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kriadydragon ([personal profile] kriadydragon) wrote2010-10-13 11:01 pm
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Back on Track

I'm up to over 4000 word on my Sheppard H/C story, and though the going is slow so far it's been cooperating a lot better than what I was previously writing. Unfortunately it's still not the kind of story that writes itself. I don't get many words down before I have to stop, step back, and detail what happens next in my mind. When a story "writes itself" what happens next usually comes pretty quick to me - within minutes, sometimes even seconds. With my current story, I need about an hour, sometimes even a day.

It's weird how easy some stories are to write while other stories are like herding cats. Is it motivation that makes the difference? The type of story it is? The content? I wish I knew. My amnesia story, plus another story I'm writing, have been so incredibly cooperative they're like cutting warm butter. But I have no idea what it is about those stories that make them so much easier to write.

[identity profile] sgafan.livejournal.com 2010-10-14 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
To me it has nothing to do with the motivation, its the story more than anything else. I've had stories that I thought would be hard practically write themselves and others were herding cats(like writing a short story where Sheppard is reflecting on his friendship with Ronon. Oh yes, lets write an introspective story about a friendship between two men that don't talk about their feelings at all. What the he** was I thinking? LOL)

I'm also not convinced that it has to do with what type of story we're "good" at writing or enjoy writing either because my herding cats stories have crossed the spectrum from character pieces to action and so have my "cutting warm butter" stories.

Something to ponder, eh? It has to be story specific in some way. maybe the storyline and content?

But yay on being over 40K on your H/C story. And here I thought I was doing good at crossing 3K on mine! LOL!!

[identity profile] black-raven135.livejournal.com 2010-10-16 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
****cheers loudly****
I knew you could bring it back into line.
CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!