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So let's have a serious talk
4 years ago
So let's have a serious talk about my current work practice. Now I've probably accumulated a history of 'I plan on writing this' and never actually writing it. So let me explain what happens that causes that to happen. Quite simply what happens is that I get a new idea and it's often more interesting to me that I forget certain older ideas I had. Now you might be thinking, 'What's the point in getting comms and whatnot if you're never gonna write it?' but that's the error. Just because I don't write it now does not mean I don't plan on writing it ever. 'But Silent you got a ton of old stories that you haven't worked on or finished!' This is true I have a lot of those in a lot of places, not just here.
Here's the thing most of the older stories I had... I had with a completely different mindset at a completely different age. Also they were written so long ago and I didn't make notes that I go "What was I going for?" plus when I look at my older stories, see what I did and go, "Oh boy that's old me right there." So much so I usually intend on rebooting the story as a whole. I did this with Revenge is Sweet, I also technically did this with Bart as Chapter was originally something else entirely, and there are other stories I plan on rebooting as well. I could say I just need time but that's not true I have time what stops me from doing this is quite literally myself. I'm at a point where I'm not 100% sure what I want to do. On the one had I love writing and I do want to be a published author. But I love playing video games and I wanna record and post gameplay on youtube... and worst of all on yet the other hand... I don't want to do jack shit. Yes that's right I just want to do nothing... I won't explain why because that's incredibly personal.
So where do we go from here? There are stories I'm working on and quite a few are close to finishing, Bart has 3 main chapters left and at least 1 maybe 2 side chapters. Big Hiro Sex will get 4 maybe 5 chapters more, Aggretsuko will get chapters with Tsunoda, Inui, and Retsuko and a final chapter with several epilogues. SERQET and Pamela's story will get some groundwork done so I can write that. The Sonic story is on hiatus as I work on other stuff at the moment. I have a Rick and Morty story in the works involving Morty and Summer. Finally Cat and Mouse will get a chapter 2 eventually just need to get out of my block. If you have any questions involving a story please ask me in the comments. Thanks, Happy New Years and take care.
Here's the thing most of the older stories I had... I had with a completely different mindset at a completely different age. Also they were written so long ago and I didn't make notes that I go "What was I going for?" plus when I look at my older stories, see what I did and go, "Oh boy that's old me right there." So much so I usually intend on rebooting the story as a whole. I did this with Revenge is Sweet, I also technically did this with Bart as Chapter was originally something else entirely, and there are other stories I plan on rebooting as well. I could say I just need time but that's not true I have time what stops me from doing this is quite literally myself. I'm at a point where I'm not 100% sure what I want to do. On the one had I love writing and I do want to be a published author. But I love playing video games and I wanna record and post gameplay on youtube... and worst of all on yet the other hand... I don't want to do jack shit. Yes that's right I just want to do nothing... I won't explain why because that's incredibly personal.
So where do we go from here? There are stories I'm working on and quite a few are close to finishing, Bart has 3 main chapters left and at least 1 maybe 2 side chapters. Big Hiro Sex will get 4 maybe 5 chapters more, Aggretsuko will get chapters with Tsunoda, Inui, and Retsuko and a final chapter with several epilogues. SERQET and Pamela's story will get some groundwork done so I can write that. The Sonic story is on hiatus as I work on other stuff at the moment. I have a Rick and Morty story in the works involving Morty and Summer. Finally Cat and Mouse will get a chapter 2 eventually just need to get out of my block. If you have any questions involving a story please ask me in the comments. Thanks, Happy New Years and take care.
I am not writter, but my recommendation is that, before making story, i should write down a few notes about it, like: What is the main focus? and how this is going to end? and how long i am planning to keep this up?
It's kind of like building a skycrapper without knowing where to stop to sort of speak -w-;
Personally, this is very hard to take care of. Personally I make drafts of every idea before I go out and make them into stories. Sure it might cause a lot of space to be taken up on my thumb drive but its better than trying to keep track of them all in your head.
My "Phantom Gunships in the Sky" story is one example of what happens. I write down a title or an introduction and then... POOF! My inspiration suddenly goes away.
Most of the time it's because I have so many choices of things to write about that I get jammed up and don't know what to choose. Other times it's other reasons.
Most of my writing is free-writing, I write what I'm inspired to at the time. No plan, just sit down and hammer away at the ole keyboard. So when the inspiration vanishes for no reason at all, it really sucks! And there's not much I can do about it I'm afraid.
On a different topic, you mentioned something about asking about your stories. So here's my question: Is "The Dragon Witch and the Princess" going to be continued or rebooted?
As for The Dragon Witch that one is on Hiatus, when I do go back to it I do plan on continuing it, though we'll see if I decide to reboot it after I re-read it.