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It's that time again, nerds! Welcome to
WIP WEDNESDAY!



Feel free to share bits of what you're working on, ask for feedback or advice from your fandom fellows, gush about a project you're starting, whatever! Let's keep this good good HBOWar content train chugging along!
muccamukk: Wanda walking away, surrounded by towering black trees, her red cloak bright. (DC: Family hugs!)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
I mean, a reasonable amount of free time is my current answer.

However, I used to write this much/more when I had a long hours job with a fair amount of stress, and back then I think the answer was just that I found writing a stress relief. I'd keep notes on breaks at work, and then go home and just write until I blew off the stress. It was kind of snatching a couple hours of solid writing time in the evenings, and maybe half an hour in the morning.

But that was the upswing of a new fandom, so I was sort of mentally writing in my head ALL THE TIME? Like for the issue of momentum on long fic, I think it's less getting long blocks of time to write as keeping the story going in your head when you're not able to actually type words on a screen, if that makes sense. So the momentum didn't get broken up, because I was always kind of picking away at how to put things, even if I didn't always remember everything I thought of later, the impetus to work on it carried over.
muccamukk: Rey and BB-8 walking over a dune. (SW: Desert Walker)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
Yeah, magically having more time isn't usually a choice. If you could do that, you'd have done that.

Nenya, the other day, ran into a meme that said something like: The key to good writing is to find the most idtastic terrible idea that no one else in the world except is ever going to write, and then to write that.

I mean, I don't know, I've never thought of going pro with this because OMG that sounds so stressful, but that also seems to be the angle a lot of my author friends take? You're having fun talking to the people in your head. Sometimes it's stressful, and drudgy work, but the end goal is the story only you want to exist. Until someone else reads it and goes, "Yes. That." At which point you have communicated.

I did take panel notes on mental health and creative fields panel at world con: https://muccamukk.dreamwidth.org/1154703.html

(I'm admittedly better at finishing things when I'm not playing the points game. There's irony: Colonel Kink might actually be LOWERING my productivity.)
lt_aldo_raine: (Default)
From: [personal profile] lt_aldo_raine
THIS: Part of the issue, I think, is maintaining my enthusiasm for a current story when I already know how it ends in my head and I keep stumbling into other exciting ideas courtesy sources like the prompt meme or chatting with folks like yourself.

The most relatable content.
slightlytookish: John and Gale looking at each other against a blue background (BoB: Winters - Writing)
From: [personal profile] slightlytookish
This is an issue for me too. I always say "oh I am a slow writer" but a lot of that has to do with a) not having enough free time and b) not having enough free time when I have enough energy to focus on writing. Because to be quite frank, there are days (like yesterday) where I literally have two hours to myself before bed and I am so drained and also have so many other non-writing things that I need to finish before bed that I can't even READ fic, let alone try my hand at writing it. It's why I do most of my writing on weekends, but of course that free time vanishes when other commitments/errands/family stuff/etc comes up.

I don't really know what the solution might be but I'm going to come back to this thread to see if anyone has ideas that might help!

The Pacific - Andy/Eddie timeline fuckery

Date: 04/12/2019 15:36 (UTC)
muccamukk: Wanda walking away, surrounded by towering black trees, her red cloak bright. (BoB: LLSS Rank Flash)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
Because apparently I can't just write like a normal person, I'm doing one of the [personal profile] looselipssinkships memorial prompts as an alternating POV, non-linear thing, so there's sections from Andy's PoV in Melbourne and sections from Eddie's on Guadalcanal when they met. Which I have massively under researched. And am feeling very unsure about. But I think the fic potentially is a lot stronger with them. But I'm trying to keep them short so no one noticed that I've done zero Guadalcanal research and don't care.

