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[musesfool]

I see people are doing their year-end writing round-ups, and I am like, "but there is still a week left! I could certainly finish something else before the year ends!" I am currently at 72 stories for the year - I would love to make it to 75 if at all possible

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[inksheddings]

It's interesting to hear how others view their own writing, what they want to accomplish with it.

I understand what you mean, about wanting to write the stories in your head just so, making your mark on them, so to speak.

I think I'm a bit of a coward, when it comes to writing. I have all these ideas that never bear fruit. I get excited, plan it out in my head, then realize it will take me much, much more than 1000 words to actually write it as I see it. *laughs* And I know my strengths, and generally they lie in choosing my words frugally and carefully and placing a scene in a moment, making it relevant just then. So...

I'm hoping, at some point, I'll give one of these ideas in my head a decent shot. Maybe it has to do with this particular time in my life, it's so busy in RL - quick quick here, quick quick there - that that's all the time I have for my fics. My life feels like snapshots, so my fics are snapshots.

Or something. *g*

Damn it, now you've got me navel-gazing. :D

And yes, you are very good with characterization. It's definitely one of your strengths.

[musesfool]

No, I hear you. I have always tended to write short - the stories that are longer are only longer because I couldn't do them in a few words as I'd expected, and I am a great believer in figuring out how to tell a story in the fewest words possible. I think even my longer stories - the ones that are 7k or 8k words long - would be even longer in other people's hands. But in order for me to tell the stories I want to tell, I've had to adjust my expectations a little, and let the stories take the amount of words they take, you know?

It's frustrating sometimes, because it takes so much longer to write them, but it's better than looking at them when they're done and going, wait, this could have been better if I'd taken the time and let it be the length it needs to be. (And I am sure even when I do that, there are people who think my stories are too short and are not unpacked to their full potential.)