot little hands.

So, if I were running the gen SPN zine the same way I ran Lotripping, this'd be my wishlist for authors (in alphabetical order):

- eighth_horizon
- ignipes
- janissa111
- lyra_wing
- marinarusalka
- maygra
- minkmix
- monkeycrackmary
- onelittlesleep
- poisontaster
- trollprincess

with, of course, illustrations by _audrey, blondiusmaximus and the_dean_show.

So, favourite gen authors, if you love me you'll GET CRACKING! get thee to ontheroadzine!

Comments

[lyra-wing.livejournal.com]

Awww! Thanks for thinking of me. I would, but zines aren't really my thing... something about putting my fic in permanent form... *facepalm*

[hope]

Think of it as a challenge! or something. an opportunity to think about things you would not usually think about (and i'm not talking in terms of, er, inferring your work needs improving, because dude, seriously).

Cmon! old school! fandom! coolness!

[sangga.livejournal.com]

hi - can i rec someone for this? try niz4 - the quality of her genfic is outstanding and i'm not just saying that because she's my sister

cheers!

[hope]

oo! thanks for the rec, I'll check her out :D

[kiraboshi.livejournal.com]

You're like my personal PR machine!

I've actually contacted many of those authors about putting their work in the zine. ;) I think we'll have a good collection of fic!

And if your fic goes over, don't worry about it. *g* The limit is a loose limit, anyway.

[hope]

I can't help it! I'm suddenly very excited :D

i don't know why I'm more excited about this than I am the slash zine... i kinda have this sense of connoirssership when it comes to gen SPN fic, for some reason. it's a different beast entirely, and feels perfect for a bound volume.

ee! I'm excited. And don't make any promises about my story, please, it's 6500 words already and nothing's actually happened beyond the winchesters being cute.