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RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 16, 2021, 11:25:44 PM ---Even though I hoped, I'm still a little baffled by it to be honest. However, I will take it! I'll keep sending some your way.
Oh, but beginnings are the most fun! Everyone loves a good beginning! ;) How often do you get other ideas while you're in the middle of something? I know you have several stories in various stages of planning.
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Thanks! I am pleasantly surprised by how inspired I am for My Brother's Keeper all of a sudden, after not working on it at all for three years. I always felt this was a story I would come back to at some point, but I didn't think it would be right after Bethlehem. Maybe someday that will happen for one of the others.
I really don't get ideas all that often. That's another reason why I'll end up writing one I've had in the works for years, because it's the best thing I've got LOL. I think I've added four new files to my folder of future story ideas in the past year, which is pretty good for me. Most of those will probably never get written, but there are a couple that seem like they could be contenders at some point down the road.
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 16, 2021, 11:25:44 PM ---But writing the Brian one helped you perfect the other two! Anything besides cancer stories where you don't think you could do it better than you already have? You said that about your Nowie story too, right?
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I wouldn't rule out writing another slash if I came up with a completely different storyline with a different couple. I would probably do Frick/Frack before I did another Nowie one, just to add a different dynamic.
As far as medical drama goes, I don't see myself writing any more stories involving heart transplants or HIV either. Bus crashes are probably out too. Those are all topics I wrote about (not very well) as a teenybopper and have revisited in more recent years. Eventually I will run out of maladies I haven't used and be forced to write that herpes story LOL.
RokofAges75:
Some questions for everyone, inspired by last night's discussion:
Have you ever come back to a story you took a really long break from writing? If so, how long was that break, and did you end up finishing the story? What made you stop writing it in the first place, and what made you come back to it?
What's the longest you've worked on a story that was eventually finished?
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 17, 2021, 08:08:59 PM ---Thanks! I am pleasantly surprised by how inspired I am for My Brother's Keeper all of a sudden, after not working on it at all for three years. I always felt this was a story I would come back to at some point, but I didn't think it would be right after Bethlehem. Maybe someday that will happen for one of the others.
I really don't get ideas all that often. That's another reason why I'll end up writing one I've had in the works for years, because it's the best thing I've got LOL. I think I've added four new files to my folder of future story ideas in the past year, which is pretty good for me. Most of those will probably never get written, but there are a couple that seem like they could be contenders at some point down the road.
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That would be so nice if you could go back to everything you let sit! Is My Brother's Keeper similar to Bethlehem or really different? I wonder why now seemed like the right time.
Four is a lot for one year! One for every season. I'd love to have that many contenders in my arsenal.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 17, 2021, 08:08:59 PM ---I wouldn't rule out writing another slash if I came up with a completely different storyline with a different couple. I would probably do Frick/Frack before I did another Nowie one, just to add a different dynamic.
As far as medical drama goes, I don't see myself writing any more stories involving heart transplants or HIV either. Bus crashes are probably out too. Those are all topics I wrote about (not very well) as a teenybopper and have revisited in more recent years. Eventually I will run out of maladies I haven't used and be forced to write that herpes story LOL.
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Just promise me you'll think long and hard before you try coming up with a country cousins one, haha.
Bus crashes! Aw. :( Everyone loves a good bus crash. Do you keep a running list of maladies so you know what's still available? haha. I'd say you've had a pretty good run if you've written about everything except herpes.
nicksgal:
Have you ever come back to a story you took a really long break from writing? If so, how long was that break, and did you end up finishing the story? What made you stop writing it in the first place, and what made you come back to it?
Does the whole of PBox et al. count? PNecklace is technically a new story as a novel, but part of that longer story. If it counts, then twelve years total, with some tiny notes in 2013 and some pieces of writing in 2015, but never enough to post or call a complete chapter. I'll let you all know if I ever finish the whole thing, but it's looking good. Probably exhaustion from writing an epic and an annoyingly persistent and loud character. I guess PNecklace with those bits from 2015 would be a five year break.
Otherwise, ask me about Gobosei eventually? That's probably the only other one that would qualify. But again, never say never about anything else.
What's the longest you've worked on a story that was eventually finished?
I started writing PBox in the fall of 2005 (right around Thanksgiving Break seems right... November 25th or so sticks out in my mind as a PBox date) and finished it in early Spring of 2008 (right around March 28th or so seems right... though I think I held on to the last chapter for a week before posting). So about two and half years.
Other than those little bits in 2013 and 2015, being about halfway done with PNecklace in about five to six months seems like lightning speed more befitting teenybopper Dee. Unless you're counting those five years between the first written words of PNecklace and now... Let's not and pretend that this is lightning speed, haha.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 17, 2021, 09:28:08 PM ---That would be so nice if you could go back to everything you let sit! Is My Brother's Keeper similar to Bethlehem or really different? I wonder why now seemed like the right time.
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Yeah, I wish! It is similar in one way, which is the reason I thought I would wait awhile on it, but mostly different. Sorry for that vague answer LOL; you'll see what I mean if you read it when I'm ready to post it. I've been thinking it would be my next project for three years, and it kept getting pushed to the side for other stories, so maybe it's finally time.
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 17, 2021, 09:28:08 PM ---Four is a lot for one year! One for every season. I'd love to have that many contenders in my arsenal.
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That is actually comforting to hear. It seems like some writers get story ideas all the time, but that has never been the norm for me either. But I guess that's okay because the more ideas I have, the more WADD I have to deal with as I try to decide which one to tackle first. It's easier if I have limited options LOL.
What I've found myself doing more often lately is combining ideas into one. Bethlehem was one of those; I had been wanting to write a survival story and an A-Rok story, but didn't have a solid enough idea for either, so when I came up with the idea of the Boys quarantining in a cabin to work on the Christmas album, I ended up combining those ideas and making them work with that premise.
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 17, 2021, 09:28:08 PM ---Just promise me you'll think long and hard before you try coming up with a country cousins one, haha.
Bus crashes! Aw. :( Everyone loves a good bus crash. Do you keep a running list of maladies so you know what's still available? haha. I'd say you've had a pretty good run if you've written about everything except herpes.
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LMAO! I don't like to use the word "never" because when I say I'll never write something, I usually end up writing it eventually... but I'm 99.99999% sure I won't ever write a Kentucky cousincest story LOL.
I love bus crashes! But that was the premise of the ER crossover I finished last year, so I probably won't be writing another one of those.
LOL I should keep a running list so I don't run out of ideas and have to resort to herpes.
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