Delightfully Useless

One more hour till this month's fic_rush starts! I am hanging out in the 24-hour computer lab at uni, watching my Greenwich-synced computer clock and doing "research" (aka watching the new disc of The Middleman * which just arrived from Netflix. Netflix is the awesome.)

If you are not familiar with fic_rush - though I don't know why you wouldn't be, since I natter about it on a fairly regular basis - it is a two-day fanficcing marathon, held once a month on a weekend. Obviously no one person spends 48 straight hours writing, but there are hourly posts in which to chat, and we all pop in and out as we please. Lately there have been glowsticks.

(Not to mention the alien fish, singing Sontarans, lost_spook's wandering seaside penguins, and other strange creatures that infest our comment!fic. (Whoops, speaking of which, I have to default-ify my alien fish icon! *skedaddles*)

* Yes, it has done things to my syntax, although actually nobody but me ever notices and I won't even notice if I ever come back and read this post again. *g*

I totally forgot about Round 8 of fic_rush starting tonight!

For those ficcers on my flist who haven't yet discovered the insanity awesomeness that is Fic_Rush... it is "the two-day fic writing challenge". Writers from all sorts of fandoms get together once a month and write as much as they can, on anything they want - WIPs, new, or both - and cheer each other on in the hourly posts on fic_rush_48. You don't have to be there for the whole thing; just drop in when you can, tell us what you're working on, and join the fun!

(No, I have no idea what I'm writing yet. *g*)

The "when to have Round 6" poll is up at fic_rush!

For those who came in late, Fic_Rush is... like NaNoWriMo, only sane. Write anything you want, as much as you can, over the course of 48 hours, and chat in the hourly posts at fic_rush_48 with other people who are doing the same thing. Come in late, leave early, pop in and out, whatever - just have fun and make fic.

The post I linkied above is the poll for deciding when to have the March round. If this sounds like something you'd like to do, go over there and vote for the weekends you have (relatively) free!

(C'mon. Join us. It's a heck of a lot of fun!)

Have you ever heard of fic_rush ?

I hadn't, until I stumbled across dbskyler 's journal. It's a little-known and very small comm, but I think it deserves to be much better known.

Fic Rush is "the two-day fic marathon"; during the 48 hours of a specific weekend, you write as much as you can on whatever you want - any fandom, WIPs or new, no requirements! (No, you don't have to spend the whole 48 hours writing, either!) Every hour of those 48, in the secondary comm fic_rush_48 , one of the mods makes a check-in post where all the participating members can chat in the comments. Here's the Fic Rush Intro/FAQ post, which explains everything much more clearly.

I'm posting here because Fic Rush had apparently died of inactivity till I randomly stumbled across it and asked "Hey, is this thing still alive?" Seems it was just in stasis... there's now a voting post up to decide which weekend to hold Round 4.

So if this sounds like something you'd like to do, go join the comm, vote, and help keep Fic Rush alive! ;-)