Writer's Block: Two Truths and a Lie

[ink_in_hand]

[Error: unknown template qotd]SET ONE
-I've ridden a camel and it was bouncy.
-I've held a black widow spider bare handed.
-I've driven a motorcycle non-stop across the state.

SET TWO (because I like this prompt)
-I've jumped off a cliff
-I've been in a car accident
-I've eaten alligator

That psychicness must extend beyond the TF fandom because I was thinking about something very close to this for quite a while before seeing this. *shrug*



Thank heslestor for talking about Sunstorm and then sending me aurora borealis pictures to plant the bunny when I realized that with his ability, Sunstorm could make some impressive patterns in the upper atmosphere. Originally it was bigger and suplimented with a close up of the seeker, but that didn't turn out very well at all.

Comments

[rosetintdshades.livejournal.com]

Set One:
Lie-"I've driven a motorcycle non-stop across the state."

Set Two:
Lie-"I've been in a car accident"

You seem the type to leap off things, you nut.

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

*stares and points* You... you got them both right. Just wow.

X3 It was over a glacial river. It was the first, and only time due to lack of opportunity, I went white water rafting and there was a twenty-some foot cliff available. I would have been the first to jump but I had to take off my glasses so I wouldn't lose them, and couldn't judge the distance. (Damn my near sightedness) So I used whoever the guy in front of me as a marker. It was fun.

[heslestor.livejournal.com]

Lie- "I've ridden a camel and it was bouncy."

Lie- "I've eaten alligator."

That's a very beautiful picture. Though I can't decide what I like more, firefly Sunstorm, or the light reflecting off the scenery. The landscape looks like something that should be on a card. And yet I can't stop laughing because the way you drew Sunstorm reminds me so much of Navi from Legend of Zelda. (Hey! Hey! Listen!) I'm curious to know how the Seeker would handle a bunch of fairies flying around him, following where ever he went and clamoring for his attention.

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

Nope, those are both true. The first was when I was really little and had been taken to a fair of some sort. The other was also when I was young, the parents brought home leftovers from a wild game restaurant and some of it was alligator tail. I remember it being very good, but promising that I'd never eat reptile again since I love them so much.

The two lies were the motorcycle and the car.

*bats away bunnies* You do this on purpose don't you. You complement a picture that you seeded and then toss more at me when I'm eating it up. *runs from bunnies*

[heslestor.livejournal.com]

Darn, well, that's what I get for being contradictory and guessing which ones were true and false by others replies. Yeah, I don't think I'd be able to eat any kind of reptile either, unless I was truly starving.

*cackles unabashedly* Yes, my evil plan is working! *attaches bunny feed to leg* You'll never get away. Never!

*waves notebook around menacingly* Remember that list of stuff I said I was keeping so I could randomly spam you with bunnies? Yeah, well I still have it, and so far none of the bunnies I've been giving you are from that list. *shoves ideas of dancing flyers/seekers/aerialbots at you* (http://finchwench.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/so-you-think-you-can-dance-psittacine-edition/) Or Pit, dancing tanks, because that would be awesome. They'd probably be like elephants; don't look like they could be delicate if their lives depended on it, yet surprising everyone with how agile they are. Besides, just be thankful I don't know how to lasso, otherwise you wouldn't get away.

Besides, this is kind of getting back at you since that Reflector fic is being more stubborn than Heart-scald ever even thought of being.

*after 3hrs of nonstop escape attempts*

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

Slag. You.

That said, what did you think were the lies before you decided to be contrary?

*stares at notebook warily* I need to start hounding you with bunnies. Get you to write more, then maybe you'd have less time to inflict them on me. Because if I can imagine, from start to finish, a graceful dance for sauropods, than a tank is nothing. Big animals need to have grace/be delicate, being clumsy when you're that large isn't at all beneficial to your health. And I saw that video, he's one talented little bird. *sighs and fiddles with Flash again*

Re: *after 3hrs of nonstop escape attempts*

[heslestor.livejournal.com]

*big wide grin* Your welcome. ^_^

For the first, it was the motorcycle and the second it was pretty close to a tie with all three, though I was leaning toward either the car crash or the jumping off a cliff.

