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fffc, and I keep thinking about it, but I am unable to pick one and start on anything. It's not that I don't want to. I just don't have any pressing ideas, just a lot of spluttering ones. Plus, I feel like that for the last few years I have lost that ability to just write something, canon compliance be damned.
Most of the stuff I write is canon-divergent or canon-bending anyway, but the Fate fanfic "community" on BL spent so much time chasing its tail about being able to answer any and all questions about decisions with an essay that I kind of lost something from my ability to just do it.
It's been years now, but I still find myself having lost the ability to take the leap.
My best friend bought me Dragon Age Origins on the Steam sale because DA is one of her favorite things. I have/had several other friends who were super into it. I'm enjoying it so far and ship my Warden/Alistair, but then I think out scenarios to write silly, self-indulgent fanfic about that I'm sure will no longer make sense when I have the full picture and thus those thoughts will fade entirely. When I was younger, I would've written it anyway...
fffc, and I keep thinking about it, but I am unable to pick one and start on anything. It's not that I don't want to. I just don't have any pressing ideas, just a lot of spluttering ones. Plus, I feel like that for the last few years I have lost that ability to just write something, canon compliance be damned. Most of the stuff I write is canon-divergent or canon-bending anyway, but the Fate fanfic "community" on BL spent so much time chasing its tail about being able to answer any and all questions about decisions with an essay that I kind of lost something from my ability to just do it.
It's been years now, but I still find myself having lost the ability to take the leap.
My best friend bought me Dragon Age Origins on the Steam sale because DA is one of her favorite things. I have/had several other friends who were super into it. I'm enjoying it so far and ship my Warden/Alistair, but then I think out scenarios to write silly, self-indulgent fanfic about that I'm sure will no longer make sense when I have the full picture and thus those thoughts will fade entirely. When I was younger, I would've written it anyway...
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Date: 2020-07-08 03:32 pm (UTC)From:Write. Grab the sputtering ideas and what they might offer. Acknowledge you're rusty and that there might be some clunk. Don't worry about long or deep or following through on a plot if there's no pressing need. Try to work quickly enough that you don't pause to second guess yourself. Edit later. Ignore the audience. Keep trying. (Take breaks. If it's not working, don't force yourself.)
Good luck~ ^_^
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Date: 2020-07-08 05:35 pm (UTC)From:I guess one of my problems is that even my sputtering ideas often are just a fly-over of a ridiculously detailed, long, plot-driven, multichapter thing. I can think it in a moment, but it takes ages to write.
Thank you for the advice!