#writing woes
me, to myself: I will not start a new WIP. I will not start a new WIP. I will not –
my brain, slamming the accelerator to NEW FIC with the same excess as a toddler dishing out birthday confetting: WHOOPHI PLOTBUNNIES TIME ENTER THE WORLD QUARTER DONE AND NEVER TO BE COMPLETED
tfw when the chronology and worldbuilding of a series is just one big plothole (and piecing together a coherent timeline is like trying to do intricate embroidery in the dark) but all is forgiven in the light of the perfect, broken, beautiful characters that said series introduced you to.
AS fanfiction is such a bad idea the most I’ll write is 2.5 character studies and like. 3 SUPER DUPER obscure crossovers. Why are my fingers twitching for the keyboard anyways.
Just posted Firebrandand that fic’s such a mood because I genuinely don’t know anyone other than myself with the context needed to read it, it’s SO niche. Who here’s read Angel Sanctuary? Who here’s read A net of Dawn and Bones? Who here’s finished both and thus has the background necessary to understand this fic? :DDDDDDD
A terrible crossover and yet one i cannot remove from my brain: setting angel sanctuary Michael anywhere near the Supernatural universe. I don’t care if its a fusion or just straight up dimension hopping, it’ll be amazing– by which I mean setting a molotov on a house and watching it burn down. The interactions alone–
The problem with this story: I have a definite beginning and a defnite ending planned, but concerning the thirty different cool character interactions and events I want to stuff in the middle I am in a state of confusion in how to conceivably fit them all.
You and your MC preparing for the final push:
Writers in the middle of a first draft like:
Pulling that bait-and-switch on your betas like:
Thinking of hiring an editor…?
You’ve done it. You’ve come to the end of the road on your first draft or last round of revisions. Where do you go next?
“A professional editor!” many will scream.
But do you really need a professional editor to score that dream publishing contract?
When someone says they don’t like your genre:
Chasing that writing career like:
One of my favorite things is fanfic Author’s Notes where it says something like “One more chapter left!” and then you scroll up and see exactly when they lost control of their life.
It’s funny every time and I always appreciate the additional reading material.oh my god it’s even funnier when that’s the Author’s Note multiple times in a row.
Death of the Author’s Self Control
I’ve really been wanting to play the remaster of Chrono Cross since it came out a couple days ago. But I also really want to finish my next chapter of my fan fic. So I’ve been telling myself when I finish the chapter, I’ll play the game.
But I’ve been stuck on ONE SCENE for a while now and it’s driving me nuts! I know what I want to do after that scene. I have detailed notes on what I want to do after that scene. But I need to write the inbetween bit before I can get to it and finish it. I’ve been writing and rewriting it so many times. I wouldn’t really call it a writer’s block. It’s more like a series of writer’s speed bumps. Just when I think I’m getting into a rhythm, picking up momentum to move the scene along I get to a break in the dialog or a description of actions and everything comes to a crawl as I try to figure out how to make it all flow smoothly.
And all the while I keep thinking “I really wanna play Chrono Cross to take a break.” But I know once I boot that game up, it’s gonna be the only thing I’ll be doing for like, the next week. And I really wanna finish this chapter!
I started keeping a notebook with me at work because I kept coming up with good dialog or scenes for the current fic I’m writing. And so far it’s been working out really well.
Except when I was driving home today and came up with a really solid dialog between two characters leading to a solid segue into introducing another character and the next scene. I pulled into the driveway, walked into the house AND PROMPTLY FORGOT IT ALL!
I remember vaguely the gist of it. But it’s not the same!
Reading my own stories to remember where the stories are at. I was getting confused about what point of the story I have written already, and what’s still just inside my head. It’s so ridiculous, cause inside my head they are already finished, I drew the endings two years ago, just didn’t put them down in words. That’s the problem of living inside your own head. It’s a self sufficient mechanism at best but horribly self serving at its core.
The worst part about self-indulgent fics is I have to write them myself.
