Same here, with Sherlock turning the writing back on. It's been years since I've wrote anything and Sherlock urged me back into writing again. Words are coming to me really slow though. My beta told me to ease into writing by starting small, but I've never really been a huge fan of drabbles (because well written ones would be too short lived, and as a reader, I'd want to see more).
Interesting how you can't "write ahead" or have an outline. I'm the complete opposite, I have to write an outline down, because I lose inspiration so quickly, and sometimes I spend days trying to think of the right words to put down. By the time I get back to the fic, the rush is gone, so I opted to write every idea that comes to me in an outline. Unfortunately, I always struggle on length, and nothing gets done :(
The minute I try to "write ahead" or plan out scenes... I'm dead in the water. I'm eating my fellow lifeboat passengers. I'm thinking salt water won't taste so bad. I'm making no headway with a tiny little broken row. /metaphor
LOL!
I don't know if your best stories are behind you, but frankly, I doubt it.
I await the H5-0 PWP with glee as I'm just getting into that fandom. And I look forward even more to the Sherlock plotty one.
Thank you for reading that metaphor to the end and laughing along! ladyofthelog makes a very good point that it can be less satisfying to write in a "real world" setting and not the fantasy settings that I am used to - Farscape, Buffy, BSG, SGA, Merlin. Those 'verses opened up a lot of stuff and were very colorful.
Sherlock, while intense and awesome, is largely set in their flat, almost always in London (given that I'm not yet prone to write an AU), and is just a different set of skills for me.
OMG I don't know if I can post that PWP it is so ridiculous. Less ridiculous is the Sherlock/H5-O crossover I have started writing. Only slightly less ridiculous, tho.
Interesting realizations, A. I worry that all my best poems are behind me. I am up worrying about that and other things in the middle of the night. Can I still blame it on the full moon? Some BSG might distract me?
I cannot work from an outline. I have to have a concept, an idea or an opening sentence. Then the story goes where it goes. The minute I try to "write ahead" or plan out scenes... I'm dead in the water. I'm eating my fellow lifeboat passengers. I'm thinking salt water won't taste so bad. I'm making no headway with a tiny little broken row. /metaphor
I am the SAME WAY. The more I try to plan, the more stilted things get and the more unhappy and unproductive I become. And yet, I really *need* a plan with longer fics otherwise that momentum from that starting sentence or idea peters out and then I don't know where I'm going. This is why I don't write long things. :P
I've been trying to make a more concentrated effort to break the cycle, especially with Nano...but that seems to make things worse sometimes. But valiantly I forge on!
Although, outlines for writing academic papers? I LOVED them. My brain, she is bizarre.
I'm not staring! People are very different in what stories ambush them and how they write them.
Have you seen The Last Enemy btw? I've watched three of the five episodes and it seems like they stop every five minutes to think up another reason for Benedict C. to take off his shirt.
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Interesting how you can't "write ahead" or have an outline. I'm the complete opposite, I have to write an outline down, because I lose inspiration so quickly, and sometimes I spend days trying to think of the right words to put down. By the time I get back to the fic, the rush is gone, so I opted to write every idea that comes to me in an outline. Unfortunately, I always struggle on length, and nothing gets done :(
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I definitely struggle on length and that's where the outlines stymie me -- I look ahead and then can't see the forest for the trees. Ugh.
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LOL!
I don't know if your best stories are behind you, but frankly, I doubt it.
I await the H5-0 PWP with glee as I'm just getting into that fandom. And I look forward even more to the Sherlock plotty one.
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Sherlock, while intense and awesome, is largely set in their flat, almost always in London (given that I'm not yet prone to write an AU), and is just a different set of skills for me.
OMG I don't know if I can post that PWP it is so ridiculous. Less ridiculous is the Sherlock/H5-O crossover I have started writing. Only slightly less ridiculous, tho.
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I am the SAME WAY. The more I try to plan, the more stilted things get and the more unhappy and unproductive I become. And yet, I really *need* a plan with longer fics otherwise that momentum from that starting sentence or idea peters out and then I don't know where I'm going. This is why I don't write long things. :P
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Your reason for not writing long things is the same as mine. And I've been trying to break myself of this handicap for years. No luck yet.
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Although, outlines for writing academic papers? I LOVED them. My brain, she is bizarre.
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(random aside)
We shall soldier on together! First one to complete a 20,000 word fic wins! Ugh, I don't even know how people do it.
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Have you seen The Last Enemy btw? I've watched three of the five episodes and it seems like they stop every five minutes to think up another reason for Benedict C. to take off his shirt.
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