HEY F-LIST!!! (i do this too much)
(Appropriate icon is appropriate. Writing is hard.)
So, I'm kind of a fail.
Everyone knew this already.
I consistently have 20394802938409384 ideas whizzing around in my head at any given time, begging to be written.
This, on the other hand, is something only people I've known for quite a while know, especially these days because I don't write as much as I used to.
The people who know this also know that I'm pretty bad at finishing what I start.
This is mostly because I have some pretty freaking epic ideas. Unfortunately, contrary to popular belief, I'm only human and block. Quite a bit, actually. (Especially when two of my characters decide they're just going to be awkwardly quiet in a car. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME FAIL NANOWRIMO 2008, ERISMA AND PHYCE!!)
I love bouncing ideas off people and hearing feedback because it helps motivate me and improve the overall quality of my work. I have to depend on the f-list now for this mostly because I have not written fic in like...three years. Truth be told, I have been receiving the odd plot bunny from hell for fic, but I've been murdering them and hiding them under my rug, mostly because they go places I don't really want to tread right now.
I'm actually really freaking paranoid about my plots since I want my friends to be able to read what I write and be surprised when I drop bombshells that aren't actually bombshells because I've been planning them for like 203948029384 chapters already, so there's never really any one person who knows all of my plotlines. Yes, not even people I've collab'd with. (Though, I will admit, they know more than most.)
Unfortunately, this system doesn't work very well, because I will be extremely creative in the planning process, but don't follow through because my friends don't really bug me about writing anymore. OTL
SO TL;DR POINT OF THIS POST!!
I'm planning on starting up an idea-bouncing filter. WHO WANTS IN???
A lot of my story ideas are pretty serious. I've done some writing lately, but there's a quality to my writing that I used to have that isn't cropping up for my more recent stuff. I was looking through some of my older works today and realized what it was as I was rereading my NaNoWriMo '08 entry: a touch of my special brand of quirky humor. I desperately hope I'll get that touch back, since I just got hit with what's probably going to be one of my shortest and least serious ideas yet.
(Speaking of short ideas, androidia, we still need to talk about that collab we were working on before shit hit the fan back in May.)
Since it's not at all serious, I'm not too worried about sharing details about the story, mostly because I haven't fleshed it out yet. It pretty much amounts to a Pratchett-esque horror story revolving around the ghost stories that floated around at my grammar school and adjacent church. (I don't make it a secret that I believe in the paranormal. I also believe that I have witnessed one of the semi-famous ghosts that supposedly haunt my church. And when new tenants moved in next door, where the murder happened, I snickered a little. Also, my older cousin may or may not have been spooked by my dead grandma in my bathroom. It's...complicated and deals a lot with my family's collective religious beliefs. If you're truly interested, I could elaborate in a private chat or something.)
And now, because it's dawning on me that it's almost 2am, I think I need to go to sleep. I'm speaking nonsense again.
So, I'm kind of a fail.
Everyone knew this already.
I consistently have 20394802938409384 ideas whizzing around in my head at any given time, begging to be written.
This, on the other hand, is something only people I've known for quite a while know, especially these days because I don't write as much as I used to.
The people who know this also know that I'm pretty bad at finishing what I start.
This is mostly because I have some pretty freaking epic ideas. Unfortunately, contrary to popular belief, I'm only human and block. Quite a bit, actually. (Especially when two of my characters decide they're just going to be awkwardly quiet in a car. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME FAIL NANOWRIMO 2008, ERISMA AND PHYCE!!)
I love bouncing ideas off people and hearing feedback because it helps motivate me and improve the overall quality of my work. I have to depend on the f-list now for this mostly because I have not written fic in like...three years. Truth be told, I have been receiving the odd plot bunny from hell for fic, but I've been murdering them and hiding them under my rug, mostly because they go places I don't really want to tread right now.
I'm actually really freaking paranoid about my plots since I want my friends to be able to read what I write and be surprised when I drop bombshells that aren't actually bombshells because I've been planning them for like 203948029384 chapters already, so there's never really any one person who knows all of my plotlines. Yes, not even people I've collab'd with. (Though, I will admit, they know more than most.)
Unfortunately, this system doesn't work very well, because I will be extremely creative in the planning process, but don't follow through because my friends don't really bug me about writing anymore. OTL
SO TL;DR POINT OF THIS POST!!
I'm planning on starting up an idea-bouncing filter. WHO WANTS IN???
A lot of my story ideas are pretty serious. I've done some writing lately, but there's a quality to my writing that I used to have that isn't cropping up for my more recent stuff. I was looking through some of my older works today and realized what it was as I was rereading my NaNoWriMo '08 entry: a touch of my special brand of quirky humor. I desperately hope I'll get that touch back, since I just got hit with what's probably going to be one of my shortest and least serious ideas yet.
(Speaking of short ideas, androidia, we still need to talk about that collab we were working on before shit hit the fan back in May.)
Since it's not at all serious, I'm not too worried about sharing details about the story, mostly because I haven't fleshed it out yet. It pretty much amounts to a Pratchett-esque horror story revolving around the ghost stories that floated around at my grammar school and adjacent church. (I don't make it a secret that I believe in the paranormal. I also believe that I have witnessed one of the semi-famous ghosts that supposedly haunt my church. And when new tenants moved in next door, where the murder happened, I snickered a little. Also, my older cousin may or may not have been spooked by my dead grandma in my bathroom. It's...complicated and deals a lot with my family's collective religious beliefs. If you're truly interested, I could elaborate in a private chat or something.)
And now, because it's dawning on me that it's almost 2am, I think I need to go to sleep. I'm speaking nonsense again.