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[rule-number-7.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if anyone knew of any communities with Criminal Minds fic challenges.

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[chitown-gal.livejournal.com]

pdficchallenge is currently on hiatus, but does include Criminal Minds in its challenges. Other than that, I don't know of anything but I hope someone else does!

[rule-number-7.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll watch it to see what happens.

[seraphina_snape]

Well, there is cm_challenge. But so far, there is nothing going on. Oh... I just noticed I'm a co-mod for the comm, so why is it still just an empty lj? ...I can't promise anything, but I can try to get things started over there. Any ideas as to specific challenges are welcome.

~ sera

[rule-number-7.livejournal.com]

I joined the comm a few days ago even if it was empty. Figure it might pick up one day. As for challenges, I have no clue. I was hoping to do one or two to get me started on CM writing. I have plot bunnies in my head but I can't seem to get started. Make sense? lol

[seraphina_snape]

Yeah, it makes perfect sense. Maybe you could try one of the non-fandom challenge comms like those 100 thingies where you have a table with 100 prompts and claim a fandom or pairing and write fics to those 100 prompts.

~ sera

[rule-number-7.livejournal.com]

I was looking into one of those things but I'm not sure yet. CM isn't the only fandom I'm into so I already have a lot to do. I don't want to take on to much more than I already have. Plus I'm going back to school on Monday (SAVE ME!) so that's going to take some getting used to again. I've not been since May 2006 lol

Sorry, I tent to ramble some lol

[seraphina_snape]

Don't worry about it. Any of it. School is school, no matter how much time has passed.

I started this 100 songs challenge months ago and I haven't written more than three or so fics for it. They don't have a deadline, but whenever I think about it (like now) I feel a little guilty that I haven't done more. Then again, I'm totally blocked and haven't written anything substantial in a while.

~ sera

PS: I really like that icon. Gives me that 'awww' feeling.

[rule-number-7.livejournal.com]

Then again, I'm totally blocked and haven't written anything substantial in a while.

I know what you mean! I haven't been able to write much either. A few lines here and there, finished a chapter on an original fic then nothing. It just freezes. I thought I needed a break but then I seem incapable of not writing or at least trying to. I tried working on my original fic thinking the change would help and it did for a bit. Now I've discovered CM fanfiction (I knew it was there. I'm just a little skeptical about new fanfiction lol) and I'm hoping it can unblock me. Totally different type of fandom so who knows. I'll see what happens lol

And Brian/Justin = OTP
=D

[seraphina_snape]

I thought I needed a break but then I seem incapable of not writing or at least trying to.

So true. I have ideas, I have time (more or less; not having the time to write never stopped me before *g*) - but no writing. It's like someone hit a switch while I was sleeping and I can't turn it back on. Frustrating.

CM isn't so different for me. I'm a crime show fan, I read a lot of fanfic in any of these crime stuff fandoms. The only thing that is new is the psychology angle - I have no dozens of psych, mental health and profiling sites bookmarked to be able to believably fake some psychology knowledge.

Hey, maybe reading through some true crime case studies would help, inspiration-wise? Of course, that doesn't help much if you want to write a more character-based fic.

~ sera

[rule-number-7.livejournal.com]

My fics would me more character based and if a case is involved, I'd skip the profiling part lol I can't have Reid dictating his knowledge either because I don't have any =P

I like crime shows but I try not to watch them much (can't stay away from CM though...) because I get scared easily lol You should see me after I watch one. It's pathetic really.

I figured Criminal Minds was a change from Harry Potter. With Harry Potter, it seems like there's more possibilities for stories or maybe that's only because I've been in it for a long time. Only time will tell. I'm currently writing a Hotch/Reid drabble so I'll see where that goes. So far it's 50/50.

[seraphina_snape]

Harry Potter, huh? I started out in that fandom. I mean, I'd been watching Buffy and some other stuff, but by the time I had access to a computer regularly, my mind had been taken over by HP. (Hence this username and my long list of HP fics on ff.net that I don't link to because they're embarrassing to read again after so many years. *g*)

I'm the person who watches CSI to see Grissom poke his thumb into brains. I'm the person who laughs at horror movies. I don't know why, but I don't scare that easily when it comes to movies. Guess I'm lucky that way. There's always this "yeah, great effect, but it's not real" in the back of my head that allows me to go down into the dark basement after watching some horror film without being scared.

As for random knowledge, just hit the random page button on wikipedia a couple of times - you're bound to find some obscure plant or city or drug you can work into fics. Inspiration is everywhere.

