[ SECRET POST #2142 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2142 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

03. http://i47.tinypic.com/11wev41.png

[hoggle2807]

I know this feeling. I've got one chapter I've been hanging on to for nearly a year because even though I love the overall content, I just don't love the writing of it.

[brightblueink]

I have this problem. Mixed with me being a horrible procrastinator, this means that I've never really written a multichaptered fic ever. I've written several collections of short stories that are all part of the same "universe" of fics, so to speak, but they don't typically flow together like an actual multichaptered work before. I've started a few but I've never published more than a preview or a short, rough, unedited first chapter.

...So yeah, at least you got farther than I did. |D

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I wonder if it takes some sort of special willpower and planning like a mofo to actually finish a multichaptered fic because I've never made it past like 2-3 chapters even though I write fic almost daily. I just can't seem to handle the long format and it so frustrating.

[(Anonymous)]

As another horrible procrastinator with that problem: it takes a supremely dedicated cowriter who will drive you to stick with it.

[brightblueink]

Ugh, yeah. It particularly bothers me because I have an interest in being a writer but I feel like if I can't write something with multiple chapters I'm never gonna make it. /)_(\

A lot of it is probably just sitting down and getting it done, but it's hard for me to manage my time and prioritize everything, and fanfic isn't really important enough to sacrifice stuff like work or obligations, so...meh.

[citrinesunset]

That's tough, but I think I know what you mean.

You say you've been writing with decreased frequency, but do you think taking a bit of a break, and working on something else, could help? I think sometimes working on something for a long time can just cause exhaustion.

Alternatively, maybe you could try getting it all down quickly, even if it's not great, so the story is finished. And then clean it up later if you'd like.

OP here

[(Anonymous)]

Working on something else has encouraged me in the beginning, but then it made it worse. I have the tendency to get overwhelmed.

[(Anonymous)]

I have this problem because when I started writing, I never really got into the idea of doing a quick draft and then editing - I always tried to write in as much of a finished state as possible (Bad, bad, I know, but I was a teenager and my spelling/grammar/punctuation were good enough that it wasn't obvious). Then when I got older, my plots got more complex and my standards got higher, nothing was good enough. I'm having to re-train myself to write quick brain-vomit drafts and clean them up afterwards.

[saku]

i'm like this sometimes. but the more you write, the better you'll get, i promise. i get writer's block pretty much weekly, and it gets really discouraging because it happens so often and to literally every story i write. it's not always even that i don't know where to go with the plot - sometimes it's just a matter of not knowing how to word the next sentence, and getting hung up on it.

but i've found that if i don't just write shit to the point where i knock myself out of my writer's block, if i just set it aside for months or even years, as with many of my works, i get rusty. so then, when i do try to go back to writing, the quality isn't nearly as good as some of it used to be. and in that sense you might just be condemning yourself to your own hindrances.

my advice would be to just keep writing, even if it's bad, because if you do, it will get better. and don't forget that you can edit to your heart's content whenever you want. i'm a big on-paper writer (that's changed over the last year or so but i still do write on paper fairly frequently) and i can tell you now, every inch of margins on all the pages of my works are completely filled with edits, edits, edits. treat your story as a draft or an outline that you fill in as you go, rather than trying to make every sentence absolutely perfect before you even type or write it out.

[(Anonymous)]

this

write 100 words a day

any words

and then when you see substantial progress (to the tune of several chapters and so or maybe even the whole story) you can go edit happy

[ketita]

This, so much. I think the only way to break writer's block is to just barrel right through it.
I once went through a period where everything I wrote was absolute shit. Like I would read stuff I had written before and it looked great, and then I would write, and it just... was so, so bad. My betas would literally correct me sentence by sentence, and I rewrote and rewrote until one day it went away, and I was back to how I had been.

[saku]

yeah, even stuff i thought was great when i first wrote it eventually will seem like bad writing to me. that's how i know i'm improving, at the very least. i don't think many of us are ever fully satisfied with our work, lol. not writing too well today, in fact.

[ketita]

improvement is good!
Haha, good luck with today's block <3

Story of my life!

[nyxelestia]

Are you me, OP? This happens to me all the time...

[(Anonymous)]

You're bound to have more experience and skill, so I'd say it's probably better.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I have two ficlet-series stories (the only way I can keep them going is to allow for really short chapters) that are both stalled because I'm crap at battle scenes.