I finally wrote something!!!

[Infinite Master Sceptile]

After nearly five months of procrastination, I finally wrote the first paragraph of the prologue for my fic. This makes me very happy. I would love it if I could actually write an entire chapter. Maybe that's possible. Hmmm...
Anyway, have you ever taken a very long time to get around to starting a fic, even though you had huge amounts of it all planned out.

 

[Soleni]

I've had the idea for my fic Song of Stars for about 4 months, and i'm only just starting it.

 

[Tezza]

*Nods* That's what I'm doing now, but to quote my father "Always remember the 6 P's!" It was generally intended for exams and assignments but it works for writing just as well. "Prior Preparation Prevents Pisspoor Performance."

The more you plan out the now the easier it is to write, especially if it's a saga or if you're creating a new region, or in a different timeline. The more detail you put into it and the more thought out it is the more realistic and the more likely the reader will enjoy it.

 

[Kiyohime]

I've been working on Aeon for god knows how long, and I never thought I'd actually make any progress, but now I'm nearly halfway through it. I had to plan it out really thrououghly, so Tezza's right. Make a plan, stick to it, modify it a little as you go if needed, and things can turn out excellently.

 

[billy5772]

Yeah. I let The Drama of Serebii lie dormant for about 3 months or so. That's my record for knowing that something needed to be written and not writing it. Close second is that month-long delay in my Worlds Away thread. But that's good that you were finally able to get something down.

 

[Shrike Flamestar]

Heh, I have a ton of story ideas floating around in my head, most of which will never see the light of day. I’m going to try to incorporate as many of them into The Flamestar Chronicles as possible, however I’m still at the beginning, so who knows how that all’s going to turn out (I do have an ending planned, but it’s very likely that it may change). Many of my other ideas also tend to be used for none other then creative writing assignments for school, as infrequent as those are now.

I just finally ended a hiatus of over a month long for TFC, the longest break I’ve ever been away from writing yet still been able to come back to the same story. I have a terrible track record of dropping stories if I wait longer then a few weeks to write in them, however I think I’ve personally overcome a big hurdle now that I’ve managed to come back to TFC successfully. In fact, I just started writing Chapter 4 yesterday and already I have over half of it written, including the very first true Pokémon Battle so far (not that it’s that long or impressive, it’s just another landmark for me that I’m proud of)

 

[Astinus]

I've been working on my first fic for...oh, let's say...seven years? Close to eight, and might become nine? And five drafts?

I can never not write. My mind won't shut up otherwise, so I can't get to sleep. Writing forces all my thoughts out. Half the time, what I write is the little scenes, but yet later on, I find I need the scene and then can't find it.

 

[Bay]

Right now I have a lot of short stories and one possibly novel fanfiction that I want to get started but I want to get through at least some of "Heart of the Sea" first. Usually when I have an idea for a story I would first thing about some parts that I am for sure that I want to be in the story and then when I start writing it I would always get new ideas and incoroprate them into the story. I am not the best person sticking with original plans because later on the second or third time when I looked at my original plans I would take a second thought if I should go through with it or change it. Most of the time I changed it for the better. Guess I am better when I let things flow, probably because if I stick with the original plans I might get stressed out just wondering if that original plan will work or not. Probably it is just me.