Motivational Wednesday: The Impetuous Participant Award

[dawn_felagund]

"Do not be hasty, that is my motto."
-Treebeard, The Two Towers

Sorry, Treebeard, but this week, we will be hasty!

We've had around forty sign-ups for the Season of Writing Dangerously so far. How many of you have started working on your projects? Or how many of you are still procrastinating? *raises hand* For our very first weekly motivational post, we would like to encourage our participants to get started on their projects, whether just dipping in a toe or diving in headfirst.

Because what would Middle-earth be without some impetuosity? What it Sam had said, "I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well ... tomorrow, maybe"? Or if Fëanor hadn't urged the Noldor to Middle-earth? What if Pippin had thought twice before swearing his sword to Denethor? What if Galadriel had longed for an ottoman, a blanket, and a remote control rather than to see new lands?

In honor of all of our impetuous characters and the writers and artists who love them, we offer the Impetuous Participant Award! How to earn this award? Start your project by this time next week. That's all. Just get started and see what happens.

Impetuous Participants are welcome to display one of the lovely Impetuous Participant banners or icons to show their membership among the people of Arda who didn't let grass grow under their feet. Many thanks to Elleth, Angelica, and Lyra for their work on these banners!

To display your banner, either save the file to your computer and upload it to an image host, or copy the code beneath the banner you want and use it wherever HTML is accepted.


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Comments

[dreamflower]

I actually have started at least one portion of my goal!

The others? Not so much.

[houkakyou.livejournal.com]

Haha I've already started on mine :) I've done two out of six chapters~

[huinare.livejournal.com]

*eyes stories sidelong* I...I...hem. Well, I still have a week to start!

[hhimring]

I made a start.
The first one hundred words of my Aerin fic are here:
http://hhimring.livejournal.com/#post-hhimring-59709

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I still can't get over the fact that I actually wrote Maedhros' "coronation" yesterday. *weeps* I'd stopped to believe that I'd ever actually get there, but the fact that I'm getting THIS elated about it maybe shows that I'm taking this fanfic thing too seriously after all?

...
Actually, no, I think that's OK. And hey, if I continue at this pace, who knows, I might even stock up my goal! Oh deary, I'm getting over-confident now, aren't I?

[ysilme]

These banners are awesome!

I've started as well. I've several ideas about answers to drabble prompts and written at least five rough drafts (the hard work for me is getting them into the exact word count, for as an ESL I find drabbles quite difficult), am re-reading a chapter of LotR to find quotes for the other project to use secondary prompts, and am plotting that one-shot. Joining here gave me the necessary push to come to that stage. :o) I'm also re-reading small fics for the podcast project.

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

Let's be hasty, indeed!

I've edited and posted the first chapter of Acquiescence, the second is sort-of in the works, and I may post that tomorrow if everything works out. I've also written, edited and posted the fic for the Not Primetime exchange, which I can't share openly yet, but will when author reveals are past. Suffice to say it ended up much longer than the 1,500 words I set as minimum for myself.

4890/50,000 words in total so far! :D

[independence1776]

I posted one of the stories I needed to move to SWG and written the first draft of my last RAFA 'verse fic.

[silver-trails.livejournal.com]

I started mine yesterday!

[lin4gondor.livejournal.com]

How did you know I was prone to procrastinating? :-D I have not started, so I shall take to heart this encouragement and impetuously begin -- maybe even today!

[dawn_felagund]

Hey, one part is all that's needed! Congrats! :D

[dawn_felagund]

Woohoo! That's awesome progress. One-third there in only a little over a week ... congrats!

[dawn_felagund]

Lol! That's kinda how I feel about it too ...

[dawn_felagund]

Congrats! You're an official Impetuous Participant.^TM :D

[dawn_felagund]

Hey, we belong to a fandom with such canon artifacts as the Silmarils and the One Ring. There's no such thing as taking creative endeavors too seriously here. ;)

Congratulations on your progress. I'm excited for you, having seen this story evolve for so long now!

And it is the Season of Writing Dangerously so overconfidence is always in style. ;)

[dawn_felagund]

Wow! You've made a lot of progress, it seems. Congrats. :)

I think drabbles are hard too. I am not of the mindset of "Hey, I have five minutes and want to write something, so I'll punch out a drabble ..." Since every word literally counts, I think it's much more complicated than that and truly excellent drabbles take the same amount of effort as longer pieces.

And I'm thrilled that this challenge is serving as a motivator. That's what we're going for--the world can never have too much Tolkienfic! :)

[dawn_felagund]

Woohoo! Somewhere, Treebeard is scowling at you and sighing, "Hoooom." ;) This sounds like really awesome progress, just a little over a week into the challenge!

[dawn_felagund]

Congrats! :D

written the first draft of my last RAFA 'verse fic.

Wow. Like oloriel with The Tempered Steel, having seen these stories and verses emerge over the course of years, it was so bittersweet to read this.

[dawn_felagund]

Woohoo! Congrats! :D

[dawn_felagund]

We creative-types seem to share the quality of procrastination in common much of the time! :D I haven't started mine yet either (although I am making the excuse that I had the SWG newsletter to do and some other adminish fandom stuff ;) but ... hopefully soon! Tomorrow at the latest.

Good luck!

[silver-trails.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's quite funny (in an awesome way) how projects like this can spur the resolve to actually write. :D

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

True that! :D

[j-flattermann.livejournal.com]

I'm halfway through with my project and of the four parts two have been posted.

[myaru.livejournal.com]

I've been working on the Finrod fic since this started, though not always making great progress. Hard to tell when it's hand-written. :D As for the Maglor in the East idea, I've come up with things I should probably not do, which... is a kind of progress, I guess?