[Bunny #1] Make a List
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onedeadplotbunnyMake a list.
Of every fic/art/icon/whatever bunny you have that you would like to write/create sometime in the foreseeable future. This includes bingo cards, big bangs, comment fics, exchanges, random plotbunnies, sequels, etc.
Detail it if you want to. You can be as vague as you like. No one ever has to see your list but you.
Do it either in your own journal or in a notebook or in the comments or whatever. I usually find one of those blank notebooks I bought with high hopes and then never quite found the words to put in it. They're really good at holding lists.
You can organize however you'd like - ficlets together, epics together, or by fandom, or by what they're for... But one list, in one place.
Take your time. Look through old notebooks, textfiles, e-mail, journal entries... Round up everything.
And hang onto that list. You'll need it.
(I am a 'sense of accomplishment' person, so I'll list even individual chapters on separate lines. Putting a check-mark beside 'Exciting Space Adventures Chapter 7' feels good, even if I'm immediately adding 'Exciting Space Adventures Chapter 8' to the list.)
Of every fic/art/icon/whatever bunny you have that you would like to write/create sometime in the foreseeable future. This includes bingo cards, big bangs, comment fics, exchanges, random plotbunnies, sequels, etc.
Detail it if you want to. You can be as vague as you like. No one ever has to see your list but you.
Do it either in your own journal or in a notebook or in the comments or whatever. I usually find one of those blank notebooks I bought with high hopes and then never quite found the words to put in it. They're really good at holding lists.
You can organize however you'd like - ficlets together, epics together, or by fandom, or by what they're for... But one list, in one place.
Take your time. Look through old notebooks, textfiles, e-mail, journal entries... Round up everything.
And hang onto that list. You'll need it.
(I am a 'sense of accomplishment' person, so I'll list even individual chapters on separate lines. Putting a check-mark beside 'Exciting Space Adventures Chapter 7' feels good, even if I'm immediately adding 'Exciting Space Adventures Chapter 8' to the list.)
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Date: 2014-02-04 02:49 am (UTC)Made my list. It's a whole 4 WIP's long. A three year old thing from a fandom I don't really care for now but the WIP is an AU of one of my other fics in that fandom that remains close to my heart. I think I've only got one scene to write and it's done O.O So hard to go back to characters you've all but let go of, though.
Then there's a year old thing from my current fandom. Then there's a buffyverse thing that's only a few months untouched but because it's not my main fandom and there aren't the readers clamouring for updates it has the potential to be pushed aside. And the longer I leave it the less inclined I'll be to go back.
The last thing isn't very old at all, but I'm so over it and it needs to be done so I can move on :)
ETA: all 4 of my WIP's are currently still posted. I don't pull anything, even abandoned fic, so even the oldest is still up. I have countless unfinished fics on my hard drive, but I'm not so concerned about them, so didn't put them on the list. My WIP folder works well as a list for those ones (and it's sizable lol).