Writing is hard
So I'm working on an actual case fic with actual plot. Shocking, I know. i think I made good headway today. I really want to get it finished before November because I want to NaNoWriMo my original stuff. (Again, shocking) i think I just verbed a noun there. Anyway, I don't know why I procrastinate so much on writing. I've had a hard time plotting since I have no dishes to wash. I do my best plotting while I'm doing the dishes. But I'm down to one kid and home and a full-time housekeeper. Not a lot of dishes to do ever. I should have her go down to past-time, but that seems unfair. i'm only here another...eight months. And she'll help me get ready to move.
Anyway, I have so many ideas floating around in my brain for supernatural. Yet my stuff is so much harder. There is a whole LOT of plot in a novel. And I have to build the world and create the characters. I'd rather play in someone else's sandbox.
I have found writing the fanfiction has made me quicker at writing, less judgey. And has gotten me in the habit of writing fiction again. After grad school it was hard to switch back. Anybody else find writing fan fiction has helped in general? by writing so much, I can see the bad habits I have, what phrases and sentence structures I over use. I can go back and try to read my own writing with a critical eye. By not having to worry so much about creating the world or the characters, and in the case of the short pieces, even about plot, I find I can focus on the actual writing - style, word usuage, how it looks on the page, dialog vs description, that kind of thing.
It's interesting.
I'm going to try and write more here like this. I'm terrible at journaling. (Heh, Word has 'livejournal' in it's dictionary but not journaling) but I really like the people I meet in LJ, so...
Back to writing the Gay Rodeo SPN. If ANYBODY would like to take a gander at a bunch of notes and what I have and hold my hand through the plotty process, I wouldn't say no!
Anyway, I have so many ideas floating around in my brain for supernatural. Yet my stuff is so much harder. There is a whole LOT of plot in a novel. And I have to build the world and create the characters. I'd rather play in someone else's sandbox.
I have found writing the fanfiction has made me quicker at writing, less judgey. And has gotten me in the habit of writing fiction again. After grad school it was hard to switch back. Anybody else find writing fan fiction has helped in general? by writing so much, I can see the bad habits I have, what phrases and sentence structures I over use. I can go back and try to read my own writing with a critical eye. By not having to worry so much about creating the world or the characters, and in the case of the short pieces, even about plot, I find I can focus on the actual writing - style, word usuage, how it looks on the page, dialog vs description, that kind of thing.
It's interesting.
I'm going to try and write more here like this. I'm terrible at journaling. (Heh, Word has 'livejournal' in it's dictionary but not journaling) but I really like the people I meet in LJ, so...
Back to writing the Gay Rodeo SPN. If ANYBODY would like to take a gander at a bunch of notes and what I have and hold my hand through the plotty process, I wouldn't say no!