Big Damn Scribblers, how many story ideas do you have waiting to be written?
POSTED BY: KayleeGirl
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 8, 2007 03:39
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Wow--what a great question!
Right now, in-progress on my computer/portable hard drive:
2 FF fanfics
1 fanfic (the 3rd in a series of novella-length stories) based on a nonWhedon series
1 fanfic based upon LOTR
2 short stories for a series of pagan erotica
2 research essays for a quarterly newsletter on heathenism
3 full-length fantasy/fiction novels
the last three songs of a new album
My personal theory is this: Sometimes the Muse is a gentle thing with violet-scented wings who flies in and sweetly whispers into your ear while you dream. Other times, the Muse is a dominatrix riding you like a pony with spurs and a riding crop while you repeat through gritted teeth, "Thank you, mistress! May I please have another!" 
The only way I can stay on top of any of it and ever finish anything is by making myself sit for at least an hour a day come rain or shine and work on one of them. I can edit as much as I want, later, but I have to write one hour's worth of stuff on one project.
And also, my head hurts a lot.
:)
Shieldmaid
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Quote:You’d be surprised how many problems that will solve.
Originally posted by Shieldmaid:
The only way I can stay on top of any of it and ever finish anything is by making myself sit for at least an hour a day come rain or shine and work on one of them.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
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-- Cicero
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Originally posted by KayleeGirl:
How many of you have story ideas piling up on you? I've got two that are fairly well plotted right now that I'm dying to write up and a couple others in just the possibly-viable plot bunny stage. And that's only the FF fanfic story ideas. I've got folders and file drawers full of stories in different stages of development for other genres.
Is there anyone out there who gets only one idea at a time? And then follows through on writing it before the next idea comes along?
I started writing a Firefly short about fifteen months ago that is still three quarters to seven eighths finished (I've written two more complete short stories since I started it). Probably won't take me long to wrap up, but at the moment I'm desperately trying to not go anywhere near it, because it'll likely spawn a little baby story.
That's the problem for me - ideas come in spurts. For me to be able to focus only on one I've really got to pretend there isn't another idea in my head, and right now I'm desperately concentrating on original fiction (trying to knock 30,000 words off a novel... knocked about 10,000 off so far, but those were the easy ones). I have a lot of OF stories, proto-stories and bunnies running around - too many to cope with all at once. After I've wrapped what I'm doing, maybe adding some Firefly bunnies will calm the original ones down...
...or maybe they will mate and spawn crossover bunnies. Just what I need.
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:giggles: This thread comes at a time when I am firmly sitting on myself, resisting the urge to start more fanfics!
I'm writing:
~The Losing Side (big loooong fic!)
~Stowaway (a shorter story, FF/Andromeda crossover with a fickle muse)
~Saved You In The War (only three chapters, and the third is mostly written.....still hunting the muse to finish it)
I want to write:
~ A mostly Wash-centric offshoot to The Losing Side with more backtory on him
~ My own take on a Niska story (hint....not a single one of the crew gets captured, raped, or tortured.....how's that for something new?)
~ A story involving Jayne purchasing a planet online
"Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you when she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home." .......We love you, captain.
"This is the captain. We may experience some slight turbulence and then.....explode"
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Originally posted by jetflair:
I want to write:
(**-snip-**)
~ My own take on a Niska story (hint....not a single one of the crew gets captured, raped, or tortured.....how's that for something new?)
~ A story involving Jayne purchasing a planet online
You can't back out now! You HAVE to write those two!
The first one because it'd be new and about as refreshing as an iceberg! And the second one because... !!!! (Does this need words?) Respectfully gleeful at the mere idea,
AR
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Originally posted by AgentRouka:Quote:
Originally posted by jetflair:
~ A story involving Jayne purchasing a planet online
(Does this need words?)
Definitely doesn't need words. Get to writing Jetflair!
