Writing Rant
I think there's a point in which every self-confessed writer feels the need to write something. Oh, don't get me wrong, the stories are always there. It's not like I can stop the ideas in my head, constant thoughts and processes about what would be the best way to go about something, character development, dialogue, but I often just don't feel like writing. If there was somewhere to hook my brain up to a computer, I would be writing all the time, but the physical act of sitting there and typing out what I want - I'm lazy, I know it.
A lot of people ask when I'm going to write something new. Fans, friends, whoever. I always just say "soon" in reply. I don't know when I'm going to sit down and force something out of my head onto the screen, and even if I do that who knows when it would be finished to the level I expect from myself. I wonder if people are really that desperate to see something else I've written (though getting emails and PM's from random people I've never met before is somewhat encouraging).
But it has gotten to that point where I am no longer satisfied with what is out there for me to read. There's been the usual Christmas Time slump in fanfiction, and my hunger is not being abated. This is usually when my mind starts working over-time, giving me my own stories to keep me happy. However, if I do this too much then my mind starts to get a little too full, and eventually some of the stories need to spill out onto the proverbial paper, either because they are haunting me, or I think they are too good to be forgotten.
So does this mean I'm going to write something? I don't know. For me to write anything it goes in various steps. Step one is having a base idea on characters, a bit of a plot, or often just a scene somewhere in the piece. Step two is deciding whether it would make a viable story or whether it is just a dribble of an idea. Step three is building on the idea, working out why it is happening, the characters emotions and responses, and what surrounds it. Step four then is to think it into oblivion, working out every last nuance of dialogue, reaction, and prose, until I am sick of thinking about it. If after all that I still have the idea and still think it is good, then I may possibly write it down. Then of course after that comes all the editing-in-writing, post editing, more editing, and yes, more editing, before I have something that might possibly be called fiction.
Maybe it is time to open up Word and let something loose upon the world ^^;
A lot of people ask when I'm going to write something new. Fans, friends, whoever. I always just say "soon" in reply. I don't know when I'm going to sit down and force something out of my head onto the screen, and even if I do that who knows when it would be finished to the level I expect from myself. I wonder if people are really that desperate to see something else I've written (though getting emails and PM's from random people I've never met before is somewhat encouraging).
But it has gotten to that point where I am no longer satisfied with what is out there for me to read. There's been the usual Christmas Time slump in fanfiction, and my hunger is not being abated. This is usually when my mind starts working over-time, giving me my own stories to keep me happy. However, if I do this too much then my mind starts to get a little too full, and eventually some of the stories need to spill out onto the proverbial paper, either because they are haunting me, or I think they are too good to be forgotten.
So does this mean I'm going to write something? I don't know. For me to write anything it goes in various steps. Step one is having a base idea on characters, a bit of a plot, or often just a scene somewhere in the piece. Step two is deciding whether it would make a viable story or whether it is just a dribble of an idea. Step three is building on the idea, working out why it is happening, the characters emotions and responses, and what surrounds it. Step four then is to think it into oblivion, working out every last nuance of dialogue, reaction, and prose, until I am sick of thinking about it. If after all that I still have the idea and still think it is good, then I may possibly write it down. Then of course after that comes all the editing-in-writing, post editing, more editing, and yes, more editing, before I have something that might possibly be called fiction.
Maybe it is time to open up Word and let something loose upon the world ^^;