i don't like mondays

[carleton97]

So I've been hearing a lot about this NaNoWiMo thing and I find myself tempted by it.

As I was discussing with arabe1la yesterday, my problem has always been discipline when it comes to writing (and life, frankly). 99% of the time the ideas are there, I am just not regimented enough to sit down and do it. Too much of the time I depend on those rare bursts of inspiration to carry me through; which is fine for casual writers, but if I ever want to be serious about and taken seriously for my writing I really need to buckle down. So, this might be good for me. It would cut down on the amounts of craptastic slash I read, that's for sure.

I wonder what I'd write though…Maybe a test story in the universe I'm creating for my fantasy novel series. The universe isn't completely created yet, but I know enough for a novella, I think. And I know that not all of the stories I want to tell are going to be long enough for their own novel… Hmmm…

Of course, I'd have to finish that damn O/P carnival piece first. Why do you treat me so poorly, Percy and Oliver? Don't I love you? Haven't I guarded your love from those who would throw either or both of you to Marcus Flint? Or Lucius Malfoy? Haven't I dredged the depths of The Site I Shall Not Name, as well as ff-effing-n for stories?

Yes, I have.

So why do you abandon me in my hour of need?

Comments

[ruggerdavey.livejournal.com]

But what abour Greg and Nick and the San Francisco AU? *pitiful look*

[carolinecrane.livejournal.com]

I'd say go for it, but I know how insane it is as a concept and I can't figure out why I'm considering it either. It's not that I don't think I could do it, it's more a question of why I want to. I have nothing to prove to myself in terms of novel finishing, that's for sure.

My P/O fic is limping along rather sadly. I realized last night that I'm not really meeting the challenge requirements of the second on, but at this point I don't even care. I just want to write a nice, angsty PWP and be done with it. I'm hoping the smut will distract people from the whole 'this doesn't meet the challenge' thing.

Writing

[ladyclio16.livejournal.com]

I can sort of relate. I get so damn many ideas for stories and it takes me so damn long to write them. I have to have the whole story in my head before I can even begin to write them. My fics always turn out to be friggin' epics. I've got an X-Files M/K story I've been working on in my head for a couple of years. I think it's going to have about 3 arcs. Some time around the second or third arc it's going to cross over with Oz. (Human test subjects are needed, my head went to prisoner, and then to why invent some. Just do a crossover.) That thing is still in like outline form and I haven't figured it all out yet. It's taken up so much of my brain other fics curl up and die in it's wake.

My thing is I get images, like a movie of what's going on. Not words. I have to come up with the words later.

This is why I would never participate in one of those. I'd never be able to finish anything in time. I am such a slow writer.

I've got a fantasy novel idea in my head, but I've no idea where I'm going with it. I think it wants to be a series. I've got one tiny part of it worked out. I have no idea what is going on with it. It won't tell me. Today I got some half formed idea that is brewing in there involving ancient myths and heck even christian mythology. I think Christ wants to be in it. That's all I need. I'd just love to see how the freaking christian right wing would respond to some of what's brewing. I might have to hide under the bed.

I'm so rambling right now. I need to go to bed. I'm probably not even making sense. Ignore me, I'm off.