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I'm going to cry, or scream, or throw something.
Black Dragon's being a butt. First, I had the end, but no beginning. Then I had the beginning, but hated the end. Now, I don't want to write a sci-fi story, I want to write something fantasy. Except the stories I want to write aren't ready yet.
I have a "stewing-for-one-year" policy, in which a story I think up I have to stew over for at least a year before writing it. Until then, I am only to write those stories that have stewed in my brain for a year or more. The reason for this policy is because I was once in the habit of jumping on a new story idea without taking the time to really think it out. By forcing myself to mull over a story for a year, I come up with new scenes and strengthen the plot, characterization, etc.
So the stories I want to write aren't ready, the stories that are ready I don't want to write, and SGA fics keep worming their way in. My muses suck!
I'm very tempted to set Black Dragon aside for the time being - let it stew a little more - and plot out something else. And, of course, in the mean time, work on another SGA chapter story to pass the time. The only problem with that plan is that it's been a while since I've written an original work since Amrin the Dreamer (at least, an original work I was happy with). Though writing all the SGA and CSI-NY stories have helped better my writing, I still feel guilty about all the time spent on those stories when I could have been working on something original. Which is why I told myself no chapter fanfic until I wrote at least one original novel, and I would really like to stick with that.
I'm hoping that, sometime soon (as tends to happen) my motivation to write Black Dragon will return. Either that, or plan B will see fruition - writing a collection of fantasy short stories (I'm thinking with a mondern myth theme, sort of like what I did in Dream Eater).
We shall see, we shall see.
Black Dragon's being a butt. First, I had the end, but no beginning. Then I had the beginning, but hated the end. Now, I don't want to write a sci-fi story, I want to write something fantasy. Except the stories I want to write aren't ready yet.
I have a "stewing-for-one-year" policy, in which a story I think up I have to stew over for at least a year before writing it. Until then, I am only to write those stories that have stewed in my brain for a year or more. The reason for this policy is because I was once in the habit of jumping on a new story idea without taking the time to really think it out. By forcing myself to mull over a story for a year, I come up with new scenes and strengthen the plot, characterization, etc.
So the stories I want to write aren't ready, the stories that are ready I don't want to write, and SGA fics keep worming their way in. My muses suck!
I'm very tempted to set Black Dragon aside for the time being - let it stew a little more - and plot out something else. And, of course, in the mean time, work on another SGA chapter story to pass the time. The only problem with that plan is that it's been a while since I've written an original work since Amrin the Dreamer (at least, an original work I was happy with). Though writing all the SGA and CSI-NY stories have helped better my writing, I still feel guilty about all the time spent on those stories when I could have been working on something original. Which is why I told myself no chapter fanfic until I wrote at least one original novel, and I would really like to stick with that.
I'm hoping that, sometime soon (as tends to happen) my motivation to write Black Dragon will return. Either that, or plan B will see fruition - writing a collection of fantasy short stories (I'm thinking with a mondern myth theme, sort of like what I did in Dream Eater).
We shall see, we shall see.
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Date: 2007-12-13 01:48 am (UTC)From:Know what you mean about original stuff. Been working on a novel for quite awhile now, then last summer had a dream that turned into another novel, then went to go back to the first (which is actually the 2nd in the series) and got distracted by SGA. Graarrgghhhh! Pulled it out AGAIN, read through what I had to get back in that frame of mind, and now the SGA AU thing took over....
Need more sleep deprivation....
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Date: 2007-12-13 02:45 am (UTC)From:I may need to immerse myself into some Sci-fi flicks: Chronicles of Riddick, and definitely Serenity (the Aliens movies and Firefly were actually the inspiration behind Black Dragon). Yes, a sci-fi fest should do the trick. At least I hope so.