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Other things: I put up some of my older fic at

halfamoon and found, to my dismay, that I have written only four fics that are really about female characters. Given how depressingly little fic I've written at all that's not as grim a statistic as it sounds, but still, it's not a lot. Even my het and gen fics are usually about the men or told from a man's POV, and those that aren't are generally stalled WIPs so I can't post those in good conscience.

Regardless of category I just really need to write more. I have all these ideas all the time, but for some reason they just won't form whole, coherent stories, or even anything beyond the equivalent of a publicity blurb. I could write down those premises all day - this happens, then this happens, then Character A does this, but in the meanwhile Character B is secretly meeting with Character C while Character D is offering advice from outside time - but I have enormous difficulty translating that into prose, into a story rather than a description of a sequence of events. Deep down I wish that all I had to do was write down those story blurbs, and then someone else, someone who's better at it than I am or at least for whom it comes easier than it does for me, would write them for me.

Sometimes I think I don't really like writing, but it's the only way to tell all these stories I've got because loud, excitable recaps don't go over very well. And then some days I do like it, so what do I know.

Ahem. Sorry. Needed to vent a little bit there. And now I should go back to reading and figuring out what I'm going to write two essays about.

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have all these ideas all the time, but for some reason they just won't form whole, coherent stories, or even anything beyond the equivalent of a publicity blurb.

Dude, this is my problem all the time. Dialog, phrases and brief catches of... something drift across my head all day. But it takes a huge effort to be able to shape it into something coherent. At least these days. I used to remember it being easier. :/

Which probably explains why the only thing at all significant I've written lately was that Jade/Graveheart

1sentence entry...

I need to do something for

halfamoon. I was planning to do a grand ReBoot/Shadow Raiders Women of Awesomesauce picspam thingy, but I've been tired as hell this week and lack the energy. I might just be lazy and picspam the hell out of SR's "Girls Night Out" instead. (Nothing says girl!power like bar brawls, whee!)

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I used to remember it being easier, but back when it was easier, my fics were not very good. :( I kind of wish I could go back to uncritically writing badfic; it was so much more fun sometimes.

I might just steal your idea of writing a 1sentence fic, though; I hadn't thought of it, but it seems like it'd be easier than trying to construct an entire coherent narrative. And I'm sure some of my story blurbs don't really sustain themselves beyond a sentence, anyway.

You could link to your Jade/Graveheart

1sentence story! It counts! So long as you didn't submit already in a previous year, anyway. And it requires no more effort than setting up a link. Though I am always on board a picspam idea because picspams of any sort are a fun way to get to know characters and fandoms and show off how shiny they are.

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Sometimes I think I don't really like writing, but it's the only way to tell all these stories I've got - what an interesting view this is... I know there are some days when the writing is just torture but it's, as you note, the only way 'out' so I keep bashing myself on it anyway. This encapsulates that so well.

This is the appeal of vignettes, poems, small scenes - that you can capture only The Best Of and let it stand alone, letting the reader's imaginations vaguely fill in what must have come before and after.

Interesting on writing from a feminine point of view as well, certainly in the minority here too as most of the stories I write have men as the main characters. Perhaps I'll have to give thought to another one from the lady's side of it.

Thanks for the 'vent' - it was most insightful!

I think writing shorter scenes would make my life a little easier, but the trouble is so many of those ideas are for longer stories, or require a lot of space to be told - too often I think of a series of short scenes that don't stand on their own, but have to be connected with a plot that I haven't really hashed out and practically has to be winched out of me when I start writing.

Posting just fic fragments has actually been helpful, as well - it takes the pressure off to set up a complete narrative and allows me to see what would and would not stand up to a larger story. But some days even doing that is hard.

I'm glad the venting could help someone besides me. :)

Eerily enough, that's pretty much exactly how my novels/my attitude towards my novels are going.

I'm glad it's not just me. I mean, I enjoy writing sometimes, but hearing people talking about how much fun writing is and how they'd do it all the time if they could always seems strange, because half the time writing for me is like pulling teeth. And yet I'm sure I've made some of those posts in the past.

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