~ sera

[rule-number-7.livejournal.com]

Go down into a dark basement? AFTER a horror movie or show? I bloody well think not! I'd die from being scared lol It takes all my willpower not to yell at the smallest noise when I go from my room to the bathroom and back before bed after watching or thinking of a show like that. Hell, I even peek behind the shower curtain once I get in the washroom but that's after I turn on the light as fast as possible lol I know it's not real but that doesn't seem to work for me. I don't think I could survive living on my own lol Besides, there really ARE whack jobs like that in the world. Even though I know none of them magically apparated into the appartment...

I figured you were or had been into the HP fandom at one time because of your name lol I don't link to my fics on FFN either because I have one that I have to rewrite. I get loads of reviews for it and most are great but I don't know what possessed people to drop good reviews. It needs a major rewrite before I continue it. The beginning isn't the writing of an adult lol

It's not the lack of ideas. I just can't seem to write. I just block. It's a pain in the ass. I was just about to make another attempt at finishing up that drabble. Hope it goes well.

[seraphina_snape]

My problem isn't a lack of ideas either. I have lots of ideas, sometimes paired with real inspiration to write. I sit down and write for a night and end up with 12 pages of what could be a really good story - only I have to sleep/work/study at some point and when I get back to the story, the inspiration is gone and it stays gone. I can't get back into the flow; everything I add to it in another writing session is radically different from those first 12 pages. Feels like it's not even the same story any more.

Fear of darkness - one of the most basic fears in humans, or so I'm told. You see, my younger brother and I had to share a bedroom for a while, and he's deadly afraid of the dark. He was six, I was eight, and he wouldn't sleep without the door open and the lights in the hall on. I found out that I couldn't sleep with the lights on. And if you can't sleep if it's not dark, being afraid of the dark is way too exhausting. *g*

~ sera

[rule-number-7.livejournal.com]

Fear of darkness - one of the most basic fears in humans, or so I'm told.

Christ you sound like Reid lol The worst part of all this? I'm not afraid of walking outside at night. I used to be terrified and then I went for a walk with a friend and her step sis. Didn't notice it had gotten dark and when I did. I wasn't scared. Now I love it. Unless I'm alone. Then I'm only ok to walk home from work lol

And I just got a fic idea thanks to you. I don't know if I should curse you or thank you lol

[seraphina_snape]

Well, it's not the actual darkness that most people are afraid of - it's what could possibly (and in some cases does) wait in the darkness. Kids think there are monsters under the bed or in the closet, adults are worried that there is some mugger or rapist waiting around the corner or in the dark back corner of the deserted parking lot.

Fic idea! Whoo!

~ sera

[rule-number-7.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not the actual darkness that most people are afraid of - it's what could possibly (and in some cases does) wait in the darkness...adults are worried that there is some mugger or rapist waiting around the corner or in the dark back corner of the deserted parking lot.

I hope you know you aren't helping lol

[seraphina_snape]

If I actually were Reid, I would come up with some statistics. Since I'm not, I'm gonna say: I'm sure that on average, a person can go through his or her life without ever being attacked in any way. I don't even know anyone who's ever been mugged.

~ sera

[rule-number-7.livejournal.com]

Doesn't help the fact that I get scared lol. It's something I can't help.

[seraphina_snape]

Fear is a good thing, basically. Some sort of instinctive self-protection system; you get scared, you run (or fight, but... well, if it's you against Mike Tyson, I bet he wouldn't run). It's a way of making sure the species survives. It's why mice run and hide when birds of prey are circling over the field, it's why antilopes and zebras run when the lions go hunting. So, fear. Good thing.

~ sera

[rule-number-7.livejournal.com]

I used to joke with a friend that if Death Eaters or a hot rapist came after us, I'd stay lol It was really funny but in reality we'd both run like mad screeming lol Unless they were DE. I still stand by my 'stay and play' statement on that one lol Those we're good discussions lol

[seraphina_snape]

I know. I used to belong to this DE anonymous-type yahoo group. Was fun.

~ sera

[rule-number-7.livejournal.com]

I'm not about to turn down Lucius Malfoy lol Or Tom Riddle. Besides, I figure cooperating would be less painful lol Hopefully....

[seraphina_snape]

Obviously, I'm more of a Snape girl. *g* I can't wait for book 7 to come out. It's bound to be better than HBP.

~ sera

PS: Hmm... I just realised I don't have any HP icons. I gotta find some... tomorrow. I should probably head to bed, seeing as it's midnight and I have classes tomorrow.

[patch-tank.livejournal.com]

The one I'm currently involved with is 2dozenowies, which isn't specifically CM - it's a hurt/comfort fic challenge, but you can pick which fandom/character/pairing you want to focus on. So far I'm the only one doing Criminal Minds (as a general series), but there's someone else writing Derek Morgan fics, and up to 3 people can claim the same thing.
Hope you find something!

-Patch

[rule-number-7.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thanks!

*runs off to have a look*