I used to have a life, now I have a LorF...

[katiefoolery]

LorF has stolen my life.  I've spent the past two days insanely making LorF icons, chatting to fellow LorFers on msn and making vital casting decisions.  On the up side, we've found the perfect person to play Random Survivor of Trauma No. 2.  On the down side, I'm not doing as much non-LorF-related writing as certain Timothies might like.

But LorF is writing!  And it's better than the ordinary sort of writing, because you receive immediate feedback and you feel as though you're part of something big... because you are.  It's amazing to think that LorF has grown from a simple question asked on an un-related messageboard: Your life or your freedom?  Since then, we've made ourselves an LJ community, a most plendiferous wiki and more icons than you could poke a stick at.  We've lured people into our trap and refused to let them go.

Best of all, I've made some fantastic friends that should last me for a LorFtime lifetime.

I don't know how I'm going to cope without LorF when I go to stay at my parents' place this week.  I think I'm going to have to divide the stay up between a) working on Ever Again and Nunnery, b) getting some heavy-duty LorF writing done, and, oh yes, c) spending some quality time with said parents.  I suppose I should do some of that.

And then there'll be time spent making tea, of course.  For some reason, whenever I visit my parents, they always expect me to fall into my old role of making cuppas.

But for now, I must occupy myself with some plotting and planning and brainstorming.  Well, no-one ever said LorF was supposed to be easy...

Comments

[flippyfrog.livejournal.com]

Lorf is LIFE

and you think YOU have a problem?? I can't walk about Canberra anymore without pausing for a second, walk backwards a bit, crouch down, and decide that if we position the actor here... and bring the camera up at this angle... Hell, i was doing it in Melbourne when we were walking to Gloria Jeans, and the last time I was in Sydney. I have issues

but then again, i think i haven't been this enthused with a project in so long, and the fact that i'm sharing it with so many people means there is no chance for me to suddenly go "oh bugger that, i'll knock it aside for a time."

I love it.

I LorF it!

[emerald85.livejournal.com]

Yes, we wouldn't let you do that!

Yay! LorF!

And yay! "heavy-duty LorF writing" You have to do that Bunne! We need to know whats happening!!!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I have to spin out the mystery as long as possible! But there should be more coming very soon. Very soon indeed.

[cat-eyes-el.livejournal.com]

That's not soon enough

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Ah, the impatience of youth... ;)

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It keeps me awake at night! Last night, I was innocently trying to get to sleep when an idea for my next piece started hammering away at my imagination. It won't leave me alone!

And I LOVE it!!

I think the best thing about LorF is that you know people are going to read what you're writing. You're not writing into a vacuum. It inspires me to keep going. :)

[minnn.livejournal.com]

I wish I had the dedication to stick with it...I don't know what happened...I turned my back and BAM, LorF was too far gone for me to catch up!

I've been considering asking you to delete my 3 entries due to irrelevantness...I can't pick it up any longer. I really should have started writing it with a fictional character, not trying to view how I myself would react, because it became too hard.

Anywho, have fun :)

[emerald85.livejournal.com]

Awwww! No, we couldn't do that!

You have cameo's in two other LorFs! and it just wouldn't be right!

No deletage of LorF! :D

[minnn.livejournal.com]

LOL! Gah, you've got me tempted to edit the entries and replace the characters of Min and Paul with Big Bird and Oscar. :P

*goes back to the Real OC*

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

No! Bad Min! Don't make me break out the puppies and the superglue...

[minnn.livejournal.com]

LOL - for editing the entries? Or continuing with the abbysmal Real OC? :P

*grugs puppies*

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

We wouldn't do it, good Min! As Em says, you and Paul appear in cameos and, well, it just wouldn't be LorFish Brisbane if you weren't there. Besides, you never know when you might be suddenly inspired to pick it up again, even if you want to change a whole lot of things. LorF is very fluid that way. :) You could always start over in a slightly different way, if you wanted. All the cameos really require is that you're in Brisbane during the water riots.

[funaga.livejournal.com]

Whenever we visit James' parents, Caroline commands him (and sometimes both of us) to unload her dishwasher for her. Like we never really left... XD Enjoy the stay with your folks!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Goodness! I think I'll have to draw the line at the dishwasher. I don't mind the tea too much, but I used to hate emptying the dishwasher.

