June of Doom & Gloom - Week 4 discussion and etc. post

[huinare]

Welcome to week 4 (challenge details here yadda yadda)! We still have a week until July 1st, so we're not off the hook yet. I'm excited that finished stories have appeared on the scene!
Discussion in comments, if so desired. Woes, gloating, links to your stories? Optional discussion topic for all: Are there ways in which your writing has changed since around this time last year--in terms of writing style, themes, plot devices, characters, or whatever else? Go!

Comments

[zdenka]

No new progress for me this week. I've been frantically working on an exchange fic (which is done now, at least). It was suitably doomy and gloomy, at my recipient's request, but not in Tolkien fandom. It's looking like I won't have a full-length story finished this month, which doesn't really surprise me -- but it's still been helpful in terms of restarting things that had been stalled.

My writing has changed over time, but I don't think there's a significant different between last year and now. It's a little hard to tell because (except with exchange stories) I don't just sit down and write something start to finish -- I'll work on it in fits and starts over months or years. The things I'm finishing now may well be things I started a year ago!

[huinare.livejournal.com]

It's looking like I won't have a full-length story finished this month, which doesn't really surprise me -- but it's still been helpful in terms of restarting things that had been stalled.


I was hoping people might also be able to use this month for stuff like that, also. I enjoyed what you did finish and post. =)

Ha, that's true about "fits and starts;" I just used that to describe my own typical writing process to Indy upthread. Although I think my priorities (both in terms of presentation and thematic content) do seem to change of their own accord, including over the course of a long-term project. That is actually why I'm so stalled on my novel-length fic; the chapters I began about 6 years ago are no longer appropriate to the writer and person I currently am, and it needs major overhaul.

[zdenka]

Thanks. :)

That makes sense. Though I'm impressed that you can write something novel-length, even unfinished. That's something I've never been able to do and can't even wrap my mind around doing, somehow.

[huinare.livejournal.com]

I was writing "novels" ever since I first started writing fiction as a kid, so for me, the challenge was/is shorter works. I've come to like writing shorter stuff now, but frankly I'm not sure I would have ever started, had I not run into fanfic stories and thought "I want in on this!"