Don't you hate when a project just falls through?

[Willis]

Or better yet, when one person keeps thinking of one Trilogy and then jumping to the next? Now that my friends is a peeve of mine, and I was wondering if anyone else has the same problem.
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[Dunnskee]

Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?



I mean, yes of course. We all get it at one point or another...
Actually, I have chronic writer's ADD. I start something, get 150 pages into it and start something else.
Do Other Writing. It's a cure.

For only $2.00 a day you can sponsor me to continue writing my book.

[writer23]

For only $2.00 a day you can sponsor me to continue writing my book.

hehehehe


To be honest, I have never finished anything. *hides in dark corner*

I start something and by the time I reach the sixth chapter or so I figure that it's horrible and there's no reason in writing it. I'm not like obsessed with writing everything. I can live without writing anything for like maybe a month or two. It's not something that I live for - it's just something that I do enjoy doing if I ever get time. So it doesn't really annoy me when people jump into other projects. It does annoy me though, if I really liked what the person was writing and they just decided to stop. But then again, I'm not the writer, so who am I to tell them what to do and what not to do.

There are really only a couple of things that I have finished. My friends call them: Sara writings. They're like little inspirational, totally random, little writings that I write. I've been writing they ever since like...5th grade and I would have stopped but my friends won't let me. So I have my friends to thank for keeping me writing.

In my mind, In Your Heart was a failure. It was horribly written, had no plot, and was just boring. So I think, when a project falls through, it's because the writer gets bored with it or doesn't feel satisfied enough with it to continue.

Now that I got that out of the way...

Go read In Your Heart. It's good...despite what I just said.... :)

[Dunnskee]

I usually think, Damn! This sucks!
So I stop. Which is why I need people to start reading Vengeance again. So I'll know if I should continue.

[Calliope]

Do Other Writing. It's a cure.


^^ :D
Well spoken.

Yes, I hate it :( I'm determined to finish my NaNo novel, even though I won't manage it in November.

[darkprophetess]

I also have to confess that I haven't finished anything. My writing goes either three basic ways.

One, I don't plan at all, just get a random idea ("Hey-what about a witch hunt in a modern day school?") and start writing. I stop after three pages when I realise that I know nothing about this story. I relegate this, possibly trying again in several years. Most often not.

Two, I get a basic, very basic plan ("Girl starts a new school - no one likes her - freaky things start happening - they accuse her of being a witch and some stereotypes try to burn her at the stake.") I develop characters for half a page of notes. I write about a chapter, maybe two, until I realise that there is really no plotline besides the blindingly obvious. I give up. Put it into my relegation notebook.

Three, I find an idea in my relegation notebook that amazingly isn't completly repulsive to me. Shocked at this, I seize the idea and start making very finicky detailed plans about characters and exactly what will happen in each chapter. I then realise that I have a beginning, an end, a solid line of characters but no middle. I try in vain to think of subplots that aren't useless and meaningless. I try in vain to think of the climax and how the whole damned thing will come together. I try to write with half a plan. I get angry and upset because I have no idea what will happen, so can't do any foreshadowing or suspense. I give up.

Failure is a prevalent theme in my writing.

[Dunnskee]

I love subplots! Whenever you think... Crap! Where is this going?
I start a new character and say... Hmm... He could meet up with them here... Or I could kill him off later after everyone gets to know him and he can contribute a little to the main characters.

I hate it when you can't figure out how to connect everything.

In Vengeance right now I know exactly where I'm going but I'm stuck on this little part in the middle.

[writer23]

Darkprophetess, everything that you just said happens to me too!

Dunnskee, I can never figure out how things will connect. It will literally take me at least 3 weeks before I get it down perfectly. I can come up with little pathetic ways for people to get from point A to point B, but to get it exactly right, it takes a while.

[darkprophetess]

See, I think I know exactly what I want to happen, until I attempt to think deeply about it. It's like when you see something out of the corner of your eye, and when you turn it's not there. You can only see it if you're not concentrating. Or if you really don't have time to do it. I was halfway through my biology module (half a GCSE if you don't know what that is) and I got a flash of an idea for a subplot that would tie everything together nicely. Sitting in an assembly hall, the only paper I had being an exam I would never see again. It sucks.

All my subplots seem to be random parts of other stories that have broken off and somehow drifted into mine.

[Fodzy]

I know what you mean, there are countless pieces I've never finished.
So I've resigned myself to writing a series of abnormal short stories (Russians fighting dragons... heh)