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Tentative writing plan...
Feb. 9th, 2023 09:43 pmI think I've... sort of... decided on a plan of action for my writing stuff.
I'm planning to go back through my "ideas" documents, for both fanfic and original stuff. (These documents date back to high school, lol.) There's plenty I don't care about on there anymore, but I want to go through and pull out any ideas that still strike me as at all interesting or worth exploring.
After that, I want to pick a few (how many probably depends on how extensive the lists are) that I'm most interested in. For those, I want to write out a more extended summary, and maybe even try to get a basic outline written. (Maybe not full outlines for all of them, but for a few.)
Once I've done THAT, I want to see if anything has really stood out as The Thing I want to work on. If so, great! If not, I'll maybe try to write a couple first chapters of different things, and see what feels best.
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I'm frustrated by how much of my issue is related to feeling like I have no interesting *ideas*. I've dealt with plenty of issues in terms of getting stuff written before, but that usually came down to feeling tired of trying to make the process work for whatever reason. I had IDEAS, and I had things I wanted to write, but for whatever reason wasn't satisfied with the writing itself, or something about the execution had gaps that I was struggling to fill. I had a point A and a point B and just couldn't seem to bridge it the way I wanted.
This time... there are ideas, technically, but none of them feel even remotely pressing. In the past there's at least been that drive of wanting to get something written because I really did want to tell that story, and no one else was going to write it. Now there's just... nothing behind them. I don't care if I ever see them finished, and I don't like that feeling.
And also, with maybe only one or two exceptions, the ideas I do have aren't new. I've kept those docs since high school, each with a couple hundred story ideas... and only a couple of those are from the last few years.
I've been trying to do more creative input in the hopes of it helping refill that metaphorical creative well... and it HAS helped. I at least have made it to the *wanting to want to write* stage! I'm in the middle of a book I'm really enjoying! But it hasn't been inspiring in terms of generating story ideas the way I'd hoped, and I'm not sure what will help that.
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Of course, having a plan doesn't help if I don't actually do anything to make the plan happen! I... got as far as opening the documents.
Unfortunately, I also found out my manager won't be in tomorrow, which means it's likely to be a messy day. And I was up stupidly late last night/repeatedly during the night because of the wildly howling wind. (It hits our windows at just the wrong angle sometimes, and it sounds like a damn tornado!)
So... an early night for me, but if I can try to keep tomorrow reined in, I hope I have more energy after work.
I'm planning to go back through my "ideas" documents, for both fanfic and original stuff. (These documents date back to high school, lol.) There's plenty I don't care about on there anymore, but I want to go through and pull out any ideas that still strike me as at all interesting or worth exploring.
After that, I want to pick a few (how many probably depends on how extensive the lists are) that I'm most interested in. For those, I want to write out a more extended summary, and maybe even try to get a basic outline written. (Maybe not full outlines for all of them, but for a few.)
Once I've done THAT, I want to see if anything has really stood out as The Thing I want to work on. If so, great! If not, I'll maybe try to write a couple first chapters of different things, and see what feels best.
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I'm frustrated by how much of my issue is related to feeling like I have no interesting *ideas*. I've dealt with plenty of issues in terms of getting stuff written before, but that usually came down to feeling tired of trying to make the process work for whatever reason. I had IDEAS, and I had things I wanted to write, but for whatever reason wasn't satisfied with the writing itself, or something about the execution had gaps that I was struggling to fill. I had a point A and a point B and just couldn't seem to bridge it the way I wanted.
This time... there are ideas, technically, but none of them feel even remotely pressing. In the past there's at least been that drive of wanting to get something written because I really did want to tell that story, and no one else was going to write it. Now there's just... nothing behind them. I don't care if I ever see them finished, and I don't like that feeling.
And also, with maybe only one or two exceptions, the ideas I do have aren't new. I've kept those docs since high school, each with a couple hundred story ideas... and only a couple of those are from the last few years.
I've been trying to do more creative input in the hopes of it helping refill that metaphorical creative well... and it HAS helped. I at least have made it to the *wanting to want to write* stage! I'm in the middle of a book I'm really enjoying! But it hasn't been inspiring in terms of generating story ideas the way I'd hoped, and I'm not sure what will help that.
-
Of course, having a plan doesn't help if I don't actually do anything to make the plan happen! I... got as far as opening the documents.
Unfortunately, I also found out my manager won't be in tomorrow, which means it's likely to be a messy day. And I was up stupidly late last night/repeatedly during the night because of the wildly howling wind. (It hits our windows at just the wrong angle sometimes, and it sounds like a damn tornado!)
So... an early night for me, but if I can try to keep tomorrow reined in, I hope I have more energy after work.
