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scribblemyname) wrote2011-03-17 07:00 pm
scribblemyname) wrote2011-03-17 07:00 pm
I Have Considered...
It's been bugging me at the back of my head for a long time. Sometimes, I think I'm the classic example of this:
http://rantingravingwriting.blogspot.com/2011/03/work-hard-and-finish-what-you-start.html
It nags me. I hear the little whispers saying I skip out when the going gets tough, but then I have to sit back and think, I have finished things.
ORIGINAL:
1. In This Wood: 24,000 words (middle-grade novel).
2. "Paraphernalia": 4,000 words (short story).
3. "Notes on Grace": 2,000 words (short story).
4. "Patience in the Cup": 1,000 words (drabble series: short story).
5. "Letters from My Father": 1,200 words (drabble series: short story).
6. "The Alchemist": 2,200 words (children's short story).
7. "The Bird Caller": 800 words (children's short story).
8. "All Things Through Christ": 600 words (short story).
Not counting any drabbles or anything I don't think ever deserves to see the light of day.
FANFICTION:
1. Whispers: 10,000 words (drabble series: novelette).
2. Moments: 10,000 words (drabble series: novelette).
3. "He is Fire; He is Pain": 4,400 (chaptered short story).
4. "Dances": 4,800 words (chaptered short story).
5. "Fritz": 4,100 words (chaptered short story).
6. "Fire": 1,000 (chaptered short story).
7. "Breathing": 1,000 (chaptered short story).
Again, not counting any stand-alone drabbles, unposted items, or frankly, one-shots. (I write a lot of one-shots.)
NOTE: My FF.net profile has 58 stories posted: 40 complete, 18 incomplete.
So maybe my original theory of my muse simply requires permission to play wherever she desires is true. I do finish things. Just not as many novels as quickly as I would like. And I start a lot of things a long time before I figure out where I really want them to go, writing other things while the first batch percolates.
And you know, I really can't decide whether this is a good thing or not.
Anybody else out there start more than they finish, but eventually, still get around to finishing? Is this normal? Good? Bad? Indifferent?
Thoughts?
http://rantingravingwriting.blogspot.com/2011/03/work-hard-and-finish-what-you-start.html
It nags me. I hear the little whispers saying I skip out when the going gets tough, but then I have to sit back and think, I have finished things.
ORIGINAL:
1. In This Wood: 24,000 words (middle-grade novel).
2. "Paraphernalia": 4,000 words (short story).
3. "Notes on Grace": 2,000 words (short story).
4. "Patience in the Cup": 1,000 words (drabble series: short story).
5. "Letters from My Father": 1,200 words (drabble series: short story).
6. "The Alchemist": 2,200 words (children's short story).
7. "The Bird Caller": 800 words (children's short story).
8. "All Things Through Christ": 600 words (short story).
Not counting any drabbles or anything I don't think ever deserves to see the light of day.
FANFICTION:
1. Whispers: 10,000 words (drabble series: novelette).
2. Moments: 10,000 words (drabble series: novelette).
3. "He is Fire; He is Pain": 4,400 (chaptered short story).
4. "Dances": 4,800 words (chaptered short story).
5. "Fritz": 4,100 words (chaptered short story).
6. "Fire": 1,000 (chaptered short story).
7. "Breathing": 1,000 (chaptered short story).
Again, not counting any stand-alone drabbles, unposted items, or frankly, one-shots. (I write a lot of one-shots.)
NOTE: My FF.net profile has 58 stories posted: 40 complete, 18 incomplete.
So maybe my original theory of my muse simply requires permission to play wherever she desires is true. I do finish things. Just not as many novels as quickly as I would like. And I start a lot of things a long time before I figure out where I really want them to go, writing other things while the first batch percolates.
And you know, I really can't decide whether this is a good thing or not.
Anybody else out there start more than they finish, but eventually, still get around to finishing? Is this normal? Good? Bad? Indifferent?
Thoughts?
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