End of a school year + Thoughts on Ideas and WIPs
Still alive! Essays due for this Friday and after that, I'm free! To explore the city, to work on stuff I've promised my best friend (I'm sure she doesn't believe I'll finish them at all since I've got an awful habit of just......forgetting in the end, but since I've got style recs, I should be good!).
Imo, if artists can use other artist's styles as influence then a writer can use another writer's writing/pacing/plotting as influence too. Y'know, that feeling after you read a really good book and you couldn't really put it down, and when you're finished you end up wanting to write something in that book voice?
Don't know if anyone actually keeps track of me here (some part of me still wants to change my username to easyongo but Nikanika told me it was probably better to keep it as was). I remember when I used to be mineconsolidate and then switched to epicionly, and that was when I was starting out. Also, I always hated trying to track authors across different fics if they changed the name. Not so fond of the (NICKNAME) OVERALL USERNAME format either, but what can you do.
I wish I could write more.
And in some way I feel like for someone who talks a lot of shit I don't do anything enough. I do write. I just...don't know how to see that through. I'm all excitements, all ideas but push comes to shove and I'm just not...interested.
Maybe I should give WIPs a try? I'm always more enthusiastic if I have someone else to be enthusiastic with. Self-interest can only take you so far. At the same time, I love postin all in one go because it means it's done. You don't have to wait. I feel like writing will speak for itself and you don't get into a pitfall of 'fuck it was so good why doesn't the writer write anymore'
Had a talk with a friend about this kind of mindset; you can have the best ideas in the world (which I think I do! I have a lot of fun ideas because I like to think I've sort of solved that sort of 'I'm bad at summaries' pitfall since I started off writing back in fanfiction.net as a kid. Thought the phrase R&R was cool shit haha. And i was like NO FLAMES even though I never got them really haha), but if you don't do anything with them, well.
That's true.
I think I should give some of my illustruous ideas for WIPing a try. I've the bad habit of starting so much but never finishing though (but I tell you, I always cheer up with a Kudos on a fic (i love ao3 for that) as well as a comment!). And I know I'm very good at buildup when I make myself pace it out (especially when I'm eager to lead the character into situations where EVENTUALLY SUCH AND SUCH WILL HAPPEN), when I have a set idea of What I Want. When I review something I always make a big deal about the pacing and the flow--and to me, that stuff is a big deal.
Usually I improv write a lot. I don't have a plan. I think they call that oranic writing, but honestly I wish I didn't write like this. I love structure but I'm loathed to follow it unless I mull on it throughout the day and think about it. When I was younger, I used to sit at the piano only to leap off and fire up the computer to type up my ideas. I was always a fountain of ideas. I used to call it my Inspiration.
I feel you should write fics you really want to write. That you feel muy passionate about. There's only a few fics I've published that I don't super like (ex. I don't like the idea of my super short pieces on AO3 because I feel like that's false advertising and it says I wrote more than I actually did), and even then I wrote The Doctrine of Your Crew and Mine because I overestimated myself and honestly just wanted a fic that had x x and y in the end. I'd definitely remix it if I could. I didn't certainly treat Spock's part with a lot of respect, it felt a little rushed in part three and such. Deadlines. I'm awful with them.
I tried joining a McKirk Bang back in February/March/April but honestly I had a lot of stuff to hand in and I couldn't balance my work with it and I hate that. I have to work on time management (which honestly isn't helping here as I'm word vomitting on LJ when I could be doing something else more productive, like, say, my essays).
It's hard to look at the overall of your fic and think yeah this is good, I think. Writers get so lost in their heads that to look back at a draft and see it for the first time is near impossible. At the same time, do people still get their stuff beta'd these days? I feel there is a less of that now. A lot of fanfiction is becoming less organized in some ways. Evolve further and further from book roots somewhat. It's more given in a raw first draft element, don't you think?
I discovered something called developmental editing style where someone reads your first draft and helps you develop it or points out flaws that you could work better, so that your story is more structured, cohesive, falls into sense and the typical Hero's Journey or whatever it is you want. Sandy probably covers that, probably but she's busy with her final exams, I think!
I feel like over the years I've just sort of become less outgoing and more kept to myself and I feel that my writing (introspection as it seems to be focused around, concentrating on sentiment, emotion, reaction) gets sort of hashed into that.
