drawing a blank
Sep. 15th, 2003 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaydeefalls
I always have about twelve WIPs hanging around my writing folder. Most are fics I've long since given up on, but am unwilling to admit defeat and just delete the buggers. These sit around and collect dust and don't really bother me. I open 'em up every couple of months, amuse myself reading them, and wonder why I never finished them. Then I close them and ignore them again.
But I also have three WIPs that I really truly want to finish. One is a series of Pirates drabbles that I've given myself a very specific deadline on, and as long as I add a drabble every day or so, I'll be fine. This is reasonable. I can handle this.
Then there are the two WIPs of Doom, being, respectively, the Orlijah of Doom and the Historical AU of Doom. This has always been my problem with longass fics: I know where I want them to go and what I want them to do, even have full scenes planned out in my head, but then when I start to write I get a few (five or eight) pages in and panic. Like, how the hell am I gonna sustain this story for as long as it needs to be? Too much. Too big. Why can't I just stick to nice, short, 10-page-max fics? Or nice little![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
contrelamontre 60-minute ficcies?
*looks over WIPs of Doom*
*panics*
But I also have three WIPs that I really truly want to finish. One is a series of Pirates drabbles that I've given myself a very specific deadline on, and as long as I add a drabble every day or so, I'll be fine. This is reasonable. I can handle this.
Then there are the two WIPs of Doom, being, respectively, the Orlijah of Doom and the Historical AU of Doom. This has always been my problem with longass fics: I know where I want them to go and what I want them to do, even have full scenes planned out in my head, but then when I start to write I get a few (five or eight) pages in and panic. Like, how the hell am I gonna sustain this story for as long as it needs to be? Too much. Too big. Why can't I just stick to nice, short, 10-page-max fics? Or nice little
contrelamontre 60-minute ficcies?*looks over WIPs of Doom*
*panics*
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Date: 2003-09-15 02:49 pm (UTC)painpanic! I'm not sure if this will be at all useful to you, but in terms of sustaining the story - maybe it would help not to think about the full scope and length at all, but just keep yourself focused on those scenes in your head and let them carry you from one to another, ride that crest and swell and flow...I don't know. Um. *offers you chorclates*
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Date: 2003-09-15 04:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-15 04:17 pm (UTC)Yep.
That about says it all. *nods*
(Oh, and, the other day? That horrible sound that echoed through your LJ friends page so loudly that it caught your attention 30 seconds after I posted it? That was the sound that I made after about the 500th visit from the horse vet this spring/summer/early fall and still Momma has no bread in the oven. Sorry I didn't reply to you.)
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Date: 2003-09-15 08:47 pm (UTC)Oh, so that's what was happening! I wondered...
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Date: 2003-09-15 08:51 pm (UTC)