Maaaaaan... so slow on my end... its really disheartening rewriting parts of my work and in general I'm so busy with uni that I just can't find proper time to get motivated to do it... so for me Public Enemy No.2 is on indefinite hiatus...
Once things calm down I definitely plan to write more for The Grand Unification as I have a lot of fun writing that, but I think I'm gonna turn it into a collection of shorts probably. But we will see.
At the moment working as part of team paper dragons which I think is going fairly well and probably going to be a good collaboration effort. So most of my spare time not on here I spend trying to get things moving there (timezones suck...).
I've found I feel more like an ideas man... the problem is that doesn't help me as a writer. I don't want to come up with a tens of ideas that will never get written, I want to work hard on a couple before moving on... but i'm better at coming up with concepts than I am at writing. I think that's a realisation that a lot of people that come to the site should take note of... writing the chapters and scripting them is a whole different ball game in comparison to just coming up with a viable idea... I was probably a bit naive when I joined... I have changed my outlook now (and as such my portfolio...).
I look forward to having time and energy to write again though. Probably once I settle into my project and get most of the prerequisite scientific paper reading out of the way. I have a couple of ideas that I would like to try and write for as kind of short projects - I feel that's the best place to start. Then over the holidays I plan to brush up on some drawing skills!
I know how you feel. I also have lots of concept ideas. I could write a lot of stories. But I don't know how they would turn out though. To finish your stories, the best advices I can give you are:
- Time is short, focus only in one project.
- Finish that project! You have to!! The problem with 99% of amateurs stories is that they never reach the end. And finishing the project will give you a major confidence boost... only to be shattered when you have no readers ( ; _ ; )
- Don't start writing right after thinking about the premise. Mature the ideas in your head (this took me a month without writing a word). Try to layout all the events and chapters, write the ideas in short summaries, including all the scenes you think that are important. Think about how the story will end and how it will reach there.
- I usually never have writer's block, maybe because I have read/seen thousands of stories in my life (movies, anime, manga...) and they serve as inspiration (copying them and using clichés is no good though
so you have to twist the concepts around). The problem is that I have a lot of ideas and I can't write them fast enough. So, I note them down for later.
- If you have great ideas for a new project while working on something, just note them down to work on them later and focus on your current project. You can work on those ideas once you finish what you were doing (and with time, maybe you'll realize the idea was not so good.)
Hope it helps.
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