Someday -- and I don't know when, but it's happened to every single fic writer I know -- you will be seized by an idea that will seem like a nice, short idea, and you'll start writing. And then after a while, you'll look up and think, "Huh. Longer than I thought it would be. Oh, well, that's OK. It'll end soon." And you'll keep writing. And writing. And writing. AND WRITING. And 40,000-50,000 words later, there will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of keyboards as you hope and pray for either death or for the damn thing to just be DONE, whichever can be made to happen soonest. But the good news is, shortly after that point, it's usually done! It may not be great, it may never get properly edited (because if you give it to a beta reader, they'll say, "You know, you really should fix this thing here," and that would mean that you have to tear down and rewrite the last two thirds), but it'll be DONE.
Of course, I have no personal experience of this. Of course not. Not even a little. Nope. Not me.
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on 2008-10-09 07:37 pm (UTC)Someday -- and I don't know when, but it's happened to every single fic writer I know -- you will be seized by an idea that will seem like a nice, short idea, and you'll start writing. And then after a while, you'll look up and think, "Huh. Longer than I thought it would be. Oh, well, that's OK. It'll end soon." And you'll keep writing. And writing. And writing. AND WRITING. And 40,000-50,000 words later, there will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of keyboards as you hope and pray for either death or for the damn thing to just be DONE, whichever can be made to happen soonest. But the good news is, shortly after that point, it's usually done! It may not be great, it may never get properly edited (because if you give it to a beta reader, they'll say, "You know, you really should fix this thing here," and that would mean that you have to tear down and rewrite the last two thirds), but it'll be DONE.
Of course, I have no personal experience of this. Of course not. Not even a little. Nope. Not me.