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Post by Ezbok58a on Apr 20, 2006 22:39:25 GMT -5
Has anyone experienced this when writting a particular story or fic? I ask as I just did, one of my stories that I haven't touched in a few weeks just became more of a burden than something I should enjoy.  I don't get it, I have the entire story (mostly) planned out front to back with the appropriate twists, yet I have no urge to actually post another chapter of the story or even continue it at all. Guess everyone lays a egg once in a while, and this one looks like that egg. And no its not my KP/RE fic, that's still going strong. |
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Post by surforst on Apr 20, 2006 22:52:15 GMT -5
I dunno could just be the time frame. I find myself way behind on things and unable to read but a few fanfics. Shoot I'm still planning on catching up on a few of your fics. So little time. ;D
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Post by Commander Argus on Apr 20, 2006 22:53:35 GMT -5
Well, that sounds just like my "in progress" main story arc piece Heart of the Fury. I've had the whole thing plotted out since I started it and I was going at it great guns until I started my prequels. Those are still going full blast but I have to sit down and make myself write chapters of Heart, so I finally just let it sit until I'm properly inspired.
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Post by Ezbok58a on Apr 20, 2006 23:15:47 GMT -5
Time frame it could be, but my hearts just not in the fic anymore, even when I actually plan to write a chapter for it, I find myself poking and plodding along, trying to avoid writing it all together. Compared to the other stories I'm working on (resident evil, The third Car story, and my new original fic which I'm starting today) the police one is just there, taking up valuable time. I may eventually get back to it, but the problem is really when I'd get back to it. This was really my second major fic when I started (Horrors of War was the first) then came the brainstorm for "THE CAR" crossover, which spawned a sequel which in turn spawned another sequel which will be up (hopefully) by next week. "The Way of the Badge" was really shoved aside from the get go, and I don't think I've really given it the attention it should really deserve. Ron would blame the smoothies, I would blame myself for treating it like a second rate fic from the onstart.  |
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Post by JuPMod on Apr 21, 2006 6:26:01 GMT -5
It's how I feel now with my stories. I have *two* fanfic series I have ideas to write, and I'm going back and forth between them. I already posted 1/2 of a very long TUY story, while I'm starting typing up a TRU story I very much wanted to get down. There is also my stand-alone post-StD R/Y story, which I placed temp on the backburner while I'm typing up my other stories.
*sigh* So many ideas, so little time.
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Post by taechunsa on Apr 21, 2006 8:34:34 GMT -5
I've been there. I had a fic that I had planned out, wrote a few chapters then real life caused me to abandon it for a few months. I was never able to get back into writing it. Despite restarting a half dozen times I just couldn't get my desire back for the story.
In some ways I think the action of planning out the whole story can cause this. We know how it is going to end and thus we sometimes lose the desire to continue because it is old hat for us.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Apr 21, 2006 10:45:03 GMT -5
That's never happened to me. When I start something, I finish it. Otherwise I'll feel bad.
Sometimes I find that an ending is kinda forced because I want it to end quickly because I'm tired of it.
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Post by Twila Starla on Apr 21, 2006 17:47:38 GMT -5
It's happened to me. I have three stories unfinished at the moment. Book one of my series, Scarlet Favor, often takes up most of my writing time. My two others, A Time Before Evil and Return of The Supreme One, have sat in the dark for months now. Even when I plan to work on the new chapters for those two, I end up working one my other story, and now I've got another story in the works. I suppose I'll work on the other two once I get Scarlet Favor and my new story out of my system.
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Post by Pim Peccable on Apr 21, 2006 20:07:11 GMT -5
It's happened to me. I have three stories unfinished at the moment. Book one of my series, Scarlet Favor, often takes up most of my writing time. My two others, A Time Before Evil and Return of The Supreme One, have sat in the dark for months now. Even when I plan to work on the new chapters for those two, I end up working one my other story, and now I've got another story in the works. I suppose I'll work on the other two once I get Scarlet Favor and my new story out of my system. It always happens to me. Particularly if you count unpublished stuff. I have unfinished stories all over the place. |
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Post by Quin Separable on Apr 21, 2006 22:03:59 GMT -5
Same here...right now, up at Fanfiction.net I have at least 4 stories (2 KP ones, 1 KP\Newsies crossover, and a Newsies fic) that I have completely lost interest in writing. In fact, for a few months there I completely lost interest in all my stories. However, I'm back into the swing again, but unfortunately, not for KP fanfiction.
Then there are the started ones...like the one I posted the beginning to somewhere back in these threads that I had all planned out but quickly lost interest in.
And let's not even talk about the original fiction stories....
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Post by LycoX on Apr 21, 2006 23:22:50 GMT -5
I kind of lost focus for my original fic story, last chapter I did was chapter 7. Which in a way was only a prelude to a war. I get alot of ideas for fics, but I don't use em until I find an opportunity to use em. For awhile I've had a kim possible fic in mind, but what I want to use in it, just might not be acceptable in the eyes of kp fans.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2006 23:39:18 GMT -5
I ask as I just did, one of my stories that I haven't touched in a few weeks just became more of a burden than something I should enjoy. I don't get it, I have the entire story (mostly) planned out front to back with the appropriate twists, yet I have no urge to actually post another chapter of the story or even continue it at all. I've been there an back just earlier this year. There was about a two month gap between chapters 6-7 of ELII, mainly due to the inability of actually sitting down and effectively writing it although it was fully planned out and working perfectly in my mind's eye. (yeah I just have one 'eye') By the time I finished the chapter, I was very unhappy with how it turned out, but submitted it anyway. I found myself wanting to just plain quit all the way through (after that chapter), and just work on my original fiction that I've been planning for the past couple years. For some reason, I decided to go back into it recently. I went so far into planning it that my mind's eye is thinking of stuff for chapter eight of the third part of the trilogy. I've now found myself writing quite a bit more, and wanting to finish the current story to show off the new plot twists that will soon come. So yes, it happens probably all the time, and at least once to any dedicated author during their entire hobby/career. What shows how much you love writing will be when you get back up and find the motivation you need to start doing what you love. |
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Post by Ezbok58a on Apr 21, 2006 23:40:46 GMT -5
In some ways I think the action of planning out the whole story can cause this. We know how it is going to end and thus we sometimes lose the desire to continue because it is old hat for us. That's what I thought but the problem with that is that my other stories that I'm working on now (mainly the RE one) I already have the ending planned out, and I'm still eagerly writing chapters for that one. I've come to the conclusion that if you have to put a story on the backburner for any reason, the story is pretty much dead in the water from that point on. I was eager at writing the story at the start, but having 2 other stories going at the same time forced me to pick which one goes to the back of the list, and no matter what I actually picked, that series would not come back to life again. |
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Post by DrMike on Apr 22, 2006 9:05:39 GMT -5
Has anyone experienced this when writting a particular story or fic? Yes. When I was writing Pairings, all interest in the work died about 3/4's of the way through it. Most of my others works hit a wall like that as well. Usually I get around it but having a couple different stories that I'm working on and do a chapter of each as I go. -drmike |
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Post by RngrThorne on May 2, 2006 12:25:20 GMT -5
Have you considered changing the story? A lot of times I have to have the curiosity to see what happens at the end. It's when I have everything ironed out that I stop writing. That and if I just get out of the habit or have writer's block (like now).
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