I'm challenging myself and inviting you to join me

[shayna611]

I still can't get past the writer's block. I find myself caught between wanting to get things RIGHT and wanting to get them DONE. I want to reboot my plot, and as I lay it all out I find I still have all these holes. I was talking with Marty about it last night and he said something that hit home. He told me to stop fretting about filling the holes

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[roisin_farrell]

I'm not too totally familiar with your canon, as there is a lot I haven't read yet, but does Mara ever find out the truth about her mother and father? About how it's not really Lyssa? I think I've might have given you a malt asking that same question. I really want to know.

Good luck with the pocky challenge. I've got too many other writer things going on right now to join you (like 13 open flavors, two malt sundae's in works and a flavor binge that has been nagging me for months plus a short story that may or may not end up on RaTs) but I'll keep that idea in mind for I'll need it.

[shayna611]

yes, she definitely finds out - though how and when has changed repeatedly and right now I'm not sure what the circumstances will be

thanks! I was really thinking more of people who are struggling - I know Falootin and Nath have both been having trouble for a long time too - I wish I could finish stuff as consistently as you do!

Have you gotten to sorting out the index for the Black family? I need to do some reading, but I'd like to do it in an organized manner if I can.

[roisin_farrell]

Glad to hear that she finds out and however it happens, I'm sure it is going to be good.

Yes, The Black Family index is all up to date. I'm resolved to keep up to date on my index so I am adding a bunch of pieces in at a time.

[niee87]

Ooh, I hope this works for you! That might be really good advice on Marty's part - you can always make it 'right' later but maybe just making it work for now will help the 'right' come!

I might use this idea at some point if I ever get really stuck with Broken/Victor's Story. For now, my focus is on editing, although I'm gonna try and keep a small presence on RaTs.

I can't help on the last question - I don't think I've read any of the later canon stuff, I'm afraid.

[shayna611]

editing is good too! I kept trying to write and starting these big epic pieces (which I still intend to work on as well) but I would really like to get back to sharing too

[niee87]

Yeah, starting small is good. Probably whatever does come from me will be fairly short for a while. I dislike editing so I'm sure I'll need breaks :P but I feel I shouldn't put it off any longer.

[nathskywalker]

I want to read Rune and Kairn stuck together and it being really awkward. FOr some reason, I never thought about it before.

[shayna611]

lol did you read the pocky before you posted this?

[nathskywalker]

I thought I was commenting on the pocky because I have too many tabs open... Oops.

[shayna611]

ahh, I thought that was a strange thing to just happen to pick since it was what I had posted

I think it is something I need to find reason to make canon and elaborate on. It would be such an awkward mess.

[hi_falootin]

Love this idea! I'm in, with the tweaks to the challenge I mentioned earlier ;) (maybe not all pocky, using old prompts too...)

And hmm, I think we've talked about some of the stuff I want to see already...I want to see Tristan and Ski meeting up again, I want all of the weirdness surrounding Mara's parentage to come out and ~be dealt with~...and on that note I also want to see Sham's thoughts on meeting Sethan and learning more about that whole thing. Basically I just want everyone to have the deal with the messiness so I can read about it. SHOCKING, I KNOW.

[shayna611]

I think that's one of the things making me apprehensive about dealing with the end. I want to make as spectacular a mess as I can.

[theoryoferin]

i may semi join you in this endeavor. because i know i've said it a million times, but i do want to come back to RaTs eventually. mostly, though, i would just join in with the posting every day thing.

for the second part, i'm zero help, though. being gone so long, i have no idea what missing and what's not these days. or what bits of canon have changed from what it was back when i was constantly contributing.

[shayna611]

join us! It's working for me so far. The whole random selection and tight rules are stopping me from spending all my time considering my options instead of actually writing.

[theoryoferin]

yay! my holdup has always been more with the remembering to log in and post things, rather than the writing. so i'm thinking something like this might help / work to fix that?