Creative Madness

I'm going crazy! Literally! I'm the kind of person whose thoughts are either one-tracked or in a jumbled mix depending on the subject. Since I took an interest in writing again thanks to fanfics, I have been assaulted with ideas from all sides. 

I like writing fanfics because you already have something to work with and dont necessarily have to start from scratch or build your plot or characters from the ground up. 

As much as i love them writing fanfics is becoming a serious pain in the . I've got just too many ideas I think would make decent stories and I just dont know how to work with them. I do realise that the more stories I have up, the longer the delay in updates. You can't pick one only and focus on it with regular updates, it doesnt seem fair (at least to me anyways). Thats why I try to update my fics in turn so that none get neglected but even then, I'll be working on an update and suddenly an idea pops, it could be an idea for a future update on the same fic or another fic or for an entirely different and new story. Its driving me crazy! Just yesterday I came up with 2 new stories. 

How do I cope with it or am I just over stressing unnecessarily. 

I wish I could update faster so I can get on with it, you know, but I take so long now to update that who knows how long i'll take if I have more fics up. It doesnt help that I dont have a working laptop, so typing takes ages. My tab malfunctioned recently and I'm too broke to fix it, so the bluetooth keyboard that came with it is completely useless as I've not figured out how to connect it to my phone. I'm not even sure its possible. Typing on my phone is really tedious and apparently gives me the image of a frivolous idle woman, as my boss, collegues, friends and family have been complaining recently. 

As none of them are enthusiastic about kpop, they just see it as a waste of time, only few friends have actually bothered to read and encourage me on the stories. In the kind of society i live in most people would and do consider my stories (especially the ty ones) as scandalous and shocking, (smh right?) I cant even justify all the time I spend tapping away at my phone. 

An idle african woman is like a travesty and I cannot count how many times I've been berated for being on my phone. Sometimes I think I'm in danger of getting fired for it.  

I guess I'm a little frustrated. Sometimes I wish I never started writing again and other times I'm really thankful I did. 

Typically, I've lost my train of thought.  Dunno what I wanted to say originally. But i need some advice if i want to remain sane. 

How do I work with all these ideas. Do I use them, build an update or a story around them and then wait for the appropriate time to post them or should I just let them go and lose potentially awesome materials. Do I go: to hell with it and post each of them and update them whenever and however, please bear in mind I have like 20 potential stories, about 5 of them with well defined plots and even parts of chapters already written (I couldn't resist). 

I guess I dunno what to do and I just wanna vent. Lol. Dont mind me. 

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lovealice
#1
I hear ya. I hear ya. I totally get what you mean. One you get stuck on writing one story, your brain suddenly rakes up another story idea. I have like loads and loads of story ideas. Like you said, if we posted a new story, who knows when would we have the time to update the story...which is just insane!

But now, i try to write up one by one. And merge all the ideas of scenes into one story. So, I wouldn't have to write so many different stories. I just had like two story ideas and it went so well to merge them together, it got my brain going and my writing much much faster. I don't know if that would work for you but it did for me. In my fic, Hearts for appa, previously was of two story ideas I had. I decided to combined them, then it was much easier and fun to write. Hope it would help you in which I doubt because hands down, I love your stoty of topbom. Like they are a couple that you just want to know more, the way you create their characters themselves was so fun to read^^
slowlywishes
#2
Your story -frozen- is really really really great topbom ff, its on my top 5 list. I'm so picky tho, so if you have the idea for writing other topbom ff, honestly i'll be so glad to read it and will patiently waiting for you to update.but as long as you don't abandoned them all. You're great writer...so its your choice. Sorry for my bad english lol
hallyuamateur
#3
UGH YES. I know exactly how you feel. I write other stories as well but I'm addicting to fanfics because they're so fun and easy and I love sharing them. I'm so happy I have people that enjoy my stories but I feel so guilty when I don't update and then write a stupid lengthy one shot lol. The way I've been dealing with it is through "coming soon (maybe)" blog posts lol. I also try really hard not to post long stories I don't have the motivation or direction to finish. It can be kind of draining just writing for the sake of updates though so lately I've just been writing if I feel like it. I totally get where you're coming from thoufh so if you want to vent I am HERE haha! ;)