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ushobwri, they mentioned looking back in old folders and finding stories that you wrote but don't remember, reading old stories and going "wow, did I really write that?" and looking back at old ideas that you started but never finished. I started thinking about the fact that I haven't written anything for David despite the fact that I still have tons of ideas for him in my braims (and one completely written first draft that simply needs editing, though I admit it needs tons of it), I never finished the "Calling the Doctor" series, and I totally forgot about "A Teacher and a Housemaid."
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bas_math_girl started posting her new Doctor/Donna-in-a-Regency-AU story, and that reminded me that I have a 1/3-done "the Doctor and Donna meets Jane Austen" story. That one is completely plotted out in my brain, but never made it onto paper. Well, e-paper.
This only serves to remind me that at one point, I counted over fifty WIPs in my Google docs, ranging from single-paragraph starts to multiple chapters that somehow got abandoned. And this doesn't count that I've been trying to finish this one that I keep hinting at in my journal posts.
I want to write. I just never do it.
I find that if I do actually write, it's only if a prompt atwho_contest grabs me, or if some idea pops up that I just can't let go of. If I do pick up a WIP, I read through it to figure out where it's going, and by the time I get to the end, even if I know what happens next, I wander off.
Feh. This is just me whining about my lack of motivation. :)
There's one multi-chapter 3/4-done story that I know why I won't finish it. It's set in the real world, and when I wrote the first draft, I had assumed that the real world setting worked like this. Then I discovered that it worked like that, so I rewrote the entire thing to make it work correctly. Then I found out that no, I was wrong: at the time that this thing was set, it worked like this other thing. I have not gotten up the motivation to re-write the entire thing yet again. :P
ushobwri, they mentioned looking back in old folders and finding stories that you wrote but don't remember, reading old stories and going "wow, did I really write that?" and looking back at old ideas that you started but never finished. I started thinking about the fact that I haven't written anything for David despite the fact that I still have tons of ideas for him in my braims (and one completely written first draft that simply needs editing, though I admit it needs tons of it), I never finished the "Calling the Doctor" series, and I totally forgot about "A Teacher and a Housemaid."Then
bas_math_girl started posting her new Doctor/Donna-in-a-Regency-AU story, and that reminded me that I have a 1/3-done "the Doctor and Donna meets Jane Austen" story. That one is completely plotted out in my brain, but never made it onto paper. Well, e-paper.This only serves to remind me that at one point, I counted over fifty WIPs in my Google docs, ranging from single-paragraph starts to multiple chapters that somehow got abandoned. And this doesn't count that I've been trying to finish this one that I keep hinting at in my journal posts.
I want to write. I just never do it.
I find that if I do actually write, it's only if a prompt at
who_contest grabs me, or if some idea pops up that I just can't let go of. If I do pick up a WIP, I read through it to figure out where it's going, and by the time I get to the end, even if I know what happens next, I wander off.Feh. This is just me whining about my lack of motivation. :)
There's one multi-chapter 3/4-done story that I know why I won't finish it. It's set in the real world, and when I wrote the first draft, I had assumed that the real world setting worked like this. Then I discovered that it worked like that, so I rewrote the entire thing to make it work correctly. Then I found out that no, I was wrong: at the time that this thing was set, it worked like this other thing. I have not gotten up the motivation to re-write the entire thing yet again. :P