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Originally posted by schooner:
I tend to jump around alot with ideas, so I've got a few stories floating around the old brain pan. Unfortunately, at the rate I post, I'll get them all written in time for the premier of Firefly: The Next Generation
if anyone's interested:
- my own take on our favorite Preacher With a Past
- "Pandemic", my Big Honking Multipart Story
- A "lost episode" set during the series, fleshing out the relationship between Book and River
- "Tracker" a tale of young Malcolm Reynolds
- "Urban Legend", explaining why Mal is actually a Reaver
- A backstory for how Zoe got caught up in the war, and what happened when the war ended
- "Sihnon" Between the most powerful weapon in the 'verse, and the grandest world, stands a Firefly class vessel and a captain known for doing the impossible
I don't think i've ever finished a story before coming up with at least one seed for another. I really wish I could write more
Hey, i dont suppose you where the one who wrote the fic set like 70 years into the future dealing with the auction of Serenity? I loved that fic... and would love to read about Mal defending Shinon...
As for me, i have 6 i'm currently working on (when i get the time). Yes, SIX:
One deals with Inaras past during her companion training through flashbacks. Its actually a pretty angsty/tragic fic.
Two are River centric. One being a purely descriptive journey following her on a trek through the ship. Another dealing with her 'inventing' an imaginary friend (well, disembodied voice). They could, maybe, be combined into one River fic though.
One is just a basic fic with the crew on Newhall getting a cargo of water. Yes, water. I really dont know where i'm going with it. I seem to just be using it as a 'day in the life' for the characters. (getting characterisations down, etc).
Another is actually to introduce an OC. I have really been hesitant with doing this as i'v found people have mixed feelings regarding OCs. Anyway, the crew take on a load of prisoners and it doesn't go to plan.
The last one is of a series i'v been doing. It actually follows a full OC crew on a completely differnt ship. People seem to like it.
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Originally posted by Hippie:
Hey, i dont suppose you where the one who wrote the fic set like 70 years into the future dealing with the auction of Serenity?
yeah, that was me. The story's called "Last Act". Thank you for the compliment. I'm really happy that you enjoyed it.I like the stores you've listed, and I'd love to read about the water run (I've got an image of Jayne getting caught taking a swim in the cargo). I'll have to look up your series.
I'm continually amazed at the amount of talent on this site and among Browncoats in general. You guys are the coolest.
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KayleeGirl wrote:
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s there anyone out there who gets only one idea at a time? And then follows through on writing it before the next idea comes along?
Hell no! I wish. I can't tell you how many stories I have up in the air right now.
To my credit I have just, on this single occassion, managed to actually right a TV series idea. I have the pilot done and the rest of the season is all in synopsis form (12 episodes)
However this is largely due to a collaboration with two best friends. Now though I'm delaying the rewrite of the pilot in favour of a heap of other ideas.
I have a mythology under construction, a few film script ideas (historical/ and sci-fi) and another TV show idea aswell as a number of 'illustrated stories' that I'm always reworking. It is endless....
I have learnt though recently that the only way to finish anything (as with the TV pitch idea) is to set yourself a deadline. I gave myself two weeks to finish 3/4 of the pilot and I managed it! Prior to this the first 1/4 took about three months!... I must once again implement this approach. It did work.....
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Oh Lord.
1) An FF/BtVS crossover with Buffy frozen, then awakening in the future to be used as an Alliance assassin, Angel, a master vamp who lived all these years under the radar and is now VERY different than we knew him, ALSO an Alliance assassin hired to track down a deadly woman who's flown the Alliance coop (Buffy)...tons of subplots, cliches, good stuff.
2) Mal/Inara set of 5 AU standalones, romance.
3) Mal/Inara WIP
4) Tracy/Knox, FF/Angel xover one-shot
5) Btvs/FF xover with Serenity landing through a time-rip in a Sunnydale cemetery, S7 Buffy. Lots of humor/drama/adventure/wtfness.
6) Simon/Kaylee angst, where Kaylee's the bad guy (but not in a slutty way, for once) instead of Simon.
So...a lot of fics STARTED, not so many finished. Which one goes first?
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