Nothing happened - sorry to seem so melodramatic. It just seems like so much work now, I can't even fathom it. EE took me 1.5 years to write. I don't have a potential plot bunny in mind or characters or, indeed, even a fandom at the moment. I post (1/1) and people ask for series - it's *very* flattering, but I just feel so overwhelmed. Like I'm gong to disappoint people. Silly, really. I shouldn't care if they're disappointed. *shrug*
But why? Even if you end in the middle of it you've given us pleasure for a while. Or is it that you'll drown in your own story and forget about RL too much? Or is it something else?
to quote my reply above: no particular reason - sorry to seem so melodramatic. It just seems like so much work now, I can't even fathom it. EE took me 1.5 years to write. I don't have a potential plot bunny in mind or characters or, indeed, even a fandom at the moment. I post (1/1) and people ask for series - it's *very* flattering, but I just feel so overwhelmed. Like I'm gong to disappoint people. Silly, really. I shouldn't care if they're disappointed. *shrug*
I'm also not good at letting things go - I always feel I *must* complete every project, so that's even more pressure if I start one.
Yes, well, I can relate to that because I never write anything anymore. Not that I wrote much on the net, just one long story in the X-Files fandom and one short VigOrli one. Too much pressure both from the imagined reader and from myself, I know.
Just, you know, let it happen. You'll know when you want to write.
Some thoughts on the word babbling. It seems to have come up in fanfic a few years back, used when someone strings more than 3 sentences together. In that case Viggo babbles a lot. I like it. I love it when people develop their thoughts while talking, I love it when not everything is so cut and dried and purely goal-oriented. I'm not sure I'm making myself clear here, I'm just happily babbling along. This is not criticism, just thoughts.
*laugh* I suppose I think of babbling as thinking-while-talking which isn't always the most coherent way to communicate. But I like it too, but reading it and doing it myself. Thanks for the reminder and for the thoughts above. *hug*
nothing happened, just feeling busy -- to quote my reply above: Nothing happened - sorry to seem so melodramatic. It just seems like so much work now, I can't even fathom it. EE took me 1.5 years to write. I don't have a potential plot bunny in mind or characters or, indeed, even a fandom at the moment. I post (1/1) and people ask for series - it's *very* flattering, but I just feel so overwhelmed. Like I'm gong to disappoint people. Silly, really. I shouldn't care if they're disappointed. *shrug*
Sweetheart, you have yet to write anything that even approaches disapointing. In fact, you're so far away from disapointing, you might need a passport and a visa just to get anywhere close to it. I don't imagine you've even visited it.
Is it more the committment aspect of it that scares you? Because that's what would freak me out. I can appreciate that it is likely difficult to get through chapter after chapter of a series. But quite honestly, everything you've posted has been extraordinary. Maybe don't post any WIPs? Would that be less stressful? Could you imagine doing what the girls at Stacking Apples are doing? An ongoing series with a new ficlet every weekday. Multiple storylines. I don't know how they keep it up.
And I'm totally available to chat out any wrinkles that might pop up... so to speak...
Did I tell you last night how much I love you? You really made my evening. :)
It is the commitment aspect, yes. I posted VS as a done-deal and it took me about 5 months to write ~100 pages. EE was about ~250 pages and took me eternity 14 months. The feedback was what kept me going. But the pressure, mostly from within, was tremendous.
I *want* to write a series. I just don't know what about...
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Date: 2005-10-04 01:14 am (UTC)I'm also not good at letting things go - I always feel I *must* complete every project, so that's even more pressure if I start one.
but it's just me being dumb, really.
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Date: 2005-10-04 08:49 am (UTC)Just, you know, let it happen. You'll know when you want to write.
Some thoughts on the word babbling. It seems to have come up in fanfic a few years back, used when someone strings more than 3 sentences together. In that case Viggo babbles a lot. I like it. I love it when people develop their thoughts while talking, I love it when not everything is so cut and dried and purely goal-oriented. I'm not sure I'm making myself clear here, I'm just happily babbling along. This is not criticism, just thoughts.
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Date: 2005-10-04 02:31 am (UTC)Is it more the committment aspect of it that scares you? Because that's what would freak me out. I can appreciate that it is likely difficult to get through chapter after chapter of a series. But quite honestly, everything you've posted has been extraordinary. Maybe don't post any WIPs? Would that be less stressful? Could you imagine doing what the girls at Stacking Apples are doing? An ongoing series with a new ficlet every weekday. Multiple storylines. I don't know how they keep it up.
And I'm totally available to chat out any wrinkles that might pop up... so to speak...
*kisskiss*
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Date: 2005-10-04 03:37 pm (UTC)It is the commitment aspect, yes. I posted VS as a done-deal and it took me about 5 months to write ~100 pages. EE was about ~250 pages and took me
eternity14 months. The feedback was what kept me going. But the pressure, mostly from within, was tremendous.I *want* to write a series. I just don't know what about...