What ever happened to lady lightning?
Good story that..just... stopped.....
Of Masks and Marvels
Author, Rating and Tags:
Submitted by beladonna on Sat, 2011/04/23 - 3:06pm
Printer-friendly version
»
- Login or register to post comments
- Printer-friendly version
Lady lightning...
Bek got sidetracked then lost the thread. She swears she will pick it up again at some point.
Maggie
I've asked her about it
I PMed her a bit over on the Whateley forums about it. She seems to have more interest in a few of her other stories, some of which I'll be more than happy to see more of, but "Of Masks And Marvels" is by far the one of hers I would look forward to the most, so it's sad she doesn't seem to have the drive to write it at the moment.
Melanie E.
I know how that goes.
I have a few that people really would like for me to finish, too. But they just aren't what I'm doing now, or I've lost the thread on the stories entirely. Bek is a person who has an abundance of ideas to go with her writing talent, and like everyone else I have one story she started that I'd like to see finished, too.
But I'm guilty of the same thing, as mentioned above. Sometimes the story comes back, sometimes it doesn't. I can say that even when the writer really wants to finish something, sometimes it just isn't there.
Hopefully the one mentioned in this thread will be continued, it is good.
Maggie
*pulls out the whip*
"Finish the story!"
*Which story?*
"Any of them! They're all good! "
Does that help motivate you? :)
Story ideas
Whenever I get a story idea it's inevitably while I'm deep in something current, and I have to resist the temptation to start on that one as well.
I know I mustn't since I am well aware how limited my writing resources can be, and I know that the moment I start multi-threading I'll either write the wrong character into the wrong story or forget who has done what where or... or Sod's Law says Real Life will suddenly demand a great deal more of my time.
What I do is write down a synopsis of the plot and any characters which popped out and commit it to disk. Then, later on when I'm on the way to wrapping up the current story I can have a root through and see what to tackle next. If I can't remember why I thought up an idea or how it was going to work I'll leave it and look for something else. There's nearly always one that I can get going, usually two or three.
Penny