thrillingdetectivetales: Two American Marines in gas masks look down at the camera, with the words "MOD" in a soft grey-blue (several shades darker than the sky in the background) above and slightly behind them. (HA - Mod GK 2)
Tec ([personal profile] thrillingdetectivetales) wrote in [community profile] heavyartillery2019-12-04 09:17 am
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry
Entry tags:

[WIP Wednesday] 2019-12-04

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!
Flat | Top-Level Comments Only
muccamukk: Rey and BB-8 walking over a dune. (SW: Desert Walker)

Re: Output, oh output. Wherefore art thou, output?

[personal profile] muccamukk 2019-12-04 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
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.)
thrillingdetectivetales: Davie and Alan from the play, Kidnapped, kissing on the moors. Both men's faces are obscured. Davie has a hand on Alan's cheek. (Buck lookin' snazzy)

Re: Output, oh output. Wherefore art thou, output?

[personal profile] thrillingdetectivetales 2019-12-04 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel like I should clarify that when I say I want to write professionally what I mean is that I want to write scripts, specifically, and pad my income with mediocre genre fiction, lol. I don't know how realistically likely that is to happen, which is a constant source of anxiety, but it's still a dream~

I think it's good on the one hand that I'm not looking to write the next great American novel or what have you, because low standards, but on the other my "id" mostly wants me to write stories about people being snarky assholes to each other and making bad choices. Which, I suppose is in line with the bits of advice you've mentioned—which I really, really like and plan to revisit in the future when I'm getting down on myself about not being able to do plots, btw—but also makes me feel kind of like a one-trick pony at the end of the day.

I'll have to give those notes of yours a look when I get home. And re: the points game, I'm so, so with you on that. The level of anxiety I have knowing that I'm not only missing a deadline but missing a deadline in a way where I lose a thing, even if it's a point that doesn't really mean much, is killer. May or may not be why I haven't worked my way successfully through many Col. Kink prompts, lol.

Why is writing haaaaard??
Flat | Top-Level Comments Only