fic-promptly, ILU.

[esmenet]

For those of you who (like me) are not subscribed to fic_promptly, or not watching it very closely, today is worldbuilding day! Prompts so far range from "how is Akari getting her letters to Ryouga?" to "what good is a Hogwarts education for people who choose to live as or among Muggles?" to "how do ordinary people deal with spirits when there isn't a handy Avatar to call on?" (Okay, that one was mine.) Whole bunch of KHR prompts, several FMA, and even a few Discworld ones out there. This is like the coolest day ever for awesome prompts/potential awesome fics, so if your fandoms have set any background details (or lack thereof) niggling at your head, now would be a good time to go have a look at fic_promptly.


I haven't written anything since mid-May. I've been thinking a lot about the longfics I'm plotting out, but I haven't actually written a thing. Since I've been thinking about it, I don't feel too bad, but it's bothering me. I know people for whom writing is their fun, easy free-time waster, who write thousands of words an hour. Why can't I be like that?

. . . because I'm just not, that's why. Oh well. D'you think it's a better idea to write big ideas as one big story, like most people seem to, or lots of little ones, white_knuckle-style?

Comments

[annotated_em]

Well, for whatever it's worth, here's my experience with writing big long stories: it was something I worked up to. Quite literally, really; when I first started writing fanfic, I never wrote anything longer than what I could churn out in a sitting. Eventually I got to a place where I could pick up and resume something from a previous writing session. Then I started making a practice of writing on a consistent daily basis, and I got better at writing longer pieces the more I was able to make sure I was writing (and reading!) regularly.

*considers* Also, the long plotty fic thing is something I had to build up to. I learned to write self-contained things in GW, and character and banter in Tenipuri, and plot in KHR. But that's all my experience, of course! *laughing*

[littlebutfierce]

Ahahahaha, I am so not the person to ask about how to deal w/big ideas, as I have now made blatantly clear elsewhere...

Though I tend to write lots of little connected stories, rather than chapter fic -- stories that could almost be a series, or a longfic, if I... treated them differently? So that's probably how I would approach big ideas (except for the one I am currently wrestling w/ :P ).

I prefer reading shortfic to longfic, & I like little snippets/moments/that sort of thing, so as far as a reader, I would like it if more people did the second option.