Fanfic Comments and Writing
Feb. 19th, 2020 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unspeakablehorrorI have received several comments on my fanfic lately, which is a little surprising to me. It's always a little surprising to me to see comments on my fanfic. I'm glad people are enjoying the fics, even if I have always had a priority to write the kinds of stories I want to see and not the kinds of stories that will necessarily be widely enjoyed. I do share them because I hope someone out there will find them a worthwhile experience, though, so it's nice when that can happen. I wrote some more in Cut Strings yesterday and want to get myself to write more often again so I can actually update these things some more!
I just have this tendency to come up with these really complex ideas. I find longer stories very motivating because they allow me the space to explore such ideas. But they are also inherently challenging. There's a lot to keep track of. And when one is trying to significantly restructure a long narrative like The Clone Wars (as I am in Cut Strings) or completely reimagine a time span of several decades (like I am in Heart of Shadow) that poses some particularly large challenges. Why don't I simply pick easier stories to tell? Because the challenge is part of the motivating factor for me. But also, I just have a lot to say, and that simple doesn't tend to fit into shorter stories or more conventional storytelling structures.
I just have this tendency to come up with these really complex ideas. I find longer stories very motivating because they allow me the space to explore such ideas. But they are also inherently challenging. There's a lot to keep track of. And when one is trying to significantly restructure a long narrative like The Clone Wars (as I am in Cut Strings) or completely reimagine a time span of several decades (like I am in Heart of Shadow) that poses some particularly large challenges. Why don't I simply pick easier stories to tell? Because the challenge is part of the motivating factor for me. But also, I just have a lot to say, and that simple doesn't tend to fit into shorter stories or more conventional storytelling structures.