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Today I've spent an hour fantasizing about a fic I'm working on and about 15 minutes actually working on it. That seems lopsided. I just don't know why I don't actually want to write it when I'm not writing it.

My process so far has been, every time I complete something, like this comment for example, I look at the clock. If I'm at an even 5-minute point, I blast off a 15-minute free-write. I have to tell myself "You are doing a free write! Stop thinking!!!" and just go, though. Otherwise I'll spend 20 minutes agonizing over how to START a scene. Whereas now I can just say "They went to lunch. When they got there..." and eventually get into a rhythm and flow that includes words that are not the worst writing I've ever done, and ideally I'll end up in a groove where I just keep on writing until the muse takes a break.

So how's your fic progress going, FS? Any tricks you use to get and/or keep going?

I have a short story I want to write for a contest. I've written and rewritten the first part but it's been weeks. I feel like I spent so much time thinking, talking, and writing about it instead of actually writing it I can't write for shit.

As for fic I came up with a new idea and I have yet to actually start anything except typed up the gist as a draft on tumblr.

Fic #1: Sequel to a previous AU what if fic. I think about it a lot, but I don't have a single word written yet.

Fic #2: I don't have an exact number, but I'm sure I've reached the double digits for how many times I've re-writen the thing. I one idea I like and have to go back and redo almost the whole thing over again. the basic plot hasn't changed at all though.

Fic #3: Really stuck because one character is going to find out she's pregnant soon, she's not married to the father who is amnesiac, and lost his memories after the baby was conceived. She's also in a political position where having a child out of wedlock could be very bad, but doesn't want to get rid of the baby, or force the father into marriage. From his point of view, while he's in love with her, he's only know her for a little over a month. I'm not sure what I'm going to end up doing with this situation.

As for trick I use, I find going back and rereading stuff helps. I've learned never to write anything when I'm on something like benadryl. And sometimes just getting away from the computer, and taking a walk helps loads.

Edited 2013-05-21 23:50 (UTC)

I very rarely attempt to write fic. There is, however, a one-shot I started over a year ago that I'm still nominally working on. If I ever finish it, it'll be the first fic I've ever posted non-anon. It's also my first time trying to write smut, so... that's fun. :(

I couldn't write smut if my life depended of it. I really want to though. There would be so much porn of my OTP if I could.

I really hope my life isn't going to depend on it, that's all I'm saying. :P *dejected brofist*

I feel you. The first time I ever wrote smut was last week, and it's one of the few things I've posted non-anon. Just gotta power through, really.

I find that reading fics for the ship/characters usually motivates me to get off my ass and start contributing. If all else fails, I read fics for the rival ship, which makes me really pissed off and eager to get revenge by writing my ship. It hasn't failed yet.

I'm working on my Debriel mini-bang entry, but I'm not making much progress right now, seeing as I just got into the shippy part of the Discworld fandom. So right now in writing a Downey/Vetinari fic but progress is still pretty slow because holy crap Vetinari you are so hard to write.

I know it's evil of me, but I'm *kind of* the same way. I'll read fics about my ships, realize they're awful and then I can't stop writing, because if THAT has a tone of likes and kudos and comments and recs, SURELY I can churn out something that gets a third of that and be quite satisfied.

writing for revenge is such a cute idea lol

I don't really do the overthinking thing with my fic... which is why I loooove writing fic. When I'm working on a novel, yeah, it takes FOREVER and I pick everything apart and never finish it because I hate it by the time I'm at the end. But for fic I just kind of start typing and edit later. Less pressure.

If it helps though, when I fantasize (that sounds like a weird word for this lol) I always try to think of specific ways that I would write that scene. I try to hold on to specific phrases or sentences and by the time I get home from work or whatever I'm overflowing with little snippets to start writing with.

That's sort of how I've been writing my recent novel. I choose a scene I want to work on, and then I start it from the moment it interests me and not a line sooner. Then when I feel like it later I go back and add to the beginning. It's worked very well so far and keeps me from feeling bogged down and bored.

Man, if I were able to jump around on scenes, this fic probably would have been done so much sooner (and be better, because I KNOW I've already forgotten a few of the things that were in my head), I just...can't make myself jump ahead like that. Even if the in-between bits are awful and I end up starting over completely on them in the second draft, I HAVE to write them.

This is the first time I've been able to really do it, and I think it's mainly because I bought Scrivener, so I can see all the scenes laid out in order to the side and keep track of what's going on when. For my other novel, I HAD to write it in order because I felt like I had to write the first parts to know where the story would end up. Somehow, this time I'm managing to skip around and tell myself that I'll edit what ends up needing to change later. *shrug* It's a pleasing development.

Currently working on my first longfic for a meme. The first 40K felt as easy as breathing, but now I'm getting to the part where I need to buckle down and get to work. There's a mystery that I need to amp up the clues for, yet make misleading enough that the audience doesn't figure out what really happened until the last scene, yet make natural enough that they DO figure it out in the last scene. I've only posted about 11.5K so far since I never write in order, but the next chapter is going to start in on clues in earnest, and I don't want to screw up.

My #1 method of fanfic motivation is to go back and consume some canon. It never fails to unbury character voices and unlock doors I couldn't figure out how to open.

I haven't had time to write lately since my school/work schedule is insane this term. :/

But when I do need to write, I always wait until it's nighttime, I'm started to get tired, and my inhibitions are slightly lowered. I just need to have Mountain Dew, or else I fall asleep.

I've fapped to it, but I've yet to write the most recent chapters. Poor subscribers have been waiting a month since the last update.

obviously writing porn

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