Beginnings

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of a number of unfinished fics I'm currently working on. Some new, some older, all still active, and none in danger of being finished anytime soon. *sigh*

(Re: occasionally potentially weird turns of phrase: remember, this is me, a non-native speaker, unbeta'd.)

Comments

[amonitrate]

I like the Adam Pierson one. Lovely. And the last, the Harry potter. I"m not familiar with the other fandoms, but I always enjoy your writing.

And I plagiarize myself now and again. I only hope I catch it from time to time.

Thanks.

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I really love the Adam Pierson one. I'm just so, so stuck at the moment. *growls with frustration*

I have to get back to the 68 wives one, as well. At least with that one I know exactly where it's going, it's just a matter of filling the structure with words...

[ithildyn]

Very evocative. I suck at descriptions, so I admire your talent.

Well, I suck at everything *but* descriptions.

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That's actually the main reason why these fics are coming along so slowly. I'm really bad at plotting, and some of these are going to be pretty plotty, and I'm also really bad at fashioning non-plotty, introspective stuff into something readable. Usually, I have pages and pages of notes of really cool sentences and thoughts, and no discernible way of sticking them together into anything that resembles a story. With my last Farscape fic I ended up cutting seven pages of the fic (as it was) up into small slices and then pushing those around until I finally had something that felt like it could fit together in a meaningful way... I admire people who can actually just *write* something, instead of doing jigsaw puzzles like me.

[bimo]

Watch this space for the next five years or so, and you'll probably see the finished stories some day.

Damn, I would love to read any of those (well, maybe except the Life on Mars one because I haven't watched the show yet ;-))

You must be about the only living person on this planet who is writing fan fic slower than I do, but the results are definitely worth it!

MacSlow

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>Damn, I would love to read any of those (well, maybe except the Life on Mars one because I haven't watched the show yet ;-))

Thanks, and sorry! I don't mean to be so slow! ;-)

As for Life On Mars: something could be done about that, you know...?

>You must be about the only living person on this planet who is writing fan fic slower than I do

How slow are you? Just curious... Although I realise that it's pretty difficult to make any kind of statement about that... I mean, how do you measure something like writing speed?

Me, I seem to need around two years per fic. Except in the case of fairly simple fics written for challenges and the like. But I rarely do that anymore, since I mostly found the results lacking.

I also have fics I have not technically given up on yet that have been 'inactive' for more than two years - the oldest such fics are from 1999 and 2000. However, if I *do* keep working on something fairly constantly, it tends to take around two years for it to 'come out right'.

Re: MacSlow

[bimo]

As for Life On Mars: something could be done about that, you know...?

Lots of thanks for the offer, even though the problem has already been taken care of :-)

One of my colleagues at the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf has already suggested to supply me with episodes in exchange for all the new and old Doctor Who stuff that I have been giving him. No such thing as the good, old fannish system of "collect, convert and exchange" ;-)

How slow are you? Just curious...

Well, slow enough to have needed about two weeks for this real tiny thingie
http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=11534&chapter=1

Longer stories (meaning anything between 2000 and 6000 words) can take up to half a year; mostly because I often feel compelled to re-phrase, re-write, re-structure. Quite possible I'm suffering from some bizarre form of "creative inferiority complex" ...

The only relatively fast "200 words per hour" writing I do is for my Theatrical Muse journal albert_campion, but