Oh, but when I get into the groove of writing, my mind can go on automatic pilot, multitask, and end up with even more bunnies than what I started with. No, what you need to do is get me focused on one or two projects instead of being scattered across the board and trying to work on everything all at once. Which is what I'm currently doing and why I'm such a slow writer. There's just so many good ideas I want to write and so little time to write them all. Doesn't help that my brain, like I said, can multitask when I'm writing and have a couple stories percolating in the back of my mind, and when those ideas start forming, I have to get them down this instant before they float away on me.

It may be obvious that such large animals need to be agile/delicate, but sometimes the brain just doesn't really clue in until someone points it out. That and the general public probably doesn't really know that about them either. It's also just plain fascinating to watch such large animals delicately step over a wire fence that's as high as their armpits without once tripping the alarms. The other video I like is of the parrot dancing to an Indian wedding song, it's so cute.

*perks up at mention of Flash* What is this then?

Singing Sand Dunes. (http://www.youtube.com/user/NationalGeographic#play/uploads/63/4mbypyJjqhk) Don't know if you've seen this yet or not, but thought Sawblade would appreciate it.

This is late, I know

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

It just astounds me that none you guys seriously picked the black widow as the lie. Am I that obvious?

*makes a note to poke your stories more often* I hear you, there's so many ideas in my head that they bottleneck at my wrist. Then none of them get finished.

True, I guess I'm just complaining since it's a major issue for me with the popular thought that sauropods are clumsy and stupid, (it's changing but it still gives me grief) when the most beautiful and graceful skeleton I ever saw was that of a Camarasaurus. And oooh, you had me googling it and watching that vid over and over again.

I'm trying to learn flash, I think it would be great fun once I got the hang of it. The only problem is getting the hang of it. I just need a nice tutorial that explains it in a manor I understand, otherwise it's slow going.

I... uh, I wrote a very short ficlet within an hour and a half after seeing that. It's been sitting on my hard drive all this time, but I haven't posted it since it doesn't feel quite right for Minefield. I could email it if you like?

Re: This is late, I know

[heslestor.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes you are. The only reason I, at first, would have chosen that as the lie was because of my personal dislike of spiders.

*needs to update fic list* I started even more that I don't have up on it yet. I am TRYING to get some of the bunny farm one shots done first. The main one is this bunny: 11. Carly gets her ears pierced. Autobots don't understand why she would willingly go through torture. Turns out that on Cybertron there is a torture that is very similar to human body piercing. There's quite a few other one shots that need to be done first before I work on anything multichapter.

It's possibly the Land Before Time fan in me, but I could never understand the whole big creature = stupid thing either. Though it's really not helped with the media always going with that particular trope. Which video did you find? The elephant stepping over a wire was for a documentary about farmers living in peace with the elephants instead of out right killing them.

Sure! Send it on over whenever you like, I'm excited to get some material on any of your Saurs.

Re: This is late, I know

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

Tell you what, you get a fic done before I start on the fanfic giftart thing and I'll draw you a cover pic for it. You keep commenting on the different fics you have in progress, but they don't get finished and I can't read them. No matter how interesting they sound. *sad face* And the one you just mentioned reminded me of a plot detail I have in which, when lacking proper restraints, holes are drilled in a mechs armor and the rope/chain/whatever is threaded through instead.

It shouldn't have to be the Land Before Time inner fan to counter that thought. With as intelligent as all the worlds' giants are you'd think it'd be a dead cliche. Whales, elephants (who have the whole memory saying attached), even salt water crocodiles are considered smart. A "dumb" cold blooded creature. The media could suck sumac for all I care, they've done far more harm than good when it comes to a lot of things. The video was the other parrot dancing vid. Now I have to track down that elephant one because that sounds so very cool.

*puts fic on list of attachments to send*

Re: This is late, I know

[heslestor.livejournal.com]

asdfghjkl;qwerpoesdfdsa *keymash* Oh, god. I don't know whether to thank you for the inspiration or be angry since right after reading this, every single muse started sounding off in my head at once. *runs in circles* I don't know where to start! And the reason I keep telling about new ideas and never finishing them is because new ones keep popping up on me. I think I simply need to stay away from certain sites until I start finishing things. *tilts head* Though I wonder with your idea of improvised restraints, how many mechs ended up with torn armor because they weren't going to let that stop them. Even if it WAS wrapped around something vital.

Well, I was so young that Land Before Time was the first to me with giants as something other than slow and stupid. If the is anything that's big and dumb, it'd be the media. I forget who said it, but an actress said something along the lines of Hollywood being a beast that was a bit slow on the uptake and everything had to be explained in exacting detail many times before it finally got it.

