Cap_Ironman Weekly News, Week Ending 24 October 2010

[garrideb]

Welcome to the quite-late edition of the cap_ironman/cap_ironman newsletter. We'll just pretend that it's still Sunday, right? The biggest news it that we've got our first reverse big bang posted. Very exciting! Look under the cut for the link, along with links to this week's fic, art, and discussions.

( Weekly Round-Up! )

Finally, if you're a new or recent member, hello and welcome! Our rules are here, and in the profile; this includes our warnings policy, so please read. If you're interested in the ship, you may want to read the Ship Manifesto, and consult the list of Slashy Moments. If you're planning to write for the comm, there are some tips on writing the pairing here, and the Avengers in general here; if you're having trouble finding a beta, or would like to offer your services as a beta, our beta list is here. If you're looking for the comm archive, it's Tales of Suspense, and it's automated - you can create an account and upload your fic. Our Dreamwidth sister community is here. If you have any questions, you can comment here or PM a mod, that's me, muccamukk, or valtyr.

Cap_Ironman Weekly News, Week Ending 24 October 2010

[garrideb.livejournal.com]

Okay, the cap_ironman/cap_ironman newsletter is a tad late. We'll just pretend that it's still Sunday, right? The biggest news it that we've got our first reverse big bang posted. Very exciting! Look under the cut for the link, along with links to this week's fic, art, and discussions.

( Weekly Round-up! )

Finally, if you're a new or recent member, hello and welcome! Our rules are here, and in the profile; this includes our warnings policy, so please read. If you're interested in the ship, you may want to read the Ship Manifesto, and consult the list of Slashy Moments. If you're planning to write for the comm, there are some tips on writing the pairing here, and the Avengers in general here; if you're having trouble finding a beta, or would like to offer your services as a beta, our beta list is here. If you're looking for the comm archive, it's Tales of Suspense, and it's automated - you can create an account and upload your fic. Our Dreamwidth sister community is here. If you have any questions, you can comment here or PM a mod, that's me, muccamukk, or valtyr.

A time of terror

[tsukinofaerii]

What, Halloween? No! It's something even more frightening.

November.

AAAAAAAAH.

For everyone not in the know, November is National Novel Writing Month; that NaNoWriMo thing you've probably seen around the web. The way it goes is that anyone so inclined makes a deal with Mephisto attempts to write 50,000 words in 30 days (about half of a novel, or a pretty good sized fanfic). It rounds out to about 1,667 words a day, which is sometimes more manageable than it looks, and sometimes farther away than the moon. But that's okay, since the point is mostly to put your head down and charge at that writer's block until one of you cracks open.

As you can probably tell by the community this has been posted to (hint: it's cap_ironman), I'm doing a Steve/Tony NaNo! I did one last year and had a ridiculous amount of fun. With a goal and a deadline in mind, I've had a lot of lock slamming out words. For people who aren't interested in longer works, there's also mini_nanowrimo, which is a minimum word count of 100 words a day, and doing it on a single fic isn't required. That's much more manageable for people with busy schedules or short fics.

TL;DR I'm basically asking if anyone else on this community is going to join me in some delicious Steve/Tony headdesking noveling through November this year. Again, it's a ton of fun, and it really stretches the writing muscles, regardless of whether you do the Mini or the Novel form. So? Anyone up for it?

Disclaimer: Yes, this is an attempt to get people to write more Steve/Tony fic. I have no shame.