I'm actually de-lurking, someone check the temperature in hell

[roseargent]

So, yeah. I'm Rose. I used to write a lot, then I hit a major dry spell in around 2005ish when my health took a nosedive. I wrote nothing at all, except for small RP-related things, until 2009; since then I only manage to produce two or three exchange fics a year, and very occasionally one or two promptfest-type things. I have a million ideas (okay, a couple hundred) but mostly they stay ideas.

My main problem is, unfortunately, ongoing issues with fatigue/brainfog/lack of spoons, which is not something anyone can really help with.

My other problems are:

1. I'm a hermit who has bunnies almost exclusively for either really tiny fandoms, weird pairings, dark/squicky content, or my personal favourite ALL OF THE ABOVE. So I don't really know anyone canon-knowledgeable to help me get unstuck, in most cases.

2. I keep wanting to completely review canon before I write anything. Too bad I have a few dozen fandoms I want to write in, and some of them are 80+ hour JRPGS. *cough* Obviously this is not a practical thing to do! I need to get past the need to be "perfect" in terms of canon details. (Except for exchange fics. I will continue to review canon every time for those because they are for other people and not myself-and-whoever-else-happens-to-read-it).

Comments

[roseargent]

Oh, I actually quite agree with you that "no one else is going to write it" is great motivation. But where I run into trouble isn't motivation, it's needing someone to bounce ideas off when I get stuck and am unsure how to get from point B to point C.

[jordannamorgan]

Yeah, I guess it does take someone familiar with the canon to do that. I generally hash out my various random ideas with a friend, and only start writing anything when I have it fully mapped out.