Speaking of NaNoWriMo, I am absolutely entering this year because my dad gave me some major plot bunnies and I MUST WRITE.
I have an ATLA fic idea that I might munch on for nano, since I have to do a full series rewatch, but nano tends to disagree with me because sustained creativity is hard.
I'm just hoping that, once I figure out how to convert this fic, what scenes to add, what to remove and all, that I can just hammer it out and not get stuck on like, page fucking two.
I started a story that was supposed to be a short erotic-horror story with an autistic protagonist. Was going to be a couple of hours of writing just to get my head changed from another major WIP. The characters beat me into submission and here is what has happened so far: Autistic - A Horror Story
Spoiler: undertale nonsense There's a fishhook in your belly, its braided nylon cord trailing over glistening entrails and out your navel, hanging slack, a nearly unnoticeable weight until it isn't, until it jolts like the whole world is hanging from your belly, like the hand of god threatens to pull you inside out unless you move with it. Or at least, that's how you'd describe it, if anyone asked. Mostly they don't and mostly it doesn't seem to matter. It weighs towards the woods, has since you were little. So you follow. You follow the weight and disappear for hours into the damp and the chill and the screaming teaming noise of a thousand thousand growing things all clamoring for sun and water and space. Your mother worries for a time, but she has work and she has a life outside of you and she eventually exchanges frantic searching hands and shrill scoldings for weary sighs. You are a difficult child. Stubborn. Day after day, month after month, you follow the pull, deeper and deeper every day, till the shadow of Mount Ebott turns the sky black against the startling green of sunlit leaves. The journey gets easier and easier as you grow, insurmountable distances shrinking as your legs lengthen. Got an idea for a fic about a Frisk struggling with the desire to go back after getting a happy end just to see what happens, and apparently that requires I go all the way back to the beginning, fucking aye. In a funk, too. Can't figure out how to make words happen like I want them to.
I'll make one on like, the 30th then. (I enjoy doing word wars even if I'm not going to attempt Nano so.)
So, i got bunnied. Train of thought ran roughly like this: -Morvahna the Dawnshadow is sometimes called Goatvahna because she is riding this bigass antelope goat thing -But she should not be called Goatmom because she would be a terrible mom -I mean really, a terrible mom. Not as terrible as the moms of some people I know, but still pretty bad. -Like so: "Connor, come over here, I need you to be part of my hedge where it got hit with weedkiller so it'll look good when the PTA visits this evening." "But mom, I was going over to - " "You heard me, young man. We can order pizza later, but for now you're going to be part of a hedge for mommy and that's that." "But mooom, I don't wanna be part of a" *SPLORTCH* ~after the PTA visit is over, Morvahna cuts herself someplace discreet and drips her blood on the soil~ *UNSPLORTCH* "Moooom, I don't LIKE being dead!" And now I want to write a horrible suburban neighborhood AU where Morvahna and the rest of the Potents of the Circle Orboros are soccer moms and dads and the Omnipotents are teachers or something, and Kaya and Grayle are like neighborhood teenagers who babysit and get in trouble and augh pfft.
Man, I want to NaNo. I try every year but not a success yet. I have a great deal of fun with worldbuilding and shit, but a hard time focusing on specific characters and conflicts and plot. I want to find some daily prompt sites with prompts that are open-ended enough that they can work in a wide variety of settings! The Habitica guild is doing a daily to-do prompt option with one of their challenges, and today's had a "your protagonist wakes up in an unfamiliar place and examines their surroundings" one that gave me a good 500 words, but I can't draw it out further than that. Maybe I should look to Tarot for ideas in what happens next.
@swirlingflight ive never thought about using tarot when stuck writing, that is such a great idea, thank you so much omg *___*
See, it's funny. I'd decided that, stressed as I am, I'm not up to doing/attempting NaNo this year. And I still believe that... but I also got a burst of inspiration tonight for an Undertale Roleswap!AU, and was able to write and edit the first chapter. Who knows whether this initial inspiration will be enough for me to continue/finish this thing, but hell, I posted the first chapter. If I don't get around to continuing it, it works well enough as a one-shot. Spoiler: synopsis/rambling Basically, I'd seen some Human AU stuff where Frisk (and possibly Chara) is a (goat) monster, and everyone else is a human. But then I thought about a more specific roleswap/species swap: that of Frisk, Sans and Papyrus. So Sans and Papyrus are human children (ish), and Frisk is a skeleton sentry. And then I thought, hey, why not add Chara into this mess? This is definitely going to be a fun AU to play with...
Right now I've been worrying about work (it's great, but I have to leave just after 7 and work's from 9-6) and just trying to get FS to completion before I start thinking about writing it's original little sister. With the latter I'm so close.
i wrote a thing and i absolutely hate it and i'm very upset about this. i wish i could actually feel confident about writing like i do drawing.
My usual writing output is a chapter for each of my two major fics per month. I've already written ~two and a half for my KH fic this month. (If I was attempting NaNo with it I'd almost be on track.) HOW????
I was so excited for Nano for 2 days, and then it was a chore for 1 day, and since then I've been staring at it in frustration going "no. nope. uh uh. that's not enjoyable to write." At least playing Papyrus reassured me that I have want-to-write still going.
yes, the shitposting rave is so good for doing writing. i love how i'm doing different stylistic things with my writing in it and trying to communicate things with only norm's speech and thoughts, along with only a few context clues. and getting into norm's head and figuring out what he'd do and why'd he do it. and how to make the most emotional gut-punch type of things and whatnot. it's really fascinating. i love it! and it's just so easy to be in norm's head. he's like a comfy sweater that's been worn a million times and began to take on my smell, for me, basically. being him is so natural that i'm hella glad i have a firm line between fantasy and reality, 'cause it kinda makes me start to understand fictionkin and how they could genuinely believe "this character i like is actually me and i'm actually them." 'cause, sometimes, i kinda become norm, honestly...
i feel sans is usually way more confident than i am and I hope I can write him like the badass he is in canon in the shitposting rave cuz it's hella to write him it is so much fun and his interactions with Papyrus are adorable. though it is fun to see him utterly off balance in a way canon never quite portrayed him. otherwise all is still empty on the writign front. I keep coming up with stuff i think might be interesting and failing at everythign beyond rambling basic world building at my moirail. boo.