*looks forward to attachments*

Re: This is late, I know

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

I just want to read some of your fanfics, and if I have to bribe your muses than so be it. I will bribe. I will bribe until they start listening to you and you start focusing on a fic at a time. I realize that this may be counterproductive, but damnit I want to read your stuff. It'd be harder to rip away from the restraints if it's around support struts/inner skeleton though.

*snirk* I like that quote. I was lucky in that I saw The Land Before Time long before I saw anything indicating big=dumb.

Re: This is late, I know

[heslestor.livejournal.com]

*flails**salutes* Yes, ma'am sir. :P

Well, I may not be finishing the ones I started in time to cash in on the bribe, but Spring kink is starting up again, as is a few other fic contests, so you will be seeing some stuff from me. I know, I know, it's a bit of a step backwards since this is even more stuff to work on, on top of all the other projects I have going, but at least this will force me to write. Wonderful monthly cycle just kicked in the other day and it's only looking downhill for the duration, so nothing is going to get done for a while. No matter how much I wish otherwise.

If you don't mind, I'd like you to beta my fics again. 'Cause there's quite a few I'd like to write and I'm still rather nervous about the whole thing and I'd also like to test my abilities this time around. That and while many of the prompts have caught my attention, none of them have hit me as hard as the last one, which makes me even more nervous. There are around seven prompts I really have my eye on, though I doubt I'll be claiming them all.

Re: This is late, I know

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

Well nuts, *snaps fingers* I tried. But it's good that you're getting some measure of buckling down going on. *wince*

Sure, though I have no idea how quickly it needs to get done. Do we have the same amount of time to spend as the last one? Cause that took a long time, just saying. And a little heads up, I absolutely refuse to do sticky, 'kay.

Re: This is late, I know

[heslestor.livejournal.com]

The fact that these are prompts for other people with a due date help me buckle down tremendously. Think I'm just gonna have to set dates when a certain fic has to be done by or something.

Transformers, Soundwave/Blaster, Torture (Emotional) - Signal to noise.
Transformers (G1), Rewind; asexuality/masturbation without the sexy thoughts - As his hand drifted further down and his other hand turned the page of his book, he found himself wondering just what was delaying the others in their return.
Transformers, Soundwave/Skywarp, Reassurance/Comfort - "Show them you're not."

These are the main three that I want to do, and I have until various dates in November to get them done. There's a few others that I'd like to do, but unfortunately I'm not coming up with enough for even a drabble. Then there's the one or two where I wish I could draw since I'm getting fantastic mental imagery for them but nothing for a fic.

Aw, no sticky? Even if those bits are taken out? Oh well, unless asked for directly, I don't write sticky anyway. And that's mainly 'cause I have such a difficult time writing that particular form and it really bothers me that I can't write it more than anything else.

[pyrospectacle.livejournal.com]

Lie-"I've driven a motorcycle non-stop across the state."

You don't seem the type for a cross-state motorcycle drive. I just can't see you on a bike. The camel ride and the black widow handling, oh, definitely, I can see that.

Lie-"I've been in a car accident"

Again, for some reason, I can't see that happening to you, even though the weather could be iffy enough where you live for that could happen. I'm moot about the cliff thing, but if I've had snake (and I'm definitely someone who does NOT eat stuff outside of conventional livestock/poultry), then you've eaten alligator. And yes, I've had snake. Ask later.


As for Sunstorm, wow. It's like radioactive skywriting. At night. By a pretty glowy seeker flying 'round in the dark faraway wilderness... *looks again; squeals* He's doing a flip! ...At least, that's what the silhouette looks like...

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

*gack* HALF the people that commented got this completely right. *flail* How did you do that? I thought I'd completely fool you guys with the black widow.

And you're very right about the car. I am an insanely careful driver, I just can't forget that these are always potential death machines (go figure, I'm more afraid of cars than of spiders). The worst that ever happened was a slow, soft slide into a snowbank at 11 mph, black ice all the way. And I can recover from a fishtail like no one's business. My younger sister on the other hand, has been in at least three.

Yep! He is doing a flip, and I'm a little surprised no one's thought of this before. At least as far as I know.

[midnightpeapod.livejournal.com]

the second one is the lie both times

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

You were half right, the first lie was driving the motorcycle across state.

How many have you gotten right so far?