A Bit About the Scribbling...
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scribblemynameI've been getting some serious jabs of conscience for stories not finished, particularly as trovia's birthday whizzed by without an appearance of a completed version of "Summercome," her promised sports story, and then the three prompted stories I'm working on: a five times fic for in_the_blue, the rest of one for thecatisacritic, and "Everything is Blood" for lithiumlaughter. To say nothing of "Safe," which I still haven't gotten back to for whipsy.
In the middle of all this, I'm starting to get people bugging me for more "Son o' de Guild." Normally, I'd be okay with this, but I have a problem when people review a separate ficlet with just "Please update Son o' de Guild" and when they tell me they thought I wasn't going to finish it after I told them last chapter I would, and they all think I owe them the next chapter because I said they definitely wouldn't get another one for at least another two weeks, but that I'd be working on the story more now.
I am working on it. I'm not trying to update by a particular time because I'm currently trying to write the next chapter in some natural way without starring Jean Grey. Again. This is a story about Remy, and I've got a very important main character who is not the main character who's outgrown the bounds I want her in. It's tough, okay?
And then I go wandering through my beta emails and discover the information on the Roswell/X-Men Movieverse crossover I never got off the ground, and I wonder again how I'm ever going to get all the stories in my head out of it.
Ah, well.
How's your scribbling?
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Date: 2013-09-03 07:22 pm (UTC)I don't miss the days of reviews telling me to update other stories. I'm glad I more or less finished everything fanfiction long before I took it down.
So I don't have that. I was rereading my stories to remind myself why I liked them and that I liked them, and as a result, I have a bit more serial psychosis, but I can't get to any new stories until I finish something else out of my rotation, especially since I dropped three fics out of it over the past few months and have only been working on one that has become a monster.
I was hoping to finish that one and move back into other things, but I don't know. I couldn't help noticing how much of my stuff repeated concepts started back in my fanfiction days, particularly with X-Men, and it made me think of the third story I never did and rereading stories I used to like from that fandom made me wonder what I was thinking because they're nothing like what I'd read now. I almost thought I should go back to that, but when I think of all the stories I'd like to do, all the stories that aren't quite done, and I know I'll never have enough time to get them all done.
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Date: 2013-09-03 07:56 pm (UTC)I admire your discipline to work on only one story. I just don't seem to have that one.
We are alike in that. Ah well.
I noticed I tend to dip into fandom when something goes so skewed in my world that writing original fiction just seems impossible. I guess it's something of an escapism, but in a way that's my roots. It's comfortable. My own fic was born out of my intense fascination with broken worldbuilding/characterization in various canons and mixing up premises, characters, and throwing them back out in a hundred different slightly different shades of what-if I just changed that, then that, or that, then that...
Which works for me. But. It sure makes it hard to get the docket all written. I have enough books in my head now to keep me writing to 70 and they will spawn more. I know it.
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Date: 2013-09-03 08:26 pm (UTC)I actually would rather be rotating than working on just one story (weird, I guess) but my readers are only responding to the one so I kind of defaulted to that one so that I can finish it with some feedback instead of none.
There are too many stories and not enough time.
My escapism is fiction, period. I write and avoid life. I started in fanfiction out of a love for characters and hating to see them unhappy or doing stupid out of character things just for the sake of ratings or keeping the main couple apart. I wrote my own stuff first, found fanfiction to give me a chance at a audience, and I learned things before I realized I needed to be writing my own stuff again.
I know I will never get to all that I want to write or have started writing. It's just too much even if all I ever did was write.
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Date: 2013-09-03 08:56 pm (UTC)Will write you more when I'm done. :grins:
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Date: 2013-09-03 11:39 pm (UTC)I had been leaning toward keeping them separate, but I haven't finished it or finalized anything yet, so it could still go that way. It would, theoretically, be less work to release it as one volume. Maybe.
I keep thinking you'll hate it by the time you get to the end of what I gave you, but I guess we'll see.