[ SECRET POST #2636 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2636 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno. I quite like it when people mark their fic as going to be completed, or having it all planned out, or having a regular update schedule. Means I don't have to bother reading them Those are the ones guaranteed to never be completed and the author to vanish. Its like a law of the internet or something. Generally as soon as an author starts swearing they are going to update or complete it means they are in stage three of procrastination and guilt-disengagement.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with you. This is why I never promise updates, ever. I have a really long story going, and I want to be able to go at my own pace and comfort level, so I can't ever guarantee that I'm going to be able to write that week. Whenever I've done it in the past, I've let myself and others down, and so I feel like I want to disappear permanently.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, in my case, it's that every time I look at the screen I feel physically sick. And the thing is, I write computer manuals for a living, so it's not as if I haven't developed techniques for writing stuff I really don't want to write. I want to update my stories, but it's like I've had aversion therapy.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm with you on the physically feeling sick when I try to write more of a particular fic at a particular moment.

And I've written long reports for work, and that was fine, so I can plan out and work to schedule. Writing fic is just different in an inexplicable way.

[(Anonymous)]

Not in my experience.

[(Anonymous)]

You are astoundingly right.

Most of the time if I confess publically online that I have a fic completed and it only needs posting, and/or I have a definite posting schedule, I stop posting that fic entirely. Yet I have have successfully completed dozens of other fics.

I think it's something to do with it no longer being fun if it's to a schedule. Fic writing is a hobby and once it becomes work something happens to the urge.

stage three of procrastination and guilt-disengagement

Now I want to know what the other two stages are so I can avoid them - although to be honest, I don't think it's possible once stage one commences.