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[the_rck]

I've been having trouble getting myself to focus enough to write. Part of the problem is figuring out what to start work on. I've got more than a dozen things that I've started and not finished. I really should work on chapter 24 of Rheotaxis, but I'm not feeling very motivated. Some of it is I'm not sure anybody really cares if I write or not. Most of my story fragments are for Weiss Kreuz, and few people seem to be writing or posting that these days, and most of those who do focus on very different things than I do.

I think part of the reason I like writing for exchanges is that there's somebody waiting for the story. I know that somebody cares.

Of course, I know there are people waiting for the rest of Rheotaxis, and that's not helping me focus. Maybe it would help if I picked someone who's commented on the story in the past and pretended I was writing the chapter just for them. I'm not sure. I'm having enough trouble with chapter 24 that I'm wondering if I'm writing the right thing. I don't usually have this much trouble unless I'm mistaken about what I need to write next.

Since I can do polls on DW, I'm considering polling the folks who read my journal and asking them what they think I should focus on writing just now. I just don't know if anybody would vote. Most of the people who read my journal either don't share a fandom with me or don't read fic at all.

I am happier when I'm writing. I just need help to figure out what to write. Instead of just posting lots on DW/LJ the way I have been. This is still writing, but it's kind of ephemeral.

Comments

[kalloway]

Making polls is fun anyway~ *has just been lazy about them*

I think if the writing is being a chore, then maybe you're coming at the story/chapter from the wrong angle. Can you tackle the next bit another way? Add a scene, jump in a little further on and backtrack... The words should just flow and if you're fighting every sentence, yeh, stop and re-evaluate. *nods*

/so much experience with this

[the_rck]

I've been stuck on this chapter for over a year, so I really do think I must be coming at it wrong. It's world building payoff for things I've mentioned earlier in the story, but I'm not sure that anything that happens is actually relevant to the plot or character development in the rest of the story.

I ought to be able to make it relevant to the character development-- There's a lot that has to happen in that direction to make the eventual ending of the story work. It may simply be that I'm more interested in what's going on with Yohji and the rest of Weiss than I am in Nagi.

I started this story back when Gluhen was only a rumor, so there's an awful lot of canon I'm ignoring. I tend to diverge from canon before Gluhen anyway just because it never felt like my Weiss and because I'm not convinced the characters would end up where Gluhen puts them. Side B, I know nothing about because I can't make head or tail of the scanlations. I've thought about buying the German edition and using the scanlations to follow the dialog. I'm just not dedicated enough to do it.

[lemon_badgeress]

I voted! I'm sure you're so surprised by what I voted for.

Well, you might be surprised by one. I deliberately picked something that might be short over Yet Another Novel. >_>

[the_rck]

You probably know more about all of these than anybody else but me, so I'll be taking your vote quite seriously.

I'm not sure I should even have listed the Kenshin AU-- I'm not positive I can write it without a collaborator, and I don't have any prospect for somebody like that. I suppose I could write around the combat scenes.

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

I enjoy rheotaxis and hope you return to it, but I understand getting blocked at a point in a story too, so it's not like i'm going "damn, she's not writing rheotaxis!!" There are some WK still being written out there, Viridian5 has the long running Glass Houses that still gets updated from time to time.