To Fic, or Not to Fic

[raegan_1]

There really isn't a question, at least as far as desire goes. I always want to write something, even if I've no real clue what it is.

For a couple of years, ficcing was easy, but then I started to understand concepts like "plot" and "characterization" and other such words of their ilk. Then ficcing got complicated, because while I've always been an avid reader, no one had really bothered to sit down and say, "hey, I think you could really improve if you consider xyz."

That, of course, is when Isis appeared and our friendship began, and her influence has changed the way I write, whether it's through her betaing for me, or reccing something which speaks to me in some way, generally in the "I wish I could write like that" way.

And I slowed down writing, I started writing things I'm infinitely more proud of than my earlier works, but the time and effort required complicated things, and then life itself became complicated, and...

Well, for those who have been of my acquiantance for at least a while, you'll know that I'm inconsistent and flighty. Some days I cannot seem to put any words down for the lack of them, and others, I'm so overwhelmed with ideas, scenes, dialogue, and the likes, that nothing gets written because I cannot decide what to write on first, second, third, etc.

I've formed theories of why this is, and what to do to combat it, and in the end, I've come to no concrete resolutions either way, and I still do not write consistently, or constantly, and there are more WiP in my folders than finished fics, and sadly, I've posted a handful of those beginnings only to find myself permanently or semi-permanently stuck as lack of interest (from me) or time or ideas has bogged me down.

In times before, I've thought, I'll write and post a thousand words a day. And for a while, myself and a couple of friends were attempting to do just that. But my steam wanes quickly, as I don't always feel comfortable posting the end or the middle of something I'm working on.

As I've already said, I have a ton of theories, many of which are convulted and complex (made more-so by my desire to write up examples of all of them, as well, doubling the lenght of each individual theory), and so I won't go into them here.

The point of this entry, at least as far as I myself can gather, is to simply share my latest "plan."

My goal is to write a thousand words a day, whether it be on one story or six or ten. These words are not to share, not to post, but simply to exist, so that I may say, "Hey, today was a good day, I wrote a thousand words." They'll most likely not be an entire scene themselves, or even half a scene, but as long as I can feel the idea behind it, the meaning behind the words, I'm happy.

Which is where I'm at today, with 1080 words written on two unrelated stories written for the 14th.

So word count for the day is: 1080. Go, me.