Post by galan on Aug 1, 2021 6:10:38 GMT
My post title was cut off, so here's the question I originally wanted to ask: Do you ever feel you get stereotyped into what you usually write?
I'm kind of feeling that right now, as I revise/dust off the last old piece I'm going to repost, and draft a couple of new pieces. The revision piece has its own specific issues because I am like the Old Dutch Clock in the chimney place, with my hands before my face because when I read something I wrote/revised more than a year before, it is clearly badly written and I should have never sullied humanity with asking anyone to read it. (Closet perfectionist!) But it's odd, these new ones...The first piece is something light-hearted and happy, should be <4,000 words at the most and happy and fluffy, yet I'm struggling with it. The latter is much darker (don't want to say more, it might give the game away and I think I have a good answer to the game this story poses), but I'm having so much easier of a time with it, apart from the length.
When I intially wrote things for TSoM, I accidentally pigeon-holed myself as writing the Brooding Captain and just unhappiness in general. I've written stories with distinctly happy endings in other fandoms after I initially stopped writing for this one. (Okay, so one was part of the Great Delete that is going back up, the other, they've reached their happy ending, just need the conclusion.)
Does anyone else feel this way? If I was asked for a dark vignette, I could come back with a first draft in a day; fluffy lovely happiness, not so much.
I'm kind of feeling that right now, as I revise/dust off the last old piece I'm going to repost, and draft a couple of new pieces. The revision piece has its own specific issues because I am like the Old Dutch Clock in the chimney place, with my hands before my face because when I read something I wrote/revised more than a year before, it is clearly badly written and I should have never sullied humanity with asking anyone to read it. (Closet perfectionist!) But it's odd, these new ones...The first piece is something light-hearted and happy, should be <4,000 words at the most and happy and fluffy, yet I'm struggling with it. The latter is much darker (don't want to say more, it might give the game away and I think I have a good answer to the game this story poses), but I'm having so much easier of a time with it, apart from the length.
When I intially wrote things for TSoM, I accidentally pigeon-holed myself as writing the Brooding Captain and just unhappiness in general. I've written stories with distinctly happy endings in other fandoms after I initially stopped writing for this one. (Okay, so one was part of the Great Delete that is going back up, the other, they've reached their happy ending, just need the conclusion.)
Does anyone else feel this way? If I was asked for a dark vignette, I could come back with a first draft in a day; fluffy lovely happiness, not so much.
(I still regret nothing.) But with everything that needs to be happy in my writing right now, I find I'm struggling for words. And yes, first drafts are often a struggle, sure, but I don't normally feel this resistance. However, I will not be defeated, I WILL figure it out!