I just wanted to reassure people that I haven't completely given up on "I accepted magic to fight evil and it turned me into a girl, but I don’t think I really mind?", but I've been suffering writer's block. I do have an outline, but I've been having trouble fleshing it out. I made lots of progress when it was a hyperfixation and my ADHD was newly medicated, but now I can't seem to focus on it. I'm going to try to build up a buffer of a few chapters before I start posting again, but that could take quite some time. I guess what I'm saying is, don't wait up, but it will happen eventually. Thanks for all the positive reinforcement; it has helped.
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Outline? Out of the question
If I do an outline, my muse ticks the story as "finished" and runs of to frolic in the sun for a while. That leaves me high and dry calling on writer skills that I don't have to flesh it out.
No, if I want to write a story I have to let it flow from my muse straight into the first draft. Then, with a little luck I can go back and patch up the parts that don't quite work right and hopefully catch all the typos and grammar problems that always seem to be present; like weeds in a garden.
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Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin ein femininer Mann
Outlines
I almost never do them. Interestingly, when I was a couple chapters in to Kern, I did a detailed outline of the next several chapters. I just went back and checked and . . . nope. The story ended up going in a different direction. Once the characters get established, they tend to exert their own force on how the story progresses!
— Emma
My experience exactly
When I start to write a story I know the beginning and how I want it to end. Sometimes it's like herding cats to get the characters to make progress toward that end. Twice now stories have been two to three times longer than I would have liked because I needed to coax the characters back onto the road leading toward the envisioned end.
And twice I had to scrap the ending and end it somewhere else. My two entries in the "One Dozen Roses" anthology were intended to be totally different stories. They got bogged down and laid aside until I needed stories for that anthology. Repurposing them for that gave them a different ending than originally intended.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin ein femininer Mann