Your daily dose of whine

[sholio]

I want to be finished with Fading Sun.
I want to be finished with Fading Sun.
I want to be finished with Fading Sun.



I always get this way in the end stages of a project, original or fanfic. It just seems huge and overwhelming, it always seems like there's more of it left to do than I want to do, there are other things I want to work on but I feel like I shouldn't until I finish the monster project that wouldn't die, I worry that the ending will suck ...

Right now it's clocking in at just about 70,000 words, and there are a couple of big important scenes yet to write. Maybe another 10,000 or so?

I really didn't plan this one to be another mega-fic! I was thinking 40K words tops. Ah, the best-laid plans...

I want to be done.
I want to be done.
I really, really want to be done.

Comments

[alipeeps.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my life. On top of all that you have described above, I have hit an emotional blackspot atm where am just in a crummy mood and simply cannot face writing. Fic writing simply is not happening right now and won't be for the forseeable... *sigh*

[ldyanne.livejournal.com]

As a reader of this wonderful fic (okay all your stories really), I'm looking forward to the end, but I love the journey of your stories. They are so incredibly complex and twisty. I can never second guess where you're going with a story and I love to read them as they slowly unwind. So, just feel free to take all the time you need ;-)

[tipper-green.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling.

Hee.

I'm writing the infirmary scene. It's sort of wandering all over the place because I had no plan for it. I have an ending, but I can't write the ending because the stupid infirmary scene is in the way, stopping them from all being all healthy and awake and snarking. Sigh.

So...I know the feeling.

Also, mine was supposed to be short too. I think it's just the way we are.

[parisntripfan.livejournal.com]

It's always fun when a fic takes on a life of it's own isn't it?

I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't have a problem with long stories - when I get the feeling that the writer is not just stringing the readers along. I don't the feeling with your stories. Yes, they are long, but they are long as they need to be.

I am looking forward to seeing what is coming next in Light of a Fading Sun...

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Ah, I know that feeling! Occasionally I'll have enough momentum to just carry through to the end without even noticing until I get there, but a lot of the long ones I'll be zooming along nicely until I'm a quarter or less from the end, and then suddenly panic - "What if no one likes the ending I've got in mind? Should it be more dramatic? Is this story worth it?"

But wow, what a satisfying thing it is to finally finish! (or else you have various WiPs dragging at your soul *runs away whimpering*)

[winter-elf.livejournal.com]

soooooooo looking forward to more :) With as dense of happenings as you've set up ... I kind of was hoping for long - you need that much length for all your plots and angst and such :)

[tringasolitaria.livejournal.com]

Agree with winter_elf. I'm so enjoying your story (your last chapter was heartwrenching), but I understand the "wanting to be done" part too.

[recycledfunk.livejournal.com]

Your stories (and Tipper's, too) always fall into the category my 8th grade English teacher told us to aim for:

"A story should be like a woman's skirt: Long enough to cover the subject but short enough to keep it interesting." ;)

I'm in it for the long-haul so you just keep doing what you're doing!

[iamrighthere.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm interested in your finishing the fic so that I can read it!

Frankly, you are very brave to begin posting before the fic is completely written, especially when you didn't know the ending when the first chapters went up. Actually, you must have some kind of special power, because when I write, I can't imagine the beginning of a story unless I know the end, since they often dovetail. You have a lot more story-writing experience than I, so maybe your technique depends on having a lot of stories under your belt?

Anyway, I do understand your desire to have the story done and posted. It is exhausting to approach the computer sometimes when you have the pressure of posting instead of the pleasure of creating as your biggest motivator.

[vecturist.livejournal.com]

You have my admiration both the amount you write and the length- I really have trouble writing (mainly the process of converting thoughts to text) and I definitely am bad about WIP, although I've promised myself to break the habit - next fic will be published when it is complete, especially given how unpredictable my schedule is.

Do you mind if I friend you?

[derry667.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I'm constantly in awe of the constantly high quality and qunatity of fic that you produce.

I have *ONE* WIP in progess at the moment. It has (and was always going to have) 3 parts. It seems to take a month to get each part out. 2 down and 1 to go and yet it's dragging on me like no one's business. So here I am - struggling with my measly little 3-part fic - and nodding sagely at your comments here because I kinda feel the same about my current "monster WIP". Even if mines a rather puny monster.

So howzat for perspective? My 11,000 (so far) three-parter overwhelms me as much as your 70,000+ masterpiece. I think the message there is pretty clearly that you are powerhouse fic-writing legend whereas I am a whiny wannabe ;-P

But anyway, *I* really, really want *you* to be done too. Coz your fic is AWESOME! And I *KNOW* the ending won't suck.

So get cracking, why don't ya?

Don't you love supportive friends? ;-P