centauri2002 wrote...
I think most writers have this problem to some degree. Darned overactive imaginations. But I definitely encourage having a little book that you can keep at your bedside and carry around in your bag, just in case.
What I write down depends quite heavily on the idea that comes to me. If I have another idea for my novel, then I'll write as much down as possible. I have a book dedicated to this, actually. So it can range from anything like character outlines, to plot points, to location ideas. No idea is a bad idea so it's worth jotting down, even if you don't use it for that particular story.
As for short story ideas, I generally only write a couple of lines on characters and then an outline of the story. I'll leave it at that until I choose to continue with it.
Fan fiction I don't tend to write down at all. If I get in the mood for it, I'll sit down and write it and then post it up. But I think I have a few noted down somewhere. If an idea really consumes my thoughts, I'll just write that one scene and save the file somewhere, just in case I decide to continue with the story. That generally gets it out of my system. 
So how do you handle writing so many at once? Work on one at a time or switch between them depending on your mood?
Well, I'm still pretty new to the whole 'writing' game, and tend to underestimate how much work it's going to take. For example,
A Good Night is at about 17k words with probably has another 10k to go in the story, and when I was somewhere in the 6k mark I
thought I was damn near finished. Silly me... So a lot of these stories that I think will be 1k-2k words will probably wind up in the ~10k range, and I've got an idea for at least one story that I
know will be closer to 50k by the time I finish (if that ever happens)
I've sort of been bouncing back and forth between stories for a while now. I'll get an idea and it'll consume my every spare thought for a while, which of course kills any sort of creativity or motivation that I have to write the story that I'm working on at that moment. Sometimes they're short enough that I can actually finish them, and I'll go ahead and post them (see:
Reasons). Sometimes they'll make their way to paper (incomplete, of course) and that'll be enough for me to move on.
For example, the stories that I've started while working on
A Good Night are:
- An OC/Liara drama that takes place after Redemption, but before/during the events of ME2
- An action piece that takes place after ME2 but prior to ME3
- A hurt/angst story that details the 'rough second chapter' and the rekindling of the Shepard/Liara romance in the latter half of ME2
Some ideas that I have which haven't made their way to paper in any form:
- A Romance/Drama where Shepard and Liara (post-ME1) visit the part of Earth where Shepard grew up, reliving difficult memories of the place.
- A short character development piece about Shepard enlisting with the Alliance
I need to become a better writer just so I can keep my sanity! So yeah, something that'll let me get the basic ideas out of my head
without resorting to starting to write them out would be
very nice indeed! I need
!
Retour en haut
, I just thought she was cute and innocent... Obviously ME2 took the innocent part away for the most part), I have both my male shep and femshep romanced with Liara... (and a renegade male- shep with no-one and a renegade fem-shep with Garrus :L)... So it doesn't really bother me :L