Anyway, more of a whine than a request for advice.
lt_aldo_raine: (Default)
From: [personal profile] lt_aldo_raine
I’ve come across the same issue regarding my desire to just write and forego the research. Being familiar with your work, though, I’m sure no one will notice if your research isn’t 100% there because your characters steal the show every time. You’ll deliver on Andy and Eddie, and no one’s going to care about the minute historical accuracy.

Really looking forward to this fic!
muccamukk: Athos looking up with an ironic half smile. (Musketeers: Wry Look)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
Ha, well with the Europe stuff I'm resting on a REALLY high baseline of background research. Or not like, I research this for a living, but a reasonable impression of knowing what the fuck's going on. I just haven't had time to lay that in for the Pacific stuff.

Anyway. It'll be fine.
muccamukk: Wanda walking away, surrounded by towering black trees, her red cloak bright. (HL: Conversation)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
I think one of my hang ups, and the reason I often bounce off setting change AUs, is that I really feel like circumstances shape behaviour, and if I know more about the place and time, including details, but often more the feel of it, or what people like that thought, then it feels more real to me. I always like the Ursula Le Guin quote:
As for “Write what you know,” I was regularly told this as a beginner. I think it’s a very good rule and have always obeyed it. I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. I know these things. I know them better than anybody else possibly could, so it’s my duty to testify about them.

Which could be more self serious than it is, if you don't consider it's Le Guin.

Anyway. There's only one bed. They fuck. It'll work out.
slightlytookish: Andy and Eddie, aka THE NICE CAPTAIN AND HIS LIEUTENANT, as I called them in my head the entire time watching the show (TP: Haldane & Jones)
From: [personal profile] slightlytookish
Ooh, I love non-linear and alternating POV fics.

Hmm, I guess that while I do love research and historical accuracy, I don't know how much is REALLY needed for fic. It's great when it's there but unless there's some wildly wrong fact like suddenly Eddie and Andy are fighting in Antarctica, I probably won't notice. I'm usually too focused on the characters to notice if a fic says that a battle lasted two days when it really lasted three, or whatever.

Either way I am so looking forward to your fic!
muccamukk: Text: Did I mention that my nose was on fire? That I have 15 wild badgers living in my trousers? (B5: Nose on Fire)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
It's mostly a matter of grounding, for me. It's easier for me to get into a character if I know where they're coming from, and details often help with that. Not so much how long a battle lasted, but how something tasted or felt, what people were saying.

Anyway, forward.

Date: 04/12/2019 21:24 (UTC)
lt_aldo_raine: (Default)
From: [personal profile] lt_aldo_raine
The feather’s kiss of a touch graces his cheek, and as gooseflesh prickles his pale skin, the redhead shivers, his eyes slamming shut. “You’re not real,” the admission is whispered as he chokes back tears.

Gene delivers a small smile, equal parts beautiful and bittersweet. He continues to cup Babe’s cold cheek, thumb sweeping slowly across the bone, and replies, calmly, “I know.”


So, the [personal profile] looselipssinkships Babe/Roe ghost memorial prompt is happening now... when and how it’ll get written remains a mystery. But it is happening. Blame [personal profile] muccamukk and [personal profile] thrillingdetectivetales

Date: 04/12/2019 22:19 (UTC)
muccamukk: A heart drawn in beach sand, ocean in the background. (Misc: Beach Heart)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
I'M WILLING TO TAKE ALL THE BLAME!

Date: 07/12/2019 05:19 (UTC)
impala_chick: (Default)
From: [personal profile] impala_chick
Ghosts!!!!

Date: 07/12/2019 05:21 (UTC)
impala_chick: (WW)
From: [personal profile] impala_chick
I've been re-obsessing (obsessing again? falling into a black hole?) over Brad/Nate, so I know that eventually some writing will come out of that. Right now I just have a bunch of jumbled notes.

Date: 15/12/2019 02:45 (UTC)
impala_chick: (Default)
From: [personal profile] impala_chick
haha, that's so accurate. I finally have some time tonight, so we'll see!

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