What are you working on right now?

[littlebutfierce]

What's everyone working on lately? If you don't want to give specifics, maybe you just want to rant (or rave!), or ask for help, or just say that yes, thank goodness, there IS some kind of idea rattling around in your brain. Or something else. I like cheerleading, so if anyone needs any, shout. ;)

I'm working on at least 3 Oofuri fics (& none of them specifically for the kink meme, woe). One of them is a more unusual (at least in my head) pairing, one is a futurefic (I almost never get ideas for futurefics, dunno why), & one is another female masturbation fic (this seems to come up a lot in my fic! All my ladies touch themselves, hooray!).

They're all at various stages of approaching the point where I really will need another eye on them, but are all also stymieing me in slightly different ways (also NAMES & HONORIFICS, need I say they always stymie me?). I've been inching forward with them, & every time I leave one for a few days I come back & discover it's not as crappy as I'd feared but that it still needs loads of work. I just feel like I need more stamina & more faith right now or I might end up abandoning them, which would suck as they're close! Sorta kinda!

I also have half-written a Tam Lin (the Pamela Dean novel) fic that I tried to crank out for the Porn Battle, but I don't think it will ever go anywhere, or not without a LOT of work.

I have a couple of other things in very embryonic stages but they're the sorts of things I don't want to mention lest I scare the ideas back into hiding.

Comments

[notunbroken]

I have two fics that I'm working on right now. Both are kind of involved (and one is probably going to end up being REALLY long). I've always preferred to read longer fics, so I guess it isn't that surprising that I'd want to write longer stories.

My biggest problem is that I've never posted fic before, nor have I actually finished a story, and I'm really nervous about it. Writing in and of itself doesn't bother me...I'm a grad student so I have to write a lot of academic stuff, and I used to practice creative writing all the time when I was younger. It seems silly, but I'm having a hard time crossing the fanfic line.

Anyway, I'm here and this comm seems to be right up my alley. I have this fic journal (which is totally empty, of course), my ideas, and a story outline going in WikidPad. Hopefully I can pull the trigger!

[littlebutfierce]

Aw, yay! Your comment makes me happy--I am always psyched to find other soon-to-be or newbie fic writers. Partly b/c I remember how I felt when I posted my first fic (it wasn't that long ago!), how excited & pleased, & also b/c it's just good to have more company.

Good luck! Feel free to make a new post to gripe or ask for suggestions ("how do you all get yourself to actually finish a fic?" or whatever) or what have you.

I feel like I am in a slower stage of fic writing right now--& I think creativity ebbs & flows, so I shouldn't panic, & if I was in a writing flurry all the time I would just burn out. At the same time I really wish I was back in the stage where it felt somewhat easier! Oh well, maybe it'll come back around again.