Yultide assignment received!
Nov. 14th, 2009 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beatrice_otter...and I have no idea what I'm gonna write. I have an embarrassment of riches, this year; my recipient asked for not one but two fandoms I could totally write a story for. But that doesn't mean I have story ideas bouncing around for them, you know? One of them is an old movie that I know backwards and forwards because I watched it with my grandparents many, many times. But I haven't watched it all the way through in, oh, maybe ten years? At least not since I really got into fandom and fanfic. I could still probably quote major sections, but I really need to watch it again before I start writing or I'll spend more time second-guessing my memories of the movie than actually writing. Which means I probably won't be able to write the story until I get home for Christmas break, because I don't have a copy of the movie myself.
(The other isn't a fandom that I signed up for, but it's a relatively recent movie that was on TV just a few weeks ago, and the request is one I could do, it just doesn't interest me as much as the other. And would require more research. And, okay, all four fandoms are movies and I could write any of them in a pinch, but only the one from my childhood sings to me, you know?)
And I just realized that I have no cowboy icons. If I am to write a cowboy story, I must have cowboy icons (hopefully from The Fandom I Am Writing In, because my recipient is right, there is definitely Teh Pretty in that movie). Time to search LJ and DW.
ETA: and while I could find no icons of that movie (not even a single one!), looking at stills and classic movie blogs is definitely priming the pump.
(The other isn't a fandom that I signed up for, but it's a relatively recent movie that was on TV just a few weeks ago, and the request is one I could do, it just doesn't interest me as much as the other. And would require more research. And, okay, all four fandoms are movies and I could write any of them in a pinch, but only the one from my childhood sings to me, you know?)
And I just realized that I have no cowboy icons. If I am to write a cowboy story, I must have cowboy icons (hopefully from The Fandom I Am Writing In, because my recipient is right, there is definitely Teh Pretty in that movie). Time to search LJ and DW.
ETA: and while I could find no icons of that movie (not even a single one!), looking at stills and classic movie blogs is definitely priming the pump.