writethisfanfic | WIP Challenge - Check In Day 11

Poll #16675

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Yesterday and today I

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planned
1 (16.7%)

researched
1 (16.7%)

wrote
2 (33.3%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

did something else
3 (50.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 4.50 Median: 4.5 Std. Dev 1.26

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		2 (33.3%)
4		1 (16.7%)
5		1 (16.7%)
6		2 (33.3%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		0 (0.0%)

Do you have story ideas that you never start writing? What barriers are there to writing those stories? How do you keep track of things you might want to write later but aren't going to write now?

I do tend to have story ideas that I never write. Usually, the difficulty is either that I don't feel I have enough of a grasp of canon and don't have the time or access to review it or that the story requires writing things I don't think I can manage. There's one story I really want to write that's been hung up for over a decade on the need for a detailed and spectacular combat scene that I see no way to handwave away. I'm not even sure it's possible for those characters to fight and end up with the outcome the story requires.

I keep a document on my laptop with a few fragmented notes on each story idea I have that's more than just a general "oh, maybe I should write something about those characters some day." I've actually started several of them and just hit a point where I don't know exactly what comes next. I write linearly, so skipping over parts doesn't work for me in general.