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DragonOfTheAerie

DragonOfTheAerie

Istari
La Volpe said:
So it happens with all your stories? I.e. not just this one you've been working on for 4 years?

The reason I'm bringing all this up is because your situation seems marginally similar to an issue I had with drawing. I found that I, at some point after drawing something, was unable to make any corrections to the picture for fear of ruining it (I know this sounds like it has to do with revisions, but stay with me). So I would make little hardly-visible lines and avoid erasing anything (since that usually just ends up worse) and it would end up not being as good as it could be.

Then I realised that my problem was that when I had drawn something that I was even marginally happy with, I was so sure that I would never be able to draw something that good again, so I didn't want to ruin the one good one that I actually had.

So, what is my point here? Well, perhaps you have a similar issue. In that you have this one Big Idea which you've been working on for 4 years, and you don't think that anything you make will be able to be as good as that story; so your subconscious doesn't want to bother with writing it, since it thinks it'll just be terrible anyway (which, of course, is not the truth).

This might not be applicable to you at all (especially if this happens to you with every story you write), but I thought I'd put it out there anyway.
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With all my large, involved projects (i.e. novels), yes. My connection to the 4-year project was intense but not really unusual. I get really attached; you might say obsessed. The one I've been working on for four years has been my only major project for a long time, so basically it's had my mind to itself for years. It was very important to me. Now transitioning into a new story is hard. I'm still stuck more or less on the last story.

I have hopes that the new one will be as good, but none of publishing; just letting my friends read. Not much vision at all. I don't know what I want this story to be...which might be a good thing, allowing me to let it become what it is. But anyway, I'm regarding it mainly as just something to do, which makes the writing much easier, but makes it more difficult to get emotionally involved. I NEED to be able to get emotionally involved.
 
Tom

Tom

Istari
Right now I'm preparing a presentation on the special effects in Mad Max: Fury Road and finding it really difficult not to fill the powerpoint with picture-vomit. :D Such amazing cinematography.
 
Tom

Tom

Istari
Oh man, I forgot this paper was due in class tomorrow! I assumed I had tomorrow night to work on it, too. :eek:
 
Tom

Tom

Istari
As usual, I'm BSing my way through the paper with sources I found barely five minutes ago. So far it's going spectacularly.
 
SeverinR

SeverinR

Valar Lord
Tom Nimenai said:
As usual, I'm BSing my way through the paper with sources I found barely five minutes ago. So far it's going spectacularly.
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Some people excel when they are under pressure. I am sort of this kind. When I get a assignment I would procrastinate, be uncertain as to what I would do it on, then when it came down to the wire, I would find something to focus on, then crank out the assignment.

Good luck with your paper.
 
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SeverinR

SeverinR

Valar Lord
Looking back,
Since I started this thread, there has only routinely been two common threads.
"Random thoughts" and "what do you listen too?"

When I posted it, it was just to post some observation and never dreamed it would still be running all these years later.

post #1: date: 5-14-13
 
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Chessie

Istari
My entire family is sick with the flu, and that includes me. I've literally been on my son's bed ALL DAY on this laptop typing away. I have no idea how many words I've written thus far, but it's a lot. Perhaps I should get sick more often. It's been a productive day even though I feel like hell and it breaks my heart to see my boys sick. :(
 
Ireth

Ireth

Mythic Scribe
Watching episodes of Kitchen Nightmares on Youtube. The amount of denial some (well, most) of these people start out with is phenomenal. When Gordon Ramsey says you screwed up, you done screwed up.
 
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Chessie

Istari
Is that the guy who put two loaves of bread on either side of a chef's face and said, "repeat after me...I'm an idiot sandwich!"?
 
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SaltyDog

Mystagogue
DragonOfTheAerie said:
I wish I could write horror, but I am way too sensitive to read even the tamest horror and if that doesn't describe being a Hufflepuff I don't know what does.
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For the pure heck of it, I took some "What Harry Potter house would you be in?" tests recently. Funny, the majority out me in as Ravenclaw. Not complaining though, just glad I wasn't put in Slytherin.
 
Ireth

Ireth

Mythic Scribe
SaltyDog said:
For the pure heck of it, I took some "What Harry Potter house would you be in?" tests recently. Funny, the majority out me in as Ravenclaw. Not complaining though, just glad I wasn't put in Slytherin.
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Nothing wrong with being in Slytherin. Ambition and cunning do not automatically equal evil. It's what you do with them that count.
 
Saigonnus

Saigonnus

Dark Lord
SaltyDog said:
For the pure heck of it, I took some "What Harry Potter house would you be in?" tests recently. Funny, the majority out me in as Ravenclaw. Not complaining though, just glad I wasn't put in Slytherin.
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The one I did put me in Slytherin. [emoji6]


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