Oh, that's a great idea! Thank you!
Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.
Xander ,'Lessons'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
-t - Mar 09, 2018 3:57:56 pm PST #6507 of 6734
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Amy - Mar 09, 2018 5:18:44 pm PST #6508 of 6734
Because books.
Also good to start with the one with clear parameters, simply because structure, etc., can be reassuring. And I know how you feel wrt being out of practice. It really is true that the only thing that fixes that is words on paper.
Also also -- you can't be afraid to fail. Believe that there is no failure, there's only the way you're going to tell this particular story at this particular time.
Also also also -- revising really is the most important, essential part of writing. The raw stuff is just building blocks. You make them into a structure, and you might have to sand down some corners, or remove a few blocks entirely, or paint a bunch of them different colors, but they're where you begin.
Disclaimer. That was probably for me as much as for you, because I'm starting to write again, or I want to start again, and I am terrified to do it. So here's to taking my own advice?
Oh! Last alsos, I love Bev's idea, and I also super love that you'd like to write again!
-t - Mar 09, 2018 5:36:24 pm PST #6509 of 6734
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thanks very much, Amy! That is a good bunch of alsos.
hippocampus - Mar 10, 2018 9:57:25 am PST #6510 of 6734
not your mom's socks.
What everyone is saying, on repeat. Go B.org writers Go!
Burrell - Mar 12, 2018 2:32:47 pm PDT #6511 of 6734
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Dang, I need to get back to writing too. In my copious spare time. Sigh
Gudanov - Mar 13, 2018 4:09:38 am PDT #6512 of 6734
Coding and Sleeping
I'm trying to get back to writing as well. I have two complete drafts waiting to be edited and another book outlined and 12,000 words written, but there have been so many things getting in the way. Motivation isn't a problem, but time sure is.
-t, my suggestion is to work on whichever project is the one you feel the most and/or think about the most.
P.M. Marc - Mar 13, 2018 7:42:00 am PDT #6513 of 6734
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
While I'm not writing origfic as that's not where my passions lie, I do write a lot with minimal time. I've got a set minimum of 100 words a day. Even if you only were able to write that amount (and I have 100 word days and I have 1000 word days and everything between and sometimes above), that's a novella a year. Last night's 100 words were jammed into the 17 minutes I had before going and checking in on the kid. (There was a timer involved.)
Scrivener is the bomb for keeping me going and organizing things. I think it's upped my productivity by a million at this point.
Burrell - Mar 13, 2018 2:44:56 pm PDT #6514 of 6734
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
PM, seriously? That's a game changer
Amy - Mar 13, 2018 4:20:23 pm PDT #6515 of 6734
Because books.
Part of me wants to try Scrivener and part of me worries I would just wind up playing with the bells and whistles and not actually writing.
Gudanov - Mar 13, 2018 4:28:01 pm PDT #6516 of 6734
Coding and Sleeping
There aren't really a lot of bells and whistles. It's like having a wiki and a word processor in one package. It makes me want to write my own software for writing, but, you know, that whole time thing.