Ever been so frustrated with somebody's writing project that you just wanted to hijack it?
I have a dear old friend who has been writing the same damn story for over a decade now, and I'm so tired of getting his piecemeal, incomplete drafts in my email that I'm about to just take his idea and write the friggin' thing myself!
You see, he's planned this sprawling series of short stories, novellas and novels, but hasn't finished anything in probably four years, and the last thing he did finish he has consigned to a purgatory of constant revision (which for him always means he wants to make it longer). Most frustrating of all, he keeps playing with and revising plot threads in the middle of his series when he's never even attempted to write out the beginning! Never. He's told me how it starts, and frankly, that part of the narrative has always been the most interesting to me. (It's really a defining experience for his protagonist, too, but he has repeatedly failed to grasp that fact.) I'm seriously thinking about writing a "fanfiction" for it, just for my own satisfaction! (And maybe to prove a point or two.) My friend has a brilliant way with the written word, but bless him, he suffers from a lack of creativity, character development and general organization that is driving me up the gorram wall.
*angry flail*
You see, he's planned this sprawling series of short stories, novellas and novels, but hasn't finished anything in probably four years, and the last thing he did finish he has consigned to a purgatory of constant revision (which for him always means he wants to make it longer). Most frustrating of all, he keeps playing with and revising plot threads in the middle of his series when he's never even attempted to write out the beginning! Never. He's told me how it starts, and frankly, that part of the narrative has always been the most interesting to me. (It's really a defining experience for his protagonist, too, but he has repeatedly failed to grasp that fact.) I'm seriously thinking about writing a "fanfiction" for it, just for my own satisfaction! (And maybe to prove a point or two.) My friend has a brilliant way with the written word, but bless him, he suffers from a lack of creativity, character development and general organization that is driving me up the gorram wall.
*angry flail*