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kirsteena and I were talking today about writing and how she was writing an epic story. *g* I've forgot what it was like to just write. Not have a prompt due, not do RP tags, but have an idea for a fic and just write. I used to, back in the day, write 20K and that was my smaller fics. I got out of the habit when I went back into RP and really when I got into prompt writing and everything was around 300-400 words.I've decided I'm going to get back in that long fic groove again. Every day, I'm going to take an hour and just write. I have the 7 xovers for Buffy, I have AU ideas I want to write up, I have the AU verse with BtVS/Spooks xover. I'm going to challenge myself and not have anything under 1000 words.
Now it's in writing so I have to do it. :P
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Date: 2010-01-18 02:30 am (UTC)I tend to cap out at about 3000 words, but 500-1500 seems about standard for me. I'm trying to relearn how to write to an outline as well. GRAH.
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Date: 2010-01-18 03:51 pm (UTC)Hopefully 2010 means we can get back into the grove of doing things positive for ourselves (like writing!).
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Date: 2010-01-18 04:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-18 08:15 pm (UTC)I think we all deserve a present for ourselves and doing positive things is perfect for that. :D
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Date: 2010-01-19 03:06 am (UTC)I hope you manage to do it. I wanted to do some short comics for the crossover thing, but then I lost 90% of my will to draw.
It's funny. Sometimes RP can inspire you so hard to write (or draw, in my case). And then sometimes it can just turn around and suck everything out of you. All it takes is one dipshit really.
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Date: 2010-01-19 07:53 pm (UTC)Not bad but when you get very used to responding to a five word tag in short bursts rather than long wordy responses, it kind of, I don't know, short circuits your brain or something. Like you forget how to be descriptive or what have you and you condense it all down to 300 words for a prompt. *shrug*
It's like I've been subjected to make my writing a cliff notes or Reader's Digest Condensed rather than long drawn out writing with detailed plots and intricate scenery.
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Date: 2010-01-19 07:56 pm (UTC)Nothing against rp, I love it, but I need to learn to write longer stuff as well. Like today, I wrote one scene for apocafic, between Martha and Lucas, and I just revelled in it, just enjoying writing interaction.
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Date: 2010-01-19 07:58 pm (UTC)Sometimes short tagging is better for action type sequences. But I always enjoy the challenge. Even if lately I've been disappointed in everything I crank out.
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Date: 2010-01-20 02:28 am (UTC)When I went to college art/paper writing ate my time. I didn't have a chance to write anything creative and I had been a pretty profuse writer before that. I let my very terribly illiterate ex tell me that my personal writing was clunky though it was miles better than his. And finally I joined my first group RP. Which had mostly short responses, but we would augment our playing with stories that frequently ran into the 20,000 words detailing the pasts of our characters.
But then at the same time, every group RP I've ever been in (save H&M, which I bailed on before drama could really attack) has descended into drama after a couple of years of being really inspirational. And then I experience this crippling creative drought. I'm hoping some new personal life choices avoid this in the future, because I really think you shouldn't RP unless that RP makes you sit there and want to write a story or imagine out a scenario. Like the Rose and Gary Seven stuff? I could totally imagine her going over there in the midst of Flint's plotting to try and take over the world and her getting to help him stop "Evergreen" (Flint) from making holes in the ozone layer.
In the AUy thing I've been writing with Michelle, I just did a wordcount and we've hit 101,815 words, blaming this on the fact almost every one of our posts are over 300. Holy crap. I didn't know we'd written that much.
But I guess what I'm saying is I totally agree with you, RP is a useless distraction unless it inspires you creatively. It should never feel like a time-eating obligation but rather something that pushes ideas forward. At least that's how I see it.
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Date: 2010-01-20 03:29 pm (UTC)I always viewed RP as one giant collaborative fic in a round robin sort of way. That's how I'm wired I think. It's one of the things I like about GYO (but I so had to get used to) that sometimes they'll do an email log and post it rather than an open thread for anyone to join in on. They do that to, and frankly I prefer them because you might be in the mood for just random chatting with a character. But I do like the email logs where you sort of do a round robin tagging and then just post it when it's finished.\
That sucks about your ex and I know that sometimes even an off hand remark from someone that you don't give two shits about their opinion will just hit a nerve and cripple you. At least it does with me.
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Date: 2010-01-21 05:27 am (UTC)It's happened to me many times. Each time strikes me down for a few months, and then I slowly crawl my way back out because in the end, all I want to do is have fun with people or draw pictures for myself.
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Date: 2010-01-21 04:20 pm (UTC)