Writing advice?

[ratherastory]

I posted this elsewhere, so apologies to people seeing it twice.

Okay, so ratherastory has probably bitten off more than she can chew. No one is surprised. At least I'm aiming high, right

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[si_star_x]

Hey emo princess. I hope somebody can help you on this one. *hugs*

[zortified]

I do this to myself ALL THE TIME. I never notice until I realise I'm freaking out and then I make out a to do list and go "...Oh."

Actually, making a To Do List helps a lot. Sometimes I realise I have a manageable amount of stuff to do and I relax. And sometimes I realise I need to stop signing up for stuff. ;-) But what I do is make a to do list and divide it up by due date. (Including rough draft due dates and final dates, if applicable.) I include any minimum word count criteria as well.

Then I work on one at a time, in order. I can't work on multiple projects very well, unless they are in completely different fandoms and completely different genres (otherwise people start to sound alike - or I get paranoid about them sounding alike.) But generally I have to take them in order.

The key for me is that I can write very, very fast. But in order to do this I have to spend most of my non-typing-words-down time thinking through the story. I daydream whole scenes, work out key plot details, go over and over the moneyshot

[dante_s_hell]

I've wanted to sign up for lots of stuff. Everything looks so shiny and pretty, but I've had to reign myself in. Still, I've committed to stuff this year, doing a lot more challenges and things than I normally do. Usually, I give myself "homework" and assign a particular fic for the day/weekend and try to get it done in the time I've allotted myself.

Good luck with your projects!

[phx69]

Ooh poor you. When I first started writing fan fiction, I ended up writing three multi-chapter angsty Hardy Boys fics at the same time. What worked for me was to writing a piece for each story in order. I'd write as much as I could on the first. Then when I got to a natural stopping point or I had a plot point I needed to think about, I'd stop and switch to the second, do the same thing and then go to the third. That way I was making progress on all three and found it less overwhelming. Although once I got all of them done, I promised myself I'd never do that again. It is a lot of pressure, unless you are truly having fun with each of the stories. Or... you could pound through them one at a time, if you find it hard to switch stories like that :)

Good luck!

[primrose_1]

I'm not that kind of a writer. My writing is SLOW, and I nitpick, and doubt myself, and might sign up for one thing a year