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ceruleanmorningsI have thought through my writing dilemma, and have decided that, yes, I will focus on fanfic for the next...however many months I want to devote to it. I'm starting with two, March and April. Will reassess by end of April if I still want to continue or switch to something else. It's just that I really want to write this fic haha. I started a Scrivener file for it, because I'm not a fan of putting things online all the time and I haven't found any offline Notion alternatives that I like. So Scrivener it is!
My goal for this fic is two folds. One is that, come on, we all could use more ChengXian, especially long, intricate plot-heavy ones, so why not write one myself? I've been reading Qiang Jin Jiu (in Chinese, mind you. Hoo boy, never has the built-in Chinese-English dictionary in Safari been this useful!) and my head is filled with political intrigue, so that's what this ChengXian fic is going to be about. It's NOT cultivation related. The setting is a historical AU of some fictional, pseudo-ancient-Chinese-Warring-States-era epic. Jiang Cheng and Wei Ying are not adopted siblings; in fact, they don't even meet until the story starts. And there're a lot of major changes that I will of course, talk about later, after I actually start writing and posting it. And that leads to goal two. I've never been able to keep to a good deadline. Like, I would set out to do writing, but instead of actually writing I would just get obsessed with planning everything, but in my head only! So in the end nothing is ever actually written! I am aiming to change that now. I have setup a plan, and I am sticking to this plan of writing every day (with reasonable breaks). Literally sitting down for an hour or two every day until my goal is met, instead of just waiting for the muse to strike or just work out details while taking a shower or eating or doing chores and then write nothing down, and therefore waste all the creative effort my brain went through. Yeah. If I succeed in getting this not-short story (at least novella length, which is about 20k words) out in a reasonable fashion, then I think I can probably apply the method to writing my novel. And maybe I'll actually accomplish something this year.
My goal for this fic is two folds. One is that, come on, we all could use more ChengXian, especially long, intricate plot-heavy ones, so why not write one myself? I've been reading Qiang Jin Jiu (in Chinese, mind you. Hoo boy, never has the built-in Chinese-English dictionary in Safari been this useful!) and my head is filled with political intrigue, so that's what this ChengXian fic is going to be about. It's NOT cultivation related. The setting is a historical AU of some fictional, pseudo-ancient-Chinese-Warring-States-era epic. Jiang Cheng and Wei Ying are not adopted siblings; in fact, they don't even meet until the story starts. And there're a lot of major changes that I will of course, talk about later, after I actually start writing and posting it. And that leads to goal two. I've never been able to keep to a good deadline. Like, I would set out to do writing, but instead of actually writing I would just get obsessed with planning everything, but in my head only! So in the end nothing is ever actually written! I am aiming to change that now. I have setup a plan, and I am sticking to this plan of writing every day (with reasonable breaks). Literally sitting down for an hour or two every day until my goal is met, instead of just waiting for the muse to strike or just work out details while taking a shower or eating or doing chores and then write nothing down, and therefore waste all the creative effort my brain went through. Yeah. If I succeed in getting this not-short story (at least novella length, which is about 20k words) out in a reasonable fashion, then I think I can probably apply the method to writing my novel. And maybe I'll actually accomplish something this year.
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