hi! dunno who to ask abt this so… do you or anyone else have advice for someone who is low on energy/motivation/etc to write something more than just a first-draft ficlet? i want to rewrite and edit but doing ficlets is so much easier… i just lose everything i have around 1000 words DX and coming back to write after ive lost that mindset is difficult…
Uuuuuhhhh….. >_>
I think we may unfortunately be the wrong person to ask for good advice about this, unless you just want a pep talk. Almost everything we write (and post!) is short fics, drabbles, and fics under a thousand words long that we give a quick spelling/grammar/punctuation check for and then post immediately without much/any editing.
With longfic, I don’t think we’ve actually *ever* done a rewrite, although on occasion we’ll do slightly more thorough editing to add some more internal narrative, or to make sure a scene has enough flavor and description.
When it comes to our writing, whether it’s a chapter in a longfic, or a oneshot ficlet, we mostly just write it and post it.
Because it’s fanfiction, and that’s what is the most fun. With ‘professional’ writing we’ll put things away for months and then re-read and edit it.
But fanfiction has a lot of benefits. You’re not looking to get paid, and you’re not a professional. It can be what it is.
Also, fanfiction has the benefit of having a context already. With a stand alone, original fiction you have to set up all the context for the scene you want to write. But with fanfiction, you can just type out that 700 word scene, post it, and everyone who’s going to read it already has all the context that they need to enjoy it.
if anybody has some *actually* good advice for you on re-writing, editing and creating longer projects, I hope they’ll chime in with it here for you.
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