So last summer, I started working on this old WIP of mine that had been 3/4ths finished for ages (and, umm, posted, so I had WIP guilt). And, as usual, my brain was like "Min! Embrace the tacky cliche! You'd love it!" and sathinks kept having to keep me on track and off the tacky cliche thing.
One day, I was digging in the WIPs, and I found this thing I'd started for a ficathon, abandoned, and left to gather dust. There were a few thousand words of it just hanging out, mocking me. "Hmm," said my brain. "Min, you know, you could bring this back to life. You know those cliches I wanted you to use? Dude, you'd TOTALLY be able to work them in here. No one would EVER have to know."
So when I was feeling stressed, or needed a break, I'd write in it. Eventually, it developed an Arc. Well, three overlapping character arcs, actually. And a point. And there was research (a lot of research). And het, and slash, and other het. And Seekrit Babies. And Near Death Experiences Leading to Confessions of Gay Love. And X-TREME Hurt/Comfort. Angst and Snark. At some point, I threw in a mini van.
I got really good at using it to avoid actual writing or revisions.
Keeping in mind that the only real time I have to write is while I'm on my bus ride, which is usually about 45 minutes a day. Over two or three months, I wrote 20,000 words of this.
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So last summer, I started working on this old WIP of mine that had been 3/4ths finished for ages (and, umm, posted, so I had WIP guilt). And, as usual, my brain was like "Min! Embrace the tacky cliche! You'd love it!" and
One day, I was digging in the WIPs, and I found this thing I'd started for a ficathon, abandoned, and left to gather dust. There were a few thousand words of it just hanging out, mocking me. "Hmm," said my brain. "Min, you know, you could bring this back to life. You know those cliches I wanted you to use? Dude, you'd TOTALLY be able to work them in here. No one would EVER have to know."
So when I was feeling stressed, or needed a break, I'd write in it. Eventually, it developed an Arc. Well, three overlapping character arcs, actually. And a point. And there was research (a lot of research). And het, and slash, and other het. And Seekrit Babies. And Near Death Experiences Leading to Confessions of Gay Love. And X-TREME Hurt/Comfort. Angst and Snark. At some point, I threw in a mini van.
I got really good at using it to avoid actual writing or revisions.
Keeping in mind that the only real time I have to write is while I'm on my bus ride, which is usually about 45 minutes a day. Over two or three months, I wrote 20,000 words of this.
I love it.
It's never leaving the drawer.