Oh, yeah. I have wips from a paragraph to tens of thousands of words. I have supposedly completed novellas in my wip file, and I just haven't gotten around to doing the re-writes.
In part it's because things have been crazy busy, so when I get downtime all I want to do is read. But in part? I just can't get momentum going, and I'm not sure why. Maybe because I know I'll just get into it and a work time crunch will happen that's beyond my control, and I'll have to let it go again just as I've fallen back in love. It's hugely frustrating.
I was thinking I might try doing a communal story in google docs, to see if having other people playing with it would make a difference to my motivation. But then I get bogged down thinking, "but how would we pick the story" and "who would I ask" etc etc.
In short: I have no cunning plan.
You know what sometimes helps me though? The meme I'm doing on my LJ right now. It has just the right amount of detail to get me going, and flexibility so I can take it in any direction. And it's not important enough for me to agonise over how good the writing is (the first one I did was clearly the warm-up and it's pretty crap). Sometimes doing a finger exercise like that can help. It's odd, but I never seem to get too old for finger exercises to still have occasional use.
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In part it's because things have been crazy busy, so when I get downtime all I want to do is read. But in part? I just can't get momentum going, and I'm not sure why. Maybe because I know I'll just get into it and a work time crunch will happen that's beyond my control, and I'll have to let it go again just as I've fallen back in love. It's hugely frustrating.
I was thinking I might try doing a communal story in google docs, to see if having other people playing with it would make a difference to my motivation. But then I get bogged down thinking, "but how would we pick the story" and "who would I ask" etc etc.
In short: I have no cunning plan.
You know what sometimes helps me though? The meme I'm doing on my LJ right now. It has just the right amount of detail to get me going, and flexibility so I can take it in any direction. And it's not important enough for me to agonise over how good the writing is (the first one I did was clearly the warm-up and it's pretty crap). Sometimes doing a finger exercise like that can help. It's odd, but I never seem to get too old for finger exercises to still have occasional use.