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battleshipex and ES21 Prompt Bingo!
Aug. 18th, 2022 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yelpI'm lumping these together because they ended up overlapping, and by completely avoidable unfortunate circumstance, I spent two weeks trying to juggle both simultaneously.
Eyeshield 21 Prompt Bingo actually started in April, but after a lot of big plans and daydreaming (and very few fills), my output sort of petered off partway through. (It didn't help that the bingo squares that I managed were nowhere close to making a bingo.) Then suddenly, before I knew it, there was only one week left - which also coincided with the first week of Battleship! I plotted out a multichapter fic, hitting 1-2 prompts per chapter, that would indirectly take me to bingo by the end, and tried my best to speedwrite it!
Battleship was a super unique exchange where participants were divided into two teams, each with their own battleship board. To fire on the enemy team's board, we had to create fanworks containing tags assigned to each square. It was so cool to see a social and strategic take on exchanges, and chat was very lively. Having the prompts to create for, and a sense of deadline-inspired urgency, was very motivating (not unlike Prompt Bingo, actually)!
Anyway, rather than describing how it all played out, here's a hasty chart/timeline I made.
In the end, I published about 18k words in 18 days, which is pretty astounding for me! (There were a lot of hasty revisions of my Battleship works leading up to and possibly even slightly after reveals, aha.)
For Eyeshield 21 Prompt Bingo, I managed to get a bingo only thanks to flexible rules on what counts (my bingo card). It was so nice to see a burst of activity in this quiet fandom right in time for the 20-year anniversary!
For Battleship, it was really fun to try this new exchange format! I missed out on a lot of the socialization at the start of the event, and I kept feeling like I was trying to catch up on the rules, but my team members were patient about explaining. I'm not entirely sure it's the exchange for me - longer minimum exchanges like FFFX (or even Heart Attack) feel much more my speed. I set out to write all fics close to the 300-word minimum, but didn't achieve a single one below 1k. I was also alarmed by how suddenly the game ended, even though I knew it was a possibility. (But my precious revision passes!)
On the other hand, it was a super cool experience, even for someone who only lightly participated on the Discord chat. When I got to writing my first fill (my assignment), I found some needed tags I could include, and happened to post just in time to take a shot - that ended up being a hit!! I was so lucky to have that be my first experience of Battleship and rode that high for the rest of the event, honestly. Plus, I received an astounding eight (8!!!) gifts in this event, 6 of which were Zhongli/Xiao, which I found an amusing coincidence. I ended up writing 5 fics:
Moral of the story? Prompts on grids + deadlines = good for my productivity, I guess.
Eyeshield 21 Prompt Bingo actually started in April, but after a lot of big plans and daydreaming (and very few fills), my output sort of petered off partway through. (It didn't help that the bingo squares that I managed were nowhere close to making a bingo.) Then suddenly, before I knew it, there was only one week left - which also coincided with the first week of Battleship! I plotted out a multichapter fic, hitting 1-2 prompts per chapter, that would indirectly take me to bingo by the end, and tried my best to speedwrite it!
Battleship was a super unique exchange where participants were divided into two teams, each with their own battleship board. To fire on the enemy team's board, we had to create fanworks containing tags assigned to each square. It was so cool to see a social and strategic take on exchanges, and chat was very lively. Having the prompts to create for, and a sense of deadline-inspired urgency, was very motivating (not unlike Prompt Bingo, actually)!
Anyway, rather than describing how it all played out, here's a hasty chart/timeline I made.
In the end, I published about 18k words in 18 days, which is pretty astounding for me! (There were a lot of hasty revisions of my Battleship works leading up to and possibly even slightly after reveals, aha.)
For Eyeshield 21 Prompt Bingo, I managed to get a bingo only thanks to flexible rules on what counts (my bingo card). It was so nice to see a burst of activity in this quiet fandom right in time for the 20-year anniversary!
For Battleship, it was really fun to try this new exchange format! I missed out on a lot of the socialization at the start of the event, and I kept feeling like I was trying to catch up on the rules, but my team members were patient about explaining. I'm not entirely sure it's the exchange for me - longer minimum exchanges like FFFX (or even Heart Attack) feel much more my speed. I set out to write all fics close to the 300-word minimum, but didn't achieve a single one below 1k. I was also alarmed by how suddenly the game ended, even though I knew it was a possibility. (
On the other hand, it was a super cool experience, even for someone who only lightly participated on the Discord chat. When I got to writing my first fill (my assignment), I found some needed tags I could include, and happened to post just in time to take a shot - that ended up being a hit!! I was so lucky to have that be my first experience of Battleship and rode that high for the rest of the event, honestly. Plus, I received an astounding eight (8!!!) gifts in this event, 6 of which were Zhongli/Xiao, which I found an amusing coincidence. I ended up writing 5 fics:
The Toughest Hand, the Longest Stand (Stranger Things, Chrissy/Eddie, 1.3k words)
Never wrote in this fandom before, but I loved the prompt! I thought it was going to be a rarepair, but there were actually several others in the collection.
Earth Goods (Original Work, Male Stowaway Expecting To Pay With Sex/Kind-Hearted Male Ship Captain, 2.5k words)
This would not have been set IN SPACE! if we hadn't needed the tag "Aliens" at the time. I think it still worked well with the prompt!
I want to lay down in a field of bone (Ground Don't Want Me - Josh Ritter (Song), 1.2k words)
I was enthralled by this song when I saw the request. I'm still listening to it to this day.
Alchemy is Full of Secrets (and Alchemists Are Too) (Genshin Impact, Albedo & Sucrose & Kaeya, 1.6k words)
Literally never spared Kaeya a thought until I came across this prompt, and now I kinda dig him. What's next, am I going to get into Diluc too??
Whose Bread I Eat, Her Song I Sing (Genshin Impact, Beidou & Kazuha, 1.1k words)
I got up early before work to finish this and post it. Good thing I did - the game was over by the time I logged back in that night!
Moral of the story? Prompts on grids + deadlines = good for my productivity, I guess.
