Introduction: Annariel

[annariel]

I Am: annariel (also purplecat) people refer to me variously as Annariel, PC, Cat, lsellers, and Louise depending mostly on context and how we met. I'm happy with all those labels. Female pronouns.

I Make: I write fanfic mostly though I've dabbled in original fiction. If backed into a corner and forced to write NC-17 rated stuff I often resort to comic verse. I also make icons and other graphics (and ever so occasionally actual hand drawn art). I try to rec a piece of online writing (mostly fanfic) once a week. I also code.

I Like: I'm a bit of a fan of long plotty stories of the case/mission fic style and AUs with imaginative worldbuilding (though, since I'll also back button out of long fic that isn't grabbing me I probably end up leaving more comments on kudos on shorter stories even if, when I like long fic, I like it more than short fic). I do also love a well written character vignette. I'm definitely mostly a genre fiction person. I've enjoyed material in all styles and of all ratings though there are some labels I'm more wary of (e.g., torture and non-con) than others. At the moment the fandoms I'm mostly reading are Avengers, Sherlock, Primeval, Dr Who and Firefly. I write a lot of Primeval fiction (partly because the fandom has a very active drabbling community) but there are several fandoms I'd like to write more of this year, including smaller ones such as Sapphire and Steel, Robin of Sherwood and The Queen's Thief series.

I Play: In the past I've played origfic_bingo and created my own bingo cards, mostly to help with the worldbuilding around my two original fiction settings. However, in both cases, I want to do some reworking of the settings and that has pretty much put everything on hiatus - it's probably a year since I wrote any original fiction.

I also run genprompt_bingo and help run ladiesbingo (wearing my purplecat hat) and over on LJ I run a quarterly bingo challenge for the primeval_denial community. I have a couple of online bingo card and prompt generators as well (though its a while since I did anything with them and the interfaces are pretty basic) - Prompt Me, Bingo Cards, All singing and dancing.

Find Me: On DreamWidth I'm annariel for anything to do with creative stuff and purplecat for everything else. On LiveJournal I'm lsellersfic (for creative stuff) and louisedennis (for everything else). I'm annariel on AO3.

About Me: I'm a computer scientist by day, working on autonomous robotics and the verification of agent based systems. I'm female, in my 40s, married with a little one and live in the North West of the UK.

New Prompt Generator Tools

[ysabetwordsmith]

annariel has posted an introduction here, which includes links to several different tools for generating prompts.  The bingo generator includes some very different options than the ones already described.  I have added these to the "Get a Bingo Card" resource post. 

Schedule: Cottoncandybingo Returns in February

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm delighted to announce that cottoncandy_bingo will return:

Round Two Schedule
February 1, 2014 - July 1, 2014
Sign-Ups: February 1, 2014 - June 1, 2014
Requesting additional cards ends: June 21, 2014
Round Two Ends: July 1, 2014
Amnesty: July 2, 2014 - December 31, 2014

Mark your calendars.  Read the rules.

News: New Prompt Lists

[ysabetwordsmith]

I have made a batch of new prompt lists for the bingo card generator by magibrain, who has uploaded them into the menu. They are now listed as "Ysabetwordsmith's miscellaneous prompts." The title has been changed to reflect the fact that most of these will work for more than just fiction, and several are explicitly designed for other kinds of creativity. Also the lists have been alphabetized by title within category, which should make them easier to find.

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