(late) intro post (and one dead bunny)

[vampthenewblack]

I crossed a bunny off my list today, just a one-shot that's been sitting almost finished in my WIP folder since November. Not one of my oldest WIP's, but it had been suffering the 'I'll just do this new shiny thing first' for months, and this comm gave me the push I needed. So. Done :)

Anyway, I'm vamp *waves* Right now, Teen Wolf is my main fandom. I'm kind of ridiculously prolific, but I write a hell of a lot of short fic. My attention span is rubbish, so it's hard for me to stick with the longer things. I've only got a short list, but they're things I want done so they're out of my hair and I don't have to keep thinking about them.

Deadlines work for me, knowing I'll be letting someone down if I default works, competition works (I do NaNo every year). I can get that stuff done no problem. I have folders full of half done stuff with no obligations on them though. Already this comm has helped (I have two other things on my list done now, just waiting on beta to post and cross off) by giving me some accountability :D

Late Intro and learning from my dead bunnies

[sarasa_cat]

Hello, I'm Vieralynn, or just VL.  I am drowning in WIPs. ;)

As of this year, I now split my writing time 50-50 between original fiction and fan fiction. My fandom writing is entirely in video game fandoms, mostly Final Fantasy XII and Dragon Age although I sometimes write fic for other square-enix games and for teeny tiny independent games.

Just before learning about this community I started compiling my frighteningly long WIP list so I could think about my transition (back) into original fiction, which has me digging through files on old computers, my old cell phone, and weird locations on the internet, all of this going back to 2006. I honestly cannot begin to count how many WIPs I have and it will take me a few months to organize all of it. Since 2006 I have banged out between 1.3 million and 1.6 million words and -- trust me -- most of it was shit awesome fertilizer full of learning experiences for current and future projects. Those were my 1 million starter words for learning the craft of novel writing and short story writing.

But, I am making lists! My Dragon Age WIP list is over here, which has everything that is more than a mere premise bunny.  (The premise bunnies alone would be a list just as long). 

My Final Fantasy WIP list is partially compiled and I'm trying to decide how much of it will be turned into fertilizer for my Original Fiction WIP list, which already has a few concepts for novels and a collection of short story WIPs listed on it. For one of those original novels I am nearly done plotting and I'm starting to draft it. The others are in thinking-planning-researching-plotting mode.


What I like about this community is that it will make me THINK about my WIPs. I need to reflect on where I have been as I go forward.

This weekend I felt inspired to look at a WIP that I have left rotting for almost two years. I read the 8000 words of that have been drafted (it wants to be less than a 10,000 word story) and I just forced myself to forget about every other project I have so I could look at why this WIP failed me and what I need to do to fix it, finish it, post it (it is fanfic), and happily kiss it good bye. I managed to identify specific problems with the characterization that bugged me when I wrote the story but I just couldn't put my finger on what needed to be done. Distance does wonders, as does the detached sense I have when looking at something two years old that isn't as meaningful to me right now. I saw aspects of the story where I needed to do a better job chasing the characters up a tree and throwing rocks at them. ;)  So far, I've managed to rewrite 1/4 of that story. Hopefully I'll be able to cross it off my WIP list in a few weeks (while working on other projects).

Looking forward to crossing off more WIPs and learning from what I've written in the past and *why* I've gotten stuck.  :)

Procedure for dealing with new ideas?

[chordatesrock]

I'm afraid I keep getting new ideas. Is there an established protocol for this? Should I add them to the list when they cross from premise to plotbunny? Should I put them on hold until next year?