daredevilkink | Discussion/Off-Topic Post #1

I need to commiserate with someone.

Who else is fed up with their long fic and fantasizes about abandoning it? x_x

dont anon. We can help you and give you ideas.

ayrt

I don't need ideas. I'm just sick of writing it, lol.

I am here with you anon. I am still slowly working on my first long fic that I haven't updated in a few months. :( I think I was a little too ambitious plot-wise for my first long-form fic, so I am hoping that I can simplify the plot without too many holes between the first few chapters and the later ones.

Same. I ask myself every day WHY I chose to write something that a) required so much research and b) had such a difficult plot to manage.

New anon here:

Boy, I really don't have much to add. My (first and probably only) long fic is exactly here. I was so inspired at the beginning! (When I thought I was only ever going to write a vaguely intriguing first chapter and let people fill the rest of it in their heads. And then along came chapters two, and three, and...) And now it's... I just want to END THIS THING.

(I think part of it is that the plot requires one of my lovely main characters to be STUPID. In a way that's pretty in-character, but I get really bad second-hand embarrassment, and I didn't want to have to deal with that in my own fic. Oh, well. I'll push through it, and then rewrite it ninety million times to make it more believable, by which point the sting will hopefully have worn off.)

But I also want to end this thing in a way that will keep the people still willing to read it entertained. Otherwise, I could just do a "Rocks fall. Everyone dies." and move on with my life. (Although that would make the sequels I've already written rather bizarre.)

So I finally wrote and posted something else, a one-shot that took a day to write, for a change, after months of silence (excluding the stuff I wrote for the Halloween post, which I'm probably never going to claim). And what response do I get? A request for a sequel. NO! I AM NO GOOD AT LONG FIC! I probably stink at short ones, too, but at least those are one and done.

//end rant

I'm sorry, it's just that this is the first time in my life I've had such a hard time with something I've committed to. Which is ridiculous. It's just a fanfiction that about three people may possibly read.

NAYART (but I am the anon just above that)

Yeah, writing longer fics requires a lot of commitment and it's SO easy to lose momentum, especially if you get stuck writing a certain part over and over again. I definitely understand the fear of losing quality as the chapters go on, because that's where I am at, too.

On the bright side, this is the first time in a long time I've done some creative writing. I am slowly learning what works and what doesn't for me as a writer.

AYRT: I'm learning what works for me as a writer, too, and it's funny, because it's just about exactly the opposite of what works for me as a reader.

I adore long fics! I love it when people go crazy with AUs and crossovers! And yet I am having so much trouble writing my long fic and try to make everything as canon-compliant as possible, within the bounds of what's required for my fic.

(I also adore fic that is canon-compliant and in-character and short, but it has to be absolutely pitch-perfect, which my drivel will never be. I'd hate to apply my standards to my own writing!)

I feel you, anon.

Currently halfway through a sequel to (what was supposed to be) a short "hit-and-run" one-shot. You know... the kind where horrible life-altering things happen to the characters? Yeah, one of my readers convinced me to write a sequel to that, because "But what happens next????" and I swear, I am never going to allow myself to fall into this trap again! The subject matter is sooooo emotionally draining, especially since I've gone for the most realistic approach.

Ugh. I'm just so tired of looking at it and thinking about it. I have a rough draft of over 20,000 words written for the final 4 chapters, but I think about all the edits I need to make and scenes that still need to be written and I feel so hopeless.

Also, rant time: I spend a long time working on each chapter, but barely get any comments in response (even though I know I have at least 300 regular readers). Ugh. I always feel depressed after I post a new chapter because of this.

(I also have lost interest in the show too, tbh, and I think a lot of others have also, if the slow-down of fic is any indication. But I hate to leave it unfinished....)

Hopefully things will pick up again around the holidays, and when Jessica Jones releases!

There's nothing wrong with taking a break from writing. If you've already got 20,000 words written for your final chapter, I'd say you've already done most of the heavy lifting already. Step away from it for a while and come back to it with fresh eyes. Remember why you started writing the story in the first place.

I've abandoned it atm :(... but as others said, to leave it there unfinished, it's just no right.
I need closure but I'm stuck because of sex scenes... uhg *headbangs*

Ooh, which fic?

(Does there NEED to be sex scenes, per se? If it's something you don't want to write, maybe to a fade to black? Or, maybe just skip over those scenes and save writing them for last?)

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