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[salixbabylon]

So far my writing goals have not been working out. BUT - new month = new plan.

I am so thoroughly stuck on the steampunk thing, frustrated trying to plot out novel-length plots. So I think going back to the basics and writing some vignettes, flexing the writing muscles that are stiff and sore, getting *something* done rather than beating my head against a brick wall is the way to go.

Prompts, anyone? Comment fics? (Not necessarily fandom, but I won't turn it down outright. I'm just not *in* any fandoms at the moment.)

Sample - Yesterday I went to get my oil changed. The guy at the autoshop is my age. The guy at the desk is very femme. What if they were a couple....?

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[kc-risenphoenix.livejournal.com]

How much do you have to plot it out? If I plot out too much, I never write the story because I know what is going to happen and I get bored. Like if someone tells me the end of a movie or a book, I wouldn't watch it or read it... How much do you NEED to know and how much and you just let the characters go and have fun with it? Go back and add little clues and stuff if need be?

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

I'm mostly just thinking of writing vignettes, drabbbles, 100-5000 words. Anything at all. Anything random to get me flexing that muscle again, since it seems to have atrophied. :(

I don't feel like overplotting is the problem, although I certianly see your point. It's more the opposite - I have no IDEA who these two guys are or what their story is. I like to have a roadmap, but the muses aren't talking at all. I think the problem is that I have never written anything but contemporary and this dramatic shift is just siphoning all my creativity into visualising their world, not them or their story. And no one gives a flying fuck about the world. *shrug*

I'll keep trying though... I just need a break and a distraction. And to write some sex scenes. ;)