Finally Getting Back Into It · 3:00pm Nov 19th, 2014
It's been awhile, I think more than half a year, since I've had the compulsion and time to write fics. Building up momentum is a nightmare. But if this goes the way it did two years ago, I'll be able to hit the previous 2k-word-per-night threshold that I had back then, this time with much better quality. Granted, that was staying up till the middle of the night, but still. It's a checkpoint of sorts.
A most cringe-worthy portion of the process is picking up something that's set back by about 2 readings of "To Kill A Mockingbird", one of "Macbeth", and copious lessons under an outstanding literature teacher. It's hard to maintain the same mood and tone as before in a fic like that, and still present it as a coherent whole. Maybe I'll try to hide it as a transition of (in-fiction) time. Plus, what I considered viable before comes back looking glaringly amateur-ish. Salvageable, maybe still workable, but almost sub-par in standard now.
At least the swarming ideas haven't returned yet. There are times when a concept (in this case a storyline or idea) becomes so insistent and deeply rooted in your wants that you think about it in every waking instance, and sometimes, even when waking moments are past. You get obsessed with thinking about doing it and plan and hope and look forward to it.
And when the time comes you can't do it. It just happens. Let's hope it doesn't come to that.
Enjoy the newest fic, I'm redesigning one of the older two and hoping to continue on the other.
Have fun, and all the best!
2604573 Thanks man