I can write a lot of great things but I honestly couldn't prove it to you. I can prove to you the Could Bes and Could Have Beens but honestly.
I need to stop being hot air and just write again.
I think a WIP would help, but which one y'know?
Imo, if artists can use other artist's styles as influence then a writer can use another writer's writing/pacing/plotting as influence too. Y'know, that feeling after you read a really good book and you couldn't really put it down, and when you're finished you end up wanting to write something in that book voice?
Don't know if anyone actually keeps track of me here (some part of me still wants to change my username to easyongo but Nikanika told me it was probably better to keep it as was). I remember when I used to be mineconsolidate and then switched to epicionly, and that was when I was starting out. Also, I always hated trying to track authors across different fics if they changed the name. Not so fond of the (NICKNAME) OVERALL USERNAME format either, but what can you do.
I wish I could write more.
And in some way I feel like for someone who talks a lot of shit I don't do anything enough. I do write. I just...don't know how to see that through. I'm all excitements, all ideas but push comes to shove and I'm just not...interested.
Maybe I should give WIPs a try? I'm always more enthusiastic if I have someone else to be enthusiastic with. Self-interest can only take you so far. At the same time, I love postin all in one go because it means it's done. You don't have to wait. I feel like writing will speak for itself and you don't get into a pitfall of 'fuck it was so good why doesn't the writer write anymore'
Had a talk with a friend about this kind of mindset; you can have the best ideas in the world (which I think I do! I have a lot of fun ideas because I like to think I've sort of solved that sort of 'I'm bad at summaries' pitfall since I started off writing back in fanfiction.net as a kid. Thought the phrase R&R was cool shit haha. And i was like NO FLAMES even though I never got them really haha), but if you don't do anything with them, well.
That's true.
I think I should give some of my illustruous ideas for WIPing a try. I've the bad habit of starting so much but never finishing though (but I tell you, I always cheer up with a Kudos on a fic (i love ao3 for that) as well as a comment!). And I know I'm very good at buildup when I make myself pace it out (especially when I'm eager to lead the character into situations where EVENTUALLY SUCH AND SUCH WILL HAPPEN), when I have a set idea of What I Want. When I review something I always make a big deal about the pacing and the flow--and to me, that stuff is a big deal.
Usually I improv write a lot. I don't have a plan. I think they call that oranic writing, but honestly I wish I didn't write like this. I love structure but I'm loathed to follow it unless I mull on it throughout the day and think about it. When I was younger, I used to sit at the piano only to leap off and fire up the computer to type up my ideas. I was always a fountain of ideas. I used to call it my Inspiration.
I feel you should write fics you really want to write. That you feel muy passionate about. There's only a few fics I've published that I don't super like (ex. I don't like the idea of my super short pieces on AO3 because I feel like that's false advertising and it says I wrote more than I actually did), and even then I wrote The Doctrine of Your Crew and Mine because I overestimated myself and honestly just wanted a fic that had x x and y in the end. I'd definitely remix it if I could. I didn't certainly treat Spock's part with a lot of respect, it felt a little rushed in part three and such. Deadlines. I'm awful with them.
I tried joining a McKirk Bang back in February/March/April but honestly I had a lot of stuff to hand in and I couldn't balance my work with it and I hate that. I have to work on time management (which honestly isn't helping here as I'm word vomitting on LJ when I could be doing something else more productive, like, say, my essays).
It's hard to look at the overall of your fic and think yeah this is good, I think. Writers get so lost in their heads that to look back at a draft and see it for the first time is near impossible. At the same time, do people still get their stuff beta'd these days? I feel there is a less of that now. A lot of fanfiction is becoming less organized in some ways. Evolve further and further from book roots somewhat. It's more given in a raw first draft element, don't you think?
I discovered something called developmental editing style where someone reads your first draft and helps you develop it or points out flaws that you could work better, so that your story is more structured, cohesive, falls into sense and the typical Hero's Journey or whatever it is you want. Sandy probably covers that, probably but she's busy with her final exams, I think!
I feel like over the years I've just sort of become less outgoing and more kept to myself and I feel that my writing (introspection as it seems to be focused around, concentrating on sentiment, emotion, reaction) gets sort of hashed into that.
I can write a lot of great things but I honestly couldn't prove it to you. I can prove to you the Could Bes and Could Have Beens but honestly.
I need to stop being hot air and just write again.
I think a WIP would help, but which one y'know?