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Do you have any 'side' ideas tickling your writing muscles right now?
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Demesnedenoir
Myth Weaver
Always.
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Naruzeldamaster
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It's constant with me.
So many dumb plot bunnies I've had to either murder or set aside til later.
Gurkhal
Auror
I have so many ideas right now that I don't know which one is a side idea and which one is a main idea anymore.
Lynea
Inkling
I came up with an alternate timeline kind of thing a few months ago. I haven't written much down, but the idea lives rent free in my mind these days.
I tell people we write our own fanfics.
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Naruzeldamaster
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And some of us have guilty pleasures writing our own fanfics of fictional shows/games/movies.
Or Planning them at least, gosh if I wrote down every fanfiction idea I'd never get my original work done lol
Lynea
Inkling
Lol, yess! I never thought I'd get to that point-- especially not before releasing the OG stuff, but here we are
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Naruzeldamaster
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My 'trick' for my brain is to write chapter 1 of an idea and get the feelers out if said idea will stick (If it's fanfiction of a show/game/movie etc)
If it doesn't 'stick' I take notes, scrap the idea and save the notes for another idea.
If it does stick, the chapter 1 goes in a 'waiting room' folder while I work on my 'main' project, out of sight out of mind, and it's working surprisingly well.
Lynea
Inkling
That sounds very efficient. I consider my AU idea strong enough to put effort into it later down the line, but I don't intend to finish it anytime soon.
Susannosaurus
Acolyte
Use the new ideas as rewards! Definitely jot them down somewhere so they don't get lost.
What I do sometimes is to tell myself that if I get my quota on my current project done for the day, I get to work on whatever I want for the rest of the day (if there's any day left...). I call the side projects 'sugar' because they're something I treat myself to like a kind of dessert.
For me personally I've found that it's better to stick to one project at a time. If I do more than one, they tend to assume a similar flavour and the characters lose definition. I need to grow the atmosphere of that one story to give it its unique flavour.
Okay, that sounds a bit gross
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Counting the projects I have available as side ideas.Use the new ideas as rewards! Definitely jot them down somewhere so they don't get lost.
What I do sometimes is to tell myself that if I get my quota on my current project done for the day, I get to work on whatever I want for the rest of the day (if there's any day left...). I call the side projects 'sugar' because they're something I treat myself to like a kind of dessert.
For me personally I've found that it's better to stick to one project at a time. If I do more than one, they tend to assume a similar flavour and the characters lose definition. I need to grow the atmosphere of that one story to give it its unique flavour.
Okay, that sounds a bit gross
I have 2 Original Fiction and two Fanfictions rolling. With one other Original fiction idea in the 'notes taking' phase.
I do not need more projects at the moment lol Not meaning any offense to those who have the condition. But My 'writing brain' absolutely has ADHD even though I don't have the disorder. (I do have a disorder but not that one) My writing muscles get distracted by every shiny new idea that poops into my brain and I hate it. lol
I had to force myself to stop being tempted to work on my other stuff so I can finish sinbad. It's been going well but I'm slowly plugging away.
Honestly I'd rather have too many ideas than not enough ideas, but please brain can we work together and have them for the SAME dang story? Please?? lol
And then we have us, where I tried to have two standalones, and instead made two prequels firmly rooted in the Books of Binding.
Correction. Two more prequels. fml
Also tried to create a totally not-Binding trilogy. Now it's five books, and they will all be chonkers. Epic Fantasy. There's a talking pig.
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