writing musing
Am finally back from the land of revision and exams and torture. :)
Anyway, I was reading some of my old stories way back when and sometimes I feel like...I wish I could revert back to my old writing style. D: I think I've tried to develop a more prosaic style and over the years it's become a mix of something that I don't quite like. I kinda like the old days where I didn't really focus on my writing style, but instead tried to introduce more humour and shorter sentences. I think it's most apparent in my one-shots, where I don't really care about the plot, so I get to just write whatever I feel like stuff without worrying about long flowing sentences that link together. Whereas with my more recent stuff I feel like the prose is just...prose and the words just feel dead. :/ I dunno. Maybe I should work on my characterisation a bit more, or something.
Then again, I haven't been writing as regularly as I once did and maybe it's a case of practice makes perfect. Eeh.
On the other hand, most of the fandoms I'm following at the moment simply don't inspire me to write. I fangirl them a lot, but I'm either slightly intimidated by the fandom, or I feel like canon just doesn't lend itself well to fanfiction. No wonder I've been looking at original slash a lot more recently, but I think that even more so, requires well rounded characters and good plotty storylines.
*goes off to look at some writing meta*
Anyway, I was reading some of my old stories way back when and sometimes I feel like...I wish I could revert back to my old writing style. D: I think I've tried to develop a more prosaic style and over the years it's become a mix of something that I don't quite like. I kinda like the old days where I didn't really focus on my writing style, but instead tried to introduce more humour and shorter sentences. I think it's most apparent in my one-shots, where I don't really care about the plot, so I get to just write whatever I feel like stuff without worrying about long flowing sentences that link together. Whereas with my more recent stuff I feel like the prose is just...prose and the words just feel dead. :/ I dunno. Maybe I should work on my characterisation a bit more, or something.
Then again, I haven't been writing as regularly as I once did and maybe it's a case of practice makes perfect. Eeh.
On the other hand, most of the fandoms I'm following at the moment simply don't inspire me to write. I fangirl them a lot, but I'm either slightly intimidated by the fandom, or I feel like canon just doesn't lend itself well to fanfiction. No wonder I've been looking at original slash a lot more recently, but I think that even more so, requires well rounded characters and good plotty storylines.
*goes off to look at some writing meta*