Thank Goodness

[kriadydragon]

Finally! I was able to start my Help_Pakistan story and got around 2000 words down. I was given an open prompt - anything goes as long as there's Shep whump. Should be easy, right? Er... not so much. I'd considered, then dumped, quite a few ideas before finally settling on the one I'm writing now. I was getting a little worried that I wouldn't come up with anything to write.

On the flip-side is my Holiday fic exchange story. I was quite excited about my prompt, because it fit perfectly with an idea that has been bopping around my head for a long time, one that I wasn't going to write because it was too complicated. But I've since replotted it and can finally put the idea to paper.

Comments

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

Open prompts are actually tough since in the back of your mind, you're still trying to cater to the tastes of the person you're writing for. But it's also a chance to get some bunnies to paper :D

And YAY on your holiday exchange story! Mine is very complicated so I knew I needed to really think about it early even if I won't be writing for it for a while.

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Very true. The person I'm writing for is pretty easy to write for, but because they paid for this story I want it to be the best I can make it. My other problem is that I tend to lose the motivation to write when I have to write - when there are due dates or requests. So although I have plenty if ideas to work with an idea also has to be something I want to work with, a lot, or else it refuses to be written.

Which makes me wonder why I'm even considering NaNo when due dates play such havoc with my motivation :P

Oooh, complicated :D I love a good complicated story. My own story was complicated because it kept leaning precariously in a "poor woobie John whose team is being mean to him" direction that was hard to justify. I think shortening it - namely cutting out the parts that would have led to Team!Jerk and woobie John - has made the story doable. Not the deep, dark epic I wanted it to be, but doable.