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meridian_rose ([personal profile] meridian_rose) wrote in [community profile] allbingo2014-05-22 09:44 am
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BINGO: Blackout

I completed a multi-media multi-fandom blackout for [community profile] trope_bingo, full list of prompts and fills here
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Wow!

[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith 2014-05-22 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
I am so impressed. I got a card for that fest but it's harder for me to write fills due to all the AU squares, when most of my work is original. Add in that I can't count stuff until it's sponsored and posted, and I don't have a bingo yet. :(

Blackout is always challenging, too. I aim for it often but don't always make it.
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Re: Wow!

[personal profile] meridian_rose 2014-05-22 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you :) I am inordinately pleased with myself because I've never managed a blackout before on any card. I just aim for a line and be happy with it!
I know I couldn't have done it by fic alone, and I can see how AU can be a problem for original work. That said, I'm intrigued by the idea of AUs in an original setting, particularly canon AU/fork in the road where you can ask "what if" about a decision or event, and the repercussions if things go differently, and I do like to play with that.
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Re: Wow!

[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith 2014-05-23 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
>> I am inordinately pleased with myself because I've never managed a blackout before on any card. I just aim for a line and be happy with it! <<

That is extra awesome.

>> I know I couldn't have done it by fic alone, and I can see how AU can be a problem for original work. That said, I'm intrigued by the idea of AUs in an original setting, particularly canon AU/fork in the road where you can ask "what if" about a decision or event, and the repercussions if things go differently, and I do like to play with that. <<

I like the idea of AU in original work, and I have done some of it. But the type of AU on bingo cards is almost always stuff that's hard to write for most settings, like AU Coffee Shop or AU high school. I'd be fine with those prompts if they weren't locked to AU. I do better with AU prompts like "fork in the road." But those tight-focus ones, I only have one setting -- Schrodinger's Heroes -- that is really optimized for that sort of thing. So I can do some, but doing a lot is hard.
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