Dreamaniaccomic wrote:Metruis wrote:
I've never finished anything before. I have some seven unfinished novels, two unfinished long fanfics. I have 10 pages of one previous graphic novel project I started.
Strangely enough, this was what I'm like. I have a whole file dedicated to "incomplete stories," some of which are maybe half a page to others that have nearly five whole pages of writing. My problem was the combination of two things that managed to kill my drive: 1.) I edited FAR too much as I went, my frustration skyrocketed because it wasn't perfect right off the bat, 2.) While I can focus when I am intensly interested in something, anything that begins to seem boring or tedious/frustrating is immediatley tossed out my brains window.
This comic is the first thing I've ever done out of my own interest/whim that has managed to make it to a "routine," of any sort. This occurence is causing a profound effect within me, I thing: I've recently taken on some ambitious projects and have actually managed to maintain them to some degree despite being in school. For the first time in my life, I feel like I could create something that would
last.
Also, I've accepted that a large part of my writing (like above) and drawing is Cathartic in nature, and thus haven't really attempted any novel/long plotline stuff yet, but I plan to start something along those lines soon...
I don't edit. At all. Whatsoever. I tend to reach a point in my stories, where I've written off the seat of my pants and it's about 3/4s done, and I've outlined the end, and I just need to write to THE END and then edit because of my messy, fast way of flinging myself there.
And then I die. That is when I die. The 'finished' script my webcomic is based on is exactly like that. I've written a Force-awful script and probably with about an eighth of it to go... the huge, epic final battle between all sentient-kind on the planet, where the fate of the universe will be decided on the edge of a knife and all that crap... that's where I stopped writing it. There's a point by point outline of the rest, a few scrawled necessary dialogue bits--what the ENTIRE story's driving towards... and I stopped.
When I say 'seven unfinished novels', I mean that two actually have 'the end' written on them but they're so full of plotholes it isn't funny, one was a sprawling childhood mess--130 pages in Word!--two are over 100k and one has a point by point outline of the end and the other has the final scene written, and a time gap that I have to fill in... how he got from there to there to there... both need a ton of editing... one's 50k and I'm never touching it again, and one's somewhere in the middle of that wordcount. This is most certainly not counting all my starts, somewhere between 5-30 pages long. Those aren't novels, those are POTENTIAL novels. >.> My unfinished projects have pretty impressive word counts and page counts.
But yeah, this has that sort of Nanowrimo production feel to it. It keeps me on a pace. Which is good...
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