What I'm up to now.
So I mentioned before that I started writing again, which was surprisingly easy. Like slipping on a pair of old slippers. I have no excuse not to do it, which is freeing in a lot of ways, and scary in others. Having excuses was a lot easier than trying to actually finish shit.
Anyway, I'm picking up stories and characters that I've been playing with off and on for over a decade. I started parts of this project when I was much younger (and dumber), but I always kept putting it down. Over the years I tried adapting it into online rpgs and whatnot, but could never get the stories to develop the way I wanted them to. Part of that is because I am lazy, and prone to falling back on fandom. Fandom stuff was always a lot easier to get people to play with me in, or write with me in, or talk with me about, or read in general, so fandom it was. I'm still interested in fandom. Hell, I've found new fandoms in the last year. But since jumping ship from Y!G over a year ago, and the whole fallout with my primary writing partner, I haven't really been doing much of interest. I got wrapped up in the wedding, and adapting psychologically to the whole "housewife" idea, using both of those things to excuse me from having to be creative. I considered jumping back into rping, but I know that it's largely because I want that crutch of having at least one other person to rely on for helping me with the content (and at least one other person to blame should the story fail to be finished, if it ever really gets off the ground). Creatively speaking, I've become far too dependent on others, so it's best if I force myself to fly solo, as it were.
The writing is scattered. I keep picking up one story and then putting it down for another, to where I'm juggling several things at once. Which, as those of you who used to rp with me can attest, is pretty much how I've always been wired. Whenever I've joined a game, it was never as just one character. It was never just one game. There was never just one fanfic I was working on at any given time. Hopefully, I can find the discipline to actually follow through with the things I'm starting on my own, without prompting from a writing partner. :/ That remains to be seen.
One of the projects I've started is a comic. Art for me has never come easy. I enjoy doing it, but I've never been able to do it really well, and I feel like a joke whenever I try. But there are some plotlines that I'm really interested in seeing through, that I think will work better in that medium than as prose. It's tricky, and incredibly slow going, but once I have anything worth showing I'll probably be putting it on LJ first. A lot of the stuff in this thing will probably seem familiar to those of you who have written with me. There are certain types of characters I've always loved to write, and even when I was doing fandom stuff it was usually just a matter of slapping the appropriate name and theming onto them to make them work. The main character in the first part of the comic has been adapted for HP, Buffy, Metalocalypse, Heroes, Repo, and Batman. Different name, different backstory, different sexuality, but basically the same basic personality that I've been inclined to write over and over under any remotely suitable guise. Maybe after giving him his very own identity instead of shoehorning him into someone else's world, he'll leave my brain alone. Maybe not! I guess that remains to be seen, as well.
In the meanwhile, I am having an inordinate amount of fun with this so far, even if it's kind of a struggle for me. So I'll let you guys know how it goes.
Anyway, I'm picking up stories and characters that I've been playing with off and on for over a decade. I started parts of this project when I was much younger (and dumber), but I always kept putting it down. Over the years I tried adapting it into online rpgs and whatnot, but could never get the stories to develop the way I wanted them to. Part of that is because I am lazy, and prone to falling back on fandom. Fandom stuff was always a lot easier to get people to play with me in, or write with me in, or talk with me about, or read in general, so fandom it was. I'm still interested in fandom. Hell, I've found new fandoms in the last year. But since jumping ship from Y!G over a year ago, and the whole fallout with my primary writing partner, I haven't really been doing much of interest. I got wrapped up in the wedding, and adapting psychologically to the whole "housewife" idea, using both of those things to excuse me from having to be creative. I considered jumping back into rping, but I know that it's largely because I want that crutch of having at least one other person to rely on for helping me with the content (and at least one other person to blame should the story fail to be finished, if it ever really gets off the ground). Creatively speaking, I've become far too dependent on others, so it's best if I force myself to fly solo, as it were.
The writing is scattered. I keep picking up one story and then putting it down for another, to where I'm juggling several things at once. Which, as those of you who used to rp with me can attest, is pretty much how I've always been wired. Whenever I've joined a game, it was never as just one character. It was never just one game. There was never just one fanfic I was working on at any given time. Hopefully, I can find the discipline to actually follow through with the things I'm starting on my own, without prompting from a writing partner. :/ That remains to be seen.
One of the projects I've started is a comic. Art for me has never come easy. I enjoy doing it, but I've never been able to do it really well, and I feel like a joke whenever I try. But there are some plotlines that I'm really interested in seeing through, that I think will work better in that medium than as prose. It's tricky, and incredibly slow going, but once I have anything worth showing I'll probably be putting it on LJ first. A lot of the stuff in this thing will probably seem familiar to those of you who have written with me. There are certain types of characters I've always loved to write, and even when I was doing fandom stuff it was usually just a matter of slapping the appropriate name and theming onto them to make them work. The main character in the first part of the comic has been adapted for HP, Buffy, Metalocalypse, Heroes, Repo, and Batman. Different name, different backstory, different sexuality, but basically the same basic personality that I've been inclined to write over and over under any remotely suitable guise. Maybe after giving him his very own identity instead of shoehorning him into someone else's world, he'll leave my brain alone. Maybe not! I guess that remains to be seen, as well.
In the meanwhile, I am having an inordinate amount of fun with this so far, even if it's kind of a struggle for me. So I'll let you guys know how it goes.