[brownie-1.livejournal.com]

Is there really any other way to love LorF?

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Not that I can think of, good Brownie. :)

[elfie-chan.livejournal.com]

It's good when writing takes over life! Yes! Have fun with LorF!

Is that a British/Australian thing? One person traditionally makes the tea, so that person is forever expected to do so? Sentence fragments?

Letter from Lizzie will follow shortly, along with more Scientific Notebook Pages.

Also: If Postcards gets published, what are the possibilities of getting it published in the form of an actual book of postcards, front and back? It could look like someone took actual postcards and collected them. The pictures on the front of the postcards would add visual interest, as well as being lots of fun.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It could be a British/Australian thing. All I know is that, from the time I could make tea, it has been my responsibility to keep doing it. At least I don't still have to empty the dishwasher, like funaga does. I think I'd draw the line at that. :)

And I just love the idea of Postcards being published as actual postcards! Alas, it's a nine thousand word story, so I can't see it happening. It'd be a lot of fun, though.

[cat-eyes-el.livejournal.com]

You could have the ocassional postcard.

Is postcards written by only a few people? Because you could have a small postcard symbol for wach of them and put it in the corner when they're writing, like Philip pullman had for the different worlds in His Dark Materials trilogy.

Or not...

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

There are nine main characters and four minor ones, one of which doesn't actually write any postcards but is referred to by some of the others. But I'm afraid I have to wait until someone accepts it before I can talk about how it should be laid-out. :)

[elfie-chan.livejournal.com]

See, this is why I should read other people's comments before posting my own. ^_^

[elfie-chan.livejournal.com]

It makes me think of Magrat. "Make the tea, Magrat."

Poor funaga.

Ooh. That would be a bit big, yes. Unless you did it as a big coffee table book...it depends on how long each postcard is. Hee. Maybe the occasional inserted picture postcard among the text? Like at the beginning of each chapter or something like that? Further sentence fragments?

Now I want tea. *wanders off to find the Earl Grey*

[naelany.livejournal.com]

*looks dumbfounded* What is LorF? *hides*

[naelany.livejournal.com]

Of course, I only noticed the link after I'd asked...piffle! Still a bit unsure though...

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I supposed it's sort of like an RPG in the broadest sense possible - except that we're playing ourselves. The question was posed: If Australia was invaded, would you choose Life or Freedom? Would you submit or rebel? We basically choose one or the other and then write our story. It started off so innocently and now it's become huge... and is still growing!

And it's very, very addictive. :)

[naelany.livejournal.com]

interesting. Have fun with it (just don't let it take over all your writing lol, want to read the rest of your stories!)

[rigel-7.livejournal.com]

It's funny how LorF, does that to you. Here you were thinking that Ryn had run past her usefulness and that she had no more to say. WRONG!

hehe. Which is of course most excellent.

The best thing about LorF (apart from the friends you make) is that your writing is read. People are acquainted with the details of your story andd that just inspires me to keep going and to make it more layered and convoluted.

PLOT TWIST AHEAD! tehe

*much love to Bunly and all LorFers*

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I love that aspect of LorF! When I post something, I know that people are going to read it and be intrigued and know exactly what's going on. It's much better than that 'writing into a vacuum' that I do most of the time.

Well, I guess Ryn showed me. :D

[rilla06.livejournal.com]

*is feeling rather guilty*

I really must write more Lorf... I have the next episode planned in my head, i just haven't written it down yet... *guilty look*

I need to make a new lovely Lorf icon :)

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

That'd be fantastic, good Rilla! We'd love to see some more from Hazel. :)

And yes - you definitely should make a new LorF icon. Now that you can have six, you might as well make most of them LorFish... ;)

[aeleson-mystic.livejournal.com]

Hmm, this 'Lorf' is very intriguing >_> I've been to the site before but I never really understood it.
Now that I do, it looks like fun

[brydz42.livejournal.com]

frankie! you should so join! you'd be really interesting i bet...:P

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It is fun. Not to mention incredibly addictive. You could always join as a reader, good Frankie. We have a couple of members who just like to read. :)