[H/C Bingo] Also, all of my titles are unsatisfactory.

[magibrain]

Awesome! I think I've found a three-part strategy for approaching H/C Bingo. Those three parts are:

1. Start as many fics as possible all at once, just to make sure I'm always distracted from finishing any of them,


2. Make sure that the fics I am working on are carefully positioned to cover the maximum possible space on my card without actually forming a bingo, and


3. Layer more complexity and plot into each fic than is strictly necessary to fulfill the prompt, so that each one takes a long time to complete, and will surely need extensive edits once done in draft.

...I don't think I'm doing this right.

(To be fair, though, I feel like 2 isn't actually my fault, 3 has not been intentional in half the fics, and 1 is just how my brain works anyway. But re: 3, I started off writing the Poltergeist prompt, and then it decided to absorb two other prompts that aren't even on my card, and as it stands the thing is 6000 messy words and maybe, at a generous estimate, 60% done. It's going to be longer than Misfire. That's just wrong.)

Assorted Statistics:

• Card: http://magibrain.dreamwidth.org/520305.html


• Words written: 8500


• Stories started: 7


• Stories finished: 0


• Potential bingos: 0


• Worst day: Neal and Diana can fight over it.


• Most inexplicable day: Probably Neal, but Peter and Diana are giving him a run for it.


• Stealth awesome award: Christie


• Stealth pathos award: Mozzie


• Best snark: "This is where good taste comes to die," Neal pronounced.


• Best snark via narration: Except it was like Godwin's Law, and never worked when intentionally invoked.


• Best completely awful meta decision-making process: "I really wish I had a name to give to Neal's mom." → "I could just make one up, but then if one is revealed later in canon, I'd be annoyed at the discrepancy." → "I could always make one up, and if the name is revealed later, I could just go back and sneakily-stealthily edit all references in my existing fics. I'm not invested in preserving their first-edition forms." → "Yeah, that would probably work, so long as I avoided making the specific name a plot point or anything." → "Like, if I named her Mary, and then gave Ellen some inner monologue about Mary, Mary, quite contrary?" → "I should look up that rhyme on Wikipedia so I have a proper contextual grounding! I bet I could work it in with Ellen's penchant for gardening, and – waaaaait." → "..." → "(something completely incoherent about Mary Sunderland)"


• Best unexpectedly awesome vacation plans: The magibrain has informed me that when Diana needs to get away from it all and decompress, she signs up for week-long wilderness-survival courses in Upstate New York.