how many fics actualy finish? I have great ideas but they dont run the course. Id say 4/5 of mine never work. (my fic on Zoltars done...save a very wee passage...humph)

I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of your Zoltar fic, Tengu! I finish all of mine (unless you count IFs) but that's because I generally refuse to work on the next one until the previous one is finished. I know I'm unusual in this.

How unusualy virtuous...

Oh Gosh ... TJ I only wish I had that follow-through. I get this enormous energy sometimes that can push me through a fic, but then I find that a lot of the times I stall because another idea consumes me completely and I have to get it down. As I have done recently, however, I go back to them sometimes a year later and the energy returns. I've finished two epics that I had thought were dead, and am almost done with another... One of them dates back three years!! (yikes) I try hard to stifle the muse, but she's persistent. I have found, however, that if I can pump out something relatively short and give myself a day's break, that I can sate the muse enough to go back at the big one... I have three ripper ideas currently gnawing at my brain right now, but am insistent that I finish up Rebellion first... It seems to be working.... Tengu ... you have Zoltar fics? Where might I find these outside of Gatchamania? I can't seem to download the ones here... SJ

I have a couple partial outlines that I have not attempted to write out as fics (yet). But, every fic that I have begun to write out properly, I have finished. Granted, I have only written five, and they're not especially long! Whatever fic I'm working on, I'm immersed in it such that I wouldn't want to start another one then -even when I add to IFs, I find ideas or phrases from whatever I'm currently working on have a way of sometimes drifting into my IF bits... Looking forward to the rest of your Zoltar fic, Tengu!

I have only one ficcie thats unfinished at the moment. Its the last part of a series, but it will be finished in the next two months. I refuse to start another story or work on an idea until its all done. (If the idea is strong enough it will still be there when I've finished the current story, if not it was weak.) I have written about 16 stories. All finished except for "Reconciliation."

Ahem... Ebony... Your Internet Dating Fic. Your fic where Jun is dating the guy from the cooking school and Ken and Joe have... image issues.

I have nothing but admiration to those who can write and finish a fic. I'm still working on mine and I don't seem to be getting anywhere with it.

Originally posted by Transmute Jun Ahem... Ebony... Your Internet Dating Fic. Your fic where Jun is dating the guy from the cooking school and Ken and Joe have... image issues.

The internet dating ficcie I just lost the plot in it...so it may just stay shelved....besides its not published on any of the sites, just a file on my computer. That hasn't been published anywhere!!! So it doesn't count...besides you and Springie are the only ones that have read the part of it that I wrote relating to Jun and the cooking class with the Condor and Eagle stalking the guy Jun's dating. When I'm done with Reconciliation I'll go and have another look at it. I still have the ideas written down for the puns in it. So if you want I'll finish it this year.

I want, I want! Both of those need to be finished!!!!

Well, I seem to be a person who has several stories on the go and jump around from one to another, not finishing anything at the moment. And then I have this huge plot running through my head that will not let up making it hard to get back to one of the stories I want to write. <---- Cloud chasing after plot ideas and not doing anything with the ones she has.

Originally posted by Condorfan I have nothing but admiration to those who can write and finish a fic. I'm still working on mine and I don't seem to be getting anywhere with it.

I'm sorry to hear that! Is it a case of real life preventing you from having enough quality time to write, plot wrangles, or a classic case of "the-words-will-NOT-come-to-me" writers block? (the three things that seek to thwart me...)

I have about three hours a week to work on ficces...most evenings are spend doing other things and I jump on here for about 10mins at a time during the day to read a few threads and do some of my APA playgroup work. (Scheduling playgroups and at the moment writing an article for the newsletter on the teun out for the picnic on Sunday.) Then the rest of the time is with my two girls.

Originally posted by Condorfan I have nothing but admiration to those who can write and finish a fic. I'm still working on mine and I don't seem to be getting anywhere with it.

I think you have lots of places you can go with it. LMK if you want to bounce anything back and forth!

Originally posted by lborgia88

Originally posted by Condorfan I have nothing but admiration to those who can write and finish a fic. I'm still working on mine and I don't seem to be getting anywhere with it.

I'm sorry to hear that! Is it a case of real life preventing you from having enough quality time to write, plot wrangles, or a classic case of "the-words-will-NOT-come-to-me" writers block? (the three things that seek to thwart me...)

I think its "the words will NOT come to me" block. I think it is supposed to rain here tomorrow--perfect reason to make me sit down and work on the fic.

Tengu, I have just finished the next parts of your Zoltar fic. I am amazed at the depth of the religious world and Spectra background you have developed. I have soc suspicions about things that have happened to Zoltar, but I am really finding this fascinating. I look forward to reading the rest!

Have a few on the go so CD you are not alone on that. Finished fics well I erm lost count on that one. Then of course there is some poetry. As for ideas too many to know what to do with lol. I have two real long ones to finish Beginnings and Journey just need to refind my thread with those so i can settle into it.

Originally posted by Condorfan

Originally posted by lborgia88

Originally posted by Condorfan I have nothing but admiration to those who can write and finish a fic. I'm still working on mine and I don't seem to be getting anywhere with it.

I'm sorry to hear that! Is it a case of real life preventing you from having enough quality time to write, plot wrangles, or a classic case of "the-words-will-NOT-come-to-me" writers block? (the three things that seek to thwart me...)

I think its "the words will NOT come to me" block. I think it is supposed to rain here tomorrow--perfect reason to make me sit down and work on the fic.

Falling rain is something I find soothing, and would help get me in the right mental state to get the words flowing. Mostly I just need to be alone, preferably for an evening or, better yet, a couple days. When the BF is out of town but I'm at home, that's when writing is the easiest for me -it's not him specifically; I just write better when no one's around.

Its not original, a lot of the ideas I got from Roerich`s `Shamballa` (and yes, I used some direct quotes!)