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marguerite_26I've decided that I'm in love with starting fics. It's my favourite part, having some sort of prompt or genre in my head and then finally getting that fic idea. It's thrilling, working through the plot in your head getting some bits of scenes come to life and writing a complete outline.
I came to this conclusion because in the last 4 days I've done this with 3 different fics.
Unfortunately the next (actually writing) not nearly as fun. then after that (editing) even definitely less fun. I hate rereading what i've written. painful.
but I could outline fics until the cows came home (then i would outline the cows)
I came to this conclusion because in the last 4 days I've done this with 3 different fics.
Unfortunately the next (actually writing) not nearly as fun. then after that (editing) even definitely less fun. I hate rereading what i've written. painful.
but I could outline fics until the cows came home (then i would outline the cows)
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Date: 2012-01-15 09:17 pm (UTC)I do understand the love of starting them, though. However, for me, the blank page is daunting!
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Date: 2012-01-15 10:58 pm (UTC)I love a blank page! :D
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Date: 2012-01-15 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-15 10:59 pm (UTC)ahaha! yes. it's all so easy when it's just in your head. right?
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Date: 2012-01-15 09:27 pm (UTC)Love planning, and writing random snippets. Not so much connecting it up, ending it, and editing.
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Date: 2012-01-15 11:00 pm (UTC)yeah. I've got three now and I'm cutting myself off. No more grande ideas until one gets posted. LOL
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Date: 2012-01-15 09:28 pm (UTC)I get ideas, quite like the writing of individual scenes but hate outlining because it just shows up where I haven't managed to join up the plot, which unfortunately happens a lot.
And editing... is there any writer on the planet who enjoys editing? Hateful process.
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Date: 2012-01-15 09:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-15 09:52 pm (UTC)I think it's the part about seeing how it all comes together that stymies me. My fic so rarely actually come together until about five minutes before deadline, and then I'm left wondering what other plot holes and bad characterisation I've missed.
OTOH, I do enjoy re-reading my own fic, especially if I've had a few months at least before revisiting. Especially if I realise it was a lot better than I thought it was when I finished writing it.
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Date: 2012-01-15 10:51 pm (UTC)HA! I love that idea. :)
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Date: 2012-01-16 12:12 am (UTC)I have definitely done this. Completey Outlined a fic and returned to it 8 months later and wrote it.
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Date: 2012-01-15 09:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-16 12:13 am (UTC)lol - that sounds like an outline to me. ;)
though um, i'm a pretty sloppy writer. :P
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Date: 2012-01-16 10:08 am (UTC)Taking down notes for ideas is fun though! Mine tends to end up looking like a few people brainstorming over several scraps of paper, with illustrative doodles, world-building notes, dialogue fragments, and pretty lines all out of sequence. Occasional arrows linking related bits in the correct order of events. We should all scan/take pictures of our writing wip process, I want to see what everyone does. :D
re sloppiness: You seem to do well enough to me. There's a start, a middle and an end. :p
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Date: 2012-01-15 09:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-16 12:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-15 09:42 pm (UTC)You need a ghost writer!
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Date: 2012-01-16 12:15 am (UTC)yes!!! That would be fabulous. or a pensieve type thing that took my ideas and made them viewable to people. NO TYPING!
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Date: 2012-01-15 09:48 pm (UTC)And then I put it away, write a short PWP and forget about my awesome outline.
D:
I want to see your cow-outlines!
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Date: 2012-01-16 12:17 am (UTC)Your outlines are longer than 90% of my fics. >.>
cow outlines are sooooo easy. Those buggers don't move much. Rabbit outlines? very difficult.
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Date: 2012-01-15 10:02 pm (UTC)It's why I have 30+ plots on my hard drive, and turning them into fics is going very slowly, while I have new ideas constantly.
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Date: 2012-01-16 12:22 am (UTC)yes yes yes!!! before you get a chance to muck it all up, it's PERFECT in your head. *g*
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Date: 2012-01-15 10:09 pm (UTC)My favourite part of writing is hands down the porn, haha. This is my motivator (and unsurprisingly often the "goal" of a fic) - if only I can get through the difficult foreplay and rule-establishment, there is porn to be written at the end of the tunnel. ;)
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Date: 2012-01-16 12:37 am (UTC)hee! I do that part to, but I almost always leave it until the last. Though that's no always a good thing!
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Date: 2012-01-15 10:14 pm (UTC)I think I would like editing quite a lot, if I ever got that far. :)
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Date: 2012-01-16 12:39 am (UTC)YES! me too. and well.. that's sorta the best part for me? having this idea in my head and working through it with someone to see if they can see how I can make this a fic.
It also makes writing less ~lonely.
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Date: 2012-01-15 10:38 pm (UTC)*hides 5,600 started fics*
*and the cows*
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Date: 2012-01-16 12:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-16 12:42 am (UTC)Maybe we can make our own "please finish these fics for me" comm. XD
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Date: 2012-01-16 02:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-16 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-15 11:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-16 12:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-16 01:05 am (UTC)But yeah, once I've got the story written in my head, it's pretty much all over :(
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Date: 2012-01-16 12:09 am (UTC)I love editing and am irritated with the rest.
Which I suppose is why I'm an editor!
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Date: 2012-01-16 12:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-16 05:24 am (UTC)But starting fics! Starting fics is fun because it's like reading a good book; you suspect that certain things will happen and you can't wait until you get there to see if they actually do, and sometimes you have to keep going and going at it because you know who dun it and want to be sure you're right/they have to hook up omg and the sex will be explosive/some other kind of climax that just gives you a happy.
I loooooooooooove editing because I'm a self-involved, pompous person and like my stories and want to read them again and again. I love thinking about what the reader will think and trying to give them the exact perfect impression, like a painting, particularly like a pointillist painting--you couldn't really see the actual image while you were making it, but later you get to stand back and look at the whole thing and say, "Brilliant! Except for that and that and that and maybe that oh shit why don't I just get another canvas I'm a hack, oh, but look at this little blue dot! This little blue dot is brilliant! It's even more brilliant than I thought it was! Actually I'm a genius! This whole thing is genius! Except for that red dot and that green dot and . . . wasn't I getting a new canvas already?!?"
I like editing other people's stuff too, because I never suffer the, "am I a hack?!?!?!" phase because it's easier to believe that other people are geniuses than that we ourselves are.
I hope you get your stories done. The world wants to share them! Er, but no pressure?
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Date: 2012-01-16 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
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