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malenkayacherepakha) wrote2022-01-08 10:48 am
malenkayacherepakha) wrote2022-01-08 10:48 am
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How do you make yourself write?
I have this idea in my head, I keep thinking about it, I've got the characters and most of the plot, I've even started writing it, but I just cannot get myself to consistently sit down and write.
When I started in fandom I didn't have this issue at all (the opposite even), but without the structure of fandom (the fest deadlines, the friends waiting to beta, the general feeling of people out there waiting to read the fic) I'm struggling. There just isn't any urgency, I guess. The idea could sit in my head for forever, other than that I'd like to write it.
Any tips and tricks that you use to get yourself writing? Or is this just the downside of writing original, the need for more self-motivation than I seem to possess?!
I have this idea in my head, I keep thinking about it, I've got the characters and most of the plot, I've even started writing it, but I just cannot get myself to consistently sit down and write.
When I started in fandom I didn't have this issue at all (the opposite even), but without the structure of fandom (the fest deadlines, the friends waiting to beta, the general feeling of people out there waiting to read the fic) I'm struggling. There just isn't any urgency, I guess. The idea could sit in my head for forever, other than that I'd like to write it.
Any tips and tricks that you use to get yourself writing? Or is this just the downside of writing original, the need for more self-motivation than I seem to possess?!
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Do you think it would help you to share your ideas with a friend and try to generate some of that community-feeling excitement of someone waiting to read the finished product?
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Yeah it probably would - it feels a bit harder than with fic because it's less reciprocal? Although I suppose I could still help them in return, even though I'm not spending much time on fandom stuff anymore I still enjoy betaing and talking about ideas, so it wouldn't have to be a completely one way street.
There is a fandom sort of linked to the genre I'm writing in, actually I dunno why I'm hedging around it, the book is a hockey based romance, there is a hockey fandom - I don't entirely know how I feel about the RPF aspect of it, but there's more to the fandom than just that, so maybe I need to explore that and maybe see if just being around hockey enthusiasts (a lot of whom write, either novels with OC or fic around the actual athletes) can create that community feeling. It's definitely what I'm missing, so maybe that and finding a friend willing to listen to me talk about my writing might be enough to get me started.