Life of a Project - The Worst · 9:52pm Sep 8th, 2019
My newest fic is an interesting experiment. I wasn't even really intending for it to become a story when I first began. It was really just a life hack to get around writer's block. Whenever I was stalling out on a chapter of FOAL 9000 or one of my one shots, I'd open up a blank page in gdocs just to vomit out one of my many ideas for other things. I didn't really feel bound by the context of a longer fic, or the need to make what I was writing presentable since I never intended to publish it. And this gave me something really valuable: the feeling of finishing something.
Writer's block sucks first and foremost because it makes you feel like a failure. A writer who can't write isn't much of a writer, right? And locking up on a project or two for an indefinite period of time certainly makes you feel like you're failing, both yourself and your audience. So I used 'The Worst' as an escape from that feeling. I could write one of the many ideas I had for diapering the Dazzlings and just finish it and walk away. Just getting something, anything, down, and considering it done went a long way to improving my outlook on my writing. It just feels good to complete something after a whole lot of not doing that.
And that's how all the completed chapters of 'The Worst' came to be. But what is the fic going to be really? Unlike pretty much any multi-chapter fic I've done before it, I don't have an outline for this one. As I went about writing whatever ideas came into my head, a loose continuity started to form, but it's not really a narrative. And as more chapters get released, you'll start to see what I mean. Not quite an anthology, not quite a story. If anything 'The Worst' is the bite-sized episodic adventures of the Dazzlings while they're stuck in diapers. Slice of life is the best way to put it I guess. And because I have no outline, no grand plan for this story, no ending in sight, really, it can be just about anything I want it to be. (And yes, that does include clop if I am so inclined.)
But, I also don't plan to change the true nature of this fic. It was my go to source for curing writer's block and that's what it will remain as. I have no plans to make it my top priority anytime soon. I still have no real desire to make very long fics, as I stated in a past blog, and while 'The Worst' could one day become a very long fic I feel a lot less apprehensive about it becoming lengthy than I do other projects. I can't help but think I feel this way simply because of the way I've been treating it all this time, so I see no reason to change that now.
And yeah, that's what's going on with this new fic. Expect weekly updates every Friday until we're all caught up on chapters and then updates will come basically whenever I'm stuck on other stuff. If you've enjoyed chapter 1 then you'll definitely like the stuff that's coming, so I hope you stick around for it.
makes sense, and yea blocks SUUUUUUCKS