Writing

[lavenderspark]

Did some more writing yesterday! This time on a fanfic. It's already longer than my other two fics combined. Which, really isn't saying much since the first one was just under 600 words and the second was just under 400 words. Yesterday I put down just over 1000 words! Some of it is just bare bones paragraphs that I have to go back and fill in better, but I put down enough to get the story moving and out of my head before I lost it.

My main problem with this fic is that it's now written in three parts. It keeps coming at me at different points in the story so I now have three different documents sitting open. And I have to figure out how to put them all together (if at all) and make it flow into one continuous story. I'm definitely going to need a beta for this one once I get it all mashed together. It wouldn't help to have one right now since everything is so disconnected and there's more to be written to hopefully bring it all together, at least story wise. Thankfully for this fandom I have an LJ group I can go to for help when I'm ready for it.

Unfortunately after next week I probably won't have much writing time as it's spring break and I have family coming to visit. :/

Comments

[my-quorum.livejournal.com]

Oooh, congrats on the words! Which fandom are you writing for??

I can relate: I write out of chronological order all the time. Scenes just show up and beg to be written before they're forgotten, and then I have a document full of disjointed scenes! It's always either a huge pain or a fun little challenge for me to piece them together into the narrative, and that usually depends on my mood while I'm working on it. And after spring break you'll find the time again - but isn't it frustrating to always have the itch and inspiration when you can't write? Writer's block and compulsory time off never seem to line up.

[lavenderspark.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I'm attempting a Labyrinth fic. Hopefully I can get it right! :)

I've started emailing myself when I get ideas at random times. I may not have time to sit in front of my computer, but I usually have my phone near by, so I open an email, write out the idea/scene and send it to myself. Then, when I DO have time, I can just copy/paste into a document and go from there. :)

[my-quorum.livejournal.com]

Exciting!! I'll keep an eye out for it!

Email is a really good idea. I usually end up jotting things down in the Notes app on my phone if I don't have access to a computer, but then I have notes everywhere. Backs of envelopes, in a little notebook that I designated specifically for brainstorming, email drafts, etc. It's sort of fun when I go looking for them and stumble across something I'd forgotten. :)

[tinny]

I have the same problem with my current fic. Scenes just pop out at me and then I have to write them down, but I'm still missing the interconnecting plot.

I also have the "problem" that it's longer than all my previous fics - well, not quite yet, but it's going to be. I'm already at the 10K mark, and it's nowhere near half done. The longest thing I've ever written before has 13K. I feel comfortable with around 3000, so this is way out of my comfort zone.

But it's exciting!

I hope very much that I'll be able to a) finish it and b) whip it into shape at the end.

[bedesiderata.livejournal.com]

That's some great progress!

I miss writing. I still don't really have the time for it the way that I would prefer it. Though I imagine that you are probably busy too, so maybe I'll try it sometime in the near future.

I personally don't see anything wrong with having three documents open. It gives you more options when the creative urge strikes. The way to merge them might happen as you continue to build on them, or they might turn into their own separate stories. It's kind of exciting when you think about it, the discovery process for which way it will go.

[lavenderspark.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to MAKE time for it. Emailing snippets to myself has helped a LOT. I'm not losing ideas and I can come back to them and flesh them out once I really do have time to sit in front of my computer. I still don't do it as much as I used to/would like to.

I'm thinking right now that I may do two or three points of view and have them all come together. Write the story from each character's point of view until they all come together. I'm still figuring it out.