They're shooting at us again.
Sep. 7th, 2008 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ad_exiaSo my main goal this weekend was to get some writing done. Which I actually did - not enough, really, but I am working.
So I've come to realize that I start things all the time with little to no intention of finishing them. Dear God, I have a million and ten started fanfics and other various things, but while I'm really damn good at starting, I sure do suck at finishing. XD; I guess that's the problem - I feel like everything I write should tell some kind of story (... uh, well that's why they're called stories, right? ::dies::), but I'm really much better at doing short sketches or scenes than telling the overall story. OR I'm also really good at setting something up, but then failing to figure out what the final conflict or - more importantly - the resolution is.
I guess it's kind of the same with the things I watch and read. I mean, I can be perfectly happy never finishing something - God, it was like eight years before I ever saw the end of SAAB, and I still haven't finished Sokyuu no Fafner or Gundam SEED Destiny and... I'm okay with that. I don't have to see the end, because when it ends it's over, but I like being in the middle of the story, not getting to the end. Endings are nearly never satisfying for me... maybe that's why I suck so hard at writing them? No clue, but geez, I guess I'd better get with the program if I want to be a writer, right? XD; Wow, fail~
Except I DO actually have an ending-like thing in mind for The Dead Prince, and while I'm not sure how my subway story is going to end, I kind of have some idea... well, the problem with that one is I can end it without anything having actually happened, in which case, duh, not much point to it, right? But I feel like if I add in a plot then it'll get LONG, and there's nothing wrong with that really, so... I guess that's what I should do there. But yeah - just so often I throw endings in so that the story will be over, when the conflict or ended just didn't mean a lot in the first place. Gah. There must be some kind of exercise or something I can do to fix this, I should definitely look into it.
I am also tempted to put up a bit of The Dead Prince and ask all... two people I know who have read Sabriel to tell me it's notunintentionally! ripping off Garth Nix. >>; I really hope it's not, because it really would be completely unintentional, but it's the story I have and I don't want to have to worry about it. :x
... Uh. In the meantime I am so very tempted to write my own version of Star Wars episodes 1-3 like I've always wanted to, but GOD that would be way too huge an undertaking. Seriously. But I found some of my old SW fic and damn, I sure had some crazy ideas about how to fill that interim time. XD; But then I still have this Percy Jackson fic I need to finish, and I even have most of the ending written for that one. I think it's just that sometimes, once I've figured the story out in my head the writing it down part seems... tedious? Or something... Which is kind of ridiculous, but there you have it.
I think maybe my brain is just fried or something. >>; It has been very busy, as of late. I am indeed glad to get back into the (mostly) normal swing of things, even if I am down a number of friends in Gainesville both permanently and temporarily for the time being. BUT Diana is around and we need to catch up on Code Geass!Re: that: LJ cuts are good things, guys. Really. And I am still crazy busy even without a bunch of costumes to make - where does all my spare time even go? Some days I really do wonder.
And in the meantime every episode of Enterprise I see makes me want to make more Trip icons. ::dies:: But Renaissance!Trip was just so cute!
So I've come to realize that I start things all the time with little to no intention of finishing them. Dear God, I have a million and ten started fanfics and other various things, but while I'm really damn good at starting, I sure do suck at finishing. XD; I guess that's the problem - I feel like everything I write should tell some kind of story (... uh, well that's why they're called stories, right? ::dies::), but I'm really much better at doing short sketches or scenes than telling the overall story. OR I'm also really good at setting something up, but then failing to figure out what the final conflict or - more importantly - the resolution is.
I guess it's kind of the same with the things I watch and read. I mean, I can be perfectly happy never finishing something - God, it was like eight years before I ever saw the end of SAAB, and I still haven't finished Sokyuu no Fafner or Gundam SEED Destiny and... I'm okay with that. I don't have to see the end, because when it ends it's over, but I like being in the middle of the story, not getting to the end. Endings are nearly never satisfying for me... maybe that's why I suck so hard at writing them? No clue, but geez, I guess I'd better get with the program if I want to be a writer, right? XD; Wow, fail~
Except I DO actually have an ending-like thing in mind for The Dead Prince, and while I'm not sure how my subway story is going to end, I kind of have some idea... well, the problem with that one is I can end it without anything having actually happened, in which case, duh, not much point to it, right? But I feel like if I add in a plot then it'll get LONG, and there's nothing wrong with that really, so... I guess that's what I should do there. But yeah - just so often I throw endings in so that the story will be over, when the conflict or ended just didn't mean a lot in the first place. Gah. There must be some kind of exercise or something I can do to fix this, I should definitely look into it.
I am also tempted to put up a bit of The Dead Prince and ask all... two people I know who have read Sabriel to tell me it's not
... Uh. In the meantime I am so very tempted to write my own version of Star Wars episodes 1-3 like I've always wanted to, but GOD that would be way too huge an undertaking. Seriously. But I found some of my old SW fic and damn, I sure had some crazy ideas about how to fill that interim time. XD; But then I still have this Percy Jackson fic I need to finish, and I even have most of the ending written for that one. I think it's just that sometimes, once I've figured the story out in my head the writing it down part seems... tedious? Or something... Which is kind of ridiculous, but there you have it.
I think maybe my brain is just fried or something. >>; It has been very busy, as of late. I am indeed glad to get back into the (mostly) normal swing of things, even if I am down a number of friends in Gainesville both permanently and temporarily for the time being. BUT Diana is around and we need to catch up on Code Geass!
And in the meantime every episode of Enterprise I see makes me want to make more Trip icons. ::dies:: But Renaissance!Trip was just so cute!
