oh goddamnit

[rispacooper]

Oh my god. I just figured out my writing problem. I keep meaning to write stories but really I'm writing chapters. Yes, I always have lots of backstory in mind when I write a story, but usually I just keep it that way, imagining what happens next but not showing it. But lately it's as though all I'm focusing on is what happens next...and this is probably another side effect of being done with Ideas of Sin.

I mean, look at my Yuletide story...I keep dropping all these hints about what will happen later as though I'm ever going to write a sequel to that. (I'm so not). And then for whatever insane reasonon my current project I keep thinking forward and it's just...

ARGH.

Chapters are supposed to be short stories in themselves, but this is just getting ridiculous.

Comments

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

This is not just your problem. It's mine as well. You have so much to say. It's called world building. It's not a bad thing. And you're right about your Yuletide fic. If you had added another chapter I would have been perfectly happy and it would have worked. I don't think it's ridiculous. Maybe you're just a novel writer. Not a bad thing, eh?

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

I suppose it's not a bad thing. (Though it is an annoying thing. Say goodbye to short little fanfic written for challenges etc).